skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I do pirate.

I don't pirate utility software much. Most of what I need to do I can pretty reliably do with free software or with the cheap licenses I managed to pick here and there. Some of the free software I'm using is already the best in class like ffmpeg.

What I do pirate a lot is video games. There are couple of reasons:

1. Purchasing power. My purchasing power is roughly 4-5x less than the one in the western countries. I feel like this pricing is unfair. It's like someone would ask a US citizen to pay 250$ for a new game. Sure, I can wait for a sale, but at the same time there's no real reason why I can't just pirate the game, play it now and buy it when I feel the price is right.

2. Technical issues. Lots of games are released in a state where tons of stuff is broken. After buying several games with issues like these I decided that it's better to just pirate and check if the game works properly rather than buy and go through the refund process.

3. Quality issues. I've played games where it was clear that the scope of what was supposed to be included was going to be a lot bigger. Or games with an "open world" that is empty and there's nothing to do in it. Or game that abruptly ends after 4 hours despite the 60$ price tag. Or games that require tons of day one patching and are borderline unplayable for the first month or two. There are tons of issues like this in video games nowadays and I'm not going to pay for a subpar product if I can avoid it.

4. Lack of demos. It used to be common to be able to try a small section of the game before buying and I am not going to give this up just because game companies want to save some money.

5. Release date. If I want to try some old game then most of the time the only sane option is to pirate. There are sites like GoG that sell old games but this comes back to the #2 where some of the GoG releases would still not work despite supposedly being patched. GoG is also known for selling publicly released cracks so I'm not exactly sure what I'm paying for here.

6. Convenience. I don't have a CD/DVD drive anymore, but I have lots of games that are on these discs. I can just download what I need and achieve the same result instead of fiddling with physical media.
Maybe the things you are interested in do not exist on the fediverse; it's not a problem in itself. It's better to be there than on Twitter, but so be it.

Both replies absolutely coexist because of something simple: the fediverse is not Twitter. If you're looking for Twitter2, that's not it. If you're looking to build the fediverse by being a member and contributing to the discussion. You're going in a different universe, learn the rules :)
Machines of any kind have absolutely no place in any voting system:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs
Really hard to imagine Arm would be so adamant about running its own business into the ground. Requiring Arm designed IP to go together with an Arm core in a SoC would destroy a large part of the Arm ecosystem.

Whatever the truth may be, this kind of shadow lurking over Arm can only be good for RISC-V.
At work I use whatever my team uses. For personal/side projects I tend to use either a VM or a Docker container for dev purposes. The main reasons are:

- a bit more of security. If I download a third-party dependency and it turns out that it executes `rm -rf /` in the background, well, only my container will result destroyed and not my personal machine. For serious malware, well, I guess it doesn't matter if I use containers (but I'm less concerned about this because being that paranoid would make my side projects feel like work)

- all the tooling gets installed in the VM/container, so my personal machine doesn't get polluted with gdb, pdb, compilers, linters, modules, packages, etc.

- I have a Mac, so I usually work on Linux VMs/containers
Well then, I guess I'm eating crow. Thank you for the summary.
Circa 1990, our site (mostly a Sun shop) had to mess with our email setup, which included a UUCP link with HQ addressed by the unqualified hostname of the site's mail server, public bang paths to site servers (and percents), but also domain names (probably SMTP served from HQ and forwarded), and delivered to Unix workstation users by dropping into an mbox file in NFS automounted homedirs, and to non-engineering people running PC NFS and Eudora I don't know how...

We did almost all sysadmin expertise in-house, but for this Sendmail, we brought in a consultant.

It was a name I recognized from Usenet, and knowingly meeting a "famous" person was pretty new to me at the time. Turns out he wasn't a Unix graybeard (closer to my young skinny nerd age), and he was working on a Neuroscience PhD, while building/fixing everyone's Sendmail setups.

I didn't know to ask him which discipline was more difficult.
I think you may be confused on who Bill Hicks was.
This rhetorics misses two crucial facts: first, that the eastern slavic states were eager to join NATO simply because they were worried about the Russian threat. Russian chauvinism towards ex-soviet nations is not a recent thing and Russia's attempts to coerce and pressure neighbours into submission and dependence started immediately after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. For someone like me who grew up in Ukraine where the Russian threat was an everyday topic, the narrative of "aggressive NATO expansion" is a great illustration how people pushing it are far from understanding the post-Soviet reality. And second, in the 90ties there were negotiations about Russia joining NATO as well, which ultimately broke down in the early 2000s as Russia embraced state terrorism as a regular political instrument.

The point is very simple: NATO or not NATO, Russian fascism and Russian imperialism would still be there. Without the NATO expansion however the Baltic states would have probably been annexed a decade ago.
Having had a lot of experience of academia, I’m probably one its harshest critics.

