skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> are you saying that there should be no difference in behavior between a $30 expense and a $120 expense?

I'm saying the number of people who:

1) Would buy a used iPhone
2) Would buy said iPhone so late in its depreciation cycle that the difference between a $30 and a $120 expense is the difference between buying and not buying the device
3) Are unwilling to entertain any other form of battery replacement for such an old phone (like 3rd party vendors who will replace it for say $70)
4) Are the buyers of last resort for the given iPhone and because they didn't buy it the phone has gone instead to the landfill because no one else would buy it except for them

is so vanishingly small a quantity of people, that they have no measurable impact on the speed which with iPhones become e-waste relative to a world where iPhones had batteries easily replaced with a $30 amazon purchase, and also have no measurable impact on the rate of new iPhone purchases such that it would even be a factor in how Apple chooses to design or not design any given iPhone model.
Flappy Bird's original creator says he has nothing to do with the new game
These influencers' accounts are certainly not inactive.
people who work in marketing/growth are already saying that influencer marketer rates have steeply declined. we can only hope!
I think it's easy to believe that something will eventually go away just because we feel that something is not good in some way. But things only go away if people change their behaviour around those things on mass.

There's a growing sentiment that a lot of social media is more bad than good for us. But people don't just stop with a behaviour that they know is bad for them. We need a lot more to change a behaviour that has become established.
I have to agree with the other comments here. 120$ vs. 1000$+ for a new phone, I don’t see how it can compare. I still agree it’s overpriced though.
Why is that? Unlike all iPhones, Pinephone will never stop receiving updates and can be used as a full desktop with mainline Linux, even if the cellular network has problems.
A while back, I had the need to remotely monitor a house while it was under renovation. A few friends of mine recommended a particular brand of highly-advertised security system. It was not cheap. As I was setting it up, I found out that most of the features that I wanted required broadband internet. This was not disclosed in ANY of the marketing materials. This house didn't have Internet and I wasn't going to purchase it because it would have been $60 minimum on top of the $40 or so the security system was going to cost.

What I did instead: I bought a Raspberry Pi camera, hooked it up to a RPi Zero 2W that I already had, bought an LTE hotspot and a $5/mo prepaid SIM from T-Mobile. On the software side, I used imgcomp (https://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/imgcomp) to take a photo every second and save it to a RAM disk. If the two pictures differed (modulo noise), the Pi would upload the changed picture to a directory on my VPS, which would then trigger a notification to my phone via Gotify containing the link to the picture.

It was all very Rube Goldbergian but it worked quite flawlessly for a couple of years.
Kraken would cause no problems for 2.5-2.7

Taxing this is super simple, you just mark as "other" - akin to finding money on the ground.

Arguing with bank - which specific bank would cause problems here?
Also don’t keep money that that you cannot afford to miss in fintech because they are not banks at all.

The FDIC insured bank which actually has money when using these apps is somewhere in the backend and you get stuff like the synapse bankruptcy[1]

[1] https://apnews.com/article/synapse-evolve-bank-fintech-accou...
Single Entry Point
That's not how bitcoin works
> Improvement is finding efficient ways to remove stress from higher-ups. Because stress rolls downhill.

The stress at the bottom is there by design. If you start meeting the deadlines too reliably, the higher-ups will probably conclude that there are needlessly many people in the team, and will try to remove one and see what happens. Repeat until things start cracking apart.
$555 sounds very cheap for possibly "the last pair of glasses you'll ever buy".

Progressives cost half as much but you'll have to buy a new pair on a regular basis.
When the disconnection is brief, there's no need to respond to it.

It's the conceptual equivalent of your phone "helpfully hanging up" when you change the phone from one ear to the other during a call.
That's not really comparable; by reverse-engineering a cookie one would have to fight against entropy. The issue with software is that it's magnitudes easier to figure out any trade secrets inside of it. Reverse-engineering LLMs is much more akin to the cookie example.
What most game studios have forgotten is to put the "game" in video (or my preference, computer) games. They forget the fun.

