skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don’t have to do it all at once. Focus on what ad platforms like Google’s offers. Ad banners, ads on videos, etc.

Start by banning target advertisements - now ad platforms can’t use information about the user to decide which ad to show.

Next, ban forced advertisement - people cannot be forced to watch 10 seconds of an ad, or to have the ad be persistent on a page. All ads can be easily dismissed.

Then, force ad platforms to respect a user setting that says they don’t want to see ads. Just a new browser standard that communicates the user preference, or a toggle that can be changed in apps.

That alone should get rid of most problematic ads, but we’d still have sponsors and affiliate links. For those, we can start by increasing the requirements for disclaimers or identification. e.g. sponsored content has to be strictly separated from non-sponsored content. Get rid of “segways” and affiliate links close to the actual content.

If advertisers find loopholes or ways around these measures, we just close the holes with new regulation.
There is a billboard near me that is advertising a billboard advertising company. They use the slogan "Unmissable. Unblockable. Un[something]able."

It makes me irrationally angry. They're rubbing the viewer's face in the fact that they can't avoid looking at the sign.

Really gives one a strong urge to deface it.
> people just would not hear about us at all.

Can you give an example of when this is bad for the target of the ad instead of the organization doing the advertising? Small organizations don't have a right to exist
I'd advise looking at the actual language of the GPL, not the FSF's (non-binding) statements about what they intended it to mean. The relevant text is at the end of section 6 of https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt - search for the words "Installation Information". I am not a lawyer, but my reading of the text suggests that:

1) The so-called anti-Tivoization clauses are scoped to "consumer products". Don't ask me why, but the language is very deliberately constructed to limit these terms to products "which are normally used for personal, family, or household purposes" - if you're building hardware for commercial or industrial use, none of this applies.

2) These clauses are also scoped to object code which is conveyed "as part of a transaction" in which the user purchases or rents a consumer product which the code is intended for use with. The intent was to limit this to software which was incorporated in the device; however, it accidentally ends up applying to any consumer transaction where the user purchases (e.g.) both a computer and a piece of software which includes GPLv3 code - regardless of who's selling them. So, in practice, this actually applies to any GPLv3 software, regardless of whether it's part of a device's firmware or not.

3) The end result of these clauses is to require that any software distributed under these conditions (which is to say, any GPLv3 software) be distributed with "Installation Information". It's somewhat ambiguous what precisely this encompasses, but it's quite possible that, if Apple distributed GPLv3 software, some of their internal software signing keys and/or build processes would be considered part of that Installation Information.
That’s impressive. Given that experience, how do you expect people to learn of products and events without any paid promotion in a scalable way? Here n=all businesses.
At some point someone tried a toy direct integration, but the only actually supported way is via a Python library that wraps llama.cpp in an OpenAI compatible API endpoint.
My Domino war story isn’t as interesting as some of these, but:

At a company I worked for, an intern mangled a bit of lotusscript into an unintentional virus that forwarded the entire contents of his inbox to every email address in the company, causing a reply storm that took a week to recover from.

From then on we called it Locust — a plague.
GPMI set to deliver up to 192Gbps and 480W through a single USB cable
I wonder if it would be popular enough to get a constitutional amendment to do it (in the US, where one likely would be required).
Bugs, Bugs, Bugs
The Salvadoran terror jail is definitely new
This is out of touch with how businesses get going though. If you depend on word of mouth only as a plumber you’ll be out of business before you even get started.

Are you suggesting to wait around the hardware parking lot to hope to hear about someone who needs a plumber?
How would you know? If you heard about it through word of mouth, and the person you heard it from heard it from an ad…
I'm unconvinced based on legal precedents around tobacco advertising and pharmaceutical company sales reps. There are well-established legal definitions for all relevant terms here.
The controversial California city backed by tech elite has a new plan: boats
You probably don’t need advertising now that the internet exists and people can just research what they need.
hah you're right on the spelling but wrong on my meaning. That's probably the first time I've typed it. I don't think LLMs are quite at the level of mice reasoning yet!

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/eke-o... to obtain or win something only with difficulty or great effort
Genetic algorithms to fit car shapes: https://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/
Reflective Programs in Tree Calculus (2021) [pdf]
They can still promote their products, by sending them to social media reviewers no-strings-attached, or by posting through non-commercial channels. For instance, corporate representatives can promote their company's offerings on their own accounts on twitter or reddit.

What they should not be able to do is pay people, who have a media or influencer "brand", to say things about a product or service. Or pay media for a time slot during which a corporate agent spouts propaganda about the company's product or service. Or send a product to a reviewer as part of a contract for a review, even if it's supposedly a "fair and honest" review.
Good point. Friends, family, and colleagues keep telling me to buy stupid things they see from online ads all the time. They're probably pushing me towards an equal number of non-stupid things and I just don't notice.

