skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You’re making a hypothetical point here though. And not only hypothetical, but one that flys directly against all of the actual behavioural evidence we do already have.

How is any of that hypothetical? Microsoft has always been opportunistic.

> You’re completely missing the point of what Xbox Live is here. It’s not just support for online play, it’s “free” AAA games and game streaming. It’s Steam, Google Strava and PlayStation Plus all rolled into one. It works on PCs, tablets and even Meta Quests too.

No no no. You do this repeatedly, trying to say that I'm naive, it's extremely condescending. I've tried this stuff, I know how it works, I understand what the technology is and the services on offer. I just don't believe the hype, I don't think streaming is the panacea for video games and based on the way I'm seeing most people around me engage with video games, I don't think I'm alone in thinking that.

Latency will always be worse and the only solver for that is throwing expensive graphics hardware into edge datacenters. Meanwhile, smartphones are starting to run AAA games without needing to stream anything at all, compatibility layers are being developed that allow for Windows games to run on ARM/Android. You're not wrong that "gaming on everything" is becoming a thing, but I don't think relying on streaming alone is going to cut it.

You sound like the people hyping up Stadia. Games everywhere, man, streaming is the future! I'm sure you'll try to make the argument that their business model was a poor fit (it was) but a subscription model wouldn't have saved them either. The future isn't streaming, the future isn't a la carte, it's all of those sales models at the same time. The future of Microsoft as a games company is that they sell their games any way people want to buy them, that is, they act like a regular old publisher.
That's the dream man. You're living it.
Good point. I had not considered that angle.
This is due to ad blindness.

The Previa ads were always there but that was the first time you noticed it because it was on your mind.
While what you are saying is true, it’s a very unhealthy and inhuman way to view other people. I generally find this outlook is a sign of depression. It was for me at least
that doesn't have much to do with either empathy or community

it reflects more something like "I will share my pearls of wisdom with those I deem worthy" (ego trip)
I have similar anecdotes about this and Yamaha guitars.
Thanks for pointing this out. Those categories were included for SEO testing purposes only. We'll review and adjust our showcase examples to better reflect our professional focus on general e-commerce fashion photography
I had this happen to me recently. I was speaking to a friend about a subject that suddenly started to appear in ads after I hung up. It was spooky. But I think it has more to do with the activities related to the people we know. I'm sure because of Android, Gmail and search they have a good understanding of our general association group. I bet my friend did a search on what we were talking about and Google was able to determine that others in the group would be interested in the subject. They don't need the microphone input. They have better (more direct?) ways to get the information.
You are not the main character in some narrative. We are all individuals interacting with each other, and if you lose sight of that it’s very easy to make selfish and immoral choices.
It's kind of like using an infinite money cheat in a game - it's a guaranteed way to get bored of it quickly.
> And that forum also provides an enormous amount of value to a company, saving them many multiples of that cost in reduced support expenses.

The calculus has changed a bit. They are losing sales from people using older versions of the software that they wouldn't have provided support for anyways. In Adobe's mindset, for example, Photoshop CS6 is the poison that is holding back subscription sales, not their competitors. So an easy way to frustrate users into subscribing to the latest version... delete the old forum posts!
The party told you to recount the evidence of your eyes and ears as a campfire ghost story. It was their final, most essential command.
Yes, quick Google search says that the rust concerns were unfounded
Yeah, I wouldn't take money from people I wanted to stay friends with for this reason. It's just a bad idea. Introduce me to your acquaintances, sure, but lets stay friends.
Anything you would recommend instead?
Like, the scheduler is just waiting unnecessarily for both operands, despite the fact that 'count' has already been resolved at rename?
Not what I meant. For example, on most mainstream linux distributions systemd fulfills the role of privileged userspace layer that I was referring to there.

> truly privileged hardware modes

The presence of a hypervisor doesn't imply paravirtualized hardware. Neither does the presence of an entire OS on modern GPUs imply a reduction in kernel responsibilities. Ring 0 is still ring 0. The OS is still managing and abstracting hardware in the same way that it always was.

That doesn't mean that these other things aren't concerning developments. Particularly having an entire unauditable shadow OS running on the CPU is an incredibly dystopian scenario that almost seems unbelievable. But technical accuracy is important when discussing these things.
"BTW, I've been writing GPL'ed code for more than 35 years, and for the last 25+ years, it has been my full-time self-employed means of making a living."

That is embarassing for such a self professed domain expert to say something as ridiculous as:

"You cannot (re)use any GPL code unless you agree to license your own code under the GPL."

