skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stalking is bad. Lying and manipulating is bad.

If you look at old ads for random products from e.g. the turn of the (last) century, they seem to often give this slight "wall of text" impression. Image of the product, surrounded by prices and descriptions of what it was and what it (purportedly) did. The motivating belief seemed to be that if a company communicated the benefits of buying from them, they would attract customers.

It seems like at some point the focus shifted away from expressing factual information, and to creating vague associations and implications. I think that's still fine on its own, and in fact quite fun and the source of a lot of creativity, but it also created the opportunity to mislead in new ways. E.G. most famously harmfully maybe, the very mid-20th century idea that cigarettes are "cool". In modern times this seems to have gone even further towards exploiting basic quirks in human psychology— A dancing bear, chocolate man, or screaming celebrity has nothing to do with selling a product, but it's bizarre and surprising and therefore memorable, so by making an ad around it you're cluttering the viewer's brain with useless information designed to redirect mindshare to your capital-B "Brand".

So at that point it becomes dishonest and manipulative. But at least it's still broadcasted, e.g. on radio, TV, in newspapers and magazines. It's predatory, but everyone gets the same thing. You can still sorta avoid or ignore it. It doesn't single anyone out.

That's changed now with the Internet. The mass collection of location and personality data, identifiable to individual profiles and paired with tools allowing those individuals to be targetted with a combination of terrifying granularity and omnipresent scale— That adds an entire new dimension to "advertising", and it would still be wrong, because it would still comprise many violations of privacy and basic decency, even if it weren't being actively exploited for commercial gain. If any one individual knew as much about you and had as many tools for trying to influence you as Facebook and Google have built on an industrial scale, they would be either a stalker deserving of a restraining order, or some kind of a (probably malevolent TBH) supernatural spirit.

So "advertising", in terms of "informing the market of a product" and "connecting customers to businesses in mutually beneficial transactions", is fine I guess. Good, even. Stalking, lying, manipulating, and rent-seeking through dominance are wrong.

And with technology centralizing power in the hands of a few organizations, the modern practice of "advertising" seems to be less about "informing people" these days and more about dominating the information space in order to manipulate human behaviour with neither the consent nor the knowledge of your targets. No wonder it's apparently being abused by law enforcement.

...To be clear, I use the word "you" only as an indefinite pronoun here. Small businesses that use ad networks aren't the ones to blame for a large system having messy incentives and malicious central actors.
Given that half the country loves the party that is anti-regulation, "small" government, I don't think you have your finger on the pulse of the nation, so to speak.

Not only would many people in the US be against this on principle ("the feds should stop meddling", "the free market will sort it out"), but the companies in question would invest lots of money into propaganda that many, many people would fall for.
> Dang has said before that HN is not for bots or AI generated content.

I have a feeling that he meant something akin to spam, not to AI-assisted comments addressed to specific points.
I agree that it will increase Firefox's market share in the short term, but I'm concerned it will decrease the number of people using adblockers in the long run by adding friction to the process. I would expect most Chrome users on HN to switch to Firefox after this, but I wouldn't expect people outside of techie circles to make that move en masse.
A tailwind of surging asset prices, high wages for professional jobs even adjusted for inflation and student loan debt, and financial help from parents such as inheritances and housing, who benefitted from the last boom.
I am very hopeful and have enough faith in JetBrains to believe that they will ensure that any added capabilities for completion will be available to ALL AI plugins on their marketplace.

I would be hugely discouraged if I ever discovered that part of their push to get developers using _their_ AI models and service was to lock out any competition from being able to offer an alternative.

There's been a lag between some of the fancy features enabled by VSCode-based tools and plugins like Cursor, Void, etc, and their equivalent becoming available in Jetbrains, due to the completion limitations.

I tried those tools. But I love my PyCharm IDE. When Continue made a configurable plugin that would let me hook it into 3 different LLM at once (for different contexts of completion), I decided to stick with PyCharm instead of investing the effort to adapt to VSCode.

