skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So generally speaking, advertising is not resilient to downturn.

In 2008, there was an expectation of revenue loss. But because Google "direct advertising" directly affects sales... it was more like "sales" than traditional "marketing" in this respect.

In 2025, it may be different. We shall see.

I don't think much online ad revenue is related to physical products. The margin available for ad spend on physical goods is much slimmer. But... it's hard to predict 3rd order effects.
I believe that a creator has no right to dictate what other people do with his creations.

I thought this was the most common anti-IP sentiment.
It really depends on what kind of axis you’re talking about. Under the hood, Go’s interfaces and Rust’s “dyn types” (the new nomenclature for trait objects) are the same, and C++’s virtual functions are different.

(Though you can emulate them with unsafe in Rust, like anyhow)
With the popularity of indie games I wonder why publishers don’t just try and buy out hundreds of these small devs under their shop. And I’m not talking like how when ea buys dice and ruins dice. That is the whole problem. Total autonomy should be offered. The publisher should exist solely as a balancer of budgets: skim profit when sales happen to pay for shops when dev work before a sale is to be done. No different than say a city department paying into the general fund and other department supported by the general fund.
My first MRI about 30 years ago they did a precautionary CAT scan of my head because I had worked in machine shop (the place I worked had a machine shop and I used it for small personal projects), dunno if they do that anymore, but I was told ferrous bits in eyes had led to disastrous results for at least one patient.
I have no idea what you’re talking about honestly. The data for government spending can be seen in multiple places, here is the CBO numbers (this might be an older article or out of date, I don’t have time or access to a laptop right now).

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61172
I think I'd actually read many left-wingers more charitably here; the mainstream democrat opinion is still that systemic forces impact crime rates and should be addressed but not that those justify discarding policing or order in the mean time. That's a uniquely radical progressive take, by which the SF government was unfortunately captured. I think Tan's statement here is more a strong reaction against the failed progressive version seeking to drag the overton window in SF back towards normalcy. Maybe I'm giving him too much credit, but Tan and YC have actually stuck around, unlike other people and companies who have simply left, so I'm guessing they're approaching this in good faith.

This aligns pretty well with my personal view. Maybe we can go figure out root causes later. Depending on those causes and the possible means to address them, maybe we can enact policy changes to reduce the amount of crime in the future. All that is, however, secondary to what we must do today: return to zero-tolerance policies for petty crime to make the city liveable again.
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Yep, it works for majority of children, but not for all of them. Folks that had a couple of kids with whom it did work spread it as a gospel.

You can try many other things, and maybe you’ll find something that works some of the time.

“What do you want?” can be “NOTHING!”, can be something.
“You want this, but the reality is this and that. How can we deal with that?”

If kid is upset it usually helps to validate their feelings first.

Also, my kids are not yours, so take this with the grain of salt as well.
I think "best" is slightly subjective / user. But I understand your gripe. I think the only way is using them iteratively, settling on the one that best fits you / your use-case, whilst reading other peoples' experiences and getting a general vibe
So many bugs... Couldn't generate even one video on AI-studio (due to errors in the platform).
Shame on Google for those poor releases.
Obviously. How does that make IP legitimate.

If you are against IP, you obviously are against artists policing which model is trained on their data and which isn't. As this very obviously assigns ownership to the creation of the artist, aka IP.
Exclusive rights over their published work encourages artists and inventors to publish their work, which is a clear benefit to society at large. The period of time it should remain exclusive and the specific rights that are made exclusive can be debated, but the utility of IP rights in general is obvious.

And generative AI is not a person in the first place, so I don't think the appeal to learning makes much sense here.
The only time this gets into trouble is when you bridge the &/&mut and *const/*mut worlds. If you need the latter, try to stay within them as much as possible, if not entirely.
It's censorship plain and simple.

And the admins/mods are still refusing to admit it.
Social networks tend to reflect the character of their founders. Do you really want to see what Sam Altman can do?
Once banned, Poland's stately 18th century dance garners UNESCO honors (2024)
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You're making a different point. Of course, there are use cases for subdomains, I'm talking specifically about the transition of maps.google.com to google.com/maps. google.com/maps always made sense but wasn't technically viable when Google Maps launched and that's why they've transitioned to it now. I'm arguing that Google Maps being on a subdomain was an infrastructure choice, not a product choice.
I would happily pay them to link me up with people who have chat histories similar to mine (as in working on or curious about similar problems).

Lots of time and energy goes in finding the right people, creating the right groups, maintaining the groups, expanding the groups etc.

Everything is based on Networking and Broadcasting which is really such an inefficient process cause you have spend a whole lot of time weeding out false signalling thats going 24x7.
Maybe, but AI isn't people and doesn't do learning, it does "training" which we can roughly anthropomorphize as learning.