I still don't hear an argument that actually shows how it's not a commons. If you're just arbitrarily declaring it actually means "public domain" I say you don't get to declare that and inventing your own definitions for terms is not a valid argument or even valid comminication, and there is no further point in attempting to communicate with anyone doing that.
Why did they pick a swimming pool? Did they see people in their area installing pools? I think that's often people's best guess, is that the "random" thing people use to test this actually isn't random and subconsciously they already had this topic seeded to them.
I'm not sure I believe strongly either way, but after a few drinks I often convince myself it has to be happening due to the prior proof that it's possible, and the fact that if I were at the right place in one of theses companies, I'd do it just to prove that I can, and do it in a way such that the least amount of people internally would know about it.

But that may just be the conspiracy theorist in me.
HN is not a search engine or a dictionary, I'm sure you can find better answers with a little more effort.
we haven't done an experiment like that but I've had family know what medium certain topics were expressed and discussed over and those topics that landed in the ads that startled with their topic intersection were topics discussed only verbally vs typed into some search field or connected to some other web interaction etc.

That's kind of the smoking gun when you can create a disjoint set of topics and a disjoint set of mediums of communication delivery and see what shows up in the ad space from those discussion topics strictly expressed verbally.
I've never heard of them, so can't say if they're junk. But they're certainly gullible.

It's a small media company whose primary business is operating a handful of local newspapers and TV stations. They have no privileged access to mobile operating systems. If they really had implemented this scheme in actual apps (rather than just write it into a pitch deck), those apps would need to be asking for microphone permissions.

Note how there never was any follow-up showing that this really was happening. The story was only ever about that pitch deck. Compare that to e.g. the currently ongoing story about the dodgy things done by the Honey browser extension.
sounds more like he would to fire everyone (DOGE "efficiency") and let the robots do the work (transfer of wealth from workers to corporations); not sure where that leaves humans ...
yeah... it's my fault of using the wrong URL. I am not intended to clickbait people. What a dumb thing. Sorry guys
The only way to test this would be to have your anecdote together with the complete marketing profiles of your friend and his wife. If such a profile could even be compiled in principle, from it we would be able to tell whether your friend or his wife had generated any non-audio pool-related signals, or whether they had seen other pool-related ads recently. Also, it'd be nice to know how often people in their marketing categories receive ads for pool fencing. Could be an astonishing coincidence.
> No path out of this valley involves traveling alone

In my opinion, this is the big take here

When you have enough money to not work, it becomes very lonely fast

All of a sudden you have tons of time, but no one to share it with. Everyone is busy, mostly with work (also, most people probably can’t afford the same things you can)

If you could coordinate to stop working at the same time as your significant other, and a few friends, then you at least would have a group to plan and do stuff with

One of the biggest meanings we can find in life, is the feeling of belonging

OP seems to be going through a belonging crisis. Trying to figure out what group he wants to belong to
Has he read this:
https://www.404media.co/mindsift-brags-about-using-smart-dev...
tl;dr:

- Don't depend on other people's software services.
- Buy a domain and host your own website.
- Don't pick a sketchy TLD or registrar.
- Mailing lists beat social media accounts.
- It's okay to depend on a cloud.

I had the belief that the article was going to say the exact opposite wrt. cloud hosting. You're literally renting space, and if your stuff gets any heat, your cloud provider may simply shut you down without a trial.

Even if you host your own server on your own legal property, most people don't have AS-numbers and peering agreements, so ultimately on the internet most people rent something.
> small models that are as capable as the big hosted model

Free lunch?
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My advice would be to touch grass maybe? Learn pottery or something, there's more to life than hoarding wealth. Read Camus. And if that money really is a burden, you can always donate most of it away.

Sorry for the vitriol, but I honestly lost all respect for OP after he mentioned joining DOGE. Working with oligarchs towards enacting austerity when you won't suffer from it makes me not care that much about how vacuous you feel your existence is.
Surely a few bash aliases for the same purpose are equally useful and more portable?
> either to fight the bots and accept that their service will be unusable for some subset of their users or not fight the bots, which will lead to their service becoming unusable for everyone.

2/3 of the issues OP listed would not make the service unusable for anyone if the botcheck were removed.
1. What would be the problem with allowing "bots" to opt out of receiving marketing emails? Why do I need to be a human to tell you to stop spamming me? Who is running such a bot, for what purpose?
2. What would be the problem with allowing a "bot" to log in to an already-verified human account a single time?

