skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My hypothesis is that piracy drops total spend in dollars

My hypothesis is the exact opposite. I think that piracy increases total spend in dollars.

With piracy, people get to experience things for free that they otherwise wouldn't have. This opens individuals to newer media, newer niches, newer genres, and so on.

I have known a few people who spent their money for the first time on video games after playing the pirated version of GTA V. They wouldn't have spent a dime on games if they hadn't played pirated GTA V.

I turned into a subscriber after watching The Wire, The Sporanos, and Breaking Bad with a shared password (also a kind of piracy). I would have never even thought of paying for TV if I could not watch The Wire for free.

I believe that pirated content "converts" people into web series watchers, gamers, and more.

Microsoft is fully aware of Windows piracy. Had Microsoft cracked down, then they would have lost tens of millions of future paying customers.

Many people pay for Office for their business because that is what they have used since their childhood- in a legal way or not.
I don't see pair programming as a disruption to the individual mind of the single programmer.

Then I believe something is wrong in culture of the organisation. It should definitely not be enforced but encouraged.

The reasons I believe that is because the human psychology is also based around success and praise from our relations.

The benefits you get from sharing thoughts and possible options to a challenge can hardly, imo, be bad.

Pair programming has taken place in my career, in cultures that encourages a pace to get work done, in a manner where quality is measured by how well a team works together and how well the team is capable of understanding eachother - but as a team.

I also believe that if you cannot explain in words, how you would go about solving a challenge, then it's premature to start coding on it. Then you are moving to fast.

Pair programming is like any other thing. It should be applied when necessary and not be enforced on 80% of the work because it's perhaps only valid for the hard 20%.

I have really thought about making a pair programming service for years, where people can connect and program as a pair, for the hard parts.

Good discussion
>Being in a civilized society however means taking on responsibilities in exchange for freedoms like freedom to move.

According to whom? I can support your freedom to travel without being in any way responsible for your welfare. Responsibility, just like freedom, lies with the individual.
If China is the only available customer, how much do you think China will pay? They will have Russia by the balls. They will pay pennies on the Ruble.

Europe will piss and moan for a while as prices go up, but Europe is rich enough to route around this problem.

I agree though, we're turning Russia into a giant North Korea. What that means for the world, I don't know. In fact, I would say they're getting cut off worse than North Korea. Some of these companies canceling Russia probably operate (with permission) in North Korea.
And there goes all the secure boot fluff...

Now we will see how secure it really is against attacks when the code is available, and some keys apparently, too.
This is a huge political blunder by Putin.

I wonder what effect this will have in the orthodox community and the silence of Kirill: https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/03/the-scandalous-silenc...
The GP isn't talking about species extinction.
I think this is another non-answer.

Biochemistry is broad and does really diverse things, and if your answer to "how does a mammalian brain allow it to reason through interactions with its physical environment" is "biochemistry", and that's also presumably the answer to "why is that pond scum green?" and "why are fingernails hard?", then it fails to be an explanation of any sort.

Similarly, if someone asks "why is your program dying on a division-by-zero error", it's not an explanation to say "well, that's just a matter of how the program executes when provided those particular inputs".

What _specifically_ about the biochemistry of our nervous systems allows us to solve problems, or communicate, as versus just metabolize sugar?
Ironically, canadian banks are absolutely fine, while russian banks are already suffering from a run. The max withdrawal, last I checked, in russia, was $20 from an ATM.
Maybe the default, or at least a common mode, for open source should be user pays for support time.

This includes lodging a ticket at $50 or whatever (for time for triage) - and then developers can add a price to action a ticket if they choose. The developer could also refund the ticket fee if it's a truly valuable bug reports. Github UI should make this as frictionless as possible.

This would make it alright for users wanting support rather that adding bug reports, plus provide the much lamented missing income stream for open source. It would also have the effect of winnowing the incredible bulk of open source to emphasize truly useful projects, that people are willing to pay some dollars for.