In my personal life I pretty much never see ads and I like it that way, but thanks for giving me something to think about.
specific people with specific names pushed offshoring it isn’t secret
> "According to a posthumous memoir, Newman was tormented by self-doubt and insecurities and questioned his acting ability. His struggles with alcohol led to a brief separation from Joanne Woodward, though it had nothing to do with cheating."

'though it had nothing to do with cheating' is a weird inclusion.
Wouldn't the labor cost be amortized over millions and millions of units of production? Yeah, I'd be happy if the cost comes from labor. I worry instead that that cost comes from the fact that we can't mass produce any more and we don't have robust supply chains, especially in the light industry. China's strategy is much more clever than that of the Soviet Unions because China has built a massive light industry, which produces all kinds of components for the heavy industry if needed. And the booming light industry also becomes the source of innovations.
Maybe not, but only because it’s impractical, not because advertising is actually a good thing.
Wonder how much of the increase in quality of the safety video is due to the introduction of COS21.
Casually maybe once a day. No tabs. Two or three separate windows: one for the lists of 30 items — no scrolling, one for the comments on the item, and maybe one to open the article depending on the comments or if the title sparks my interest. I up vote good comments and good articles that I read in full and post an article if someone hasn't already. I've started using HN Angolia more often.

Consumption in moderation.

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing. — Franz Schubert
Brazil did this.

I recall living in Portland fifteen years ago. A mural on a health food store became the center of controversy because it was permitted while advertisements weren't. Local businesses sued the city to make sure they weren't prohibited from their God given right to slap gambling ads up in front of children.

This idea won't be easy to implement.
Why do you think airlines spend so much money on these safety videos when they're almost exclusively shown to people who are already customers of the airline? The 2m YouTube example you gave is great, but
1. that's probably an exception to most safety videos and
2. the vast majority of safety video views are probably uninterested folks in cramped seats with earphones in.
Do you think that's the best use of marketing dollars? What about making the actual product (flight experience) better?
It’s wild how America is just complacent with the destruction of the federal government.

We see all of these red flags across the agencies yet there’s minimal uproar.

I have seen a few protests (50501, recently) but nothing that stops this wanton destruction.

- $6.6T sell off in market due to Orange administration trade war in just _2 days_

- USAID decimated

- US trade partners lost

- Federal agency head count losses across critical departments such as the DOJ

- Weaponized incompetence at the DoD under the Hegseth “leadership” with Signalgate being the latest blunder

- An unelected, billionaire Musk, with his supposed limited “special government employee” access and DOGE have been cutting public programs left and right. Public programs meant to be our safety nets

- Department of Education being undermined by putting incompetent leadership at the top position (a _professional wrestling promoter_) and cutting funding to critical programs for public schools. This is also purportedly to be “abolished”

- Then we have a non-medical professional, and health misinformation promoter at the head of HHS. The awful leadership during the measles outbreaks explains itself…

Wonder if this is what it was like in the months preceding the _2008 subprime mortage crisis_

Definitely not excited for this recession induced by absolute stupidity.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/u-s-stock-futures-fall-fu...
> Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.

The current H1 is: AI Agents for modern work. Smarter. Faster. Better.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Kenya's AI Strategy 2025–2030: Signals for Global Companies Operating in Africa
Yeah, anything can (and should) be marked unsafe if it could lead to memory safety problems. And so if it potentially breaks an invariant which is relied on for memory safety, it should be marked unsafe (conversely, code should not rely on an unchecked, safe condition for memory safety). That's basically how it works, Rust has the concept of unsafe functions so that libraries can communicate to users about what can and can't be relied on to keep memory safety without manual checking. This requires a common definition of 'safe', but it then means there isn't any argument about where the bug is: if the invariant isn't enforced by the compiler in safe code, then other code should not rely on it. If it is, then the bug is in the unsafe code that broke the invariant.
You really think 1) advertising is the only channel for finding new products and 2) people will just give up looking for new products without ads?
I worked with Domino extensively and some of the core technology was great. But with a 64GB database size limit it was really only suitable for small applications. We tried to work around that limit with sharding but it wasn't very practical.
I’m picking this out of context - but there’s probably some better steady-state where fast fashion isn’t a thing and your baseline t-shirt costs more and lasts proportionally longer.
It's not a AI generated React bloat wrapper as you seem to think somehow.

We did not lie about actual working when fellow developers demanded answers. I love talking about what i have build. Maybe just nudge better? instead of hating?
I’m curious how you’d define advertising. Is it just something applied to another form of media? Would you count an end cap at the super market? Does the McDonald’s logo on the big sign you can see from the highway count? Or the coke machine inside?
wow. really love this. thank you for mentioning it. its super useful for uploading on government websites they really love limiting uploads
You can be angry, or not.

You can be curious, or not.