The only situations where you actually need to confirm that a user "looks human" is for repeated connection attempts in quick enough succession to matter (DDoS prevention), or when they want to do something that someone would actually write a nefarious bot to do (mainly just creating posts/messages visible to other users).
Not just rebranding, but it's going to provides useful decision-laundering political cover, similar to what McKinsey and other consultants offer management. They were going to do it anyway, but the public reason becomes "It's not our idea, but DOGE (or the consultants) recommended it."
Plastic is an adjective that means capable of being molded or changed.
There is a video of Zuck denying they "recording peoples microphone" -- but how he said it with a smirk I took him to mean "we do on-device transcription and only send back keywords"
There are two things rich Republicans hate more than anything in the world: the government spending "their" money on services for ordinary folks, and regulations preventing them from making even more money. This is often dressed up as "libertarianism," but in reality, it's simply worship of money as the ultimate virtue.

What sorts of organizations does DOGE want to defund? The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the IRS, the Department of Education, Planned Parenthood, PBS and NPR: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lindseychoo/2024/11/27/elon-mus.... Nevermind that these make up a tiny portion of the intended 2 trillion in cuts.

Adjacent to this, Republican leadership has clearly signaled that they wish to gut Social Security, Medicaid, and the ACA. Here's Robert Reich reading the tea leaves: https://www.greenevillesun.com/opinion/national_columns/reic...

Oh, I would not be surprised to see Musk "succeed spectacularly" in this endeavor. But that's because money is power, and Musk has more of it than anyone in the country. I mean, he even bought himself a president! It's difficult to lose when you can just keep throwing cash at the problem.

By the way, nobody is ever going to tell you outright that they're "only interested in enriching themselves and their cronies." An intelligent adult should be able to interpret reality based on available evidence. If you wait for someone to throw off their mask and reveal themselves a cackling villain, you will find yourself an easy mark.
Cox Media Group is attached to Cox Enterprises which owns Cox Communications, one of the largest US cable providers. They distribute set-top boxes with an integrated voice assistant. So, I would wager that is at least one source, and I would actually put down money that it is the only source. Cox Media Group doesn't make any claims about where they get the data or how much they have, and it seems like it would be very difficult to negotiate to get that data from the other major voice assistants.
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I think that a lot of people with money need to be reminded that having wealth is a social responsibility in itself. If you can live just from passive income maybe you should just gift interesting people the excess money and have them accomplish their goals.

Talk to a bunch of people and realize what you want to support. If some of them need 10k to start a business just give it to them. Or, if you want some equity, put it in a non-profit that reinvest its earnings. Go to a film school, organize a contest and fund the movie of the most promising students.

I was never rich like the author, yet I once gave a bookbinder that I had hired to make a cool leather-bound book the starting capital he needed to make his own shop just because it turned out so well and he was so passionate about it. Looking back, it still feels great to have helped someone like this.

Humans need activities that produce meaningful outcomes, they don't need careers or work.
California's net neutrality law is in great shape. It didn't rely on Brand X.

New York's broadband affordability law is in good shape too.
also we already know what Elon efficiency looks like: firing a bunch of people

I'd honestly prefer my tax dollars be spent creating jobs than going into the pockets of the billionnaires providing the "efficiency" (i.e., large corps offering AI/automation).
Man if tech bros could pull their head out of their asses for one second and value an opinion of someone who was not themselves (or Elon). They would find that this feeling is perhaps the best documented feeling in philosophy.

A man’s search for meaning is perhaps the best book on a cure for this affliction. I have a hard time taking seriously people who believe their problems are unique
But this is just selection bias. If a hundred people do that and one gets an ad, it’s proof. Nevermind the 99 others who never saw a thing and wouldn’t bother posting.
Confirmation bias makes it hard to extract much from these types of anecdotes. On a daily basis you might be talking about dozens of products. If your lookback period is a few days, that could 100s of products, and you'll get spooky coincidences pop up from time to time from pure chance alone.
I think it's weird how, on a site filled to the brim with engineers and comp-sci people that laugh at (or drink to) management believing the sales team, we all take the pitch deck from a sales team at face value.

If marketing or sales can twist a feature such that it's not presented perfectly honestly, but makes them look incredible and all but guarantees a sale? I think they'll twist meanings for that bonus. Certainly not every member of sales and marketing, but often enough that the pitch deck of a sales team shouldn't have nearly this much sway, IMO.
Whats going on is that the U.S. also used to build housing!

