skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the supermarket slowly adds more fat to their products, people will probably continue eating without noticing. But calling that an active decision is quite a reach.

What I buy in the supermarket is very much an active decision. I pay a premium on the bottles of milk because the ones I pick taste better than the supermarket branded ones. I do buy some things that are supermarket branded when I perceive the quality to be similar (or sometimes even better).

This might be different from consumers that due to budget limitations have to buy the cheapest things available, which is why food regulations are very important.

> And the harm isn't that they are listening to filler, it's that during their random listening, they aren't coming across any new good music. They are prevented from widening their horizons.

I presume that people that are actively listening to filler are not appreciating music in their cozy living room while sipping on a glass of fine whiskey.

They just want background noise while they drive, work, study. Something to make their hours more tolerable, or to improve their focus. Apparently the issue is that generic slop from Spotify serves that purpose just as well.

> They aren't actively choosing this.

If the music was bad for them, they would stop listening to it. They don't.
>You're paying the largest marketer in the world to consume content that's a large percentage ads.

Untrue. I pay the largest marketer in the world (debatable, but not the point) to consume content on-demand, of which some, negligible percentage is ads. And usually I don't care about those being ads either. For example, I enjoy Abroad in Japan, and he is sometimes sponsored, invited to present a Japanese restaurant or tourist place. I don't mind at all.

>I agree with paying for things, but subscription model provide no ownership and limited value.

I know exactly what I get, and I don't mind that at all. I desire no ownership over these videos. It's very rare that I re-watch them, and I am comfortable that if, for any reason, it all goes away in an instant, I can move on to other things, with not feeling that I have lost my money in it or anything.

I do understand that the value proposition doesn't work out for you personally, but since the original question was "why would you pay money to use YT", this is why. It's an excellent service for an excellent price.
Good point. Not to mention the circulation will be all wrong had the radiator been cool instead of warm. (The primary means of heating by radiator actually comes from convection rather than radiation.)
Would that handle the demand? This is a very busy website.
It depends with what the risk is .Would it be whole or in part ?
In an organisation,failure by an HR might present an isolated departmental risk while an AI might not be the case.
> 1/10th is still high

Based on what? The FDA's safe dose by definition means there are no known significant risks. They build in pretty hefty safety margins in these things. It definitely could still be too high! We get things wrong all the time. But you need a different kind of study to show that.
There is a different between intelligence and cognition.

Any system which exhibits robustness against errors must to some degree be modeling its environment, and analyzing internal and/or external states in order to make better decisions.

I consider any such system to have a degree of intelligence, even if it lacks what we recognize to be cognition or conscious awareness.
If an actual artist is being plagiarized, I would presume there are avenues for them to sue for that?

Is this actually happening, or is this just a baseless claim?
Indeed, I am not qualified to answer that question and don’t have the answer, I am not planning on publishing research in this particular field anytime soon.

I am personally satisfied that this is being done by people that do deeply understand the limitations and capabilities of their work, but I cannot transfer that to you.
Show HN: I built a gamified Chinese idioms learning platform
I built a simple and fun platform for learning Chinese idioms (成语/chengyu). No registration required, just open and start playing.

What are Chinese idioms?
- Four-character expressions that often tell a story or convey profound meaning
- Essential part of Chinese language and culture
- Challenging to learn due to their historical context and non-literal meanings

Features:
- Three game modes:
* Progressive challenges with different difficulty levels
* Word chain game (connect idioms using the last character)
* Memory matching game with related idioms
- No registration required, instant access
- Mobile-friendly, works on all devices
- Multi-language support (Traditional/Simplified Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean)

Tech stack:
Nextjs + React + tailwindcss + Golang

Try it here: https://idiomgame.com/en

Looking for feedback on gameplay and user experience.
No. Yolo. (Also, in the past 20 years I never needed to find any personal email that's older than a week, so I'm not terribly concerned about the effect of dataloss.)
+1, ^5, ditto and Amen for CodeWarrior and its inline asm. CW was way ahead of its time in terms of UX. Its C++ compiler was well above average too, particularly in terms of codegen (although all C++ compilers were effectively broken in that era.)

The only thing that held it back was the lack of scripting. It was probably a rebound rejection of the MPW days, when everything was script-based (and with a crazy custom language.) I remember thinking that the design team probably didn't want to open that Pandora's box, lest scripting might lazily become required and spoil the UX.

Unfortunately, this made CW unsuited to the advent of CI. Even then, I still think it was stupid for Apple not to acquire Metrowerks. The first 5-10 years of Xcode versions had a worse UX and way worse codegen.
1) It's clearly a problem to artists who have contracts with Spotify and are being defrauded at scale by a secret process to dilute the value of the platform they believe they are being distributed on.

