skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> sinks a movie franchise out of spite?

it's not spite. She didn't "sink" it because she was spiteful, she wanted to say something about the films and her work and chose to deconstruct the act of making a sequel to a trilogy after 20 years. It's their art, they can do what they want with it.

Their work since Matrix has always been avant-guard (Cloud Atlas is barely a film in any normal sense, a Speed Racer film by anyone else isn't _that_) they were never coming back to make another stock science-fiction action film.

The real question is, how did Warner green-light the script and release knowing that it was going say all those things.
Personal privacy for commerce is great, but for money laundering I'd compare that to paying for political influence in the way that it mixes up speech and money in a bad way.
> Everybody wins, including the environment

Competition can't possibly enter once a market has been established, thus the customer ultimately loses.
I’d like to see specific efficiency rating for Apple’s MagSafe. The magnetic alignment does a good job of ensuring that the coils are optimally positioned. That would likely be more efficient than cases where the alignment was even a little off.
The Northwest Passage exists, but only when Truck Norris is going that way to pick up a Klondike bar.
I want you to know. You're not alone, and I feel the same things.

Hacker News is not the place to go if you're looking for cohorts who feel the same thing.

People on this website are ... I don't know the right word, but I think the best way to phrase it is - lacking the sensitivity and awareness to really step back and evaluate if technology has been making the world a better place. This isn't to say technology can't do that, but what the human race has been doing with technology really is a bummer. We have every means to push ourselves forward, step up, and take care of each other. Hell we're post scarcity! But everyone is running around doing VC this, startup that, and how everything is going to be changed my "my really great idea" which is stupid. I had a brother-in-law, an executive of his company bragging about how he was using some of the smartest people he ever knew solve logistic problems for maximizing profit in the stupidest ways. I reply to every recruiter explicitly asking them how each role they're offering is genuinely helping the world a better place. I explicitly go out of my way asking for jobs to fight climate change and no one responds.

Personally I am confounded by the money making impetus of everyone.

I FEEL exactly how you're feeling, and I'm not sure how to get away from it or fix the state of things.

A lot of people will come out of the woodwork and provide thought-terminating statements like "be the change you want to see", or "be the light", or anything else that's really meant as a way to disengage the discussion without really addressing the issues. And let me tell you I have put my best foot forward in my personal endeavors to create solutions and tools that really try to help others out. But at the end of the day, we all rely on each other to be the communities that help each other, and it's not up to one person to carry that weight. We all need to recognize that this isn't right, and the direction we're headed isn't right. And, this is completely ignoring the big elephant in the room that despite all the technological "advancements" we're making, the planet is burning alive, with us on it, and we really won't have anything in the coming years.

I'm rambling, and I don't have a solution or words of advice. But, I want you to know you're not alone. Feel free to reach out if you're ever looking for a cohort to chat with. We can be grumpy together.
You are not alone...I found the 'quit lit' genre to be both comforting and tempting as a grad student, e.g.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2021/08/18/re...
So if someone held a gun to your head and demanded that you kill someone, and you pulled the trigger, then you're doing something morally wrong? I feel like my sense of morals at least allows for doing something morally wrong if you're being forced to do it.
The thing that wouldn’t work is to try to do something sincere instead of everything dripping in ever so hilarious irony.
I honestly can’t wait for gen Z to do something different please. It’s been like 20 years since someone made art that was not ironic
As much as folks like to hate on AWS on here, it’s definitely an area where they got things right. Call it customer obsession or just good ol fashioned business but making sure customers can get things resolved in a timely way, even at the cost of the bottom line, goes a long long way to maintaining trust. Especially for customers and businesses that are your money makers.
Not in isolation but it’s important to understand. It can and is abused by people who know how the meta game is played. The biggest thing for me is that it pretty frequently results in an internally inconsistent worldview, and that is a bad thing.
There's no "the title" - there are lots of choices, including the HTML doc title, the URL itself (which sometimes-has-a-hyphenated-title-like-this), headings on the page. None is reliably the best choice, and all of them are frequently crap; frequently enough that it wouldn't make sense to have any of them be an official suggestion.
> capitalism increases inequality, it favors the wealthy at the expense of the poor

Does pure capitalism without cronyism give everybody an equal chance though? What if cronyism is the very product of current capitalism?

