skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What are they even counting as a 'computer' to get to 70?

When I worked in the industry, we had four different CPUs of different architectures on one small (fit in your hand) circuit board, each running its own software and communicating with each other via buses on the board. This was for controlling one single function in the car.

Strictly speaking, I would say that single circuit board was 4 separate computers. It quickly adds up.
It’s a weight loss drug primarily by reducing appetite, but I believe there are also metabolic effects being discovered, and slowing of the metabolism increases longevity.
Mojolicious is a real-time web application framework
> I am curious to know more about the limitations / perils of using LLMs to train/evaluate other LLMs.

the entropy goes up in such case (up means less information). The result will be as if someone recompressed mpeg with another lossy compression. You can sometimes see the results on the internet.
My biggest problem with games ads and ads in software/apps in general is that devs nowadays will add them even when you are paying for the product/game. So the old say that if you not paying then you are the product is no longer valid. Because in many scenarios now you are paying and are the product at the same time. The traditional arguments about monetization is now hard to swallow from consumer perspective because of the tendency to think, why not on adding ads.
It is a weight loss drug primarily. There are other effects observed and it seems to be something people are experimenting with. I'm not fully convinced this drug is fully understood.
One demonstrable solution would be to treat gambling/betting ads like cigarette ads. We have the same age restriction laws for a reason, why is it open season for gambling then?
any "sharing of experience" whose purpose is in buying a specific product or a ticket or service, it's advertising...
Advertising sucks. But subscriptions suck even more as they increase inequality.
Now imagine that but with everyone in that line except the leaders.
Need to make a

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

an automatic part of the user agreement/license status.
It's a interesting question, one I wonder now that our federal data is being exfiltrated to AI companies. If they train their models on the data; how does the law tell them to 'unlearn'?

Destroying the copies they took will be what the courts ordered, but the data will still be there.
Going forward there is only one GNAT, and is under Apache 2 license, also a FOSDEM talk this year.

Just clarifying for other folks.
Great, another global medical experiment.

At least this one is voluntary.

You don't increase profits by solving problems, you increase them by causing addiction/worse problems down the line.
> They were wholly successful, a lower-class person cannot own an Android phone without getting flack.

Who gives a fuck about status if you can't use imessages
It's a very common mistake! No worries, I always enjoy getting to explain these details to people, I find them really interesting.
i thought Cancer is Cancer on society
For example the religious group "Nation of Islam" believes that Yakub, a black scientist, crated the white race / ethnic group and tricknology a few thousand years ago
But you need to go to Elysium to get it. DOGE will be responsible for deciding if you can...
probably meant something like the cheapening and commercializing of the arts by sponsoring them
> This is why my kid isn't going to watch YouTube. If and when we decide to show her any children's show, it'll be from a manually curated set of videos downloaded and streamed from a NAS. In my opinion, it's irresponsible to expose children to modern advertising.

I think we need to be careful with this approach. It's also irresponsible to not expose them to modern advertising. Unfortunately, modern advertising does exist, and if they are exposed to it first as a teenager, or worst as an adult, they are likely to be scammed/convinced to buy things they don't need.

Maybe a better way is, instead of banning anything, to supervise and explain to our children what they're seeing.
Not so much that they won't fix them - they don't have the money to fix them
After reading the symptoms of the disease, I would say that Advertising could qualify as "Flu on Society". Adverse effects, some people might die of it, but not as fatal or devastating as cancer. Arguably advertising has some benefits for society as well. I have at least found some products that I really wanted and enjoyed thanks to their ads (not many compared to the number of ads I have seen through all my life. Still, I did find some).

The author himself is falling to the "Advertising Trap" of click-baiting his potential audience.
Yep. While a few individual medical practitioners may actually (vs. "professionally pretending") care about your health, the vast majority of them do not, for practical purposes. And the system itself most definitely does not.

(You were racking up the visits and bills, and each little practitioner was going through all the proper motions & procedures for his or her own little pigeonhole - so everything was going perfectly, from the system's PoV.)
I haven't. Could we fast forward to the part where you explain why you think it's not a good proxy measure?
Was in São Paulo recently, and very much enjoyed the lack of billboards. It surprises me that more cities don't follow their example. (TLDR, kagiing for a list, that 4 US states also have banned billboards.)

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/11/can-cities-ki...
Just like you can demand that corporations provide correct product information on the packaging, you can easily demand that they only communicate in that way around their products.