But - I don’t regret the PhD. I learnt a lot of skills, learnt from other PhD students and postdocs.

I will say, make sure your supervisor is a nice person who does not place their career above all else. I was lucky with that, and I think finding such a person in academic is increasingly difficult. Never do a PhD with a supervisor you are unsure about.

Finish the PhD in 3 years (U.K.) and get the hell out. There is nothing left in academia for people who genuinely want to improve the world.

If your goal is getting paid a reasonable amount for a bit of a silly job, and you can tolerate or enjoy politics and game playing, that’s fine, stay. Hours are flexible, you can get away with not doing anything much at all for your career, and the pensions in the U.K. are still very generous. Over the summers most people don’t actually do any work.
That's why you need a process so transparent there is no possible suspicion of cheating. Software is exactly the opposite of transparency. Paper ballots opened locally and counted publicly is the only solution.
The one cool thing about CTRL+[ - it is universal in terminal and doesn't depend on configuration.
Those companies have also aided in increasing the participation of Women in the IT industry and thereby increasing their enrollment into STEM education; India probably has the largest population of women in STEM.
Putin’s useful idiots: how climate extremists are fuelling Russia’s agenda
It's worth pointing out that Landstraßen often have trees next to them for cosmetic and "noise reduction" purposes (the latter has no significant effect, although many people believe in it). They are also not necessarily illuminated and can have crossings or sharp turns in addition to nearby wildlife and houses.

In many cases the roads are also used by cyclists or agricultural vehicles which many drivers feel compelled to overtake, which can be dangerous because of limited vision and the need to switch onto a lane that may contain oncoming traffic.

Compared to the Autobahn, Landstraßen are chaotic and often dangerous, not just for the people driving on it.
I think you should take it easy with the rust kool-aid. Not that black and white in reality.
Indeed. 10k for a bike is what, 10-20 times the price of a 'normal' bike, just as a Ferrari is 10-20 times the price of a normal car.
The concern because of this is reasonable: identification would allow voter coercion or vote buying. But I think there are two issues with this concern. The first is that our current system doesn't prevent this. Bringing recording equipment into voting booths is not allowed, but in practice has 0 enforcement or enforceability since many (most?) locations offer shielded voting booths that even include privacy curtains.

The other practical issue with this concern is that buying or coercion would need to be of substantial scale, centralized, advertised, involved traceable transactions, and so on. And this is a criminal felony so the consequences for a leak are substantial. Ultimately, it just does not seem like a realistic attack vector.

So in many ways, I would consider this a feature more than a bug. You can personally verify that your ballot did indeed get counted (at least if you're willing to dig through thousands of ballots looking for your 'secret code') without allowing anybody else to see how you voted.
This is not irrational at all. What rational person wants to pay higher prices and to be blocked from arbitrage?

In the case of media distributed over the world wide web any sales block is obviously completely artificial and done only for price discrimination.

The customers know. It's not a sneaky secret, they can see it right there on the website.

Adobe used to be infamous for this kind of bullshit and no body liked them for it.

By the same logic, if the customer decides the product doesn't provide enough value to justify the artificially high price the vendor hasn't lost a sale when they pirate it.

They weren't going to buy it anyway so it shouldn't matter to the vendor either way. :P
I don’t see any direct origins. Karl Popper was a small child when Einstein came up with relativity. Hobbes was just a reactionary apologist of absolute monarchy. And Frege’s philosophical contributions were world-changing as long as we can pretend that propositional calculus is philosophy.
Kinda depends on product. If your price for each additional good is near zero (generate extra key for a video game) or very cheap (pretty much any SaaS), you have flexibility and can make it cheaper on some markets to be more competitive.

In case of software (video games are good example here) it might also move people from "just pirate it, $60 is my entire disposable income for this month" to buying from you
A gas pedal in almost every modern car is also electric, but not steering wheel.
But that person was trying to say memory errors are some kind of special "magical" error, which is simply wrong. Memory errors are merely logical errors. There is nothing "special" or "mysterious" about them.
Indian co trying to employ Ukrainian refugee developers at Indian wages
"Too Many People" is actually an idea with roots in fascist ideology, did you know that?

If you think about it, you can come to that conclusion yourself - just ask yourself, what is the ultimate ratio of this way of thinking? And who can decide between who belongs to the "too many" group and who not?

Also it is not a very analytical approach to solve problems. The problem is usually not "too many people", but people doing things in a wrong way, using old technology or doing things that should not be done at all.
Unfortunately normal users can’t edit the url after submitting.
Perhaps Proton ecosystem is a viable alternative?

https://proton.me/drive
Could build it yourself w/ eBPF.