It doesn't really seem like an IP thing to me - it's like making music that's intentionally hard to classify in a particular genre on purpose or something. Maybe that defeats Spotifys recommendation algorithm but that's totally unrelated to any rights to stream it or so on.
but not many founders read The Four Steps, The Startup Owner's Manual, The Lean Startup etc. _before_ they dive into figuring out how to take their idea forward.

Then that is the problem that needs to be solved. The information they need is out there. If they are unaware of it, or choose to ignore it, that is the problem.

we need a name for the phase that comes before building - Pre-Build in|Validation

I think we have that already. It's called Customer Discovery, and it's the first phase of the Customer Development methodology.

I don't think inventing new catch-phrases is really adding anything here, personally.
Yep, it's blatant censorship and the admins/mods are still refusing to admit it.
Ah, I totally missed that aspect. In the US it mostly sold cheap junk, too.
I have a sort of recipe for openly discussing disagreements with someone:

1. Demonstrate that you understand their point, and concede ground where necessary (what you think is attractive about what they are saying, what it explains well, etc)

2. Explain (not tell) why it is that in spite of that, you don't hold the position they do (maybe it leads to some other conclusion, maybe there's another core principle at work)

3. Ask, with genuine curiosity, what they think about the problem you raised, how to they resolve it in their mind?

I don't think that'll necessarily make you more likely to change their mind, but you'll certainly be more likely to learn something.

And if they aren't actually interested in discussing, and are just engaging in some kind of show boating etc, it will become immediately clear because you are only leaving open the possibility of curious, open dialogue.
just to follow up--the fix for this is landing! thanks for surfacing
and they get only 3 results?
> I’m skeptical that the current system is efficient at allocating the funds

Probably. But the solution almost certainly doesn't involve the federal government policing what is and isn't researched, discussed and taught. We had a system that worked. We're destroying the parts of it that worked, while retaining the parts that are novel. (Turning conservatives into a protected class, for instance--not even the CCP explicitly reserves seats for party members.)
Bitcoin Mining Centralization in 2025
If you go look at Andreas’ old videos from 5-6 years ago you can see early versions of Serenity had some sort of shortcut or app specifically for 4chan, with the clover icon and everything.

There’s actually a number of projects that started this way though I don’t know of any that grew up to be as charming and interesting as Serenity OS. Katawa Shoujo is one, though I could definitely see people complaining about the games content. The Tox encrypted messenger is one but I’m not sure that ever went anywhere.

I think most of them, like Andreas, dropped the association with 4chan pretty soon after the project started to gain real traction.
Ok... If it's not the most efficient way to allocate funds, it's now your job to design a more efficient way. Good luck and let us know what you come up with!
Post-Silicon Validation of Static Lockstep Mode
This is a distinctly western internet phenomenon. It’s decadence. There was a tweet or something that said these people 100 years ago would be chronicling every species of beetle in their local area or designing intricate alternate history about how roads would work in an anarcho-capitalist society. Now that’s autistic, but this is like on another level. Would this guy’s mom be proud he found the identity of the guy at some random party from 1921 who’s photo got stitched over with a picture of Jack Nicholson and included for a few frames at the end of the shining?
Companies put measures into place to make sure that their software only functions correctly with a paying customer. Some Video Games include intentional problem when the game believes IP laws are violated.
> In theory, that insurgent force could work against a tyrannical federal government. In practice, even if most of the people with the civilian firepower weren't supporting the tyranny I'm not sure it would work out. Conducting an insurgency against a foreign occupier is a lot different than conducting one against a domestic oppressor.

Yeah, precisely my personal take against the current "from utility" argument in the amendment's favor: it's very much not clear that they're especially useful for resisting oppressive governments, for one thing because those are often quite popular at first, and for another, because successful examples of that tend to involve a ton of foreign aid, making the role of private arms rather minor. Meanwhile, examples involving foreign invaders are extremely different (and also often involve lots of foreign aid).

Like, maybe the right deserves to stand anyway for other reasons (maybe it just ought to! Maybe it doesn't need a reason!) but I think that particular argument for it is really misguided, especially if one takes it seriously when forming one's opinions about the broader political landscape. IMO there is no meaningful safeguard against tyranny to be found in that amendment.
I've been evaluating AI code review vendors for my org. We've trialed a couple so far. For me, taking the workflow out of GitHub is a deal breaker. I'm trying to speed things along, not upend my whole team's workflow. What's your take on that?
Cloudflare Warp Setup with WireGuard on a Ubiquiti Firewall
We do not get a refund of the money... but the deficit should be a bit lower because the money was not spent.