Obviously there's issues, such as not all economic level countries could participate, and surely others. Yet it seems to be a solution for multiple of of the commonly expressed pain points around open source.
That eliminates all palindrome numbers as possible pins, which is bad for security.
Everybody has different needs, so I can respect that it's not a perfect soap for all people.

That being said - are you diluting it or using it straight? I usually dilute 4 parts water to 1 part soap for handwashing / showering. Also, the Eucalyptus scent was harsher on my skin than others - I prefer the unscented, almond, or peppermint varieties.
Why can't you write an allocator???
Agreed. There are logical, version-flexible dependencies. And then there are rigid, version-specific dependencies.

Robust systems need to model both so they can support reproducibility and automation needs.
The ruble has lost about that vs USD since Feb 21/22nd and that is with a crazy 10% emergency rate hike between then and now to defend the ruble.
I don't always agree with ZDogg, but I do like him a lot. He tries hard to understand different points of view which is a rare quality.
Twitter is certainly toxic and if you don't use it for a limited and specific purpose it can be mentally overwhelming.
But why can’t they profit on building housing in an area with low supply and high housing prices? NIMBY laws?
Declining to participate in a propaganda campaign supporting an illegal and unprovoked war is not censorship.
I'm happy to hear the very narrow case on this. Can a NN learn geometric Brownian motion?
Something like this would be great for online voting. If a voter is under duress (i.e. being watched while they vote, etc), they can enter a specific ballot unique to them that discards the ballot and allows them to re-vote in a safer environment.
Students launch site to connect Ukrainian refugees with potential hosts abroad
>Russia and NK are not comparable economies.

Just wait.

While you wait, compare the economies of North and South Korea.
In case of paywall:

* https://archive.ph/KfSQN
By that point Crimea has already been annexed so I cannot exactly fault Ukraine for trying to join a defensive alliance instead of trying to re-kindle the relationship with the invader.

To me, that ship sailed a while ago.
Fair enough, but being on HN, I sincerely doubt you are a typical russian internet user.

Most Russian people I met only used vkontakte, and only used facebook because they either had a company to promote internationally, or studied abroad, somehow didn't end up in a typical russians-abroad clique, and wanted facebook "on the side" to keep in touch with their international friends (who are obviously not gonna be on vkontakte).
I've been using BackInTime (https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Back_In_Time/) since 6 years and happy with it.
- it's using rsync and hardlinks, the files on the backupdrive are just normal files
- it got "smart delete" of old backups (e.g. keep 1 backup per year older 1 year, 1 per month older 1 month and 1 per week older 1 week)
- starts an backup automatic in background if you attach the external drive (with udev, if you want it)
- has a nice simple ui (i like it)
> reasonableness

Tough ask in the current climate, in a Russia-related thread.
> ”Even some business owners are buying properties that they then rent to employees.”

Heaven forbid pay the employees a living wage when we can just dominate every single aspect of their lives instead.
Nicely done. Any plans for allowing to pick a US/EU/Asia data center?
From the article 3M out of 26B fund, non news clickbait.
Android's profiles system is the closest thing we have to this; if only Android's backup/restore facility were more seamless.
It's worth noting that for most uses the throttling doesn't matter up to about 16TB, where you hit a harsh inflection point.
If a government indefinitely "freezes" your bank account, the only practical difference from "seizing" is semantics. Just like you can protest freely, as long as you don't mind getting trampled by a horse or your ribs broken. If you can't win with facts, argue semantics and the definitions of words. I've heard it many times on Sam Harris podcast. So who's trying to misinform?
I didn't downvote though I noticed this, 'We simply don't have time to wait ...'.

