skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know this won't be a popular take on HN, but while I can understand and to a certain extent sympathize with pirating movies (the intentional friction and arbitrary geographic limitations on access imposed by the multinational movie-industry conglomerates), I can't see stealing some poor author's work in the same light.

Sure, people get hung-up about DRM (which can easily be removed by widely-accessible tools), but e-books can be purchased pretty much anywhere in the world. I'm in Sweden but buy most of my e-books from the US. But often buy books directly from publishers (hopefully they, and the author, get a better cut that way).

The fact these people were trying to personally profit (some other HN:ers have documented this), while trying to present themselves as some sort of "information wants to be free" info-warriors doesn't make the whole thing any better.

An enormous amount of work goes into producing a book - through a close friend who works in book-publishing I know a couple of authors who pretty much starve for a year or two to produce their work - and then the editing, typesetting, designing, proof-reading etc is all an enormous and personal investment.

In spite of what people think, authors are not all budding J.K.Rowlings with movie-deals and a couple of billion in the bank, and if we don't buy their books, they won't be able to produce the next one for people to pirate.
Still, the intention is the same - to get the user to subscribe. Whether or not user reads an article completely is completely irrelevant. I don't understand your point.
I disagree. It even makes sense in a personal environment where I want to collaborate with my wife for example: shared to do lists, shopping lists we edit concurrently, shared ideas for vacations, packing lists, ideas for date nights, important phone numbers in regards to our kids, places and bars we've been to and would recommend to friends and visitors, etc etc.

We regularly collaborate on this stuff and for our intents and purposes, apple notes provides all we need
downloads were limited to a small number per day. if you wanted to download more there was a small fee ($1?). They tracked her Amazon account which had made $14k in purchases over the years.
You can do it with salt water, at times when temperature stays above -7 (C).

Salt is corrosive however so if you keep you car or bike there you will get increased rust problems if you skimp on cleaning them.
That's exactly it, they probably need to adjust their medication. It seems like you are unable to understand that this position comes from a place of trying to be supportive, but thanks for the implication.
Show HN: A Web 'App' without any JavaScriptA Web 'App' without any JavaScript
> but it's consuming a service without paying for it to its legimate owners

The legitimate owners of information are all of us. Copyright is a special monopoly only granted to authors only because it was thought to benefit society as a whole.
I've been trying to pin down the formula Tom uses for a while now, and I've identified at least a few common factors.

Tom sticks pretty strongly to an upload schedule, for a start.

His videos also tend to be in the sweet spots for watch time.

His videos all follow a formula, with no start/end padding of note, so viewers tend to remain engaged for the whole duration and not click away or terminate the video early.

His scripts, delivery, fucking clothing choice, everything are all super consistent - which makes his content "familiar" for viewers (even, as one friend said, "comforting"). Tom Scott, the British chap in the red T-shirt, is a pretty solid and recognisable "brand".

Its also worthy of note that his videos entirely dispense with a lot of the "YouTube meta" (soyface thumbnails, YOU WONT BELIEVE..., clickbait, etc), which makes them feel more trustworthy and you never feel like you wasted your time watching some BS.

One of the things I do find interesting though is how Tom has mentioned a few times that production cost on those videos has grown - he has a crew, editing people, video folks, etc. Its no longer just Tom and a camera phone or gopro. However the end viewer sees fuck all difference between early and later videos, barring slightly better camera work (which could be natural learning over time), and better video quality (cameras got better).
Fine on a 2015 Thinkpad running Firefox on Fedora.

A product is poorly-advertised indeed, but which product?
The difficulty I think is that there aren't many board purpose-built for canals: they are purpose-built for canals and rivers and many navigable rivers are to canals like oceans to the rivers, much wider and unpredictable environment. That also makes that "pickup runner" idea I posted much harder than I first thought, and pulling mules (modern as well as actual). Historical pictures of badge towing show astonishingly long lines, I believe that this is because rivers tend to have wide shallow waters between the part that is deep enough for navigation and the part that is dry enough for a tow-path.