But you shouldn't let the fact that you're angry force you to be incurious.
Yes was talking about the grounds crew, no one was harvesting trees for money, it was my favorite job and would happily do it again if I didn’t have family obligations (I had mentioned this in the post).

That said the farm I worked I knew the farmer and his dad pretty well and I worked there year round for a couple of years with breaks in the summer. Harvest time was insane and not all the years were good, but the family were comfortable and most of the time the workload was reasonable. It maybe different now but I lived in farm states then and I personally knew several well to do farmers that were living very well with more assets than I currently have. So I’m not sure I’m fully on board with your view of farming. It depends a lot on time and place I’m sure though, I’ll fully admit that I’m no expert.
There where many nice databases, some I remember:

* a USENET type dB

* News feeds

* classifieds

* a form of document routing with approval signatures

* many other cool databases

It was a whole new way of doing things, but IBM only pushed its email portion and eventually ruined the product.

V4 was good, but I liked v3 better. It never reached its potential :(
Typed Programming Analysis without Encodings (2024) [pdf]
There also weren't good or services for sale for most of humanity's existence
the settings dump you dropped will not deliver on same outputs :)
Nice work! Thanks for posting.
judging by the response we got , we will update site to reflect on “nearly lossless” approach than calling it “lossless” then We don’t mean to be deceitful.
It’s purely political.

“… fix the broken systems left to us by the Biden administration.…”
Care to explain the obvious, then? Rust is quite a lot nicer to write than C++ in my experience (and in fact, it seems like rust is most attractive to people who were already writing C++: people who still prefer C are a lot less likely to like Rust).
yes tool works. its weird your images didn’t show any reduction in size. would love to try fixing it.

we did thought it through based on our use case :) that is working on bulk image processing where a slight loss in quality for Higher reduction in size is appreciated :) mostly for wallpaper apps or any image related sites. but yeah we will improvise to offer even cleaner approach
Non paywalled link: https://archive.ph/Xo8zg
love the drag and drop to optimize approach. so cool.
Why the hostile comments?
It doesn’t take much. Let’s say you want an assistant that can tell you about important emails and also take queries to search the web and tell you what it finds. Now you have a system where someone can send you an email and trick your assistant into sending them the contents of other emails.

Basically, an LLM can have the ability to access the web or it can have access to private information but it can’t have both and still be secure.
I was just pondering this today, in terms of how much data and objects I create in a Google or Microsoft account, for example, and then they create a burden of cost and maintenance for me down the road. Especially deleting old emails and photos. That's arduous and sometimes poignant as I flush away my personal life story.

Cloud services make difficult and sometimes even byzantine processes for deleting stuff, and it's often impossible to operate en masse in order to clean up swaths of stuff quickly and efficiently. It's in their interest to retain everything at all costs, because more used storage can mean more profits. Cloud services also profit from unused storage, because if they're charging $20/year to 100,000 users who use 2% of their storage space, ka-ching!

It irks me to this day that standard or even advanced filesystems don't include "expiration dates" or "purge dates" on file objects. Wouldn't it be logical, if an organization has a "data-rentention policy" that mandates destruction after X date, that the filesystem simply purges it automatically? Why does this always get delegated to handmade userland cron jobs? Moreover, to my knowledge, nobody is really interested in devising a way to comb through backup media in order to [selectively] destroy data that shouldn't exist anymore. Not even the read-write media!

Google is now auto-deleting stuff like OTP SMS messages. I'd love it if auto-delete could be configurable account-wide, for more than just our web histories and Maps Timeline and stuff. Unfortunately, to "delete" cloud data means it still exists on backups anyway. But without deleting data in your cloud account, it becomes a juicier hacker target as it ages and accumulates personal stuff that shouldn't fall into the wrong hands. Likewise for any business, it behooves them to delete and destroy data that shouldn't be stolen. At least move it offline so that only physical access can restore it?

I will say that modern encryption techniques can make it easy to "destroy" data, simply by destroying the encryption keys. You can quickly render entire SSDs unreadable in the firmware itself with such a command. Bonus: sometimes it's even done on purpose!

But even deleting data presents a maintenance cost. So if 90% of an org's data is indeed crap, then 90% or more of your processing resources are going to be wasted on sifting through it at some later date. Imagine when your file formats and storage devices are obsolete, and some grunt needs to retrieve some record that's 30 years old, and 90% of your data was always crap. That grunt is hopefully paid by the hour. We really had this happen at a few of my jobs, where we had old reel-to-reel backup tapes and it was difficult enough to load the data into a modern SunOS machine.

https://m.xkcd.com/1683/
The advertisers don't need billboards anymore. My car has a display for the radio (and other uses) and it displays ads that cannot be turned off.
> We’re destroying our environment to create and store trillions of blurred images, half-baked videos, rip-off AI ‘songs’, rip-off AI animations, videos and images, emails with mega attachments, never-to-be-watched-again presentations, never-to-be-read-again reports, files and drawings from cancelled projects, drafts of drafts of drafts, out of date, inaccurate and plain wrong information, and gigabytes and gigabytes of poorly written, meandering content.