Whatever the topic, I mentally ignore posts which shill the NEXT WORST THING EVER.
Nice tool! Shadow tables are quite convenient as they support arbitrary ALTER TABLE statements but they also seem a bit wasteful to me. I'm working on a similar tool called Reshape (http://github.com/fabianlindfors/reshape) which instead uses temporary columns to reduce the time a migration takes and the extra storage necessary.
Why aren't there any email services that provide "Zero Trust" email? An email firewall would solve so many problems:

- All email goes directly to a PROCESS folder
- Emails you have responded to or in your Contacts get processed by Rules/Enter Inbox
- Allow/Deny context for individual or entire domain
- Display sender domain prominently
- Display TLD in alert before following any clicked link
- Block link clicking, images, etc. from unapproved contacts

Now you are left with seeing only the things you approve of, unless you make a willing choice to go and view the Wild West of unapproved senders. Once trained, it's easy to see that you don't often get unsolicited messages you are interested in.

This should be easy to do, but no provider I've used has made it the default. I've had to cobble together my own solutions to make this work.
Well, better watch the refinery limit as you can pump all of the oil you'd like but it's not useful if you can't refine it and ship it to where it's needed. Fracking can handle natural gas and fortunately the northern hemisphere is leaving winter behind.
It happens, but outside of the really big projects, it usually seems like there's one or two people doing all the maintenance. The more technical the project (e.g. algorithms, image codecs) the worse the problem is.

I was fortunate enough once that a big company used an algo I wrote and contributed a performance improvement in an area I'd had writers block on, but that was the exception.
That's a great question. Hard to answer in a comment. It's sort of apples & oranges. The way I think about it, we are targeting a different customer (enterprise vs small business/home) and we are solving the problem in a different way (no nvr, cloud first, deeply integrated, extremely easy to install and maintain, dedicated customer support). In my mind, it's something like Reolink:Verkada::Self hosting:AWS
There is also Librem 5 as an alternative.
You are correct.

Usually what I find is that the American companies/people usually try to follow the "bare" letter of the law, where Europeans need to follow the spirit, as this is how it is "usually" enforced.

And while the former might let you get away with "one weird trick" the latter usually leaves more margin to interpretation which can be both a blessing and a curse.
I'm not trying to downplay the scale and scope of climate change. I just prefer to use accurate terminology. If it was going to or was likely going to lead to the extinction of humanity, I'd want people to say that. Instead, it seems likely to lead to billions of people dying and billions more being displaced and a total reorganization of most nation states/cultures worldwide, along with (as noted above) significant extinction for many other species.

I lived through the fear (and shared it) in the 1970s about a variety of world- and civilization-changing transformations, and while I believe that the talk of them then was largely well-intentioned, the sloppy language that was used then turned into linguistic weaponry to be used against those arguing for the much-more-likely-to-be-true climate change that we are now facing.
This matches my price research exactly, and my conclusions. Stay away from Glacier because the gotchas are not worth it. The moment you need any of your data your cost will skyrocket. Plus dealing with AWS unpredictable pricing is totally not worth it.

I b2 everything nowadays.
I am not for 1 moment suggesting that gas&coal should be the alternative.

I'm not even arguing against continuing to use nuclear fission. I just don't like descriptions of it like "the safest power generation method" that elide the complex nature of the word "safety".
I think it's a necessary part of a climate transition! It's just politically very difficult to do unless it happens by accident.
I've lived in Europe for a few years total without ever owning a car and rarely feeling the lack of one, which would be effectively impossible outside 2-3 cities in the USA.

I would be highly in favor of completely overhauling US infrastructure into medium density walkable towns and cities and switching the ~300 million cars on the road to more fuel efficient models, but jacking up the price of gas by 3x in 18 months will just impoverish and immiserate millions of Americans who will have to choose between paying for gas vs. food, rent, health care.

It's like saying this gym rat can squat 450 lbs and is much healthier for it, so you ought to get off the couch and squat 450 lbs tomorrow.
What an unusually low-value comment from an otherwise high-value commenter. Do you take issue with the label “child free” or with the fact that some couples would prefer not to have children? Or maybe with the idea that an organization advocates for these people?
This is honestly very few considering how many different places Uber Eats probably advertises on.

