skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazing, a government agency paid by the taxpayers, voluntary combing through twitter and report users that violate twitter's TOS. Is FBI doing pro-bono work for other companies as well?
I don't think that that can be concluded with certainty, or anything else beyond that the people in that survey with pen and paper were more likely to give their email address for charity.
You'd either have to make it so prohibitively expensive that almost no one could afford to renew (at least not more than a couple of times) or it would have next to no impact at all on companies with billions to spend. The disparity between what a random bedroom musician or amateur artist could afford and what Disney can afford is so great that the impact of renewal fees for a single person would never come near the impact for a corporation. What makes Disney so special that they should be given preferential treatment?

The answer to "how badly an author wants protection" will almost always be "very badly" at least while a significant amount of people are interested in the creative work in question. Maybe instead of worrying so much about what the billion dollar corporations want it would be better to set a default, but make the copyright term for a work shorter according to how much the public wants to access it (as measured by sales). It's the public's interests that copyright was created to serve after all.

To be honest though, all of that seems needlessly complicated. I think it'd be better and much more fair to just set a solid cut off of X number of years that applies to everyone equally no matter how much money they have. That'd also mean the public doesn't have to do so much to try to figure out when each individual work's copyright expired. If they know something was released longer than x number of years they know in every instance if it's available for them.

Ideally, we'd make everyone register for copyright protection by sending a DRM free copy of their work to the state who will automatically release it online at copyright.gov as soon as the copyright expires. Then everyone can just go there to see what's available and access anything they want. Kind of like a less curated. but more accessible Library of Congress.
I am assuming you are both talking about the comparisons in the article?

They are mostly terrible examples of path tracing, as they just took the original map files with the lights authored for the original renderer, erased the baked lighting, and run the new renderer with those lights. So it's not that game designers are not used to lighting for path tracing, it's just that nobody designed it. Heck, even porting maps between two versions of the same lineage of offline raytracer can result in ridiculously different outputs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JkRwPWnL_c

Among other things, these games did not have high dynamic range lighting at all, so light data can only ever make the picture darker than the base textures. (Think of it as a layer set to "multiply" blend mode in a photo editor) So making a light brighter at some point wouldn't make things look any closer to white, just making the falloff sharper. So most lights were authored to look good in the renderer, not make any actual physical sense, as you said.

That said, this approach of "just swap out the renderer" could work much better for games that work on a physically-based rasteriser workflow (mostly newer stuff, like from around 2015 and onward), because they mostly already use compliant and realistic light sources, and the baked lights and rasterisation are "merely" for performance. (a.k.a. being a game and not a 2-day-per-frame art installation)

If you want to see a ray-tracing-native game, take a look at Teardown (https://www.teardowngame.com/), it does not exhibit any of the "chiaroscuro" described, and has perfectly cromulent lighting.
He banned a number of MSM journalists who have nothing to do with ElonJet. There was an outcry, he immediately backpedalled and blamed it on some kind of 'internal problem'. It was a big deal, international entities spoke up and fired some warning shots. On one hand it's a private media company, on the other it's an issue when people interfere directly with the press. I'm afraid we don't have our boundaries figured out on this issue yet.
Oh, I see. In that case, I guess it’s up to the browser. Maybe the address bar should not be displayed as a string, but as separate fields for the different URL components? One field for protocol, one for optional user name (for HTTP auth), one field for host name, one for the path, etc.
I worked with someone who was a bona fide development genius about 10 years ago and he was a CTO and co-founder at the time and considered himself to be able to input into any conversation with people who were domain experts in fields that he wasn't.

I remember him overruling the Head of Design and enforcing Arial to be the typeface used for the corporate brand because it was the typeface was present on more computers than any other in the world. Suffice to say the original typeface was much better.

Self doubt is a really really important trait to have as a leader - don't automatically assume you're right outside of your area of expertise and that team members can come up with good solutions that aren't yours is the only way you can ever really scale.

The CTO ultimately was forced out and became a specialist consultant and that probably suited him.
This sounds like the argument given by Washington to the failed rust belt.