Storing the files for Mr. McGovern’s website requires plastics, metals, power and physical space, yet I assume he believes that environmental effect is worthwhile. Who is he to decide for others that their choice to pay for the storage of data is not equally worthwhile to them?

That’s the beauty of a price system: each of us gets to decide what we will buy, and what we will not buy.

Now, perhaps his argument should be that the price of storing digital data does not adequately reflect the true cost. Perhaps there are unaccounted-for externalities. If so, then he should make that argument, perhaps arguing for a tax to align prices with costs.

Someone else might argue that data is a liability as well as an asset. That’s another argument he could make.

But haranguing folks for spending their money in ways he doesn’t like doesn’t seem likely to produce the outcome he appears to wish.
You can now get freshly-baked cake from a vending machine in Seattle
Yep, I think I am, I did an ETA at the end there, though I didn't like either of them.
Neat didn’t know that.
Endless captcha loops for me.
Countries and companies already do. The thing is, the biggest investor, by far, is China.
What might be nice is to add a prefix to key name that indicates 'this is a 'internal document reference', skip this unless quests to parser to not ignore. Would allow for describing encoding method(s) used. date format comments being very helpful. Technically, can do by just dropping by key name.

Why comment on a format vs. adding an associated "key""format" with format information. aka
date : 25.02.04
date-fmt : YY.DD.MM
One does not simply update one's dependencies
> in a scalable way

You continue to beg the question. "Without advertizing, companies would not be able to scale" is not a weakness of the push to ban advertizing - it is a virtue. The people advocating against advertizing _actively want_ businesses to have a smaller maximal size.
How do you expect influencers to exist if they can't take money from advertisers?
I found details about a talk[0][1] given by the hardware team, their names are on the blurry side of the picture in the top link - Authors: GUATIERI, Francesco (Università degli Studi di Trento); MUENSTER, Markus (Student); BERGHOLD,
Michael (NEPOMUC / FRM2)

The name OPHANIM seems to be the combination of "Optical Photons and Antimatter Imager" as written in the silkscreen below the exposed ground.

And a crude take at the further inscription -
Ex Saxis Homo Fecit Oculos Per Artem Ingeniumque
Nunc Monstrum Usum Est ad Universum Resiscendum

"Man made eyes from stones through art and ingenuity.
Now the monster has been used to re-emerge from the universe."

I haven't found a recording of the authors giving that talk or any significantly different materials, but the references to 'Ophanim' seem to be associated with Ezekiel's apocalyptic writings, and angels with many eyes, so that seems to fit.

[0] https://indico.frm2.tum.de/event/484/contributions/5093/
[1] https://indico.mlz-garching.de/event/484/contributions/5093/...
Oh, little Bobby Tables. Such a trickster.
Yes, some gains come from stripping metadata, but structural compression means optimizing how image data is encoded, like better Huffman tables for JPGs or smarter filtering for PNGs.
I just tried. Claude did exactly what you said, and then figured it out:

Central Park in New York City is bigger than GoldenGate Park (which I think you might mean Golden Gate Park) in San Francisco.

Central Park covers approximately 843 acres (3.41 square kilometers), while Golden Gate Park spans about 1,017 acres (4.12 square kilometers). This means Golden Gate Park is actually about 20% larger than Central Park.

Both parks are iconic urban green spaces in major U.S. cities, but Golden Gate Park has the edge in terms of total area.
Billboards are a safety issue.
> If ads were merely about being informative, they would be boring.

I disagree. Lots of entities want to get information out, and they're all competing for attention. This includes a lot of manipulative information, but it's also true for important information. Say that I'm a government agency tasked with informing the public that a certain brand of car seat is unsafe, or just reminding people that wearing safety equipment is a good idea. I can't just publish it on the agency website, confident that everybody will routinely check it. People don't work like that. So, if I really want people to listen, I have to compete in the same way that ads do. And this of course explains why the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's online presence is batshit insane: https://bsky.app/profile/cpsc.gov . It needs to be. They need Sentinel Burrito to warn you that unattended cooking is the #1 cause of house fires because otherwise our stupid brains won't listen.
No, that isn't obvious. You just think that because you believe that thinking this makes you cooler.
Nice plot!

Usually you want multiple rolls, cause visual performance heavily varies with the seed. You roll at least 5 pics for each model to get the idea what it tends to draw.

Also, different models have different "languages", despite striving for naturalness. Which model/arch suits you the best cannot be answered with a uniform prompt, but that's probably out of scope of any straightforward benchmark.