skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well if you need ipc to connect different languages, you will stay away from COM.
Heck once you use anything but rust,c or c++ you should drop com. Even dotnet support for com is aweful. And if you ever written a outlook addin, than you will start hating com by yourself, thanks to god that Microsoft is going away from that
> Was Roman wine better than pre-Roman wine in that region?

Not necessarily better, but they made much more of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome_and_wine:

“Ancient Rome played a pivotal role in the history of wine. The earliest influences on the viticulture of the Italian Peninsula can be traced to ancient Greeks and the Etruscans. The rise of the Roman Empire saw both technological advances in and burgeoning awareness of winemaking, which spread to all parts of the empire. Rome's influence has had a profound effect on the histories of today's major winemaking regions in France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain.

The Roman belief that wine was a daily necessity made the drink "democratic" and ubiquitous; in various qualities, it was available to slaves, peasants and aristocrats, men and women alike. To ensure the steady supply of wine to Roman soldiers and colonists, viticulture and wine production spread to every part of the empire. The economic opportunities presented by trading in wine drew merchants to do business with tribes native to Gaul and Germania, bringing Roman influences to these regions even before the arrival of the Roman military. Evidence of this trade and the far-reaching ancient wine economy is most often found through amphorae – ceramic jars used to store and transport wine and other commodities.

[…]

Among the lasting legacies of the ancient Roman empire were the viticultural foundations laid by the Romans in lands that would become world-renowned wine regions. Through trade, military campaigns and settlements, Romans brought with them a taste for wine and the impetus to plant vines. Trade was the first and farthest-reaching arm of their influence, and Roman wine merchants were eager to trade with enemy and ally alike—from the Carthaginians and peoples of southern Spain to the Celtic tribes in Gaul and Germanic tribes of the Rhine and Danube.

During the Gallic Wars, when Julius Caesar brought his troops to Cabyllona in 59 BC, he found two Roman wine merchants already established in business trading with the local tribes. In places like Bordeaux, Mainz, Trier and Colchester where Roman garrisons were established, vineyards were planted to supply local need and limit the cost of long-distance trading. Roman settlements were founded and populated by retired soldiers with knowledge of Roman viticulture from their families and life before the military; vineyards were planted in their new homelands. While it is possible that the Romans imported grapevines from Italy and Greece, there is sufficient evidence to suggest that they cultivated native vines that may be the ancestors of the grapes grown in those provinces today”
Exactly. The artists are not the church.

I'm not religious at all, however I was deeply moved by many basilica throughout Italy and Spain, as I was by the Pantheon, the aqueducts at Segovia, etc. It's hard to look upon such feats and not feel awe.

These works of art are more a reflection of the artist than they are of the faith (to me atleast). Sure they exist because of the vanity of the church, this I don't dispute but many things in this life exist for the wrong reasons and yet are still intensely beautiful.
As a kid I was also terrible at maths, then later became obsessed with it as an adult because I didn't understand it, just like OP. It was the (second) best thing I've ever done! The world becomes a lot more interesting.
Maybe its because the current HN title says "trained" in the past tense?
> Directly charge users for it. This is effectively a non-starter, because the vast majority of people aren't willing to pay for it.

I would gladly pay for Firefox, but I only found a way to donate to Mozilla, which also finances many other things that I am not interested in.

> Insert ads or sell user data - users also hate this, it's probably not legal in the EU, and it may not be legal in most of the US in the future either.

Adds are legal, but "selling user data" is more tricky. Many news websites are currently paywalling access to their website unless a monthly fee is paid. As far as I know, there has been no ruling yet whether that is legal.

> Use the browser as a platform to push some product that does make money - a non-Google search engine? A social network? An LLM interface?

Firefox tried to sell a VPN product that way, but it was not priced competitively.
I have workloads on hetzner data centers in Finnland and Germany. Hetzner owns part of that cable, to connect those sites.

Tracerout gives me a path like this
spine5.cloud2.fsn1.hetzner.com
->
core22.fsn1.hetzner.com
->
core5.fra.hetzner.com
->
core53.sto.hetzner.com ->
core31.hel1.hetzner.com

Which is worse than before, but still works for me.
Apple's VP literally said that no amount of money would make them choose Bing over Google because Google is the best search engine...

Lets be real, no one needs to be "roped into" using Google search. People have Bing and Edge shoved down their throats and still use Chrome and Google...
Analysis regarding latencies and packet loss due to cut cables:

https://labs.ripe.net/author/emileaben/does-the-internet-rou...
Does this mean he wouldn't have run this time if it weren't for his legal troubles?
> Currently, Safari and Firefox both make essentially all their revenue through default search agreements.