2) > If generic slop Spotify created to increase their own profits satisfies the listener the same way a song created with labor and love by an actual artist, well, this is saying something. I am not sure either of us will like the message.

Again: users do not know they are being fed this stuff.

If this was an official, named Spotify product, and users preferred it, then your anti-anti-slop argument might have some weight.

Spotify are doing this in secret because they know it is fraud on likely a contract level but certainly on a cultural level. They'd be rolling it out with press releases if they didn't know it was underhanded.

That is the issue. But then again HN is a place where people really don't mind if companies break laws on an epic scale, destroy worker protections, and deliver worse products like AI chatbots replacing human support, if customers don't really notice.

So maybe I shouldn't be too surprised by (veiled as much as full-throated) endorsement of secret padding prole-feed.
I thought the central point was the porn played on a loop. Maybe I was distracted and missed the real plot. Also maybe mixed up by the fact that one of the principle actors died in real life while the movie was being made.
> I don't know how to adequately describe how ridiculous it is that

This is nothing else than enshittification: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41277484
> “HTTP is also too inefficient for wireless use. By using a semantically equivalent, but binary and compressed format it is possible to reduce the protocol overhead to a few bytes per request, instead of up to hundreds of bytes.”

Around the turn of the millennium, there were numerous international committees and hundreds of millions of dollars spent by companies on this idea that we simply can’t use the existing internet on mobile phones, so there needs to be something else.

Of course for the companies it was mostly a plot to capture the web, which was uncomfortably open and uncontrolled. The mobile operators were used to charging 20 cents for sending a 140-character message and 1 euro for delivering a monophonic ringtone. They wanted to be the gatekeepers and content curators of the mobile web, taking a cut on every bit of content that flows to devices. (I remember vision PowerPoints where operators imagined that one day when video can be watched on mobile phones, they’d be making more money from each watch than the studios.)

“We must save 200 bytes on HTTP headers or the network will melt!” was just a convenient excuse to build a stack they could own end-to-end.
I have never used a chocolate teapot, but anchor tags (and form tags) have been an important piece of the success of the World Wide Web as a hypermedia system.

htmx generalizes this notion of hypermedia controls in a syntactically symmetric manner, preserving the locality of behavior inherent in those controls.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3648188.3675127
I do not doubt that people deeply understand the current state of the art, and that they understand those limitaitons. I am 100% in agreement.

But the fact that they understand the limitations and capabilities in their work has no bearing on the effectiveness of their work when it comes to the specific goal of protecting bird populations. (One does not logically imply the other.)
ARM has been a shambles for years since acquisition by Softbank in 2016. The China subsidiary went rogue and had to be dealt with at a time when they were considering an IPO. This has Oracle Java like lessons learned waiting to be written, sprinkled with Intel-like market position squandered. Or even the methane producing pig farmer in underworld in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
The whole economy is going to crash and money won't be worth anything, so it won't matter if you have money or not.

Of course is a chance we will find ourselves in Utopia, but yeah, a chance.
Gold supply increases at a rate of around 1.5-2% per year. Last year gold supply increased by 4899 tons which gives 4899/212582 = 2.3%

2% annual increase means it doubles every 3.5 decades.

https://www.lbma.org.uk/alchemist/issue-100/gold-production-...

As for the price, here's bitcoin priced in gold:
https://imgur.com/a/xFDJ0Wq
Indeed. And I do feel that we need a sort of new terminology for technological "attachment/addiction" or whatever it is. Because people continue to nitpick on whether it is physiologically the same as physical dependence and that completely misses the point.
The domain got parked.
Off The Menu – arguments on cooking as an art
Actually, there's a lot of unsubsidized solar popping up in a lot of developing countries all over the middle east, Africa, etc. Anything from villas to shanty towns. Reason: local grids are unreliable and solar is affordable enough. Add some batteries and you are pretty much energy independent. Most of that solar goes on people's roofs.

The reason that's affordable there and requires subsidies in wealthier nations is all the nonsense the nanny states we live in come up with to over complicate things. You need certified this and that. Only people in possession of a special license can plug component A into component B, or strip some wires. And then there is the local grid monopoly that throws up all sorts of obstacles.

There's a way around this. Just buy some panels and batteries on amazon and wire up your shed, boat, cabin in the woods, etc. It's all plug and play. You don't need any permits, special skills, etc. And you end up with a system that can provide a couple of KW of power. Not that hard. There's nothing special about a rooftop. You might need a ladder to get there and you might want to take some safety precautions to avoid dropping off.
But the value of dollar is halved every decade through supply inflation. That's why the price of houses doubles every decade while their value is relatively stable.
I get the excitement, but folks, this is a model that excels only in things like software engineering/math. They basically used reinforcement learning to train the model to better remember which pattern to use to solve specific problems. This in no way generalises to open ended tasks in a way that makes human in the loop unnecessary. This basically makes assistants better (as soon as they figure out how to make it cheaper), but I wouldn't blindly trust the output of o3. Sam Altman is still wrong: https://www.lycee.ai/blog/why-sam-altman-is-wrong
It isn't, banks are way better and cash is still king:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/10/investing/td-bank-settlement-...

https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/global-bank...

https://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2013/investing-n...

https://www.coinbase.com/blog/fact-check-crypto-is-increasin...