The difference between advertising and product information is that the former is deceitful.
How do you talk to typical OS-, IO- or GUI-APIs (which all essentially represent global mutable state) in Haskell with pure functional code?
“any effort you spent on advertising serves primarily to counteract the combined advertising efforts of your competitors. The same results could be achieved if every market player limited themselves to just informing customers about their goods and services“

This is a really shallow view of advertising, most of the time you don’t know who is your competitor and you don’t know all the possible ways that you can inform your audience about product, and you don’t fully know what your customer wants.
This should probably be phrased as:

Why didn't the medical procession find my autoimmune disease after $100k and 30 hospital visits?
> So I prefer to rely on gamers buying my game.

So why use "monetize" in the beginning of your post then? The term brings up IAPs, ads and deceptive subscriptions, not selling games.
Here's a good that advertising does: letting people know how your product or services address some pressing need.
It's not really clear to me that consumers hate ads. It seems like more of a tech niche opinion; most people are perfectly fine with watching TV commercials (and look forward to them at the Super Bowl) and don't mind using ad-tier streaming plans. Ad blockers are used by a tiny, tiny percentage of total browser users. And so on.
> Do cancers typically do good things at their baseline?

I mean, true, a cancer will probably destroy its host organism. But what about the cells whose mutations allow them to think outside the box, and replicate and expand beyond their wildest dreams by throwing away the limits imposed by overbearing genetic regulations and expectations of the organism? Isn't that a good thing?
I understand the intention of the rule, but here is an interesting problem:

I make a racing game, a realistic racing game, with real life tracks.

Those tracks are laser scanned and officially licensed from the people who own the branding of the tracks.

As part of the licensing deal, we cannot alter anything to do with advertising on the track. This has already caused some issues with, for example, Hockenheim where they have beer commercials on track, Which affects our age rating - and console submission.

Functionally, we have no control over these advertisements, do you think we would be in violation of the rule? They say not right now, but the specific carve out is "if it seems out of place", which is vague enough to cause my "lawyers spend a lot of time on uncertainty" sense to tingle.

These kinds of “sounds reasonable” rules are really cumbersome and bureaucratic when they face reality.
Like cancer, I think it's possible to split ads into two categories: Benign and malignant.

Benign ads are like ads for toothpaste, Febreeze, or airlines.

Malignant ads are, to give but two examples, for things like gambling and pharmaceuticals. The pharmaceutical business, in particular, was much more widely trusted and had far higher public favorability ratings in the old days when their advertising to the public was severely frowned upon.

Advertisements for vices are generally a huge net negative for society. Cigarettes, alcohol, prostitution/OnlyFans, TikTok and other mind-melting social media and mobile lootbox games... The less we see of them, the healthier society is. In places like the UK, where a huge volume (if not an absolute majority) of advertisements are for vices like sports gambling, you know that things have gone sideways. You can feel it.
"The Hidden Persuaders" by Vance Packard is the only book I've read that has actively given me mental and emotional tools to resist advertising.

It tells the story - with many deep, detailed examples - of how advertising went from information to persuasion across the mid-1900s, and there are some truly gross moral acts/steps along the way.

It can be a little dry at times (and some has of course been superseded by Surveillance Capitalism), but if you want to acquire a genuine disgust reflex for modern advertising, I strongly recommend it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7tiIWIm8Ys
More like tasteless advertising practices are a cancer to society
> Last year I was working as a janitor at McDonald's to comply with my release from federal prison after my computer hacking case.

Uhh, please expand on that…
Rule number one of FOSDEM, track what you want to see, seat close to the door, and always miss the last five minutes of a talk.
> All the headache and time to pair Bluetooth devices over a dead simple connector.

Conversely, I pair my phone once when I get the car and I never need to worry about messing with it again; it's just connected when the car starts. I don't even need to take my device out of my pocket or bag.

On top of that I get hands-free calling if someone calls while I'm driving, I get steering wheel media controls, I get voice controlled media selection (play playlist foo, play artist bar, etc.)
This has been my experience the last 2 years as well

In my local area’s subreddit, people are entirely dismissive of AI and will keep moving the goalpost about why you cant use it. It hallucinates! (But you can fact check it and I wrote that disclaimer) It warms the planet more than other research! (…. you’re not distinguishing between self hosted and data centers….)

