skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think "pop punk" is a good term, for me it's about the sound and delivery, it has nothing to do with commercial success, being "posers" etc. I think it's kind of evident from the music itself why someone who likes Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Big Black, or GG Allin may not appreciate Green Day, NOFX and the likes (and vice versa). It's in the sound itself, ignoring the lyrics and everything else. Many bands without any mainstream success still play pop punk.
One part I can add, having tried Ecosia [1] is it at least made me consider question like:

"Are they actually planting these trees?" and "How would I possibly verify?"

"Does Microsoft actually pay them? All I'm doing is clicking? Is that worth enough?"

"How does anybody verify, and how is it not just an optimization for Ecosia to farm clicks for money? Chinese/Indian/Bangladeshi/Nigerian/MechTurk click farms don't cost that much. Seen the prices on MechTurk?"

[1] https://www.ecosia.org/
You may not be getting much response because not very many people have started a one-person company :\

But it is a good question and commenters should give their experiences or opinions anyway.

I would say I really prefer very "high-touch" sales, I think it's worth it, it's your first customer and you both are at a point where you can make more out of a working relationship by building the relationship itself in a unique way even if you are selling a standard product. So the more you put into it can pay off better, even if you won't be able to give as much attention to following customers or clients.
Given how often they break laws, ignore social norms, and thumb their noses at authorities... pretty damn punk.
DOJ Indicates It's Considering Google Breakup Following Monopoly Ruling
3.2km of linear storage space makes sense for books. You aren't just piling them up in stacks, where volume might be a useful measure, and you aren't putting them arbitrarily deep on the same row because that prevents access. You'll usually store things like this one book deep. If you have a 4-row shelf where you could have an 8-row shelf with the same width, each row 1m wide, you have 4m vs 8m of linear storage space.
YouTube's Time-Based UX Problem for Live Sports
This still leaves open ‘buy, don’t borrow, die’ as a way for the dynastically wealthy to opt out of paying capital gains tax.

I think the sensible option is making death a taxable event, rather than borrowing (with perhaps exceptions for the family farm, but not for the family billion dollar business).

And the second best solution is eliminating the step-up basis, which without deemed disposition at death is just a free gift of capital gains tax rebates to heirs of the most wealthy.
this is honestly the most impressive one here. i looked into doing hitclips with a friend and we basically tapped out once i found out how they work under the hood since there's no way they'd be cost effective.
Is the article linked on archive different? This text is not in the article I read.
Just got my photo taken for passport, 9,90€... "CV" picture with minor editing would have been 24,90€... I wonder if there really is value difference here...
Brain sensor adheres to curved surfaces for ultrasound neurostimulation
> The entire point of the stock market is to get capital to companies

Only if the shares are newly-issued, though.

Usually your counterparty is just someone with different cash flow needs, or who disagrees with you about the future. No benefit accrues to the company.
It is both.

The story of Lookout Records being basically kept afloat by selling Kerplunk their first album after they left and blew up is also tragic/hilarious
After reading your comment, I did a little searching and found a great essay on the shareholder primacy standard in Delaware: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2916960

Contrary to what a lot of other commenters are saying, the shareholder primacy rule is relatively recent (basically since the 80s), and before that there was broad recognition that corporate boards could balance the interests of various stakeholders. This essay also argues that Dodge v Ford Motor (which was in the Michigan Supreme Court) actually had little practical impact - it was cases like Unocal and Revlon in the Delaware courts that had a much bigger impact on actual board behavior in the US.
What would you prefer to write plugins in?
Unlimited corporations (anonymous and personhood but not limited liability) could also be tolerated.
> Indian jokes

Now I want to hear an Indian joke.
This is the process advocated in this wiki:

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/ProcessManagement

Seems reasonable to me. Restarting processes is just something like this:

#!/bin/sh
# service.sh

while :; do
/my/service >> /var/log/service 2>&1
done

service.sh &

The service is just a normal program. If run directly, the inputs and outputs are attached to the terminal. If not, they're redirected to log files. Programs shouldn't care much what their outputs are connected to. Maybe they should turn off terminal escape codes in the outputs if they're not terminals but that's about it.
To your first point, if it's a simulated universe, the simulators can just choose to make it finite, and come up with their preferred particle behavior rules.