“Don’t worry that your wages are lower, the white collar workers in NYC/SF are making even more, so our average wages have actually increased!”
The 90s was a really low point. Somewhere in the 2000s manufacturing or materials got cheap enough and the small toy cars started getting better again. The ones my kids throw at each other are pretty durable again it seems.
The problem with state-run healthcare (as well as education) is that costs (especially salaries) can become a political issue. In parts of Canada we’re experiencing severe shortages of healthcare workers (such as nurses) because governments have frozen their pay for political reasons.
My previous comment wasn't worded the best.

At the end of the day, I think the pretentiousness comes from superiority signalling. When a vegan talks about how eating meat is wrong the implication is that they feel morally superior to those who eat meat. And when someone rejects things generally, as opposed to just liking their own things, it implies that those things they reject aren't worth consideration, and hence anyone who does has some inferior judgement or taste.

The statement "I would never listen to disco music" implies there is something wrong with doing so, and hence something wrong with those who choose to. "I would never listen to disco music" is a pretentious statement.
I feel like left wing/right wing is basically now defined as “if you don’t believe in what I believe in then you’re right wing and wrong”
There's also a dramatic video rendition by the author: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_lLm3a33WsE
I got rid of all of my ultrasonic humidifiers for this reason. Ultrasonic throws up all sorts of PM2.5 particles which are bad to breathe in. Boiling your water has no such potentially dangerous drawbacks.
You can never have enough metrics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki///
Information aggregators: why HN is better
Makes sense. There’s no need to use this to read into the solvency of Binance. From Mazars’ perspective, the small amount of fees they receive is not worth the destruction of the rest of their business.

Arthur Andersen used to be one of the big accounting firms (the “big four” used to be the “big five” accounting firms) and their association with Enron and Worldcom destroyed their business. There’s no need to force an error by performing these incredibly narrow-scope exercises when the whole world is looking.
I've thought about it and this is why I think HN is better than other news sources. Not that much of a revelation, but thinking about this idea made myself clearer how I should expose myself to news.
> when companies run these things because they care about profit / shareholder return more than they care about the people.

We can accept that without also accepting that governments care about the people either. The top-level care about re-election, and the managers that survive party transitions care about their budgets, their fiefdoms, and maybe sometimes their employees rather than the public write large.

Corporations are kept in line with proper competition, where possible. What feedback mechanism is their to keep government bureaucracy in line? Sometimes they have audits, but those are never detailed or frequent enough.
And if you keep an eye out at Goodwill you can find them mixed together in a grab bag now and then for cheap.
It's actually a fact, though.
I read the book (judging by your low-effort snark, you did not) and found it quite useful.

For those that like to read, the book has quite a few ways to reduce and change your hygiene regimen and figure out if you're having reactions to certain products. A bit dry, but definitely made me want to switch to soaps/shampoos/etc with minimal scents and additives.
> Look up the actual definition of "proprietary". If a company owns it, it's proprietary...even open source software.

It's not what this word means in this context. Almost nobody uses proprietary this way to describe software, because it's used as opposed to FLOSS, and because it would be useless: a piece of software always belongs to someone unless it reached public domain (which is not many pieces of software). It always has one or several authors, working for someone else or not, so by this definition any software would be proprietary. Why call a piece of software proprietary then if it's always the case?

It's like proprietary protocol meaning "non-standard", "specific". Proprietary has several meanings, depending on the context.

You need to use the words the way they are by everybody to be understood correctly. Or stick to your usage and you'll end up in futile debates again and again. Or try to convince people that your usage is the right one if you have strong reasons to do this. But good luck with that. Proprietary software is used with this meaning since the 80s and it's not controversial AFAIK.

> Open source software can cost money, and still be open source...it currently exists.

I know, I work at a FLOSS company.
It's a freaking hotel. Link from their media page: https://atarihotels.com/news/atari-announces-world-class-vid...
If Twitter was being coerced by the government, they could have said so in court. They are a multibillion dollar multinational corporation with deep pockets and connection in high places, not a helpless mom and pop.
How a cocaine-smuggling cartel infiltrated the world’s biggest shipping company
Coextinctions dominate future vertebrate losses from climate and land use change
Better ways to work in distributed teams
Venta humidifiers are a good alternative as well.
Popular cross platform proprietary tooling for this is Control-M, but I didn't work personally with it. There are now also batch systems with executors on k8s or Mesos, and in a simplified sense apache airflow is often used for this
Why do you accept that story at his word?
If you’re never going to go there anyways, what’s the difference?
Unless it’s in the furtherance of catching or stopping an active criminal, I’d say no.