The first Unreal was an amazing spectacle, but it was also a blast to play. There are games that jam pack everything they can onto the screen, ultra hi-res this, and ultra-realistic that... but they're missing the play.

Minecraft is not fun because of it's amazing fidelity. It's because of the things it allows you to do, and how much it leaves to your imagination.
We had fraudsters using modal.com compute to solve this challenge. It's not traditional mining software so it didn't initially get flagged, but we've updated our detection to catch it now[1].

1. https://modal.com/blog/catching-cryptominers
I don't think CSS resets make developing CSS easier for me... I'd rather have one set of bad defaults to develop on top of, than each project starting with its own set of good defaults that I then have to understand the strengths/weaknesses of every time.

Stuff affected by CSS resets rarely comes up when I'm sticking to the standard set of UI components for the project, and when it does, I need to do just as much debugging with the CSS reset as I would have to do without a reset.
> If you raise carbon price, virtuous billionaires and politicians will continue to fly their private jets to climate conferences while more people starve from increased food costs

You offset the carbon tax with a universal tax credit or refund or UBI or whatever you want to call it. Give people all of the money back that was generated from the carbon tax. Poor people don't fly on private jets or buy yachts so they'll come out ahead. Or at least, less behind than those who do spend money on those things.
Here's to hoping but that could be caused by a number of things. High interest rates for example might make companies unwilling to invest in some types of marketing.
I wish it would be in the form of a wiki or repo that anybody can update. Otherwise thanks for sharing that.
I see it as a bubble because they don't have to pay anything to host or publish content even though there is a cost there (storage, streaming, etc..) so they're essentially hoping that YT can keep providing a free service with ads even if they're running at a loss.

It's not clear if YouTube is specifically profitable, because Alphabet only separates revenue, not profit. But, I would imagine they're not running huge margins or even at a loss given their recent crackdown on ad-blockers and Google's overall fight against them with things like manifest V3.
Are we sure this got “leaked”? Or is this merely part of the not leaked production PDF?

It will generate a ton of attention. Who cares if it’s bad?
That comic, while funny, is making a pretty weak argument (and basically reverses that other joke that the highest-level/sixth generation programming language is a graduate CS student).

Obviously machines need code to execute. But humans don't need to write every line of it. Transitioning to using (future) LLMs as a programming language is transitioning from the role of a programmer to the role of a customer (or at least PM). Conversely, as a programmer (or technical manager), if your job is to extract a precise spec from a customer that doesn't know what they want, your job is exactly the one "LLMs as a programming language" are going to replace.
Ever see Dhar Mann brainrot videos? I don't see it going anywhere. It's a big reason why films aren't good anymore. Content producers cater to the intellectual tastes of their respective societies. Long story short, we get what we deserve. Long live Criterion Collection for the handful of us who abstain from mass produced trash.
Maybe more "old man yells at cloud" but I am kinda with you in thinking it's trash. The thing is that every generation has had its own equivalent swill for kids, this one is no different. His channel won't last, there's too much baggage around it, but it'll get replaced with something equally trashy.
wait head, style and script are not none be default?
That's one data point. If you compare it to movies and shows, the audience skews a lot younger. If you ask the average person their perception is that they are too busy to play games, yet they probably spend many hours watching movies and shows.

It's not as much as it was 10 years ago, but the perception of wasting time is still there. I'm mostly talking about the US though.
Our banks don’t work with Iranians or North Koreans , with crypto it is also about who not how much
No, but the cracks are starting to show. My point is that YT may go down the same path and get stingy with video storage.
Met mine in my mid-30s via a dating app. We had some shared interests that connected us at first, but what kept us going over the long term is having compatible values and personalities. (And we still do enjoy the shared interests, of course).