I tend to just mitm said talkative devices and drop packets -- it is alarming the amount they want to phone home.
Is it entirely read-only, or would I be able to still write when I want to? For example, Octoprint isn’t much use if I can’t upload models to print.

My problems weren’t due to file system corruption. I think the cards wear out quickly due to writing.
An important caveat I think: your mentor is critical. I’m a PhD student, and I have an incredibly lucky mix of subject matter and mentorship (my mentor has actually gotten some awards in the past for being a good one). (Also, he’s funny.) Every day my research is a blast. My mentor is truly an expert in his field (he’s actually mentioned in Norvig’s AI textbook introduction) and has the answers to my questions. I get just enough steering to make sure I’m on track to producing something novel, but I’m totally free to explore. This is all bolstered by me being truly extremely intrinsically interested in my sub field. It’s really a very pleasant experience. I’m not terribly worried about the prospects afterwards as furthering humanity’s knowledge is rewarding enough to me. Heading to industry as a code monkey afterwards wouldn't upset me as I’m really just having fun as a PhD student, and it’s all because my mentor is incredible.

It’s important to try working with multiple mentors if you can. I actually started with a different person, and he probably would have been considered by most to be ideal. I was basically totally funded to do whatever I wanted with very little mentor interaction. Interestingly, this wasn’t great for me. In part I wasn’t interested in the subject, but more than that I greatly benefit from weekly mentor interaction to check in with my direction. Now I don’t have funding (working to support myself while doing research), but I’m happy as a pig in mud.
The obvious answer is of course

Hur dur Musk bad

It’s an obvious improvement but it has to be framed as some kind of overreaction.
They need to be counted locally. In France the ballot boxes are translucide and counted at the voting station by members of the public.
I actually tested a bunch of those on GH Copilot -- sure enough, it does autocomplete certain prompts. No wonder, some are probably known quotes. Anyway, when I'm feeling down in my VSCode environment, I enter some random prompts in search of a pun. Most of the time it's just random rambling but hey:

# (prompt: my dog ...) seems to be interested in the plot.

# I wonder what the dog is thinking about.

# Probably about the food.

# I should feed him.

under some code where I was plotting a forecast.
But you can manufacture new areas of mathematics. For example, Conway's Game of Life, and then prove theorems on it.
Once I started hosting my own personal email seriously, I think Exim was probably available. Even Exim config for a simple setup could get a bit tricky (e.g., I made it drop `Received` headers of outgoing email it was relaying for me), but nothing like Sendmail.
In the same vein:

A programmer had a problem, so he decided to use threads.
Now 2 has. He problems
Day #4: How to promote your blog posts and how much traffic did I get?
Yesterday I published day 3 of my solopreneur journey, where I talked about how to build multiple micro-startups. In this post, I will show you the results of the traffic I received and show you where I’ve promoted it.
It's a really overloaded term these days. In some cases it's also used as a synonym for document DB's or K/V stores.

Best way to read it nowadays is probably "not like the popular DB's of the 90's".
Yes it supports CommonMark, GitHub Flavoured Markdown (GFM) and much more :)
I think freelancers will be first to go, but also the first to get hired back.
> (say, in a decade)

Tim Cook will likely be gone by then, so what does he care?

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/04/05/tim-cook-probably...
I've never heard about ActivityPub before your post. And Mastodont is complicated by it self. Is it one server, one service or multiple ones? Why handle isn't something simple. Where are my messages stored? So put on top of that protocol and it would be a total mess.
The question is, what is Twitter verifying when you get the checkmark? I don’t see what they can verify if your usercode happens to be marc1986.
The problem that Amazon has is that it is very, very easy for people to compare pricing. So they will have to be very clever to come up with some pricing segmentation that people will accept. They already do this to some extent with a "club member fee" segmentation with Amazon Prime. The problem they had there is that so many people signed up for Prime that it doesn't work as an effective price discrimination segment any more.

Also, they have to deal with sellers. If you remember it was once upon a time that if you had Amazon Prime, you could buy items cheaper (including shipping) than non-prime members, because that hefty $75 fee made a "special members group" that could be directly marketed to. But now if you calculate shipping and price it is the same for Prime and non-Prime (if non-Prime selects two-day delivery).
Any feedback on what you like/dislike will be much appreciated
Of course they are. It is more profitable to hike prices to match your less-efficient competitors and maintain a facade of competition, rather than crushing them to become a monopoly and risk a heavy-handed government intervention.
Do you have plans for extending it to other databases in the future (eg. MySQL)?
It’s true. I saw a TikTok of a blind guy mapping things out on a bicycle using it. Wish I could find it again.