The good news is that multimodal boats should work just fine, might even be easy to make the electrified parts support enough autopilot to allow the time to be used below deck for engine maintenance and the like. Barge operation is mostly waiting anyways and getting rid of the last instances of unscheduled interactivity might be really easy (if it hasn't been achieved yet? Primary obstacle is that the market just isn't very big)
You know how when using git you have to add tons of flags to every command to make it do what a sane person would actually want? Mercurial just does what you want.
Yes, it's the stated and obvious intention. However in actuality it works to get the user to read the page, and not actually subscribe. This non-obvious side effect is the hidden primary intention of the mechanic.

edits: They could probably re-word the annoyance to state this and it would have the same effect.

Something like:

"we want to give a pause right here to ask you to read the page, as asking for this helps more people stay and read but first please think about whether you want to subscribe to our newsletter sometime in the future. By thinking about this, we've found that this helps more people to read this wonderful article. Thanks for your time!"
> The hate for JS frameworks is usually warranted

It's almost never warranted.
> Tom Scott definitely doesn't do humor, at most only wry ironic suggestions

Tom absolutely does humour, but its the dry British variety as opposed to the quirky British variety.
> Soft sciences" actually are much harder than "hard sciences" in many ways

Because of that complexity, the methodologies used in those fields can’t be called “science.”
> How does the model know when a human has to take over?

It’s incredibly easy, you ask “did this answer solve your issue?” and add a max_tries.

> … how do you know how much training data to generate …?

You don’t, you keep doing it until the results improve to meet your goals, or they stop short and you switch tactics.
shh! do you want lingren to get taken down as well? whether accurately or not, the takedowns is attribute to a sudden burst of popularity due to social media sharing of the site.
I guess in 2022 "don't ever travel to countries that have extradition agreements with US" should've already been #0 opsec rule, above everything else.

Sad for them. Does anyone know if Z-library provided torrent dumps?
"Eg. I'd never lie in court for my acquaintances, but I have for my friends."

You have lied in court. Is this correct. How do we know you are telling us the truth.
> Yes, you are communicating to a human being and per your request, please see the word "cow".

GPT-2/3 can probably do this.
> Main problem is that most new commercial AI systems usually aren't really designed to let the human take over.

The ones in business use absolutely are.
Does he still record in one take? I'm pretty sure that's changed over the last few years as his production has changed from "guy with phone camera" to "actually having a semblance of a a crew".

There's also changes in camera angle, cuts to other views, etc.
>> Your continued defense of him speaks volumes about your values as an individual. Your “politics” angle is naked projection.

Possibly - although the replies to my point are self-selecting. i.e. only the people that can confidently say they have always hated Elon Musk would reply.
Yeah, that was pretty shitty. I'll give you that one.
Show HN: Write drum patterns, get randomized songs, then just share the URL
I know mentioning Michael Seibel is almost cheating, but this week he demonstrated the "leaky pipes" concept to me. Not that I know the guy, but in one of his videos he says something on the lines of "If you are unsure if you app is ready to be launched, just launch it. It's like a house with leaky pipes, just open the main, grab your tools, and start fixing wherever water is leaking". So we did it, we launched drummy earlier this week on /r/InternetIsBeautiful and we got very close to 10k users in just one day! Survived the hug of death, learned a ton, and made changes all around. Still a ton of bugs to fix, features to be written, but at least now we can proudly present the "dummy drums challenges". Can you find the missing beats?
The confirmation that NATO will definitely not go to war with Russia is not as boring and uninteresting as you’re making it to be.

After the original news broke out the “correction” on the source of the missile was the most important piece of information since the war began.