If you don't have any outside interests, well, either develop some (Meetup's one option, or check your local paper's calendar), or you're going to have to find someone with an equally single-track mind (nothing wrong with that).

There's still fewer women in tech, so looking outside of work helps.
Understanding refs is key to understanding Git. It’s not really difficult and a lot of mystifying cargo cult stuff suddenly becomes intuitive once you realizing you’re pretty much just manipulating pointers into a directed acyclic graph
where each node has between 0 and 2 parents.
That's why I stick with Debian.
Unfortunately this is what the companies that pay for content pay for, to the extent that if you do better you would get penalized either by not getting as much money or not getting published at all, and obviously she wants to make money from the effort she put into writing it. Which I'm guessing still took half a day's worth of work what with incidental stuff like sending off emails and answering editors etc. Since Gizmodo probably paid 400 dollars for this that's a pretty good rate, but how many other things did she spend time writing that didn't get bought? So - in the end - this is the quality we end up with, which ironically relates to another recent HN frontpager https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41547773

Don't see a way out of it. The best one can hope for is that she writes a second piece - a week with hi-tech bifocals - and manages to sell that one too.
There's plenty of good film and TV out there, and you don't even have to look hard to find it. I find this attitude to not just elitist but lazy and ignorant.
That's pretty impressive for that price for 2015!
> Imagine a person who lacks knowledge of traffic rules driving a heavy, high-speed vehicle on chaotic Philippine roads.

Sounds like normal in Southeast Asia? Totally chaotic and an e-bike/trike sounds preferable imho.
That would be cool indeed!
> But git was written assuming a posix shell and it shows up here and there sadly.

Given that the entire point of POSIX is cross platform compatibility, this is one of the few times when I will say they (Linus/git) got it 100% right.

> Should be possible for git to simply interpret sequentially.

Simply? What should it do if the first command fails? Should it exit early? What if you want it to run the second only if the first returns error? What if you want to pipe the first to the second? Or use it as an argument?

Aliases have a "simple" mode where they call exactly one thing. Anything beyond that can't be simple, without also being useless.

If Microsoft can't ship a POSIX compatible shell that's on them, and if you insist on using an OS that doesn't have a POSIX compatible shell, that's on you.

I don't start Linux and ask why it doesn't run whatever people use Windows for... malware I assume?
Crazy ideas and sensationalism usually works in the showbiz and in the media industry. This is just applied to YouTube or in another words: Old wine in new bottle.
Have any reading or publicly available resources on this?
>Nothing? It remains the same story. What do you think it would change?

The AI would have loyalty to its creator, and it would get into the deep philosophical aspects of what is a living organism vs what is a machine and why that matters.

>Von Neumann probes would be super energy inefficient too.

Yeah, but if someone became intelligent 10,000 years before us, which is a pretty trivial amount of time technologically, their Von Neumann probes would have eaten our planet already, so probably not going to be militarily feasible if there's other intelligent life in the galaxy that's keeping an eye on us.

>This is mumbo-jumbo

It doesn't defy the laws of physics to power people with electricity. Sure, we're going to need a lot of engineering to figure out how to plug people into the wall to recharge, but with AI we might get there in 100 or 200 years. The benefits would be enormous. People need 2000 calories a day which is a trivial amount of electricity compared to say an AI cluster. It would make a lot of sense to send humans around for most things if they used such a small amount of energy.
The Mastodon User Count account suggests there are 15M accounts on Mastodon:

https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/11314334534088311...