Finger swap is useless. To actually fix a problem, we need to find the root cause and fix the entire tree of problems one by one.
To me, it seems crazy that a company would actively try to self-sabotage their bread-and-butter product in search of a bit of extra revenue when they're already making record profits. Not to mention that, as the author of the article points out, Google published a well-known quantitative paper on why that's a bad tradeoff.
Fwiw a lot of people would argue that sacrificing one human for the benefit of many more is worthwhile. Not something to celebrate, but an acceptable tradeoff.
How I miss Perl and it's acolytes, especially The Damian and Randall Schwartz.
Empty flights are an exception, and a big one during an exceptional situation like a pandemic. Before that the system was working just fine.
ty. I also tested the query in Bing, the results there were abismal
Also, why are these coal powered plants? That is a worst case scenario and not representative of the actual power grids in most locations. Seems design to scare rather than inform.
In the jobs I’ve had, management is response for not allocating time for maintenance. It’s difficult to justify allocating that time without the numbers on a spreadsheet to prove it’s needed.
There's no uptick. The mod practices around titles haven't changed in many years.

It's also probably a lot more consistent than it seems. That doesn't translate into perception, though, because people tend to notice the ones that annoy them. I wrote about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23954907
You're free to do squats. Any exercise has benefits though. Walking is something almost anyone can do anywhere without special equipment. And most people can spare more than 10 minutes.
I don't see any distinction at all. Can you elaborate?

(I'm an omnivore that's relatively OK with animal testing, fwiw)
This is probably the only sane way to proceed when our software has dependency chains more than a few levels deep. Establish mechanisms to try to prevent bloat, but otherwise make it possible upgrade independently and make it starkly apparent if the is duplication.
I haven't done PID for a looong time but the best method for tuning PID loops is to look at the frequency response, somewhat along these lines: https://eng.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Industrial_and_System...

This is much much better than the rules of thumb of increasing the proportional gain until the system becomes unstable etc. etc. You can tell what your gain and phase margins actually are which is difficult otherwise so you can push the correct parameters to the limit while maintaining margin.

There are also other approaches that rely on modelling the system and calculating the parameters based on the model... That can work but tends to be iffy for real world systems in my experience...
I don't get it that dogs/cats/horses/etc are sentient but pigs/cows/chicken and other animals are not.
I've found that my system feels less stable when I'm running docker. So I moved it "off box" and noticed that my system seems to perform a bit better in my eyes. So I wrote my first blog/tutorial and put it on the web in case it helps others.
> Sure, posting a photo of you in your living room with the painting in the background isn't reproducing the original work.

Most people wouldn't think so, but it technically is. If an algorithm spots the painting in the background and matches it to a known hash it could block the post automatically. If it didn't, than anyone could print out revenge porn and tape it to a wall, photograph it, and facebook's system would never remove it. The point of revenge porn isn't to reproduce and sell perfect 1:1 copies of a copyrighted work, but to harass someone and less than perfect copies will do that job very well.

It's not that I think any system must be perfect or else it's useless, but others have already pointed out how easy this system could be to game to remove all kinds of other content, youtube's efforts with their similar "Content ID" system shows us that these automated systems will have negative impacts for many innocent people, and these systems are becoming increasingly common (for example, apple scanning your personal devices to generate hashes to match against photos of child abuse) so it really is important that companies get this right and protect their users. Especially for a company like facebook who is doing it so that they can avoid paying for the kind of human oversight which is actually needed to combat the problem. This seems like a poorly thought out scheme that could have major consequences for users but let's Facebook off the hook because they've doing "something".
I think there's more quality content on the web now than there's ever been.

It's seems like Google wants to prioritize the commercialized web, though, by boosting BuzzFeed-like online publications that post ad-laden articles full of referral links in their search results, along with social media. Even in the development space, Google will prioritize w3schools and content farms that constantly churn out how to guides. Blogs and forums seem to get deprioritized in search results these days.
Career Karma raises $40M B round
A package isnt even implicit authorization to run arbitrary code on other peoples machines. It’s authorization to run a specific, known version of your code, preferably one that others are also using without incident.

That’s the whole point of TFA: this is a design flaw in NPM, a package author shouldn’t be able to have the impact this event did, regardless of how popular their package is.
This is good news - American BigTech have been working in Tandem to cartelize the internet among themselves, and government intervention is sorely necessary to prevent this.
I think you actually just argued for silos. Make sure small groups of people are independent and make sure they horde data.
> His research field is software engineering

I think this is really key. Unlike many computer science disciplines that really benefit from the academic environment (e.g. you can work on a problem for a long time without the constraints of business considerations), when your field is literally "how to best build software in a collaborative environment", the best place to really learn that is by building software in a collaborative environment.

The tech giants even have large, focused research teams on how to improve their own software engineering processes.
No it hasn't. I've been reading the guardian physically for years, it's still good.