Safari is funded by Apple's hardware sales. It can afford to develop its own browser because it's table stakes for devices and gives Apple the ability to do deeper integrations and targeted performance optimizations. The search revenue is the cherry on top.
But why would they if they're forbidden from getting any benefit from Chrome?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel is a major investor into Niantic.
I wholeheartedly agree. What the hell is the DOJ thinking?
Probably not block CDC scientists of speaking about it[0]. Also not interfere with data collection by the CDC[1].

They probably wouldn't have dismantled the global health security branch of the National Security Council either[2][3][4], 2 years prior to the pandemic.

There's a timeline outlining the disastrous bullshit[5].

[0] https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/attacks-on-science/trump-ad...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/us/politics/trump-cdc-cor...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/0...

[3] https://csis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/publication/1...

[4] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-homeland...

[5] https://doggett.house.gov/media/blog-post/timeline-trumps-co...
Why would I want to slay one of our greatest technological companies?
> Wasn't there a big story last year in the wake of the DOJ antitrust investigation about Google manipulating search quality to boost ad revenue?

This is the email chain you are looking for:

* https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-11/417581.pdf
Usually plus stock grants though, which are taxed as income.
Why does everyone contribute to Linux?
Do you mean that cryptocurrency submissions were penalized that way? I recall them being about as annoying and similarly filling the front page with uninformative submissions, but have not heard of such penalties. Same as with other subjects during their hype waves.
> The company I’m working for now keeps trying to add more and more functionality using Redis, that doesn’t belong in Redis, and then complains about Redis scaling issues.

This doesn't sound like a Redis issue, you're just not using the right tool for the job.
Last decade... GP said last decade. IDEs and airplanes are older.

> The examples can go on

Since the examples never started not sure how they could go on.
AI can now create a replica of your personality
This doesn't work conceptually, but it's hard to explain without attaining a KSP baseline of understanding. https://xkcd.com/1356

"Clearing a path" is something you can do with a bulldozer through a traffic jam, but imagine clearing a path through a belt road by driving through the flow of moving traffic sideways at speed. Ultimately you can't hit every car in the outer lane with just one bulldozer, and the cars will close in and fill gaps because they're moving at slightly different speeds.

The easy elastic collisions you're imagining also just can't occur at these relative velocities. When something hits it looks more like an explosion than a "catch". If you shoot a local stone monument with high explosive artillery shells what happens? Does it reduce the number of things flying through the air or increase it?
False marketing.

They are one of the least "deGoogled" ROMs out there[1]. If you want the only real "deGoogled" OS that prioritizes security and privacy, use GrapheneOS https://grapheneos.org/.

[1] https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm
A company that operates a monopoly having massive advantages against competitors isn't the argument you think it is. Courts in every developed country on earth see your statement and say "That's precisely why we're breaking this company up."

Every single time a monopoly forms, people say "It's not a monopoly. They're just better than the others and nobody wants the competition." They never realize that's the textbook example of a monopoly.
unreadable website
Chrome does a lot of things. I know there are downsides and many people don't agree, but I think overall the browser/internet experience would benefit from simpler browsers that don't move so fast.
Might have been more relevant before the rise of LLMs.
I can't say for certain, I'm Australian and don't work with the US political admin (ie no inside line) but there's certainly been US insiders that have strongly hinted dodging massive mounting legal trouble was a major motivation for Trump to run again.

To be clear they may have been deadly serious, seriously joking, or both at the same time .. it's just that good a fit as a theory.
Dec 2019 is when I first read something on reddit about it, I remember thinking "oh, SARS is coming back".

I remember commenting about it during Christmas dinner that year, spending whole January reading the news dripping from China, and then it hit us hard in Sweden in February, my friends and I were a little more prepared than others (had a month's worth of food stocked, didn't need to leave the house until late March for groceries).
A much better split would be:

Chrome + Display Ads
Android + Playstore + App Ads
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Do you live in one of those countries?
Based on the ole' joke about outfitting custom planes, "If you want to do anything to a plane... /anything/..., it's 250. New coffee machine? 250k. Rotate the sofa? 250k." -- $149,072 for a soap dispenser might well be a screaming deal.
Cf. the "Minus World" in Super Mario Bros. for the NES.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minus_World
Of course these are things they'll say publicly. And they'll point out all the bad results and none of the good ones. None of what they wrote should be surprising, but also it's not particularly novel/interesting. (Also they're framing a few good things as if they're bad for the users...)
Hey Alchmeist,
on the other hand application if done right can give exponential rather than linear results so I completely understand your point...
I liked your response a lot, are there any other such similar resources or videos that you have known about?
Many people are saying.
I'm quite sure is talking about "low size update packages"
Is it worth it to be able to think better, have a growth mindset and learn how to learn? Yes. Everyone can benefit from that. Pushing on into higher math? No, very few people can benefit from that.
I'm annoyed that the HN title is still editorialized after multiple hours. It's not like the original title is especially egregious.
We've been doing it since Deng for the sake of making a few CEOs and shareholders richer. China operates or is monopsony sponsor of numerous pieces of infrastructure around the world in the name of trade.
> As a result of Morris and Thompson’s recommendations [of one-way hashing] and those who believed their assumptions without evidence, it was not until well into the 21st century that the scientific community learned just how ineffective password policies were.

Not sure about where the "scientific" community boundaries are, but I'm pretty sure that even in the pre-21st decades it was no secret among system administrators. They knew their users erred towards the most terrible passwords the system would permit.
People will do the weirdest crap to avoid paying for music =)

The current generation is so obsessed with streaming that downloading music locally and "owning" it seems like a completely foreign thing to them. All piracy to them is just finding out the next shady streaming website.
It is well presented, but I think the part attacking TAA will lead to confusion, as SDF AA is in no way an alternative to TAA.

TAA covers all types of aliasing, while this only covers edge aliasing.

Many modern games use monte carlo based approaches for indirect lighting and other effects, which basically requires TAA.
Gov't Censorship of Twitter is definitely "unhinged", and Democrats invented it.
So what advantages does Google have over Bing apart from simply being a better product?

Microsoft is worth almost double what Google/Alphabet is, has larger desktop operating market share than Chrome has browser market share, forces Edge and Bing down their users throats leveraging their operating system yet has far less traction. Surely MS should be able to outspend and outcompete because they're bigger and a monopolist as well, right?
Right? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here and on Lemmy, the whole point of ingress was that it was made to sell Google mapping data and point of interest data, that's why the game didn't have monetizing practices for so long (of course it started having them once all the data was sold but hey)
Well, yes?

Why would they voluntarily go to court if they can avoid it? Would any of you?
Thank you for the excellent writeup, terrific work!

> Whole communities rally around fixing this, like the reddit communities “r/MotionClarity” or the lovingly titled “r/FuckTAA”, all with the understanding, that Anti-Aliasing should not come at the cost of clarity. FXAA creator Timothy Lottes mentioned, that this is solvable to some degree with adjustments to filtering, though even the most modern titles suffer from this.

I certainly agree that the current trend of relying on upscalers has gone too far and results in blurry and artifact riddled AAA game experiences for many. But after seeing this [1] deep dive by Digital foundry I find the arguments he makes quite compelling. There is a level of motion stability and clarity only tech like DLSS can achieve, even outperforming SSAA. So I've shifted my stance from TAA == blurry, TAA + ML when used right == best AA possible currently for 3D games.

Thoughts?

[1] https://youtu.be/WG8w9Yg5B3g
I'm quite weirded out about the part about sharing google's data with other companies to allow competition. Yes, sharing my data allows other companies to advertise to me and to monetize my interests. No, I don't want that. I don't even want google to do that.
Are they, though? Inaccurate info is pretty common from LLMs.
I think that isolating their relationship to a single transaction like this is disingenuous. Our government pays this company many billions per year. They likely or should have had extra of these laying around for replacements. It’s not unreasonable to expect them to charge a reasonable amount for everything.

But for some reason Boeing continually gets away with being Boeing for some reason.
Caveat here is that "talent" and "dedication" is linked to speed at least in the beginning. For instance, any student can learn calculus given enough time and advice even starting from scratch. However, the syllabus wants all this to happen in one semester.

This gives you vicious and virtuous cycles: Students' learning speed increases with time and past success. So "talented" students learn quickly and have extra time to further explore and improve, leading to further success. Students who struggle with the time constraint are forced to take shortcuts like memorizing "magic formulas" without having time to really understand. Trying to close that gap is very hard work.
So, you are the guy exposing us to adverse foreign actors? How would you feel about being charged with treason in a few years?

