skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Long-term there was always going to be a marketplace process for piracy. As the pain/expense of legitimately acquiring content exceeds the pain/expense of acquiring it via other means, consumers will make choices that suit them. With Netflix we saw a sharp decline in the pain/expense for legitimacy so we saw a dip in piracy. Nothing magical about it
Arriving 2022 for Japan.
I didn't know Facebook _advised_ publishers to pivot to video? I thought that trend started with publishers themselves noticing that video had better engagement?
For the first one, I'm guessing you would just change the pickup location just as you tell the drive to meet you somewhere else.

If there's no driver, then there's nobody to ask to help with bags.

For various degenerate situations I'm not sure being driverless really changes the situation all that much. A drunk passenger can grab the wheel of a manned vehicle as well. With a self-driving car you might even be able to avoid that situation entirely by preventing the passengers from using any controls without authorization. They can grab the physical steering wheel but can't turn it until they punch in an authorization code (which they don't have). Likewise you prevent unauthorized passengers from entering the car by keeping the doors locked until the authorized passenger gets there. And if someone does manage to sneak in you just shut down the vehicle and call the cops (just like if someone jumps in a cab without permission).

But humans are great at flummoxing countermeasures like that so it will be an interesting thing to watch for sure.
Coming off as pretentious does not make it incorrect, and it is not the business of people writing software to decide what is correct or not.
> - Maybe we could have spent the past few months working harder to give the Afghans better intelligence capabilities (intel and air support mattered more than our troops on the ground), and ensuring our own intelligence was accurate, as we failed to detect the Taliban's offensive plans.

Versus the past 20? It’s pretty amazing to me how quickly they’ve been defeated. It’s not clear there ever was a solid ground for them if it crumbled so easily.
while it is disappointing that the true FSD may never materialize on cars that paid for it nearing EOL. The FSD beta 9 looks pretty impressive and from some videos i've seen have made some very difficult driving decisions.
> these folks haven't even bothered to actually use the software and realize how much more it does beyond sending messages back and forth

Are you saying that sending messages back and forth involves a lot more complexity that you don't see or that Slack does a lot more than just messages?
We build robots the way that we think things are supposed to work. It may turn out that our design is fundamentally limited.
yeah that would make more sense.
Twitter threads are a confusing mess to look at and usually I can't figure out OP was trying to convey by posting a link to 30 tweets that probably should have been a text post somewhere.
But do they pay $400K+/yr? That’s the point.
> Notice there aren't any "developed" countries in this list. Care to guess what that says about the US?

Well, it says that there aren’t many “developed” countries where emigrants can walk to the US.
Europe and other continents are not actually based on the tectonic plates. They are arbitrary based on historical and cultural reasons. Continents were determined prior to knowledge about tectonic plates.
I'm on the fence here, I sort of like the premise that looters don't get their booty. I do agree though I don't like the idea that a corporation can remotely disable a piece of hardware I bought.
> greatly inconvenience people who bought the TV from the bandits

It’s stolen property. The subsequent buyers cannot legally own it.
On top of that the FCC governs the airwaves and (at least in theory) works to ensure they meet public need. There are also other rules such as the Equal Time Rule. Twitter is subject to nothing like these things.
I hope this means they wont renew their agreement with Sky in the UK when that expires. I don’t want a Sky subscription but would like to sign up for HBO max over here.
I checked the listings and one of them is in La Quinta, CA. Should be interesting if the residents there put up a fight like those in Napa. "We aren't that La Quinta!" (Large hotel chain in the US.)
It's also worth noting that Bonjour support for other devices was a complete shitshow! I had iTunes installed on my old Windows 7 desktop, and Bonjour was the service that taught me how to forcibly exit a program in task manager. It must have had a memory leak back then, because I remember seeing it chew up anywhere from 100 to 500mb of memory...
Thank you Ill remember this explanation as it hits the base so hard.
It's not a car without a key, though, is it? It's more like a car with a factory-installed speed limiter, which the manufacturer is not obliged to help you remove or disable... and which, in fact, the manufacturer has good reasons for needing to make it hard to disable.

- I just want to be able to drive MY car as fast as I like!

- okay, but the trouble is the way this car works, if we give you the ability to disable the speed limiter, there's literally no way we can do that that doesn't also open up the possibility that when you turn on the radio, the radio station might broadcast an ad that causes an uncontrolled acceleration.

- that's a stupid way to design a car

- well yes, but this is an analogy car, not a real car. The real system in question is a turing-complete networked device designed to run arbitrary third-party software, so... the analogy is going to be slightly flawed.