Even from SWIFT:
"Identified cases of laundering through cryptocurrencies remain relatively small
compared to the volumes of cash laundered through traditional methods"
https://www.swift.com/sites/default/files/files/swift_bae_re...

What you're saying is simply unsubstantiated.
Flowers are also a store-of-value, but like the dollar, not a very good one.
> If you could somehow figure out a simple but effective sync between devices

If only there were a technology one could use to “serve” information from a central storage mechanism, then update this “server” in a deterministic fashion, possibly with security as part of the feature set…
GenAI has a 100% failure to enjoy quality of life, emotional fulfillment and psychological safety.

Id say those are the goals we should be working for. That's the failure we want to look at. We are humans.
this should have a (2018) in the title.

anyway - is wap still an interesting or relevant technology? "relevant" from the perspective of someone with a hacker mindset. from a modern perspective it is probably just useless.
Cool, but it wasn't our generation's discovery that these non-healthy foods are not particularly healthy. An interesting question would be how on earth was sugar-stuffed candy yogurt considered to be healthy until 2024 by a federal agency.

And also, what will be removed from this list in 2050...
We‘re also being sold nuclear is better.

Nuclear power plants take a long to build and are expensive in power production and maintenance. Just look at France in the hot summers.

And that doesn’t include the danger of sabotage and terrorism.

Didn’t read anything about the fear of russian rockets hitting Ukrainian wind turbines.

Nuclear power plants are also a SPF. In insecure times decentralization is better.
Deterministic they may be, but unforeseeable for humans.
I don't know if you tried to use the web via 3G or even GPRS, but I remember I did, and it was terribly slow. Opera Mini/Mobile ran some sort of proxy service that made things faster (not sure how or what that was, I was too young to understand anything) and helped a little bit, but the best thing you could come across was dedicated WAP websites that basically were "website lite" versions some websites ran concurrently with their real websites.

And even so, loading a 0.1MB WAP website still took time. The pipes were really slow back then, and the devices not being like the pocket computers we have today.

> The mobile operators were used to charging 20 cents for sending a 140-character message.

In Sweden when I was young, it was pretty common for us to have monthly plans with unlimited text messages included (but not surfing, no one did that on the phone anyways). Even with that, WAP seemed to have served some sort of purpose, at least for me personally.
It ends up consuming all of a persons time and energy, and they stop doing everything else that is important or essential- maintaining their own career, friendships, family obligations, and health. They lose the ability to feel joy or engage positively in anything but the addiction. This causes a downward spiral of physical and mental health, that destroys quality of like and can in some cases be ultimately fatal.
The claim isn’t that homeownership is undesirable to Gen Z, but that a lower percentage of Gen Z owns homes compared to previous generations regardless of the specific reason. I think in this case the most likely cause is the increase in prices is causing houses to be unaffordable to Gen Z, despite their desire to own houses.
I read the license and of course IANAL but it seems clear that Debian, Arch, Guix, F-droid or any other independent signed reproducible build channels can package and distribute their own reproducible builds of this software, as long as it is "free of charge for non-commercial purposes", isn't it?

(a FOSS license would also work, but if I have learned something in HN before, is that don't FOSS if you ever want to make money from something while preventing others from making money off of it)
That is possible on Linux [0], but this kind of separation comes with its own can of worms. However, if your only worry is access to folders, Flatpak applications keep all of their data in a folder away from your home directory and use "portals" to access your system [1]. The security of the sandbox is debatable [2], but I would say if your biggest goal is containing non-malicious but badly behaving applications from messing with your system, then it's a very good solution, given you are comfortable with using Flathub (as most distributions won't build Flatpaks) and with the performance/integration impact this distribution method has.

[0]: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/basic-concepts.html

[1]: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html

[2]: https://flatkill.org/2020/
Google allowing OTP codes to be generated from the cloud is also insane to me. I've known about this feature for a little while, but it never ceases to amaze me how careless Google is with security.
Do you also suggest never releasing any software for Linux because there is no megacorporation there policing what software you should and shouldn't run?
Think of all the human growth and satisfaction being lost to risk mitigation by offloading the pleasure of failure to Machines.
Are there any finished games that use this? I'd like to see a showcase.
I was just remembering this post while riding a train through a rural part of Germany: fast.com reports 50 Mbit/s, as fast as my plan permits.
All the cartels in Mexico buy their guns from America and nobody is going to jail over it.
https://github.com/jtaccuino/jtaccuino
UA = User Agent (in this case, web browser). UX = user experience (catch-all term for "design", "how it works", integration, etc).
not that surprising given how everything is laced with fentanyl nowadays
Consider

% perl -v | head -2

This is perl 5, version 40, subversion 0 (v5.40.0) built for x86_64-linux
%
% perl -E 'use feature "switch"; my ($x, $y); given ($x) { $y = 1 when /^abc/ }'
given is deprecated at -e line 1.
when is deprecated at -e line 1.