As observers, we perceive time as passing, but is there anything special in this perception? Looked at another way, everything could be frozen in a 4D log book and we couldn't tell the difference, or could we? In this interpretation, Napoleon is as alive (in 1820) as we are (in 2024.) A film reel is a similar concept, except it's just a 3D projection rather than a complete detailed 4D account.
Living in Quebec, I see the perspective. It’s not that there is a particular hatred of english; there is simply an explicit exclusion of anything non-French. From such a perspective, it doesn’t matter if the One World Global Language is English or Cantonese or Esperanto, it must be fought against to preserve French
On iOS I just set my default browser to Orion with Kagi as a default search engine. There’s some minor UI bugs but they’re not showstoppers.
Many job postings are far too open versus the reality of who they’d accept. If you’re expecting a deluge, then make sure you are highly transparent on how you’d vet or sift the initial applications. That doesn’t mean to introduce new “high bars” just to reduce the number, it means to be clear about the checklist you’d use to classify those who get to the next round.
Other co-founder here, so we offer more specific features around iterating on your datasets and include domain experts in this workflow. And I'd argue that you also want your datasets not necessarily with your foundation model provider like OpenAI, so you have the option to test with and potentially switch to open-source models.
Most people would love their bank accounts to underflow.
A legit biz, I mean, look at everyone reading and commenting here! :)
100% agree. I am going to do the same and use justheadshots.ai

Have you tried some of the alternatives?
On the flipside, imagine if they gave $7B to an anti-government group or militia to perform a coup or attack another country...

That could buy a ton of arms and equipment and likely enough funds to be successful depending upon what the ultimate goal was.
Nope, I'm saying they don't need this functionality.
Over all, biological neurons, are hardly highly specialized.

We do have different types of neurons with some different roles and behavior.

But once transistors are arranged in circuits, they become highly specialized too.

Worse, the vast (vast, vast) majority of all neuron types' structure and activity is not performing computation. Loads of mechanisms and activity aimed at simply handling the complex per neuron energy management systems, continually rebuilding internal and boundary structures, replenishing internal components, selectively absorbing resources, breaking down and expelling waste, etc.

Neurons have an incredible design given they must grow, differentiate, and work for a lifetime without any intelligent planning or intervention.

But transisters are far smaller, leaner, and faster. And their energy requirement continue to decrease, and heat extraction efficiency improves, we will be able to pack them into fully 3D circuits. They will operate many orders of magnitude faster and more efficiently.

There was never an inate benefit to being organic, except that they were achievable with evolution. Digital circuits had to wait for a different kind of ecosystem to originate. But once they appeared, it only took them 100 years to rival their multi-billion year old analog counterparts.

Let's not even bring up quantum circuits, which are getting more practical every year, and will outclass both analog and digital circuits for many machine learning algorithms.
This is a heavily simplified version of what I'm suspecting he's trying to portray, key this wouldn't be useful for utility functions like string manipulation but more business logic being used across similar functions:

def processOrder():
# Some common processing logic
print("Processing the order...")

def placeOnlineOrder():
processOrder()
print("Sending confirmation email...")

def placeInStoreOrder():
processOrder()
print("Printing receipt...")

# Calls from different locations
placeOnlineOrder()
placeInStoreOrder()

Could become:

def processOrder(order_type):
# Common processing logic
print("Processing the order...")

if order_type == "online":
print("Sending confirmation email...")
elif order_type == "in_store":
print("Printing receipt...")

# Unified calls with different flags
processOrder("online")
processOrder("in_store")
I mean Youtube does people just don't pay for it....
If somebody wants to interpret a mundane opinion online as some sort of arcane summoning incantation or volley of memetic warfare that is up to the reader, but “a ton of Brazilians signed up for bluesky” is generally accepted as fact and “it doesn’t seem like the fight with the Brazilian government really accomplished anything” is a pretty understandable opinion that doesn’t require a lot of mental gymnastics or bad faith to arrive at given public information.

It’s just a post. Somebody posted their opinion on the internet. What it becomes inside a specific reader’s mind is neither here nor there
IME if I am using a non-Chrome browser I get three nags from Google to switch to Chrome before it gives up. It's happened on Google's home page, Gmail, and Maps.
German seems even more obsessed with gender than English, and the exceptions (der Junge -vs- das Mädchen) seem to reveal its underlying assumptions and disrespect for reality in the ways it doesn't align with natural or biological gender, like refusing to assign gender to young females while imposing manhood on young boys, and bizarrely insisting on assigning arbitrary gender to inanimate objects.

Gendered pronouns and nouns are just a bunch of useless sexist baggage and linguistic friction that make languages much harder to learn, and uselessly complex, with more trivial arbitrary details to memorize or get wrong.

But all those gender-critical sex-obsessed people who make a big deal out of getting performatively offended and pretending to be confused by neutral pronouns, angrily insisting that every word possible explicitly defines a gender, are just weird.

The person doth protest too much, methinks.
I see, you are just a troll that cant even keep track of what thread they are on. You created an entire throwaway and calling me a racist nazi because i said you didn't read the article? lol.
Those things aren't free, they're supported by ad revenue and the sale of personal or aggregated user information. I'm not saying there isn't a place for that type of software, but imo it's wrong and somewhat dangerous to equate that with things that are actually free. And even so, to the extent that any of Google's software is actually free, it's mostly a loss leader for the sake of vendor lock-in, which is intrinsically anticompetitive.
This won't work

if a response is meant to swap out a div, the first response completing will swap it out - if this response isnt compatible with the same selector (e.g. a #response is not available) a second completing response won't be able to update the UI
Anyone can of course apply security fixes to Python 2, because it's open-source.