And I am only half-joking, see https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-gigantic-unregulated-p... for the explanation.
I dont like clicking on articles that I then discover are behind a paywall

if you have ublock origin installed you can add a filter to the "My filters" section.

this blocks wsj.

www.news.ycombinator.##.g:has(a[href="wjs."])

www.news.ycombinator.##a[href="wjs."]:upward(1)

Do the same for your search engine to eliminate all 20 pages of amazon searches from startpage when searching for a new pair of socks.

www.startpage.##.g:has(a[href="amazon."])

www.startpage.##a[href="amazon."]:upward(1)

works with startpage, google and qwant.

Just change the search engine name and website you want to block
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Here are some sad news for you: The flexibility of JSON and CBOR cannot be matched by any schema based system, because it is equivalent to giving up that advantage.

Sure, the removal of a field can cause an application level error, but that is probably the most benign form of failure there is. What's worse is when no error occurs and the data is simply reinterpreted to fit the schema. Then your database will slowly fill up with corrupted garbage data and you'll have to restore from a backup.

What you have essentially accomplished in your response is to miss the entire point.

There are also other problems with protobuf in the sense that the savings aren't actually as big as you'd expect. E.g. there is still costly parsing, the data transmitted over the wire isn't significantly smaller unless you have data that is a poor fit for JSON.
well it does lead to less eating so it indeed a side effect. if control group ate the same amount there would be no weight loss to begin with.
Percentage values in the range of thousands are somewhat pointless. A usual factor, not normalized to 1/100, would be a better fit, but would probably not make such a catchy headline.
Screenshots are harder to produce, maintain and publish.

I also suspect many technical authors are less “visual” so to speak, putting less emphasis on visual presentation.
Math doesn’t seem to me the only source of thinking clearly, or learning how to learn, etc. And if I’m searching for an aesthetic high, there are definitely better places to look — and ones that don’t require such a long runway.
StackOverflow has been dying a slow death since longer than before ChatGPT. Sure, ChatGPT is helping to accelerate it. The real data (leave aside social/community for a moment) issue with SO.com: Many answers don't age well. So, you have an answer from 8 years ago with 65 upvotes, but now the lang/lib was updated in 2023. A newer, more relevant answer is waaaaaaay down and only has one upvote. Personal note: I still pine for the old days when Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood were at the helm. They really knew how to build and sustain a vibrant community.
How does this differ from tunneling a VPN over something like wstunnel?

We've been running that in prod for several years without any issues, also going through cloudflare
> low dose of Semaglutide

I thought its only approved at standard dose.
If you're going to the official domains linked from their Wikipedia article then there's definitely no malware.
The premise here is that there would've been one. It is vaguely possible that since a Democrat wouldn't have defunded the US presence in the region, that it could've been contained. Not plausible really, but possible. That scenario would not have been (and was not) possible with the decisions that Republicans took in the lead up to the pandemic.
> Currently it seems like each piece of tech basically has it's software designed by the individual engineer [...].

> ... There is going to be a lot of potential in building the technical layer between a plant and the "internet"

These two statements are contradictive. What you need here is exactly the opposite of one-more tech-layer.

What you need is not one more bullshit startup that try to bring one-more of its proprietary tech stac to unify them all.

What you need is international standardization and protocols. Exactly like that the IUT is doing in the Telecom domain.

> In Germany alone that will require a 800% growth for battery storage financials before 2030.

Great to see additional public money to be spend to enrich private investors due to the German nuclear phase out.
The 400 billions from the Energiewende are indeed not enough when we see the current carbon intensity of the country. #irony
I'll second guerrilla - you can absolutely benefit from mathematical thinking without pushing into territory higher than undergaduate studies.

You can even benefit from the thinking taught in good high school coursework (or studying online).

At an arithmetic, bookkeeping level you can better appreciate handling finances and the seductive pitfalls surrounding wagers (gambling, betting, risk taking).
the article believes they should cost $10 though
And while we talk about fusion, even when the energy output surpass the energy input and the reaction is stable enough, how to you harness the energy? Because the reaction happen within a vacuum, the only way is to capture expelled neutrons and make electricity from it somehow.
It is trivial to retaliate in orbital disputes, and ASAT warfare produces long-lived hazard which cannot be cleaned up. Imagine two rival nuclear plants in nearby cities buying artillery and shelling each other, including with aerially deployed landmines.

Either you get along or you do not get to be a spacefaring civilization.
Famously for a long time, the best way to get a point of interest into PGO was to play ingress and request it's addition there