I work on helping new Shopify merchants get more early sales, and ads are super important for that to happen. Open up any small and growing e-commerce store and you'll see at least this many.

Without ads, you don't find these small businesses, and all consumers just go to Amazon, or other large established marketplaces.
50 000 of revenue sounds way too low to me. In many countries your average sole-proprietor makes more than that. That is anyone seriously full time should have more revenue...
That's technically true about argument in some specific contexts. But it isn't in practice true a lot of the time, and is especially irrelevant here when it's not just citing it for an argument, but as proof of the argument.
Agreed! ... At the same time, it's sad to see someone who's obviously passionate about their field recognize that their reputation has been degraded/eliminated strictly due to affiliation (in this case, citizenship).
Russia leaves security corridors open. Just as Russia accepts refugees, so do other countries. Russia is not fighting people, Russia is destroying the threat - military facilities.
VS Code is the standard exception
Can you name more than 5 countries that would meet your definition of democracy?
Well thats one easy way to alienate the police - they will have most knowledge about actual events in ukraine and i bet many have family and friends there. This might backfire on putinists.
Future of software. Why UX designers should care about type theory (2013)
It feels to me more like a "you made your bed, now it's time to lie in it" situation. Yeah high gas prices are going to hurt people, but we had plenty of warning this kind of thing was coming, and plenty of chances to steer away from it.
> They operate at low prices and give Americans an extremely prosperous life, the response:

> “You’re killing the planet,

These are both true. We absolutely need to move in the short medium and long term away from oil and gas, for climate and geopolitical reasons, but oil and gas have underpinned the global rise in living standards.

The difference that is we now have the technology to maintain that standard of living without burning fossil fuels to propel our cars or heat out homes. Fossil fuel extraction based economies and companies are painfully aware of that, and that's a factor in what is happening now.

We should transition toward using petroleum and gas mostly as an industrial feedstock (plastics, fertilizer) and limit it to use cases that are hard to move to renewables (aviation).

None of the above requires incredible new inventions, just the will to switch to less carbon intensive energy production and storage technologies.

Of course there will be the need to adjust supply up and down in the short term. That's what the strategic petroleum reserves are for. Perhaps we should increase the capacity of those for these situations.
Right. If you had a social media account with a million followers they would be calling you.
You clearly don't live thirty minutes from the nearest Wal-Mart and 45 minutes from the nearest big box hardware store.

A lot of folks live places with absolutely no delivery options. Not even pizza. If you don't have access to a truck, you don't buy certain things.
How does including telemetry for a product make a commitment to privacy from unrelated companies' tracking "smoke and mirrors"? There's a difference between the privacy I expect from a direct service provider and from various random agents seeking to build a profile on me.
You have been successfully assimilated /s
There were many prior states. In fact, it changes. Vikings had pastures on Greenland until it got cold and they were driven off. Greenland is now covered in snow and ice. Will Greenland return to pastures? Probably at some time.
The photo gallery is still pristine
It’s very small, pale grey text.
This does seem to happen a lot, but one might also read it as putting international developments into a local perspective. That's a sensible thing to do, wouldn't you agree?
Are there any more stereotypes you can cram in here?
I'm planning on adding an Amsterdam storage location in a month or so!
It seems by definition only developers should be working on the software? Financially motivated efforts have many useful occupations that don't work on the software but bring competitive advantage.

Imagine someone who designs cars. He could answer questions from those learning how to drive but it would be pretty uninteresting. He would have to do a lot of it until something related to design would come along.

Users driving the application can learn interesting things from the discussion about it and may enjoy selfless acts of helping others. We know how to do forums, wiki and IRC if the community is willing and big enough. Smaller projects sometimes have barely populated mostly silent IRC channels. It should, at least in theory, be possible to combine those categorically.