Look, I am not a fan of DOGE. They are far more theater than effective. But on this one small point, your argument doesn't work.
> By that logic, we don't really need certificates, just TOFU.

It works fairly well for SSH, but that tends to be a more technical audience. But doing a "Always trust" or "Always accept" are valid options in many cases (often for internal apps).
> I'm new on here. if not markdown then what?

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
The whole point of the tariffs is to cause chaos and if you think they have an actual plan boy do I have a bridge to sell you
Advertising increases sales, which can lead to economies of scale, which can reduce prices. It also encourages price competition, so it's nowhere near as simple as that. Some highly price disruptive activities such as direct to consumer marketing would be impossible without advertising.
Oddly, it actually originates from the Ruby ecosystem - `pganalyze` initially created `libpg_query` to parse Postgres in Ruby. `libpg_query` in C does the "magic" of reformulating Postgres's query parser into an AST generator, and serializes the resulting AST into a Protobuf. Then, `pg_query` bridges that into Rust.
"Nobel already created dynamite to make civilization more efficient. Then as soon as the new guy comes along with dogemite and actually wants to have fewer mouths to feed, people start complaining about the children, conveniently ignoring that Nobel started it!"
Any age. There is no right age to jump out of the window on the 10th floor, no right age to cross a busy interstate by foot, no right age to set a bed on fire. You wouldn’t allow a kid to do it (and similar things) at any age. Would you? :)
Animal husbandry did not start in Africa, though. It started in the fertile crescent and spread into Africa. This is very well attested in archaeological finds, and in the fact that the relevant animals were domesticated first there.

The surprising news is that the spread of animal husbandry didn't seem to accompany the spread of human genes -- the subsistence strategy was adopted by learning, not by people moving.

I don't think this is very shocking because the same thing seems to have happened elsewhere. While agriculture mostly spread by people moving, the culture that developed into all the pastoral cultures of the Eurasian steppe seem to have been hunter-gatherers living in close proximity to farmers.
There are many kinds of arguments. Some arguments are psychological, not related to "winning" but understanding what makes the interlocutor tick.

The article is formulaic. It doesn't make it inherently bad.

The presenting of a persona interaction, followed by a recipe on how to deal with that, is one of those discussion tricks. Whoever answers must put itself in either the toddler's position or the adult position. Both positions are disfavorable (they're flat stereotypes)

The author is actually playing neither, it is acting as an "overseer" of silly toddlers and silly adults that engage in arguments all wrong.

It is a curious thing how far these things went.

Tantrums can happen for all kinds of reasons, and adults can engage in fruitless argument for all kinds of reasons too. It's a human thing. Sometimes, even in perfectly reasonable discussions, no one learns anything. That is also a human thing.

Changing one's point of view is something dramatic. To expect that in an argument is unreasonable, it's too high of a goal.

Just making the other part understand the subject is a lesser, more attainable objective. They don't need to agree. Sometimes I feel glad when I notice that the other part found the core of the discussion, even if they are in opposition to my view. It means that they understood the subject, which is something rare these days.
>He comes from a music production background, so his focus is more practical and results-oriented

It's his art and his livelihood too, so it's also personal. These people want to steal his art and create a world full of soulless cheap muzak, while simultaneously putting him out of work.

Get 'em, Benn! I should go buy one of his albums.
This ^.

I struggled to get messages delivered with Meshtastic in my location. I'll try Meshcore when I get some time.
Indulging in your blatant straw man argument for a moment, what if discussing these ideas and the downsides of them to society helped the world transition away from them faster and minimized the chance of backslide?

There is nothing wrong with discussing bad ideas, especially with students that aren't familiar with them, if done responsibly, with respect for the student, and facilitation of critical thinking.

This attitude that certain topics or ideas are taboo and shouldn't ever be acknowledged or discussed because they are bad is a big part of what is increasing extremism and pushing America to the brink. It's authoritarian, and it makes the nation more fragile, not stronger.
It would be nice if they could go more into detail about how they decide whether a query is read or write. The casual mention of this makes it sound like they originally took a too-naive approach (looking at the first word) but even ignoring CTEs, you can still have an UPDATE within a SELECT subquery, which makes the problem very hard without parsing the whole query. Perhaps the C++ code extracted from pg handles this for them and returns some metadata that indicates whether there are any writes buried in the query?
This is amazing. I wouldn't think that something as computationally expensive as generating 8 second videos would be available outside of paid API anytime soon.
So, like a normal corporate network from before cloud happened?
This is such a straw man. The motives behind extermination camps aren't, actually. The reasonable response to someone entering your country illegally is to remove him. This is proportionate and just. I think Trump is very much skirting the rules and figure courts will smack him over it, but it's about time we changed the system so illegals can be quickly removed without fifty thousand appeals. Otherwise the system does not work and we are conceding our borders to a flood of third-worlders, which is a bad idea.