Mastodon Users
@mastodonusercount@mastodon.social

15,438,893 accounts
+209 in the last hour
+2,542 in the last day
+20,162 in the last week

Sep 15, 2024, 21:00

Of course there are differences ... I would be pleased to hear first hand descriptions of them

EDIT: I hereby withdraw everything I said about BSky. Based on the replies, clearly I'm completely wrong. I apologise for all inaccuracies.
Are evs taxed for road maintenance given they are much heavier?
amdgpu is shit for me, my friend. Funny story: my headless server with a small Navi 1 workstation card (repurposed) couldn't be SSH'd into last week. Went and plugged in a monitor, rebooted, and the framebuffer got stuck during stage 1 while fsck'ing my disk. OK, I think to myself, it's probably taking a while to fsck after N boots, happens once every few months. Doesn't change for 48 hours. Turns out my machine had just run out its DHCP lease, so it had a new IP and I didn't realize it, which is why I couldn't log in. So I log in, and..

What was wrong? What actually happened was that on bootup, the amdgpu driver would panic and fault during boot exactly when fsck was happening, and the framebuffer would be stuck forever. So it just looked like a filesystem issue but in reality my graphics output was merely fubar; the system itself was otherwise fine tnough.

This is reliable and reproducible for me; it always faults at almost the exact same spot at boot every time, for this kernel version at least. In reality amdgpu has been unreliable for me for 5+ releases at this point on a card less than like 7 years old.

Really considering moving over to a small cheap nvidia card and just running Nouveau instead. At least then I might have a reliable framebuffer.
whether you're looking for CTR on one end of the continuum or 1/CTR on the other end of the spectrum, you're looking at the same thing, just without understanding what one word means
Begun, the open source AI wars have
By default (meaning the browser's default CSS) they are, but when you set all properties to unset, which is not equivalent to none, even the `display` property is concerned, so their content is displayed as text on the web page just like the content of a p or a div is.
> Since we are on the topic of communication, written communication also does not constitute communication unless they confirm they read it.

Excellent.
https://archive.is/gmxoa
What actually usually happens is silence, then they stop publishing the data.
The S5 is rated for IP67, 1 meter for 30 mins.

The S7 (S6 for some reason didn’t get an IP rating?) got an IP68, 1.5m for 30 mins.

Samsung seems to have stalled at 1.5m/30mins.

iPhones on the other hand have steadily crept up their listed ratings for water resistance:
8: IP67 1m/30m
11: IP68 2m/30m
12: 68 6m/30m

Seems that you’re actually getting some advantage. 1 meter isn’t really good enough for dropping in, say, a pool or a lake. 6 meters on the other hand… should cover most scenarios.
Pay Philosophy
Problems with Scrum: It's nice that you did your planning poker, but all these tasks need to be ready by the end of the month regardless.

Problems with Kanban: It's nice that you set priorities to the tasks, but all of them need to be ready by the end of the month regardless.

Conclusion: If there is more work than people can realistically do, and it all needs to be done no matter what, it doesn't matter what process you use; people will be stressed and burned out.
The bulk of content on Youtube today is some stock video footage, an AI-generated script read by a computer voice. Maybe a human spends a few minutes cutting together the video footage? But almost entirely automated spam designed to feed Youtube some pink slime and rake in the $.

Compared to that, Mr. Beast is fine art, worthy of the Louvre.
They are, until you reset them by setting all: unset. In this case, * applies to script and style too, and all includes display, so you’ll need to revert this right after.
there's something truly special about this era, we have so much comfort and "data" yet no one foresaw the enshittification of the web space even though it seems the exact same cycle that happen in any space.. when attention, fame and money gets involved .. most neurons are "working" at milking and abusing the mass. Same exact sleigh of hands really..
Is there evidence of discrimination ? Are banks rejecting services because of age/race/gender/ethnicity etc ?

KYC to reject basis legality of the source seems an acceptable tradeoff to live in a civilized society?
Fighting against well known hardware on PCs is one thing, doing the same against mobile manufacturers because they refuse to release any documentation is a nightmare. Linux will have a hard time becoming a reality in the mobile world because of hardware manufacturers hostility, not for any of its faults. Pine64 had to design the PinePhone platform from scratch for this exact reason, still they encountered so many blocks that when it finally became available it was already too old.
This phenomenon is predicated upon a hierarchical economic class system, which it also reinforces. Therefore it is not a morally sustainable system, and is just another case of greenwashing.
Sadly it doesn't get nearly the amount of attention it deserves. Just picking adult animation as another example, for every series like Scavengers Reign (cancelled after 1 season), there's what, two dozen low brow family guy knockoffs?
You don't need to sell it all at once.
Too bad it requires a subscription.