Developers can already set all of these up but doing the whole list and maintaining it takes a lot of effort and it is a waste of time if there are 3 and a half users.

There is plenty of low hanging fruit. If there are enough low effort participants someone will properly fill the bug if the issue is worthy.

It is also motivating to be able to see users when a developer doubts the value of his effort.

Who knows, perhaps there are big ideas to be had?
This is why there are so many new products that are SaaS. Built in "feature" of requiring an account so DRM is just a given and recurring revenue.
Ask HN: Is Russia the Next North Korea?
All well and good but your food is transported by gas and diesel also. You'll pay for the soon-coming $8/gallon fuel, one way or another.
Because this increases load on tech support for people who thought they approved everything but didn’t.
It says not available in the Belt...but the the video is fake. There are photos of the event.
Haskell allows to build abstractions that are less leaky than in most other languages.

Take a vector package, for example. It provides you with unboxed vectors that are structure-of-arrays by default with the interface of array-of-structures. That means you can have fast slicing operations in both dimensions - slice by field and/or by indices. Of course you can have unboxed array-of-structure arrays, if you need them, they are there too. But their use is transparent to you as user, however your choice is.

Same is for other interesting structures.

Say you wrote your parsing library. You can provide a rule to compiler such that code "(pchar c `pthen` p1) <|> (pchar c `pthen` p2)" is equivalent to "pchar c `pthen` (p1 <|> p2)" and you get left factorization for all your grammars supported by compiler.

Parallelization is often as far away as adding a par/pseq annotation.

Haskell can remove intermediate lists and fuse mapping over complex structures such as red-black trees - it is done for all of your code so when you do "fmap f (fmap g) rbTree" you will get "fmap (f . g) rbTree" and compiler will try to get you that code by transforming your code where "fmap f" can be pretty far away from "fmap g rbTree".

The pattern matching checks are awesome - compiler will warn you if you wrote more general check before more specific one. The absence of this in C++ made my life a little bit more interesting than is comfortable for me.

In short, most of the time you can write code however you want or need and compiler will support you. As if you are "team programming" with a bunch of smart people - the compiler's authors.
First of all, it is about deposits to accounts
[sum of family's last 3 years income] + 10,000 rubles > [sum of family's deposits to all accounts for the year of control].

Then, the law states that prosecutor's office should requests the explanations about the source of deposits from an official. Only if the explanations are not provided, the funds could be seized.

http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/00012022030600...
Article 8.2.1
There are a few "hardware" Wideband radio receivers out there, depending on budget. Have a look at the site links below - the site does not claim to be a definitive list, and is focused around the pictures of the equipment.

The "big three". Some of the more modern bits of kit cover "DC to Daylight" frequencies.

Yaesu
https://www.rigpix.com/yaesu/yaesuselect.htm

Icon
https://www.rigpix.com/icom/icomselect.htm

Kenwood
https://www.rigpix.com/kenwood/kenwoodselect.htm

For Wideband receiver's

https://www.rigpix.com/aor/aorselect.htm

https://www.rigpix.com/tecsun/tecsun.htm

https://www.rigpix.com/whistler/whistler.htm

Hope this helps.
Some of this was fixed by DR 481 [http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2396.htm#dr...], can you give some specific cases/examples at issue?
Conversely, maybe the amount income people have to spend on entertainment is a function of their disposable income, so fixed by the persons financial circumstances rather than entertainment costs. i.e. if you got $20 bucks spare and a movie is $20 you watch one, if they are $10 you watch 2.

Over simplified, but I think an important point, that entertainment fits into the budget of 'disposable' income rather than essential.
If you can still think at that level you are not 'properly burned-out' (no true Burned-out Scotsman?), once you are you won't care.
Theres a big difference between access to a cheap truck for specific needs, and driving around in lifted gas guzzlers for random trips because muh neck.