It's also essential we alter our asylum system such that anybody who skips over another country to get here is automatically denied. If someone is fleeing guatemala and has to travel up through central America to get here, he should not be granted asylum. Stop in any one of those countries you passed along the way.

Note that legal status can be revoked for anyone besides a citizen. This is actually one of the less illegal moves trump's admin has made. I have a problem with what appears to be targeting based on support for palestine but not with the core concept: they all have to go back. Every single one of them.
Do you have any substantiation for either the point that onerous regulations are the primary impediment or that most of these have been created since 2008 (by fiat or otherwise)?

It's always going to be cheaper to make things in places where labor costs and environmental responsibility expectations are low.
In had it doing the reasoning in Turkish and English despite the question being in German.
> Bond rates were already going up before the election

Treasuries behaving like a risk asset is 100% Trump. And it has nothing to do with him blowing out our deficit, it's 100% about stagflation and money markets.
probability does not work that way
Why do you want this when there are wildcard certificates? That's how the hyperscalers do it as well. Amazon doesn't have a separate certificate for each s3 bucket, it's all under a wildcard certificate.
I think I would buy "yes" shares in a Polymarket event that predicts a motion picture created by a single person grossing more than $100M by 2027.
What's a different path to the solution of getting a kid to eat vegetables and go to bed? I'd say if you can get them to freely choose to do those, then you've won the argument. If it comes down to the equivalent of telling them "because I say so" in such a positive and constructive way that they don't freak out, you haven't won an argument. You have gotten what you wanted, but not by winning an argument, because the kid's opinion didn't change, just their response.

Now, what you're talking about is an extremely valuable skill—much more valuable than trying to argue with toddlers—but it's not the same thing in my opinion.
> I doubt you recall being 2yrs old vividly. Or even 3.

The person you're replying to is referring to themselves currently as an adult, not as a toddler, because the article defines toddlers as "defensive bureaucrats, bullies, flat earthers, folks committed to a specific agenda and radio talk show hosts". So there are no actual toddlers under discussion here.
Are you saying that hastening the catastrophe is the right move?
> An argument, though, is an exchange of ideas that ought to surface insight and lead to a conclusion.

That's one definition, I suppose, but it's not the definition you'll find in any dictionary I've seen. The author here seems to be assuming that the only valid reason to argue is to learn. People argue for many reasons other than that.

> If you’re regularly having arguments with well-informed people of goodwill, you will probably ‘lose’ half of them–changing your mind based on what you’ve learned

Again, the author's unspoken presupposition begs to be questioned. Why do most people actually argue in the public sphere? For instance, why do we have presidential debates? The candidates certainly aren't there to learn. They are not even trying to persuade their debate partner. They are arguing to convince or persuade their viewers of something. These could be undecided viewers, or they could be viewers who have already made up their mind but may either feel strengthened about their beliefs or weakened after listening.

Similarly, if I'm debating someone online, it's often less to convince that person and more to convince anyone else who might be reading. I have heard of people in real life who have read debates I've engaged in and expressed both gratitude for my willingness to do so and that they were strengthened in their beliefs on the subject.
I am against IP in general. It doesn't matter what the exact mechanism being used it. You should be able to use all data you can however you want.
> By definition, any update of beliefs is changing one's mind. My mind changes often...

So would you say changing one's mind is a case where one seeks a different religion (where beliefs are thrown around freely)?

I can't imagine believing in something unless it is essentially irrefutable (e.g. 1+1=2). And where I have beliefs, I'm not going to argue them. What purpose would that serve? I have already established the utmost possible confidence in that belief for it become one. I have no remaining compulsion to keep trying to see what more can be learned when I am certain there is nothing more to learn. To continue to want to learn more about something you are certain can be learned about no more must be the definition of insanity.

If we want to lean on definitions, the dictionary is equally clear that a belief hinges on acceptance. "I am 60% confident that recursion is the best method for this algorithm." means that I don't know. "I don't know" is not a state of acceptance. That is not a belief.
The difference is that you can sue Siemens and Rockwell if it explodes but good luck suing Temu seller. This creates a financial incentive for qa.
Quite a bit. I posted them to the gopher server (appropriate, as it was accessible via Gopher and AFP):

gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/archive/userserve-ucsd-edu
Even if we completely toss out IP, isn't an artist free to release whatever version of their content they want? I find that AI poisoning seems to be a speed bump at best, but I don't see an issue with artists using it if they wish. If anything, it gives a fun challenge for machine learning developers to try.
Post reminds me of the absolutely lovely Monty python skit [1] that is not only humorous, but has a lot you can learn from.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDB5gbtaEQ