Western media has fallen on its face yet again and then cooly got up and kept walking as if nothing happened. Except many people saw it with their own eyes.
I like that the issues of low latency software execution are getting more attention in the kernel community but this is a bit misleading in that no one doing HFT seriously employs kernel's network stack. We just buy Xilinx cards and use OpenOnload to bypass the kernel entirely. You'll see sub-microsecond times from host to host at the min (including an ULL Arista switch along the way). Median would be around 2 micros.

The eliminating jitter part is ok but nothing new as everyone does that these days, especially that most of these techniques are nicely described in kernel docs any way. Good to see the topic on LWN though.
Someone pointed out a while back that the best way to gain success on there is basically to collab with someone already successful in the same "niche".

It basically acts as an endorsement of sorts.

Alternatively, start (or stage) a fight with them. A LOT of "YouTube drama" is deliberately staged engagement-bait.
AF is more commonly known as half-carry flag, used in BCD, it's uncommon that anything other than BCD opcodes would use it, in which case a correct implementation of DAA/AAA (6 ops in total) would suffice (though the state of the previous calculation has to go somewhere).

Since flags can be load/stored or push/pop-ed I'd speculate avoiding the hit in correctly handling every flags access was deemed to be worth it.
Based on experience from a long time ago (8-bit micros, z80 in particular, and implementing a 6800 emulator, DAA was more code than any other): unusual opcodes and edge case behaviours are common in optimisations, and anti-debug/disassembly. Games perhaps?

In any case, I find the idea of a correctly behaving, deterministic binary translation more appealing than a bunch of beartr^W on-the-fly software fixups.
Apparently yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32972923
Where does the "H" in CHESS come from, then?
>The Apple M1 has an undocumented extension that, when enabled, ensures instructions like ADDS, SUBS and CMP compute PF and AF and store them as bits 26 and 27 of NZCV respectively, providing accurate emulation with no performance penalty.

If there is no performance penalty why is it implemented as an optional extension?
> a code janitor

I prefer the term troubleshooter specialising in legacy code, but "code janitor" definitely has felt more appropriate at times.
That's not easier at all. By a wide margin.
Imagine the person who cannot afford a book or paper on a particular topic. Should they not have access to the information?

I agree, as always there is nuance, but zlib et al fulfill a need for certain people. In b4 public libraries, they aren't equal around the world, depend on geographic proximity and add latency to the learning process.
It's hard to give non-Australian investors a sense of how bizarre this was. The ASX still provides CHESS holding statements (updates when you transact shares, when codes change or you are otherwise issued new shares)... by post. On paper. There is no other option.

Before they fixed that they wanted to move CHESS to a blockchain. Wild.
I don't think it quite says that. Exact quote:

> We assume the failure cases are related to two reasons. On one
hand, the GOD training set and testing set have no overlapping classes. That is to say, the model could learn the geometric information from
the training but cannot infer unseen classes in the testing set

Now, if all the GT results had been fails, it might be reasonable to conclude that it doesn't work if the sets don't overlap. However, there are only 6 that they graded as fails. (A few more look iffy to me.) If I'm reading their statement correctly, there was no overlap between the two sets:

> This dataset consists of 1250 natural images from 200 distinct classes from ImageNet, where 1200 images are used for training. The remaining 50 images from classes not present in the training data are used for testing

And if I'm understanding this correctly, that makes the results look sort of impressive. I mean, at the very least, the model is getting the right class from the testing set most of the time, even though that class wasn't in the training set. That's ... not ... nothing?

On the other hand it seems they cherry picked the best of five subjects for the results they show in the supplementary, which is ridiculous.

> Subject 3 has a significantly higher SNR than the others. A higher SNR leads to better performance in our experiments, which has also been shown in various literature.
Burglary and getting ripped off by a company are two different sorts of things with different solutions.

Locks work because it stops a lot of opportunity crime. Simple and effective: For everything else, we have laws.