U.S. population has increased ~19% since 2000 [1]. Has there been an ~19% increase in housing in the last quarter century? (Spoiler: No!!). Basic necessities like housing are priced at the margins, so of course costs have exploded by ~45%, and they trickle into literally everything else getting more expensive.

This is a political problem, and I've done the best I can to support the creation of more housing by voting accordingly, even though I've been lucky enough to buy at what now looks like a much more reasonable price. At this point it's up to younger people to push politicians to get more housing built, because the older generation has clearly voted for what they want.

Not everything is a culture war, sometimes you just gotta show up at a hearing and tell your neighbor/councel member to STFU and let that multiplex get built.

[1] https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2024/12/population-es...
Automatic content recognition is one of the freakiest kinds of tracking I've heard of. Smart TVs become data collection hubs for the home if they get connected to the internet. Some have microphones for voice recognition. If you go into the privacy policies for them, you'll find that your audio gets sent off to third parties (albeit only when in use).

I completely disconnected my TV from the internet, but it still prompts me to connect it to Wi-Fi, to agree to policies, etc. This page is full of horribles: https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/privacy/how-to-t...
to reference/recommend this book, I swiped a blurb from a ddg search:

Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion is a 2016 book written by psychologist Paul Bloom. The book draws on the distinctions between empathy, compassion, and moral decision making. Bloom argues that empathy is not the solution to problems that divide people and is a poor guide for decision making.
That's almost exactly what the article guesses - might be there's no signal form nearby cells saying that they should be growing together. I just thought it was a cool idea, no biological backing, that we could help cells signal eachother to have them work harder to heal.
Never lend what you would not happily consider a gift.
I highly recommend wezterm.
Yup, your list of '-' items is terrific. Well put. I've seen the same.

Had an HP laptop with a version of Windows 10 I liked okay, but after several years the mechanical hard disk failed.

Got another HP laptop, with Bit Locker and Windows 11. In one word for multiple reasons, unacceptable. Finally had (failed to keep good notes on where from) a thumb drive with apparently a recent version of Windows 10, installed it, and then discovered your list with '-' -- yup, I'm not the only one.

Looks like now Microsoft and 10 want to force users to accept updates: Sounds like should take backups of 10 and reinstall after the updates. The Windows 10 I had on the first HP didn't have the junk in your '-' list. Gee, should try to get and install the version of Windows 10 I had, uh, get a list of all the Windows 10 versions and pick one of the older 5-6 years ago?

In general, I'd like the tools I use
to stop doing things I didn't ask for.
My wife has a very new (<2yo) iPhone. We live in public housing, no luxuries. We were talking about getting her some slippes, and I made a joke about her not getting any Gucci slippers. The Gucci ad appeared on her phone within 30 minutes.

I sh_t you not. She was a bit gobsmacked. I was neither surprised nor disturbed.

That's real anecdata, my friends. It could have been coincidence, and while we have nothing to hide, it's not an optimal situation, whatever the cause.

Besides, we ain't buying no Gucci slippers, no way, no how.
Recommend for what? For learning about the actual history of time? Start here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time

There are 113 references, those should keep you busy for a while.
Hah, the only time I had that kind of money was the 10 minutes my bank transferred the loan amount to my bank account so I could transfer it to the housing company. It didn't really feel like mine though, since they were both breathing over my neck to check I actually did so xD
Or more likely: Confirmation bias. I also occasionally get Nigerian memes on IG despite never having searched it. But unlike you I don't have the Nigerian film google search history that would lead me to conclude it was targeted.

Put another way, if you googled a Swedish film then saw Swedish memes you would think that was targeted. Then upon viewing the Nigerian memes you would have attributed it to a random video rather than anything targeted.
My only issue with kitty and tmux is that I always have to copy over my terminfo files manually or else I get a 'xterm-kitty': unknown terminal type error.
Calling people NPCs is a self-own and speaks to a persons inability to consider that everyone around them has some inner life, after work interests, etc. You don't need contact with coworkers outside of work to realize this. You just need to be a functioning decent human being able to make small talk.
Can anyone tell me why this submission has been disappeared from the *ask* section?

Is dang a Network-Manager guy?

Edit: Tried two separate browsers and it has been nixed from the #ask# section. It's just fading away under the #new# section. I won't go off half-cocked, but there's no valid reason to suppress a friendly solicitation to help with a great piece of (controversial?) OSS. Why has this post been disappeared? Is this a common thing?
It should never have been anything other than an optional plugin but this doesn’t seem too harmful.