My objection is not to library owners dropping support for Python 2, which is a perfectly reasonable choice for them to make—backward compatibility can be costly, after all, and the benefits may not be worth it. My objection is to library owners pledging to drop support for Python 2, because that entails that they think backward compatibility is itself harmful. To me, that's pants-on-head crazy thinking, like not wanting to wear last season's sweater, or not wanting to use JSON because it's too old.

Observably, since this happened, the Python maintainers have been very active at breaking backward compatibility. (And there's substantial overlap between Python maintainers and major Python library maintainers, which I suspect explains the motivation.) I think this is probably due to people who don't think backward compatibility is actually evil (the aforementioned "all the other users for whom python is an foreign, incidental, but indispensable part of their work") fleeing Python for ecosystems like Node, Golang, and Rust. This eliminates the constituency for maintaining backward compatibility.

I do think the botched 2→3 transition was probably the wellspring of this dysfunction, but I don't think that in itself it was necessarily a bad idea, just executed badly.

As a result of this mess, it's usually easy for me to run Lisp code from 40 years ago, C code from 30 years ago, or Perl or JS code from 20 years ago, but so difficult to run most Python code from 5 years ago as to be impractical.
Uh oh... Nintendo intellectual property?

RIP in peace
Executives, CXOs and some professional are willing to pay the money to look sharp. But, imo that can be done without having to pay the hefty prices
As others have noted it's illegal to sell pill presses unless you're registered with the DEA, and eBay has gotten slammed for millions of dollars over this.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ebay-pay-59-million-settle-co...

Their treatment of this seller sucks, but they are also forced to cover their asses by the government on this. So they are in a somewhat difficult position.

I'm not defending eBay, mind you. As the seller notes on their Twitter thread... eBay should and could easily detect this kind of illegal item AHEAD OF TIME when the seller enters the item description. Just block the seller from listing the item, rather than letting them list it... and then banning them later.

It is possible (don't know how likely) that maybe eBay is being total overkill on this stuff as a sign of good faith to the government to avoid future fines. A lot of those fines can be based on the perceived level of willful noncompliance. Not excusing them. Just thinking thru what might be happening.
If more [racists] move over from the [fully racist KKK] to [the half-racist new organization] than [non-racists] move from [not being racist] to [the half-racist new organization] it is a net reduction.

If the existence of [the half-racist new organization] provides [political] impetus to [outlaw the fully racist KKK] then that's very good.
Yes I can see the dystopian consequences of google’s search monopoly profits, which they have used to do such horrible things as:

- Providing a free alternative to Microsoft’s monopolized office suite and desktop OS

- Provide a free alternative to Apple’s mobile OS, spurring a revolution in access to the internet for the world’s poor

- Provide free global maps with streetview sights

- Provide a free to access video platform with invaluable educational resources that allows millions of creators to make a living and that likely wouldn’t exist save for Google’s monumental investments and ability to sustain years of losses

- Research given away for free that ignited the current AI revolution

- Research given away for free that is revolutionizing medicine and drug development

In sum, truly a horrible thing they’ve done
as much as I would love that personally, the software is an asset and bankruptcy means they have to try and liquidate all assets in order to cover their liabilities. besides, bankruptcy doesn't always mean the company and all services disappear.

imo a reasonable middle ground is to prevent companies from locking down access to the vehicle's computers. owners should be able to root and self-manage the software, even if that software has to be painstakingly reverse engineered.

ofc the safety critical systems make that trickier but still.
So funny thing about those unions…

I am hoping that this will lead people to, prior to accepting a job (deal with the devil, more often than not), look into the pedigree of the company and evaluate based on how people within are treated if they want to work for such a place. In other words, I doubt that Dell was sunshine and roses until now. Or in other words: when someone you don’t like is screwed over, be prepared for that next someone to be you.
When “Out Come The Wolves” by Rancid hit 20 years I was starting to feel my age.
But what to do if your ally is best friends with all autocrats in the world? Are you by transitivity allies with them too?
I guess it did not happen but I liked the idea of keeping python2 as a supported but forever frozen language.

Sort of like if c was still c90 and compilers mostly had no extensions.
It’s kinda punk pop. It has the intensity of punk. It definitely had the mosh pit element to it. I remember it being more intense than the grunge that was popular at the time.

It was on MTV alot. But then again so were Primus and Faith No More. It was a different time.