And no, Apple isn't going to report a theft if you physically damage your phone, nor are they going to have a DMCA complaint if you hack your own phone in ways that let you change the way the software on it behaves (you might run into DMCS issues if you try to distribute tools to help other people do that, which is... definitely dubious, but that's what the law says; it doesn't have a great deal to do with this case of the Apple restrictions on which software the OS trusts to use its multicast API, though.)
It's kind of a community feel - I think HN has done a good job of flexing occasionally to allow non-tech news around cultural influences.

The Rolling Stones are one of the most influential rock bands of the past half century and that is potentially worthy of discussion.

I think housing and economy and finance are even more appropriate at times, especially when discussing topics that affect the average person - wonky, technical discussions that take a lot of thought and processing of second order effects.
I had a similar realization with food recently, bear with me.

You ever hear how in certain cultures, Mom's food is the best? Now, of course there's nostalgia involved. A hint of home can make your taste buds sing just a bit louder. But also, even for a 'simple' meal, there are so many options a chef can make that subtly change the meal.

For example, looking only at one ingredient, you can end up with a dizzying amount of options. For example, do you use chicken thighs or white meat, sear it first or let it braise, brine it or salt it right before going on, use a jar of pre-ground spices or add your own concoction of 5 spices? Each of those is a choice, and only one set of choices ends up with Mom's chicken cacciatore.

In software, any good UX is usually the result of thousands of intentional choices. It takes trial and error and research and actually time spent using the damn thing to figure out the tradeoffs involved in many of those choices. Just like it usually takes new chefs dozens of crappy, burnt, lifeless meals before developing the taste required to make those tradeoffs effectively.
It's a pity wide-brim hats went out of fashion in most places.
Analysis of evolution in SaaS GTM towards “sales-assisted” product-led growth
Stacking shelves in a warehouse is one task. Driving is not one task. There are too many corner cases for a modern-day AI system to perform as well as a median driver in, say, 95% of environments and settings in North America and Europe. I think the argument is that such a system might as well be AGI.
I mean, people think what they're going to think. But the number of arm-chair logistics experts who have been telling us endlessly how easy this is always retreat to hand-wavey vagueness about how they aren't the experts, but clearly somebody could have done better.

I understand that from folks who want the political attack, or from folks who are personally invested in either the US military or intelligence.

I don't understand it from intelligent folks who can spend a minute or two thinking through the situation.
Show HN: We left Sequoia to build for a product-led world
> I also think there is some merit in the question of “what do all those people do?”

There is merit in the question, but I think the answer is less "the core product is a lot more complicated than it seems" and more "a big software company with lots of eyes on it can make even more money by hiring more people to create more products that are ancillary to the core product."
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Curious to know where you are running your mining rig? in your house/apartment or you rented some other place? Also is there any limit on how much electricity you can use in apartment/House?
Well, "critical thinking" needs to supply a bit more than you have in this thread. You've spewed anger, and ideological talking points, but that's not critical thinking.

I guess you did hit "diversity of opinion", though...
The big difference is the model used to generate the images. VQGAN (which I use) tends to look a lot nicer to my eye than some of the other approaches.
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Can you stream 4k to the browser on your computer with Prime yet?

The biggest reason I stopped using Prime was that content looked like crap on my 4k monitor due to some weird-ass DRM that doesn't even inhibit piracy, as proof by the fact that I just pirated the 4k version of the show I was watching instead.
It's already begun - if you apply for a US visa, you are asked to list all your social media accounts, email id and phone numbers that you have used in the last 5 years:

> Previously, only applicants who needed additional vetting - such as people who had been to parts of the world controlled by terrorist groups - would need to hand over this data.

> But now applicants will have to give up their account names on a list of social media platforms, and also volunteer the details of their accounts on any sites not listed.

> Anyone who lies about their social media use could face "serious immigration consequences", according to an official who spoke to The Hill.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48486672

So it appears that the US have already started a program to assign a "social score" to individuals, just like the Chinese. However, unlike China, the US hasn't yet extended it to its citizens yet and the pilot program has been extended from "terrorists" only to all visiting foreigners and immigrants in the US.
Remember IT Crowd? "You wouldn't steal a car..." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg)
It's not just that they target jobs but they also try to keep people from getting new ones after being fired. Ironic that these same people are often the ones saying that housing and food are human rights then they effectively try to take them from people for disagreeing.
> well that actually seems like a somewhat interesting business mod—

That's not a new idea either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_estate_investment_trust
Also, I don't think we actually know what the end-of-life of Tesla vehicles is. They've not been mass produced for long enough.
Anybody who rides with me on a normal basis have come to learn to recognize the sudden stop halfway through a word when I switch from autopilot brain to active driving. There are times when you need more focus on everything than others.
Why isn't the alternative to keep your TV off the network?
from the submitted article:

>And this is not the first time questions have been raised about Ariely’s research in particular. In a famous 2008 study, he claimed that prompting people to recall the Ten Commandments before a test cuts down on cheating, but an outside team later failed to replicate the effect. An editor’s note was added to a 2004 study of his last month when other researchers raised concerns about statistical discrepancies, and Ariely did not have the original data to cross-check against. And in 2010, Ariely told NPR that dentists often disagree on whether X-rays show a cavity, citing Delta Dental insurance as his source. He later walked back that claim when the company said it could not have shared that information with him because it did not collect it.

from "Dan Ariely was suspended from research at MIT after conducting unauthorized experiment with human subjects" ^

>We talked to sources at MIT, who said that the way in which the placebo experiment was conducted led to dispute and eventually to Ariely's departure. Sources familiar with the study said that Ariely did not request the necessary permissions from the IRB (Institutional Review Board) of MIT that is called CUEHUS, and did not fulfill the required protocols to conduct the experiment, which included administration of electric shocks to 80 participants, and administration of cheaper or more expensive placebo medications.

>When this was discovered after one of the participants complained, the ethics committee reached out to Ariely for an explanation. Emails that have come to our attention reveal that Ariely's reply was amused in tone, indicating he had a general protocol for this type of experiment of this type called "electric shocks", and he followed them.

^ https://www.ha-makom.co.il/post-tomer-dan-ariely-mit-suspent...
No. I'm also curious, do people in Finance think various forms of gambling (and hedging of speculations) are productive for society.
Every "permissionless transaction" is an action of supplying and demanding, the "immutable ledger" is the proof that the action happened in the past. The price of Bitcoin, as the price of anything in life, is determined by supply and demand. Stop glorifying stuff using specialized language because people will actually believe you are the opposite of gifted. Reading "Thinking Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman will do you good. The price of Bitcoin will remain forever volatile as the system is inherently flawed and nobody has faith in it.

Usually I block trolls, but in the lack of such a functionality on HN take this comment as my last interaction with you.
In case someone is hardening these settings, we had a weird issue with Windows Server 2016 (iirc) based on this. The mozilla SSL config generator is going to give you a cipher configuration and happily claims Windows 7 and Win2016 both can connect to these servers.

However, that's only true if you use a certificate with an elliptic key. With a certificate with an RSA key, Win 7 and Windows Server 2016 cannot connect. That was a mess to figure out.
Of course there's more nuance to this. As I mentioned, these cases usually involve coercion (someone held a gun to your head and made you sign the contract) or not speaking the language (interpreter wasn't available/translated wrong/deceived).

This question then rests on: Can the user reasonably be expected to read 10 pages of dense legalese?

I think the real-life answer is an obvious NO. Current law generally assumes YES, except in cases where it doesn't. You see how there's some conflict here which I expect to be clarified by some court soon.
Isn't this not a new thing for youtube-dl? IIRC, the motivation for one of the forks was to merge in good-quality PRs that had been languishing.
He denies he ever said it, there is a difference.

We are talking about somebody who's company has been guilty of corrupting, lying, insulting, patent trolling, vendor locking, user spying, monopoly abusing, etc.

Yet after years of PR, he is now regarded as a hero.

So it's not unreasonable to think maybe he said it and later decided to rewrite history.
Its interesting how different experiences are. I don't love Prime (I don't want to see the paid content, stop it) but it is still infinitely better than HBO Max. Which has to be the worst I have used across all platforms.
This problem has been solved when it comes to hotel rooms, or rental cars. What would be fundamentally different when it comes to autonomous cars?
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I own a (legitimately) purchased Samsung TV (upwards of $3k) from ~2016 or so. It's been a fantastic television up until it suddenly stopped working about a month ago. I figured it would be easy enough to get it serviced and first tried purchasing the suspected bad part (the external HDMI "smart connect" box) directly through Samsung. Discontinued. Ok....I tried the manufacturer service center which routed me to a local repair shop with literally 2 stars on yelp and absolutely terrible reviews.

I ended up contacting a 3rd party repair company that specializes in Samsung TV's in San Francisco. I told him the model and he basically laughed and said the part is completely discontinued and he can't purchase it from any of his suppliers and that I was basically SOOL.

Spent about two weeks searching online and finally came across a SINGLE listing on EBAY for the model I needed. It seems to possibly be the last of its kind in existence.

The TV works again...until this part or another fails. So yeah, that's my Samsung anecdote.
> How is this appropriate for Hacker News?

The energy from Charlie Watts’ drum sticks transmuted into more lines of code than you will ever be able to count.
Woah! That's so random, I recently came across your article a few months ago. Great work and small world :)

I have a private discord and github for the project I can add you too. I eventually plan to open up the discord for anyone once we get a little further in the rebuild.

Wish there was a good way to DM on HN, I can send you a discord invite. Or if you happen to be on slap let me know.
Yea but it has nothing to do with hacking or technology, and if you think it does then please explain how this belongs.
And then when a market crash happens articles say "we don't know what's happening". Look at finance news from 2008 and early 2020.
You do understand the question, you've just decided to respond in a silly way.
Having driven many rural roads, that is something I would be much more comfortable with an automatic system on: staring around for deer at night is the classic attention task where humans tend to fail.