But its Los Angeles and writers and actors and VFX are all getting replaced, so they have to keep saying ignorant stuff to sound relevant
More like tasteless advertising practices are poisonous to society
That's because there's no trade war with India yet, and Land Rovers are quite niche. If the US/European car makers felt threatened, they'd do that too...
It's easy. Just skip the games with IAPs and ads. Doesn't matter if they're free or for pay, just skip them.
I guess what needs to improve more than anything, is the teaching and documentation of these new APIs. There are over-arching ideas that pull things together, but they aren't alluded to in the documentation, you need to attend a training session, or speak to someone who has.
The below section resonates: lately YouTube has figured out I am in my mid-twenties and considering for the first time how best to save money for a secure/stable future.

The number of ADs I see now not so subtly implying that I can expect to “lose big” or “rent forever” if I don’t subscribe to QuestTrade/WealthSimple/…

It’s just frustrating to know that someone put time and thought into making me and a million other folks in my “demographic bucket” feel anxious and worried.

I’m not sure how best to address this sort of thing and I suppose I can buy my way out of most internet ads if I want to so I acknowledge we all play a part in this market.

But some types of advertisements need to be highly regulated I would include Gambling, Pharmaceuticals, Alcohol on that list. But a broader class of non-luxury goods which are being advertised via a very negative framing of the consumers current situation are a social externality. They contribute to real health problems in the population and in my view that is reason enough to examine regulation.

> A marketer I know has a mantra, that successful sales are all about dissatisfaction - making people aware just how their situation sucks, and then offering a way to relieve the pain.
Now imagine the entire society standing in such lines, even the best doctors and brightest engineers, for all basic necessities, not knowing if there's anything left by the time it's their turn.
It wasn't until I visited a rheumatologist who looked at the combination of my symptoms and genetic test results that I learned I likely had an autoimmune condition.

hard to tell what exactly was his autoimmune disease and why decided to visit a rheumatologist . Who ordered the genetic test? doctor who ordered the genetic test supposedly ignored all his other symptoms and interpreted results in isolation?

I call BS on this. Sick of these AI hustlers making whatever shit up.
"The problem is that truth is very hard to establish for those that don't want and don't understand logic"

Not every truth is revealed through logic.
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I don't know what specifics you are looking for as you made the statement in the first place and haven't explained what you base it on other than that what has already been addressed. None of my arguments needs specifics. So I also don't know why you need them, or why you can't address anything else without them.

Therefor I haven't really gotten anything out of this which both doesn't make me interested in (nor do I think I can be expected to be) these conditions for a further discussion. I'm happy to reconsider at any point (but can't guarantee a response) if you have any specific questions about my comment.

If you want to prove your theory that flamewars makes those flagging right and not what I said, it is up to you. Which is even more reasonable considering you have the responsibility to run this site, the tools required for it and are getting paid to do it.
Maybe its just a function of growing up during the transition of physical software to advert/subscription software, but i love the advertising model.

What google has done for the web; youtube, maps, gmail/gsuite, chromium/v8 are fantastic products that cost huge sums to develop, and the world gets to use them for free. Thats amazing. Its a huge gift to society that the a fantastic knowledge and productivity suite is available to everyone.

I have a lot more of a problem with infinite scroll & algorithmic content delivery than advertising.
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To be honest I think many YouTube videos are worse then the ads. Lots of the kid videos on there are pure braindead poison.
They literally cover racing games in the article but the money quote is:

> Product placement is still in, so long as "such portrayals are not disruptive and are appropriate within the context of the game."

It also notes that these rules are not new and merely the page is.
Communicate in what way? And at what point are you going to differentiate between "art" and "not art"?

These are rhetorical questions, because their implementation is a pipe dream. Getting rid of "advertising" would require the most draconian anti-speech laws imaginable.
88x31 banners (ads) on Neocities, or artists I follow mentioning they have new merch (ads), or HN (website whose sole purpose is to let people advertise), don't bother me enough to ban them.
The article is from thehollywoodreporter, so it is expected to not go into great detail. There is real research around these lines and links between Alzheimers and insulin resistance. I'm not in the field to really be able to vet, but it seems more than pseudoscience. Here is some more research on the topic: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2769828/
Very odd dichotomy. Did you never consider living in a world that has no bread lines nor advertisements? That seems like the one most would choose. In this country, we have both bread lines AND advertisements!
One of the reasons of the whole safety hype going on, is that companies have finally start mapping developer salaries, devops and infra costs, to fixing all those CVEs.
So I'm not the only one that feels sick thinking about how people "watching the Superbowl" are essentially watching ads with a sprinkle of "foot"ball.
I am too tall/long legs to feel comfortable in the Model 3, range of 75D was a bit limiting when traveling with family and I couldn't and still cannot imagine driving ICE car again. The manufacturing did not bother me too much in the interior as all cars I ever owned or rented had loose, squeaky plastics, and body panel gaps were tolerable for me.
I completely agree, though I haven't been thinking in terms of the cancer metaphor myself. I have been thinking a bit about how we could limit the negative effects of both advertising and other phenomena like social media algorithms:

1. Almost all advertising is based on manipulation of human cognitive biases. There is a limited set of biases, and the mechanisms by which they can be exploited are both limited and easily detected – we can most likely train AI to do it. Therefore, it's possible to start thinking seriously about making laws that ban corporations and organisations from creating marketing that exploits these cognitive biases.