I have scanned old science books that I treasured as a kid and uploaded them to archive.org.
Request for positions on the topics API - https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/111 also mentioned in https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/622

The Register article on the topics api last year https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/27/google_tweaks_topics_...
Because I'd also bet the vast majority of Pinephones sold have been sold as secondary phones to hobbyists and tinkers. And I suspect a good chunk of those have gone into drawer or are otherwise collecting dust unused after the initial cool factor wore off. Don't get me wrong, I like what pine64 does, and they're great to have around overall, but I also strongly doubt the long term viability of their phones both as a primary phone for daily use and in terms of a secondary market.
When people realize they can spent a fraction of what they pay for advertising and get the same results.
Microsoft Bing Copilot accuses reporter of crimes he covered
"Microsoft Bing Copilot has falsely described a German journalist as a child molester, an escapee from a psychiatric institution, and a fraudster who preys on widows.

Martin Bernklau, who has served for years as a court reporter [...] asked Microsoft Bing Copilot about himself. He found that Microsoft's AI chatbot had blamed him for crimes he had covered."
Yeah but then it’s explained why catching the big fish is hard, and a plea for sympathy due to staff cuts. That won’t work until/unless tax enforcement overall shifts from disproportionately affecting the poor to disproportionately affecting the rich, regardless of some special team of four people that targets big fish.

The situation that we actually have is like if a one stoplight town is setting a speed trap because they need revenue.. but they target only old broken minivans going 5mph over, because they know corporate trucks and private red sports cars going 20 over the limit are more likely to have lawyers that buck the speeding ticket, and cost the town revenue instead of collecting it. Is adding more cops to pull over more old minivans really going to help the town buy a public park, or stop sports cars from speeding? It’s not only unfair, but also completely ineffective.

Staffing/funding is always going to be a bullshit complaint because structurally, enforcement quotas and complex compliance requirements are always going to tend to create a preference for bureaucracies to punch down at soft targets. Similar to how militarizing police doesn’t actually help fix problems with law enforcement, adding additional “support” (ie weapons) for other institutions that have fundamentally broken politics/policies is not a good idea.
It's some kind of EC/DSA scheme, isn't it? Then from the private key you can indeed get the public key.
The population craves lazy and ignorant marvel nothingness. Don't get mad at me. Go talk to them.
This is a good point. See alcohol and tobacco. People are smoking less though, aren't they?
There's already a series posted a week ago for 6.12 that will ungate PREEMPT_RT on x86, ARM and RISC-V; it only modifies the Kconfig entries to enable it[1]. So I'd say it's hardly a bet!

[1] https://lwn.net/ml/all/20240906111841.562402-1-bigeasy@linut...
Scavengers Reign was excellent.
I don't have statistics but I think the number of immigrants with this criteria is small. Most of them will find some jobs even if they are being paid less and even if it is not registered. And in many cases these immigrants don't have a safe place to get back to so the incentives is no always financial in many cases.

They will help each other navigate the system and there are support groups from locals who do help. This offer assumes that people who find $32k and say yes that is like 10 years worth of salary in my home country let me get back and start a business except that it is more complicated than that.
Are magazines still wildly popular in Japan? I have not been there in years now but I sense they still are. Maybe someone can set me straight.
Very uplifting read, thanks for sharing. God be with you and your family.
Thanks. The "hashed" part is what I was missing.
I discovered Gerrit during a Chromium contribution in 2017. Since then, we have been using it at my company.

Gerrit code review part is just amazing and makes github looks like a joke.