Those plugins are only going to improve if additional capabilities in this area are exposed by the IDE. This will be fantastic but will mean that Jetbrains own features and AI service will be competing with its plugin ecosystem. Which will include paid plugins' associated lock-in models, and open plugins that let users choose from whatever AI model works best for their use case.

I have faith that Jetbrains will continue doing the right thing here until I see evidence otherwise. For any other company, I would be a bit concerned to see what could be perceived as a conflict of interest between themselves and their users. But Jetbrains is smart enough to know that developer satisfaction is their primary goal which will drive sales, and that limiting ecosystem capabilities to drive an advantage for their own service would be contrary to that effort.
Always amazing to read about surprising positive impacts that a project can make in someone's life like this.
You are attacking it semantically, reading the article is a bit clearer he's not talking about the conveniences of services on the internet but specifically:

> 'Humans were the ones who scared me'

> "They were the angry villagers in Frankenstein - like the internet - these nameless faces [Burton makes monster roaring noises] and the monster always had the most emotion and most feeling even though they're looked upon as a certain way.

> "Every monster usually has some kind of pathos and some kind of humanity" that the humans lacked he added.

So "like the internet" means people on the internet, is it technically wrong to call comments, social media, etc. "the internet"? Yup, it doesn't mean it's not understood when we hear it, at least for me it's quite clear when people in real life tell me "I don't like to be on the internet" they mean this side of it.

I think it'd be a better discussion if you focused on what the article is about instead of your argument on semantics, you are verging quite into exactly "the people on the internet" by doing this.
I'm not volunteering to find out, heh.
Has anyone visited these sites in the last few years? (The field trip was in 2006.) Has construction, road repairs, etc. obscured many of these? I know of a few roadway offsets in the immediate Bay area that have been "fixed" and are no longer visible.
Assyria was knocked back on its heels by the collapse, shrinking down to a core. It only became dominant later on, in the form of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. By that time the Hittite Empire was long gone, although the Neo-Hittites were around.
You get obese since you eat too many calories. Humans obey thermodynamics.
Regarding the Quake engine and its evolutions (Q3, Call of duty, RTC Wolfenstein), the most common trick was to modify the rendering mode of all player entities so that they are drawn above everything else.

The engine has a flag that is mainly used to draw the player's weapon (which is rendered above the rest). Using this flag for players was the "engine compliant" way of making a wall hack.
Huh, interesting. Thanks for the links!

What if I'm an EU resident whose bank or workplace security software are sideloaded or distributed by an alt store? What if I'm traveling for longer than a month? What if, to keep banking or working, I need an updated version of said apps?

F me for being away for longer than an arbitrary amount of time that Apple thinks characterises ... what?
> No, only the ones who suck. I don't mean this in a jokey way. If I'm UpstartISP, Inc. and I believe that my product is actually better than Comcast offers, I want people to be able to cancel services without being jerked around, waiting on hold, and hassled, so that they can sign up with me.

Sooner or later, some SeniorLeader inside UpstartISP, whose bonus is driven by profit or loss, will do the math and note that making it harder to cancel will cause quarterly profits to increase by 0.N%, and then the company will surely make the change. The tendency for all companies to profit-maximize guarantees it.
I think o1 is best at algorithm heavy coding tasks, opus at api/language-translation knowledge-breath heavy tasks (and also has better recency via later knowledge cutoff). But with latest update opus is pretty close at algorithm heavy coding.
Compose UI has the potential answer there, as well: https://www.jetbrains.com/compose-multiplatform/
VIM is free too. As is Xcode.
Pedantry: astronomical vega comes from arabic, واقع .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega#Nomenclature
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FLT_EPSILON is not 0.01, it's 0.00000011920929.

But it's impossible to have a number that's 0.00000011920929 less than 5.0, or 0.00000011920929 more than 5.0, because the floats with enough magnitude to represent 5 are spaced further apart than that. Only numbers with magnitude < 2 are spaced close enough together.