With consumer protection, what the 'get a credit card' crowd are basically saying is that sure, locks are available, but you have to be good enough to get one. Sorry about your luck, poor people that can't get one. Consumer protection laws are basically locks for everyone.
This happened in Waco? These folks need their Texas cards confiscated.
> Option+click moves cursor wherever you want

So it doesn't solve the problem then. The problem is that terminal input doesn't respect[1] the other conventions we're used to. I've used iTerm for... 5 years now? and had no idea option+click was a thing. I even had to enable a non default keybinding preset (something named like "natural keybindings something") to get the basic option+left/right arrows to move the cursor word by word.

I like iTerm, but a more natural prompt option would sure be appreciated. Warp may not be the solution because of dark patterns but there are no reasons to keep terminal input stuck in the past, they're onto something. Just the ability to consider inputs and outputs as more than just text is great: I can actually copy a whole output without having to select the characters and being careful not to go to far/not far enough, or getting stuck because the output was bigger than my configured scrollback. You could also get true output separation between stderr and stdout.

[1]: yes I know it's technically the other way around, no I don't care
We also have chatbots, they work half the time and for very specific simple questions.

Just like self driving cars.
fully agree about the dogs part. I made a short video on my dogs' impact on my didgeridoo practice and inspiration pool refills: https://youtube.com/shorts/aaDWZnmForU for a completely non-scientific take ;)
Even better is good old relational databases with ACID transactions. There is a lot you can do with that to add auditing, providing perhaps the main benefit of blockchain but in a more suitable and performant setting.
No, that is why the hedge fund is begging.
That's exactly what the last federal government wanted, after all that's how they operated as well.
You absolutely have misunderstood my intent – I was asking for a descriptive term for a particular current of contemporary left-leaning thought, to replace a term which has admittedly become rather pejorative in connotation – yet you seem to misunderstand me as looking for another pejorative instead. And "woke" is still not exclusively pejorative–it is not hard to find people calling themselves "proudly woke"–maybe much of that's ironic, or "reclaiming"; but couldn't also some of it be in homage to, or even in continuity with, its origin as a positive self-descriptor? And not all critical invocations of "woke" are fairly labelled as "pejorative"–such as when Reed criticises "woke" from a Marxist perspective. [0]

Surely it is valuable to find descriptive terminology for different ideological currents – across the totality of the political spectrum? The traditional Marxist answer is "yes" – followed up with an analysis of the endlessly diverse ways in which those various currents support class interests, which is what Reed presents for "woke".

[0] https://newrepublic.com/article/160305/beyond-great-awokenin...
But the ratio is correct.
I want HID crypto standard letting me crypto pair with keyboard and ignore other inputs.
That's not what we were discussing. Here's your quote:

> Crypto payments take much longer time than traditional credit card ones

Everyone in India can process an American credit card? Indians are magically immune from political censorship on the basis of the payment card associations?
Hewlett and Packard were relatively low on the asshole scale, at least for their employees. [1]

Early support for company health insurance, flextime, work-from-home, free coffee breaks, decentralized decision making, etc.

See the HP Memory Project at https://www.hpmemoryproject.org for some of the stories. ("Jim Catlin's Packard Story" and Packard's 11 rules, "Bill Hewlett and the HP Medical Plan" for their anonymous payment for medical bills for an employee's premature baby, etc.)

The padlock story at https://www.hpmemoryproject.org/timeline/john_minck/inside_h... is also pretty well-known, and used as an example of promoting institutional trust.

Packard's support for apartheid profits keeps him definitely on the scale.

[1] Probably better if you were a white male not as subject to the "mixture of machismo and misogyny" of early HP - https://www.hpmemoryproject.org/timeline/barbara_waugh/barba... .
Clearing House Electronic Subregister System

https://www.commsec.com.au/support/help-centre/About-the-sha...
That's not a problem at all. Pretty sure the GP meant publishers, e.g. Uber, King Games, Roblox (...).
BetterDisplay for macOS
Clearing House Electronic Sub-register System

https://www2.asx.com.au/about/regulation/clearing-and-settle...
IIRC Z-library is a LibGen mirror that is faster than other mirrors but is also much more monetized with more ads, limited free downloads, and premium plans.