What I wouldn't be as comfortable with is the "random sheet of ice" or "oh look, rocks" or "suddenly washboard dirt road".
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Can anyone explain to me what credit score is and what it's used for? Does it have to have something to do with credit cards, taking loans or mortgages?

(I'm from Europe and I've never borrowed money. I even only use a prepaid credit card, always wondered what benefits a real credit card would even bring.)
> To me it is sufficient to beat the top 20% of drivers.

Computerized safety systems can, should, and are raising the bar, in terms of safety for the top 20% of drivers. "Self-Driving Cars" aren't competing in a static environment, similar tools are raising the safety bar that they have to compete against. This means it will get increasingly difficult to beat non-self-driving vehicles.
Ask HN: What problem could Hy solve for you?
I have been using Hy instead of Python for some time to generate Python code for prototypes and demos. I am curious if anyone else here uses Hy instead of Python. What kinds of problems does it solve for you? Why do you do it?
Is it really losing them though?

Presumably some large proportion of them will sign up for HBO directly once they can no longer get HBO content through Amazon.

Most people who like HBO shows so much to pay for them, probably aren't going to be deterred by using a separate app. We're used to apps.
> I used to be a big believer, now I'm not sure why I'm still a customer.

Agreed. Been with them since the early days (had the DVD service before that), and had only them (and Prime Video, but I rarely used it) until a couple years ago. At this point they're my least favorite streaming service I pay for, and first on the chopping-block when I pare things down soon. If they'd kept prices low, maybe I'd hold on to them, but the hikes even as the service (selection and UI) kept getting worse are just too much.
Considering there is no garbage collection for regulations, and incumbents apply huge pressure to further entrench bad tradeoffs, I see apps that subvert the laws and demonstrate immense benefits to both the workers and the consumers as positive trends.
A demonstration of the Charlie Watts method for handling interpersonal conflict on a high-performing team of specialists:

"One anecdote relates that in the mid-1980s, an intoxicated Jagger phoned Watts's hotel room in the middle of the night, asking, "Where's my drummer?" Watts reportedly got up, shaved, dressed in a suit, put on a tie and freshly shined shoes, descended the stairs, and punched Jagger in the face, saying: "Don't ever call me your drummer again. You're my fucking singer!"
Am I the only one seeing the change between l4 and l5 abysmal? Also L5 description, at least in the Wikipedia article, is much more vague than the rest
Cr3ative's comment is interesting and I am definitely going to look into that.

I fixed my issues with Sony popping up the android crap by allowing the device I am turning on to control HDMI.

I'm not the biggest fan of that setting being on, but I turned it off and started getting those android pop ups. It took me awhile to figure out why that was happening as my TV isn't on the internet. I use a Sony television connected to Apple TV with internet fwiw.
I think initially they opened it up to handpicked riders that were willing to sign NDAs, but now anyone can sign up in the Waymo app
That's kinda a "gotcha" question, because it's not clear what your definitions are. For example, is authentication (single sign-on, etc.) part of what you describe as "sending messages back and forth"? Are files, screen sharing, video calls, etc. still "just messages"?
Twitter is getting worse and worse. It was so cool in 2010-12 with a amazing API, a real vision, and future. Now it's just a machine learning assisted, comment hiding, news blocking, left leaning facebook.
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Yeah, fair enough. Only adverse weather they'd encounter in SF is fog and may be light rain. But I still consider driving in SF pretty challenging, especially for an autonomous vehicle – narrow roads, people not following rules, pedestrians everywhere, cable cars in the middle of roads. Certainly more complex than Chandler, AZ.
By what metric is it somehow not a smartphone?
Well, here's one issue: I can tell you what a reply and hashtag is but I'm going to fail the quiz that asks me to define a TUI client. (And don't get the Chrsmistian Fundamentalists hellbent on taking downn Tumblr et al. starter anything involving a "daemon".)
I appreciate the effort but found the discussion even more confusing than my already confused understanding. Some simple examples would help.
It's that companies let the designers design without any constraint on usability.

Typically these designers are just fashionistas following the trendy crowd.
Some sounds OK, most sounds like a series of plausible notes that nevertheless don't actually go anywhere. Most generative models tend to do OK at predicting the immediate next note, say, but they can't keep a macro-level structure unless you force that as a constraint. For me what has worked best is generating music and then re-interpreting that with some manual post-processing to get it into a less jarring form.
A fairly recent project that is close to the state of the art: https://openai.com/blog/jukebox/
One of my own experiments: https://datasciencecastnet.home.blog/2021/05/13/whistlegen-g...
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