2. When it comes to social media platforms, there are two routes we could go down. Either we could regulate their algorithms the same way – or we could force social media platforms to both make their recommendation algorithms open source, and to open up their platforms to third-party recommendation algorithms that people can choose to use instead. This would be like a recommendation algorithm app store that the company has to provide to their users. You might want to select a youtube recommendation algorithm that optimises for personal development – or a facebook feed that optimises for creating real-world connections

Of course corporations would fight this kind of legislation with tooth and claw, but that's how it is. I would be happy to get some thoughtful feedback on these ideas, their technical and legal plausibility, and any potential negative unintended consequences or loopholes that could undermine them
To be fair I didn't see your reply but to answer your original point.

It would be great for HN to not only "hide" the jobs all the time but an account level "hide ads" or "hide YC ads" function in the account so that I don't have to see the woven job ads on the site that act like HN posts.

This shouldn't be limited to forums, but should also be extended to other sites.
Informing potential customers of products that might be useful to them.

Let's say you are the inventor of the chainsaw, you need to tell lumberjacks that chainsaws exist, that's advertising. Otherwise you won't sell any and your invention will be lost, while lumberjacks will continue struggling with inefficient tools.
This kind of zealotry is not going to convince people over to accept Rust into their projects.
Reminds me of this Bill Hicks clip

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RbAAVLcMzr4
This is a doom troll, right?
I put on plays. Some people would enjoy seeing them. I can only do four or five performances so I can't wait for people to rave to their friends about it.

I put up polite, attractive, informative ads in forums that I think will have people who might come to my shows. Not everyone will; the large majority won't. But some of these are web sites that talk about theater, where my ad spend pays for the site itself to exist.

I recognize that the ads we most notice are nothing like that. But the idea that all ads are automatically a bad thing misses out on the fact that the original purpose of ads, as cited in the article, does still exist. If you waved a magic wand and got rid of ads my theater probably wouldn't exist. No big loss, I suppose, but the world is very slightly poorer for it.
That's what I do regarding games (I don't play that much anyway and tend to stick to few) but the trend is going in this direction for everything. And what does not have ads/IAPs where you purchase doesn't mean they will not include some down the line.
I take it you did not click on the article at all before commenting.

Racing games with real advertisements on the cars are explicitly given as an example as the type of thing that is fine in the article.
The banal evil will be that the magic machine is illegal because the medical regulator is controlled by careerists who use government to protect their jobs at the expense of the common good.
All Americans are African Americans, as I put it.

Put it on your med school applications too when submitting MCAT scores.
Problem is that you don't know this until you've bought the game, and that creates incentive for the developer to only include them after the refund period.
I wish HN wouldn't upvote posts that are paywalled or require an account to read TFA.

I think that the rampant piracy that lets a lot of these slide on HN isn't a good thing.
Oh you know, economic growth, jobs, efficiencies in matching producers and consumers, etc.
This!!!
What makes democracy powerful isn't that it guarantees good governance. It is powerful because because it prevents power transfer problems and all the associated struggles.

The number 1 responsibility of any system of government is how well it handles power transfers, not whether it produces good governments.
tbh I can't ever imagine american society functioning that well. Someone would get shot
I guess it depends upon where you draw the line between advertising and informing. The broad definition of "advertising" doesn't restrict it to commercial use, but I think the most common understanding of what it is would. Also, the author makes it clear that they're referring to this sense of the word:

> [advertising is] a malignant mutation of an idea that efficient markets need a way to connect goods and services with people wanting to buy them.
That's were the "good friends" part comes in, a dinner invitation every once in a while works for me, but I'm sure you can find a lawyer that charges a small amount for the same thing.
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Do you consider escapist entertainment malicious in nature, or were you not using the word "manipulation" in a malicious sense? Or is this not an applicable modeling of what you were saying?

How do you define escapist entertainment specifically, provided you do consider it malicious? I struggle to think of a form of entertainment that isn't on some level a possible escape.