How many is a few anyway? They only broke the Panama papers 6 years ago now
GitHub has always owned 100% of the project from the day the developer created their account. The developer owns the code, yes, but the account itself and the actual GitHub project structure is 100% owned by GitHub. From a legal perspective, it is a 100% GitHub-owned project that's a derivative work of the developer's code. Legally, the website is a derivative work, and derivative works are owned by the creator of the derivative work, not by the owner(s) of whatever the work is derived from. There are restrictions on what the owner of a derivative work can do based on the licensing of the original work (for example, GitHub can't merge GPLv2-licensed code and Apache2-licensed code hosted on their platform) but GitHub still owns the derivative work entirely.

For example, if I were to stand up a website using Apache httpd using PHP and Drupal, then the website is 100% mine but it contains code owned by the Apache Software Foundation, Dries Buytart, and Zend Technologies. None of those three have any rights over my website, even though they own the code I built it on. I still have to respect the licenses to the code I use—I can't make my own fork of httpd containing code I copy-pasted from a GPLv2-only project, for example—but the website is still my website.

Or for a non-code example, let's say I were to write Lord of the Rings fanfiction. As a derivative work, the fanfic is 100% mine even though it contains characters copyrighted by the Tolkien estate. I can't legally distribute my fanfic to people without getting a license from the Tolkien estate (but thankfully the Tolkien estate is willing to look the other way), but it's still mine, and the Tolkien estate can't just yoink my fanfic and publish it in an anthology unless I give them permission either.
You should try renovate, it has a self hosted option for is open source. And allows you to manage your dependencies with certain constraints, one of those is "days it's been stable/released". So you can set it up to automatically create a pull request with the updated dependencies that matches your criteria
Developer happiness and with Rails it's Omakase.
I once tried to do regular postings of 'funny bits of code' in the slack at my company. It was mostly meant to be in jest, but also had the side aim of trying to get the team to aim higher.

The first few editions were snippets of my own code. I got a few token lols from other devs.

I then saw a senior had committed what looked like a gem... something obviously contorted but fairly short and understandable for if they were coding on autopiliot

`if day.isWeekday() && !day.isWeekend() && day.isMonday() { // this is a monday`

The day I posted that to slack was the day I learned never to criticize in public, even non-personally and even in jest.
There is a significant portion of the population that enjoys telling others what to do. Nobody can argue this. Therefore, given the fact that COVID restrictions is the hottest-button issue of the past several years, and dealing with it involves telling people what to do, through force of law no less (usually), it only follows...

After COVID, what are the media and these people going to do? The gravy train is going to run out, everything else will be boring for them in comparison.
just wanted to upvote you for adding the edit about immunotherapy could also mean decreasing the immune system. I'm not certain of the best word, still don't feel "vaccine" is it.
The GLP affects the entire work. If some fancy pants proprietary shop got caught publishing a release that incorporated an AGPL `faker` then a GPL request would render all the source code. This would be a legal nightmare for some places. Have you heard what happens when an acquirer finds a GPL bomb during due diligence?
> bad, unchangeable EU regulation strikes again

It's literally in the begining of the article, the regulations were adapted for COVID, but it was apparently insufficient. Do you have any valid criticism of the regulation or is it just "bad" because "Europe"?

> meanwhile, in a country that left the EU

At least they can claim one good thing came out of Brexit. They need any win, however small.
One mechanism that wasn't described in the article and for fairness I know little about when it comes to prehistoric hominids is the role of community splits forcing certain members to go out or die trying to establish hegemony.
You could ask https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=petercooper, who wrote it.

I thought it had been submitted more often but I guess it has mostly been mentioned in comments: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
If you’re referring to San Francisco, the city is on track to be sued under state law for that denial. It is also being investigated by the state for it.
I don’t think it’s weird at all. If a million people were to die of COVID tomorrow, I wouldn’t really care emotionally. They all had their own life narratives, emotions and intelligence. Yet it wouldn’t phase me one bit. Perhaps intellectually I would have some compassion for them, and would hope they didn’t suffer.

On the other hand, if a close relative or friend dies, I would mourn them immensely. Similarly, if I had a pet pig I would mourn that individual pig a lot. But a lab pig that’s used for experiments not so much.
Unsure if edit or my off by 1 issue when I looked at them (I thought you referred the atlantic source)
That gag really shouldn't be used seriously. Doing something for instant riches is not the same as doing it for day job money.
Perhaps you could provide two links. Once with affiliate tag and one without? Give users the information and the choice.
Dense prosperous cities do attract population inflows, but this validates that they are good places to be.