Something else weird about this story is why did they move to a country that has an extradition agreement with the US? There are plenty of countries that would ignore US pressure to arrest them.
> Imagine the person who cannot afford a book or paper on a particular topic. Should they not have access to the information?

Imagine I want whatever you do for a living? Should you work for me for free?
What? No. People have a civic responsibility to protect exercise good judgment and common sense. If the people are broken the justice system, or any system, can’t fix it.
Lol, it would be more appropriate saying being in bed with the establishment did him waaaaaay to much 'good'.

So much so he began to think he was above it all.

It's an old story that repeats over and over again, long before crypto and long after it.
Artificial scarcity is still bad. Imagine a world where books are free for everybody, not just for people who live in prosperous areas with good libraries. Would you then advocate making books nonfree thereby placing books out of reach for 2/3rd of the world population, which is more or less where we are today?
I recently wrote a derivative protocol for a fintech in Dubai. So, In Defi or blockchain space, you can definitely sell stocks you don't have (a.k.a tokens).
> rocket that was launched only happened because those responsible decided to ignore the cancellation and do the launch anyway.

From what I remember they convinced treasury that launching rocket and satellite is the cheapest form of disposing it
Dr Shashi Tharoor MP – Britain Does Owe Reparations (2015)
This is coming in the EU. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out.
I think future is bioengineering new organisms/robots that balance ecosystem. So simply modified biological organisms that can’t reproduce
As Russian nationals, their choices are rather limited at this time.
I wish I could downvote.

Just because you can't see a disease doesn't remove it.

You don't tell a cancer patient to just get up and exercise.
They accepted payment to get around quotas (and probably ran ads). Even if it was a tiny percentage of people who engaged with them this way, or even if they profited at all, they took money in exchange for accessing an illicit resource. That is likely the main reason the teeth have come out to bite.

If anything though this might push that resource to the hands of people who can maintaining the massive library voluntarily and distributed with less ethical/morally-dubious implications.
The reason I like it is that I have spent a lot of time debugging bar code like:

Var object=object()
If (isValid(object))
// Do something

In which the isValid function modified the object in unexpected way and caused the issue. With mutability, I loose confidence in the code and literally have to read implementation of everything the object touches to be sure i understand what's going on. Much more relevant in bigger projects.
Razer doubles its latest Blade laptop’s USB speeds with a firmware update
The price spike on comics and graphic novels after the comiXology acquisition by Amazon is over 150%...
A small thought experiment:

- Book sales in 2021 were about _9_ billion dollars. [0]

- Wage theft in the US is estimated at _50_ billion dollars. [1]

Can you imagine if the resources of the justice and labour departments would prioritize citizen wage over publishers' revenue?

Would you rather have funds allocated towards social justice or have them spent on intimidating foreign nationals completely outside US jurisdiction?

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/197710/annual-book-store...

[1] https://www.epi.org/press/wage-theft-costs-american-workers-...
Many of the books I am interested in have actually been financed by tax payers, because their authors are professors. These days publishers are not adding much value here, actually they often make high quality publishing harder by terrible off-shore handling of LaTeX.

I've bought quite a few ebooks from the AMS (American Mathematical Society), just to get very angry about the annoying small print on the bottom of EVERY FREAKING PAGE stating that I am the owner of this book. I don't feel bad about replacing these damaged goods with the real deal.
You get what you pay for. Australian companies operate like they live on an island, which is not far from the facts. Except for those pesky fibre optic cables, So getting pwned by Russian hackers still seems otherworldly to them. Our markets are somewhat captive, and thus most companies can be kind of lazy in their approach to, well everything really. But IT's pretty bad. Hopefully it'll start getting better.