I was at the attempted free show in Boston in the 90s that ended after just a few songs.

https://youtu.be/O7cJUUZIvNk?si=Yr7ivWCICTC0MTi7

I thought I'd seen the end of the singing bass trophy, but if it has to come back this is a good way.
I think of punk as being three completely separate variables, and for any individual or band they're independent of each other:

1) Ethos

2) Aesthetics/look & feel

3) Musical sound

So someone could be punk as fuck ethos-wise but love listening to Yanni. Meanwhile a band could have a straight up anarcho-punk sound, but otherwise be white collar wage slaves

But this is the root of so much disagreement. When Green Day started ascending in the 80s, people were pointing out the poppy music as not being "punk". But that's just one variable.
exfil ideas are always interesting to think about! The PC speaker idea may work, assuming:

(1) protected computer has a built-in PC speaker (for example, the computer I am typing this message on does not)

(2) There is an insecure PC with sound card and a microphone (or at least headphones which can be used as microphone)

(3) Secure and insecure PCs are close to each other, as opposed to being in different rooms

(4) It's quiet enough, and no one will notice the sounds (because PC speakers are crappy and can't do infra/ultra sound)

Likelihood of this succeeding depends on a lot of factors, the biggest of them being "how good is the security team". Presumably if they are buying data diodes, they at least have some knowledge?

Other exfil ideas I've read were to emit sounds using HDD, emit sounds by changing fan speed, blink code messages on lights ("sleep mode" or caps/num lock), show special patterns on monitors to transmit RF, add hidden dots to printed pages, abuse wireless keyboard or mice.. There are many idea and most of them are pretty impractical outside of very limited circumstances.
Single-neuron representations of odours in the human brain
https://archive.is/0oTiy
Maintaining correctness of language is not inherently a limitation of freedom. You are free to be incorrect in a free society. No one is entitled to respect for being incorrect in a free society. It IS possible to abuse authority over language to exert unfair control, but they are not always the same thing.
I made the jump from mostly-math undergrad to materials science PhD (close to chemistry/physics, if you don't know the field). I was welcomed with open arms.

If you've got any math-heavy STEM graduate degree, you can likely jump into a physics PhD. You might need to take some senior-level undergraduate courses to catch up, but the transition is quite doable. At some point, your overall intelligence, enthusiasm, and work ethic matter more than your specific background.
> There isn't one,

There we go. So if we go back up to your first comment where you say there are separate replacements for some services, you can see that isn't really relevant since what is being discussed was a drop in replacement for Google, and not an individual service they offer.

Aside from that though, Google's offerings are not a walled garden.
"what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence"
Yes, a LOT of your submissions are dead. Email hn at ycombinator com and they will surely be able to give you some insight.
I would not take their stated reasons seriously.

They seem not to be a fan of social media in general, and have blocked a long list of social media sites. They even blocked Wikipedia until their constitutional court overturned the ban.
Please do tell us how Google is a burden to the whole country.

Is it the free maps? free mobile OS? free email? free cloud storage? free video service? free office suite? free desktop OS? free AI chat?
The Billy Project – In Pursuit of Artificial Intelligence (2006)
> Caddy plugins mean I have to download xcaddy and rebuild the server. I really do not want to rebuild services on my servers just because I need a simple layer 4 reverse proxy

That's why containers exist.
> if you rely on a service provided by another organization external to your organization, get an SLA! Get a contract that guarantees you the provision of services you depend on.

Getting "takers" to pay for SLAs/licences is pretty much what Automattic or whoever's behind WordPress dot org wants.
Slavic is somewhat more conservative and still has a bunch of archaic proto-Slavic and even proto-Indo-European stuff in it. Even most of the basic swearwords are still readily recognizable from PIE, which I always found particularly amusing:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/x...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/p...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/j...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/b...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/g...
> People know what they need, and have always known

No we don't. I need a better mouse trap, but I already have mouse traps that work, so if you make a better one you need me to find out about it otherwise I'll just buy the same old not so good ones out of habit thinking they work as good as any other one. There are also problems that I don't even know I have. There are a lot of houses with terrible insulation that the owners really need some advertisement to get them to upgrade - it will pay off in just a few years.
Discussions

(189 points, 16 hours ago, 260 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41784287

(84 points, 2 months ago, 98 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41240716
Another example is music (and relatedly, rythm games). With memorized music you have maximal anticipation of actions. The regular rithm only amplifies that anticipation. Musicians can be very consistent at timing (especially rithm section), and very little latency or jitter can throw that off.
there are practical digressions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_wall
Am I able to upload a book and have it respond truthfully to the book in a way that's superior to NotebookLM or similar? Generally most long context solutions are very poor. Or does the data have to be in a specific format?
> and probably destroyed the credibility of the prize.

From now on I'll always see it as just another nobel peace prize.

This is beyond ridiculous.
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