As the world (not US) urbanizes and population growth slows, we could perhaps reach a dense urban equilibrium, but until then cities must continue to grow, even if they are already dense.
It seems that people expectations with this movie was that it will try to expand on or answers some of the questions that the last 3 movies raised, instead it turns out to be giving just a happy ending to Neo and Trinity characters.
Title should be updated as it’s the European Mobile carriers that want Private Relay outlawed not the European Union.
I remember showing someone who absolutely loves fallout New Vegas a video about how terrible fallout 3 is in comparison, and he said he didn't want to watch it because the narrator was too left wing. That was strange
Well now I want to know what <niche domain> is!
The edit window is usually 2 hours.
Sure, he’s free to make new versions of it that do whatever he wants - spam zalgo, mine bitcoin, fire the mussels, whatever. That doesn’t obligate anyone to _use_ that code, nor does it obligate NPM or anyone to distribute it.
Yeah, Go's string-handling, coming from Ruby is like time travelling back to the Stone Age.
I think there is a misunderstanding here, I'm not involved in any web3 stuff I am just discussing it. I think whether or not you or I think it is a good idea or not is irrelevant because the reality is that there are people that are working on things because they think they are good ideas, and there are people investing in those things similarly, even things you would consider ethically questionable. It happens and will continue to happen.

Facebook doesn't need to build it all themselves, they just have to make the platform that everyone else will want to build on, just like what all of the current tech giants have done for the past 20 years. The idea isn't about chasing trends (or even something specific like a "metaverse"), it is seeing where innovation in happening and hopefully avoiding further concentration of power in the future of the internet.
Indian threat actor Patchwork APT caught in its own web
See also the Lucas critique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_critique
Especially since the majority of masks come from China.
Might just be the current supply chain woes but I have a relatively recent X1 Yoga (Gen 1) and the fan went out. Had to buy a Chinese one on ebay to replace it since Lenovo did not have the part anymore. I kind of expected it to be easy to acquire an official part but they told me to look on ebay. The Chinese one works fine though.
Do you have any example of a package manager that adopts the lowest applicable version?
Stop parroting useless phrases out of a libertarian book, it just makes you sound lost and misguided.

The EU, which is where this regulation comes from, has no "monopoly on violence", it doesn't have any army or police jurisdiction. Maybe there are some security forces that physically guard the various EU buildings and officials? Huge monopoly there!
ps. Everyone who’s reading this story and discussion, go read the report that T-Mobile only forces Private Relay off for customers who are enrolled in their content-filtering product:

https://tmo.report/2022/01/t-mobile-blocking-icloud-private-...
Diet has changed drastically since the 1950s. Approaching 50% obesity means we are never going back.
I tried the query "databricks series b valuation" on Kagi (just a beta user there) and the results were:

1. Databricks Funding Rounds, Valuation and Investors (https://craft.co/databricks/funding-rounds) - not directly to the point but does include information about all rounds.
2. Databricks Raises $1B at $28B Valuation, Plans Massive - not answering the question at all.
3. *Databricks Closes $33M Series B Funding - FinSMEs* (https://www.finsmes.com/2014/07/databricks-closes-33m-series-b-funding.html) - Direct hit! didn't even have to click into the page.

In my mind this is yet another proof of Google's search quality decline. I remember being so excited when I saw the first structured search result but now I tend to use other engines first.
The distinction between wild animals and reared ones is that they existed independently of humans, where as animals reared by humans would not have existed otherwise.

I hold the same distinction to fishing - i do not like wild fish, but farmed fishes (note: farmed, not fishes caught from the wild, then fattened) are ok (esp. in an enclosed, hydroponic system). Unfortunately, most "farmed" fishes refer to caught fish that is fattened...

Anything that humans create, live or dead, is fair game to be used for any purpose deemed desirable by the creator. The right to live doesn't exist for those organisms. But wild animals that exist without any human intervention should have that right to live.
There is a pretty funny yet horrifying novel about NHPs for xenotransplants. It didn't cover the disease aspect though.

https://farragobooks.com/book/the-organ-grinders/
Rural Canadian with no college degree here. Our competing fundraising offers were 1. A $10k loan from a bank or 2. $250k CAD on $750k CAD with a board seat and 2x liquidation preference. YC deal was like helicopter money generous at $125k SAFE for 7% compared to alternatives.
"Abolish ICE" was a punny (but disqualified) option on the Minnesota ballot last year https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/22/us/abolish-ice-minnesota-...
I think all of us understand the present US law. Most Americans say everyone should have access to national insurance actually. And legality and popularity don't settle ethical questions.
"tapes".
You may be new, but you got the gist of it.

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." --Andrew Tannenbaum
This exists, it's called crev: https://github.com/crev-dev/crev

It is really good, allowing for distributed reviews, not necessarily from the people authoring your dependencies. The OP suggests that if you -> A -> B, the package manager should only install versions of B vetted by A (or close); I think this doesn't scale well in practice (all the more so if the only way A can vet a new version of B is by doing a new release). Having the possibility to rely on other people to vet releases (possibly in your company) opens a lot of doors, such as the ability to not trust the author of A at all.