In other words, the only 32-bit float that's within ±0.00000011920929 of 5.0 is 5.0 itself.
You don't have anything to apologize for; you did everyone a service.
The Soviet and now post-soviet "tushenka" is 100% derived from American WW2 spam. But I think it actually tastes better, try some if you have an Eastern European store around.
Only the "recommended" section.
Oh man, this is a very interesting take.

Indeed, it is definitely the case that this kind of behavior/content gets amplified. When you log in, in some sense, any reality could be crafted just for you, for good or for bad. The overwhelming majority of people are vulnerable to this. What they see == what they think it's real, me included, btw.

I once read an article about how the vast majority of dating now begins through an online interaction (say , Tinder), and how also the vast majority of these apps are controlled by 2-3 companies. Think about the massive power they have over everyone else's lives. You want to encourage interracial relationships? Suppress matches within the same race and encourage matches outside of it. (And the opposite could be done, I'm not making a political statement here). These people have the power to completely change the demographic landscape of a country in a couple decades(!). They should be heavily regulated, but far from it, no one is even aware of this.

It will only get worse with "AI", unfortunately.
(author here) I've also been thinking about this - I've since built out a Rust library (https://github.com/lily-mara/kindling) for scaffolding the server piece of this and I've been considering creating a Kindle client app that integrates with it. This is possible but would require using the Kindle Java SDK, which does not fill me with excitement.
And the 9th Circuit hasn’t?
Yeah, I literally took up smoking for business. British retail magnates pretty much all chain smoke. Going and hanging out at the smoking area at a trade show was a great way to meet prospects, and more than a few deals were shaken on while we nipped out of a sales meeting for a fag.

Horrible for your health. Great for your career.
They’re probably concentrated in your capital’s ethnic enclaves.
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That's interesting. I was hoping to see some comparison of their model with the data in the paper, but haven't found it (I looked at the figures). That's a bit disappointing...
On the other hand, the Satoshi-as-a-team theory would mean that secrets are easier to keep than people think. If that’s the case, then maybe conspiracy theories are more true than most of us would care to admit.

I guess he's never heard of intelligence agencies, sealed indictments, the FBI, or hedge funds. Despite collectively employing thousands of people, seldom does anything leak, and when it does it's newsworthy and outdated by then.
It reminded me of these old Unix lessons of Master Foo

https://prirai.github.io/books/unix-koans/#master-foo-discou...
> 5/10 and 8/10 are not all that close

That’s only the recent term.

Scroll down to the first vertical bar graph. Sixth is reversed over 80% of the time, Ninth right behind it. Fifth, Eighth and the State Courts comprise the second cohort in the 70-ish percent range. Note that these are conditional probabilities; we’re observing cases SCOTUS took on.
If you like stories about historical food, check out tasting history! [0] His recent two episodes on the Titanic survivors are gut wrenching. [1]. He also does WWII content. [2]

[0] https://m.youtube.com/@TastingHistory
[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ED7kGq4Ieak
[2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i8ROieDwLBw
What are the repercussions? If there is no reaction from the international community, did this action really happen?
And don't forget you can make some pretty sweeping generalizations about how young people are nuts, too. With similar justification: "We're different, so you are crazy."
Existing OCR is extremely limited and requires custom narrow development.
From Wikipedia:

The Lion sculpture has had a very long and obscure history, probably starting its existence as a funerary statue called zhènmùshòu (镇墓兽 in Simplified Chinese, literally “tomb guardian”) in medieval China, during the reign of the Tang Dynasty.

...The Lion, in its present form, is a composite of different pieces of bronze created at very different times, building upon ancient "core" components. It has undergone extensive restoration and repair work at various times.