This is also mentioned in the docs:

Smartmatch is now seen as a failed experiment and was marked as deprecated in Perl 5.37.10.
This includes the when and given keywords, as well as the smartmatch operator ~~.
The feature will be removed entirely in the Perl 5.42.0 production release.

https://perldoc.perl.org/perldeprecation#Smartmatch

>> In python you can't tell whats a variable and whats a list, and whats a dictionary by looking.

In Perl, sigils are used to distinguish between scalars/lists/hashes. Sigils and references are not the same thing.

https://www.perl.com/article/on-sigils

https://perldoc.perl.org/perlreftut
Billions of users, with increasingly powerfully hardware, locally executing models that better understand the world and human psychology.
Woah, reading the article felt so refreshing. Being able to see Java in this state is very exciting, this expands its usage into the scripting environment.

I am currently a heavy user of JRuby for quick and dirty scripts but still want to be on the JVM, but I'll give Java 23 a go and see how far it goes.
Now you make me wonder if I could run this entirely inside pyscript
Check your mailbox using the AirTag infra (2022)
> The point of the article's argument is that unless you know you want Artist X and search for them, you're not going to come across them because they're not being added to Spotify playlists and content discovery mechanisms

No, that's not the point of the article because the article doesn't say that and that's not what's happening.

Real artists are still being added to all those things. Probably 99.99+% of Spotify playlists and content discovery is for real artists.

This is about a couple of very specific genres of background music where they've specifically sourced their own music for their own playlists. That's all.
I found this video, titled 'To Catch a Scammer: How a real-life criminal steals your bitcoin' pretty informative. An employee is able to go into detail on how scammers find their marks:
https://youtu.be/pskUt4ZjM4M

The video linked in the article by Junseth also goes over some of this.
Now that Wayland is about as old as X was, when Wayland started, maybe it's time to start a new project that replaces Wayland, and avoids the problems it brought...

(I'm about 40% joking, and 60% being serious. At least the protocol versioning hell of Wayland is very real, and it has bitten me more than once... and I see no signs of it going away)
oh my god, never thought there would be a day I saw WorldofTshirts mentioned on HN
Yep, it was obsoleted before it could catch one. Sadly not so with IoT devices. Today's IoT device hardware would run HTTPS, JSON etc just fine, but there are all kinds of constrained weird protocols used, and lots of companies there have incentives to perpetuate it.
> It's clearly a problem to artists who have contracts with Spotify and are being defrauded at scale by a secret process to dilute the product they believe they are using.

Does the contract say anywhere that Spotify would never provide their own generated music to users of their platform?

If the contract between artists and platform provides no such limitations, I fail to see how anyone is being defrauded of anything.

> Again: users do not know they are being fed this stuff.

Users are actively listening to those slop playlists. It does not seem to bother them (otherwise they would stop listening). If they are satisfied with the offering, what exactly is the issue?

> Spotify are doing this in secret because they know it is fraud on likely a contract level but certainly on a cultural level. They'd be rolling it out with press releases if they didn't know it was underhanded.

This is plain bullshit. The claim is that people are listening to those songs when they are added to Spotify generated playlists. It wouldn't matter if the song had, say, a tag indicating that it was published by Spotify themselves. Most likely people are not even looking at the names of songs and artists when the slop playlist they are listening to is playing as background noise.

> That is the issue. But then again HN is a place where people really don't mind if companies break laws on an epic scale, destroy worker protections, and deliver worse products like AI chatbots replacing human support, if customers don't really notice.

If you saw my comment history, you would be surprised.

The problem here is that users are actively listening to slop, but they don't seem to mind it. They are fine with slop. They keep listening to slop. For those users, it really does not matter. There is no abuse taking place.

I am a Spotify user. I think their app is bloated, but it works alright? I can find albums I like, I can create my own playlists, and I can completely ignore whatever Spotify generates I always did. How exactly are they abusive in their relationship with me as a customer?

What you are really angry with is that Spotify found a way to give users that are fine with slop their own cheap slop.
yes they were - thanks buddy
fixed it :)
The way you've put it, the "crackpot" and "reasonable" right wingers seem to have the same beliefs, but differ in their willingness to speak their mind or the ease with which they're bullied into silence.