Brains are quite incredible.
Scaling PostgresML to 1M requests per second
I vaguely recollect watching a documentary years ago, which had a blind kid who'd taught himself echolocation using clicking noises that he made with his mouth. I remember that some grownups were trying to discourage him from relying on that and to use a stick instead, but he wasn't keen. The echolocation was giving him more information it seemed like.
> Should array index start at 0 or 1? My compromised solution is 0.5

i like this one, it puts a nice perspective on compromises.
What is that crazy pull for ballot counting machines? Election is not happening every week, has to be supervised by humans anyway, this additional cost of having two more people here and there to count votes, sign the papers and put ballot results on the doors for transparency is negligible as compared to the problem that distrust in the election process is causing. USA knows this best, yet they dance around "better" and "more secure" voting machine solving problems that are already solved.

"Secure" voting machines is indeed interesting engineering problem, so I am not surprised this is being discussed on HN, but let's face it, we don't need to solve this engineering problem.

Progress is not always something good. X-Raying foot while purchasing shoes was also very cool in the '50, but it turned out this is not such a great thing.
I'm looking into "university teacher"-like positions. There are a few, but not so many. It's more common in the UK, where I did my PhD, but I'm not keen on going back there. I have time to keep looking. Otherwise teaching in high school is a plan B, temporarily or not. In my country it would be very easy as they have a big need. But the working conditions aren't great (lots of bureaucracy, incredibly stupid systems etc).

want to tell me more about the 'adjunct' professor thing? (or can also email me at msaman () posteo.eu if you want to generally chat)
Indeed, I fixed the link.
> In France the ballot boxes are translucide

Penn and Teller, in one of my favorite jokes of theirs, say that an unwritten rule of the cups and balls trick is that you must not ever perform the cups and balls trick with clear plastic cups.

However, magicians do frequently make something about a trick of theirs transparent - figuratively or literally - as a way of making you more surprised when they pull the trick off anyway. You were looking in the wrong place, at the transparent part of the trick.

That's not to say transparent boxes are a bad idea. They really do make some attacks harder.
>Join the back of the queue" is an uncharitable way to express "treated equally to all potential partner nations"

Member nations in NATO are not equal. Never have been never will be.

In not so many words, it meant that Russia would have to join the transnational gang as a foot soldier (Estonia) rather than a capo (UK) let alone a boss (US).

Were peace with Russia a primary goal we would have started negotiations rather than rebuffing. It never was.

America would have liked to bring Russia into NATO but as a client state or a group of balkanized client states, not as a partner.

>Eastern European intelligence agencies warning their Western counterparts for decades that rapprochement with Russia shall always founder upon a deep, dark cruelty within Russian national character until that stain is removed by Russians. I don't know if that is true

There is similar German commentary on the character of minority groups in their country from 1939.
yes, right now basic authentication is available for multiple users.
People are talking about prevention vs treatment of cancer, yet, asbestos was a cause of cancer, so by eliminating it, we eliminated a vector of cancer. That's preventative. We as humans, have become so "smart" with all of the things we can create that while not truly understanding the long term effects. We know we've screwed ourselves in the past (even fairly recently) with our cleverness, yet we continue to be surprised when it happens again.

Modifying the source code of humans is like the new hire thinking they can make the code so much faster because they don't know how the section code they are working on is used by the larger system as a whole. All they see is that there's an apparent bug in the section they are viewing now. Never mind the sections of code that have programmed workarounds for that specific bug, and will now break downstream because the buggy returns are no longer present. So how do we know if these kinds of workarounds in the human genome are also not present?
> significantly

The studies I've seen largely indicate that it's insignificantly higher, at most.

> vaccine induced

There are far too many confounding variables to declare with any sort of honesty that it's "vaccine induced" - even if you could prove correlation (remember: correlation != causation).

For example:

> young males

Gender disparities exist in youth athletics participation, and student athletes are well known to be disproportionately at risk of sudden death from undiagnosed myocarditis (see https://www.dukehealth.org/blog/preventing-sudden-cardiac-ar... as one information source which predates COVID and the vaccines thereof). Young males being more likely to participate in activities which can cause myocarditis or worsen existing myocarditis would readily explain the gender disparity, in a way that neither infection nor vaccination likely would.
Cars really have ruined so many things.
By your logic any metric is a bad metric is a bad metric because it can be gamed. In your model of the world good metrics don't exist.
yes! I do have plans for adding other databases.
So the general thesis is that stopping local production of fossil fuels helps Russia.

Which is true, if you don't reduce your use of fossil fuels, just outsource them.

But is false if you reduce your use of fossil fuels, which actively hurts Russia, an economy dependant on fossil fuels.