...More recent studies, however, suggest that the statue likely comes from the regions near the lower course of the Yangtze River, in eastern China, and was probably cast sometime in the period from the 7th to the early 10th century CE, during the reign of the Tang Dynasty. The original bronze figure, taken as a whole, was likely significantly different from the Lion of today...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_of_Venice
Oh yeah the branches too. It's made it super easy for me to ticket the issue, maybe the MR + branch in one click, and add it as a worktree. Honestly worktrees have saved my multitasking. I know Jira/Bitbucket do similar, but that's not what I primarily use.
>gl-wrappers.js(1362): Uncaught Error: 3D texture dimensions 256, 256, 512 with possible 2D representations 8192, 4096 or 4096, 8192 exceed maximum texture size. The maximum 2D texture side length is 4096.

There's some API call that tells max resolution, you can use it to avoid this issue
That sounds like something to fix, then.

Requiring carriers to enable whatever side-channel is necessary to transmit location info to the 911 PSAP shouldn't be a heavy lift.

The callback issue seems harder to resolve, but even if a handset has no assigned phone number, there are other ways to address it (e.g. IMEI). Carriers should be required to build in a capability to make this work.
pretty sure computing moves is in NP so probably yep
Great news that I've never heard before. Good to know R5 has at least one friend with deep pockets. Wouldn't have guessed NVDA, who has been somewhat antagonistic to open computing.
Oh interesting. Thanks! We must have assumed it was client-side and gave up.
RAG_Techniques
Larry Summers – AGI and the Next Industrial Revolution (#159)
I am a small government advocate. The problem with cable companies is that they enjoy near monopoly status. That’s not free market.
I looked into this with my 4th generation Kindle; it seems like it won't be able to use any HTTPS website due to invalid certificate. However, setting it up to talk to a server on my local network would be the way to go. Thanks for the idea!
Related:

Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41920401
Yeah, IMO the plural noun is "buses", while "busses" is a conjugated verb, ex:

"When the regular buses aren't running, he busses people around in the minivan."
Agreed, let's go!
The most effective effective altruism requires zero anonymity.
The one exception to frictionless cancellation could be a big modal warning the customer that cancelling will hamper their 911 service, if what they're doing will actually do so.

These are spurious objections. They're grasping.
Yeah, but, considering the sheer complexity of modern CPUs and SoCs, this is still the case even if you have the silicon in front of you. That ship sailed some time ago.
It is easy to underestimate any individual's contribution to society, especially if it can be (ridiculously) trivialized as "just a mindless game" (that hurt to type).

2048 has impacted our species. Seriously.

I can assure you from an objective, subjective, authoritative, personal, and collective position: your game has saved many people their sanity, entertained millions, saved/wasted billions, inspired untold people into math, web dev, and game design.

But most importantly, people didn't quit "mindless/thankless/frustrating/demeaning" jobs because their mind was _just_ adequately stimulated by your creation to continue to justify coming to work the next day.

Not demanding enough to command full attention (until we get a 4096, then nothing else matters), but 'choring' enough (in the most charitable sense) to keep people from finding a more or less demanding time-fill, likely compromising their jobs.

Jobs that help others, in an exponential way, sometimes.

Even if this was an isolated incident, I can tell you, you will forever be top 5 (hyper) viral games by a solo developer.

If a butterfly can cause a hurricane, 2048 could just as easily be the reason we survive the next filter, for all we know.

You helped me help others help others. And you deserve to know that.

BTW: I always blocked your ads (no offense, just cognitive stuff).

Drop a donation link somewhere, please.
We have plans to put o1 on the leaderboard - but Opus is there RN! We should have a new ELO ranking soon, but the second o1 ranking are done it will be on our leaderboard.
It really depends. I guess on more specific subs, sure. Like if this was posted on the react or react native sub.

If this was on programming or even web dev you'd just see "react bad" or "embedding a browser for an app is blablabla" (when react native doesn't even do that)
That's not even remotely correct.

Just today I heard a talk about people looking at stellar motions in ultra faint dwarf galaxies, because standard dark-model theories predict they should have centrally cusped dark-matter density profiles -- and fuzzy dark-matter models predict different profiles, which they could potentially discriminate between.
Not a waste of resources, just an increase in use. This is why need more resources.
I think parent has an issue where at first he develops something he thinks he won't sell but later it turns out he has opportunity to make money on it.

My take would be, when decision to earn money one should buy the license for sure.

I don't think you can somehow pay for previous use and I expect no one will hold it against you.

But at the same time if you "develop non commercially" and you know you will be trying to monetize it most likely it will be hard to prove and no one has resources to catch every such case but remember that you become "big POS" for that.
Rider is much, much better than VS work unreal. And this is coming from a VS fanboy.
Maybe, but it'd be exceptionally odd for Apple's release notes riddled with EU specific wording to specifically mention 2 additions to be available worldwide to silently only be applicable worldwide during the beta period.
Did you post the site?
I remember Facebook obeying a similar order last year or so (From India, for global users). Is that the new normal?
That's been implemented - google "Fibonacci 2048".
> they see a complicated proxy war where the bigger bully is forcing an institutionally-weak nation to degrade or destroy an enemy state

This is so, so ridiculous take of the war that I refuse to believe there are any significant number of people outside of Russia believing this. NATO/US is forcing Russia to destroy Ukraine, really now? They really are forced to wage an expansionist, genocidal war against a small neighbour?
Sure, and if a young person does something nutty then I'd call them a nut. It's not hypocritical on my end to do this.

My other grandmother is the same age as my idiot grandmother, and yet she's managed to somehow not be really racist around my wife. I guess I don't know for sure what's in her brain, but at least outwardly I wouldn't classify her as a racist, so please don't misinterpret what I say: being old doesn't inherently make you a nut.

If a young person says something dumb or offense, it's perfectly fine in my mind to hold them to the same standard.
I recently quit a job, for a large number of reasons, but the one most relevant to this post was the topic of my github numbers. My manager gave me a "needs improvement" review, citing my "bad numbers" and comparing them to several of my teammates. Their numbers, to me, were laughably high.

I thought I was doing pretty good on PR reviews. I do one or two a day. I read the description, sometimes more than once. I read through the practical testing steps. I follow them, sometimes with a lot of setup required. I really make sure it does what it's supposed to do. I read the code, line by line. Sometimes before I do the practical testing, sometimes after. But I read through the code, several times. I don't know how you wouldn't. Functions are calling other functions I haven't gotten to yet. So I read through the code multiple times. I don't just try to understand what it does, but why it does what it does. Is there a better way? Is this going to change or impact something else it should or shouldn't? A good code review can easily take an hour or more, in my humble opinion. Two reviews a day on top of all my bs meetings and I still have my own shit to do. How does my teammate have triple my PR reviews for the quarter? Seems crazy.

One day I'm pair programming with one such teammate. We finish the task, I create a PR, write a description etc. I press the ready for review button and start to say, "see you later bla bla" and suddenly there's an approval on the PR. It's been 5 seconds, tops. It's the other teammate with 10x code ninja numbers on the team. I remark that approval was pretty quick. My teammate forces a nervous sounding laugh. They work together ever day and seem pretty close, huh.

Anyway, after that, every morning after I made coffee and opened my laptop I'd spend 10-15 minutes just going down the list of open PRs on the project and approving them. I didn't look at the code or even bother reading the description. I just approved them all. I also started opening PRs for stupid shit like minor typos in comments that I'm quite sure no one even reads.

My next review my manager said I had made some impressive improvements and gave me a "meets expectations".

I'm looking for a job in a different industry now. I'm not out of software development, I just don't think I can work on another e-commerce webapp company run by MBAs again. I think I'd rather be broke.
Confidentiality agreements are usually part of employment agreements. I haven't checked expiry dates etc.; and tbh I'm not sure they'd apply here, but I'd rather check ;)