Why would we be wasting government resources alerting private companies of their terms of service anyway?
Iatrogenics is a term when a treatment causes more harm than good, and often because people want to do “something” you end up in a state where you’re using all manner of things that might be bad for your health.

I don’t see what’s wrong with a “product elimination diet” at all.
The Woke Mind Virus is actually everyone who tries to paint not being an asshole as woke.
> Corporations are kept in line with proper competition, where possible. What feedback mechanism is their to keep government bureaucracy in line? Sometimes they have audits, but those are never detailed or frequent enough.

No they aren't. This flies in the face of all the evidence right in front of you. They just form cartels and monopolies. The US where everything is private and is the most expensive (by far!!) with the least covered and worst outcomes compared to the one's we're talking about. You're ignoring ALL the evidence just to bolster your ideological nonsense.
It sounds like your employer's organization has ADHD, not you.

Go work somewhere else, you're describing a shit show, and you're in no position to fix it.
> Government jobs are for life with little to no repercussions.

This is one of the main problems: without some kind of feedback mechanism, this means bureaucracy can only monotonically grow which means inefficiency can only increase. At some point that inefficiency starts making private healthcare look competitive.
Duplo is designed with less “clutch” so tiny hands can take it apart successfully. That and the size of the pieces leads to flex that you don’t get much with Lego.

Primo (rare) and Quattro (super rare) are even bigger and have more flex.
Don't remember exactly but I was expecting not the two services being linked. IIRC I already downloaded back a lot of pictures and my free plan was something like 99% full. The fact that Google blocked my email reception without any notice was hard to swallow.
Language is a battleground and the poet and the lyricist always walk carefully.

Word-breaks are hard to use because of the way the audience will react to the unexpected in language. In the literary standard, a poet would be considered to lack talent for breaking words in a sloppy way or making other clumsy structures.

Leonard Cohen may never have used word-breaks -- I can't recall an instance in any of his recorded material. The song "Halleleujah" contains some cheap rhymes where Cohen shifted the literary register for effect.

Cohen, Cole Porter, Lehrer, Al Yankovic, and of course the great Brassens are literary. But only Porter and Brassens were careful enough to use the technique for dramatic effect as well as the humorous.

Bob Dylan received a Nobel Prize for his work but he's notoriously hit-and-miss and by his own admission writes things as quickly as possible. As a lyricist, he has been prolific but not very careful about words, except in his early folk period where he imitated Woody Guthrie and the occasional later surprise (e.g a few compositions on Desire). Dylan is more of a verbose song writer. (Bettye LaVette is his best dramatic interpreter.)

Lehrer's and Yankovic's work is mostly humorous, even when there's a serious message behind the song.

Brassens may be the most brilliant of the 20th century's musical poets.
His song *Les Philistins épiciers" is another good example of his style. Brassens worked his syllables to perfection. He was not typically in a hurry to utter his phrase, although he could use rapid delivery for humorous effect (e.g. Les funérailles d'antan).

There are brilliant moments in Lehrer's recorded work and he is making a clear gesture by putting his work in the public domain. Dylan sold his entire catalogue of song for an estimated $300m. Porter may have earned the most money because of his association with Hollywood and the royalties from the jazz repertoire. Yankovic is known for his satire of Amercian songs and society. Brassens is not well-known in English-speaking countries because his work is hard to translate and, alas, eating a croissant does not bestow linguistic powers to the eater.

Rap music is a (lucrative) counter-movement to almost every tradition. I leave this topic to those with greater affinity.
There is no evidence of "immunity debt", and waning immunity are one and the same. So if think one is myth, you believe both are myths.
Given that we're talking about alcohol, this may be the most appropriate use of "liquidity" that I've seen in awhile
Hah! I found songs I wrote on here.

Kind of a treat to read through the meanings. They nailed most of my songs — sometimes even articulating the meaning better than I could myself.

A few meanings didn't "feel" right but those were songs with ambiguous lyrics. Likely more the fault of the songwriter than a poor interpretation :p

Example: https://www.songtell.com/steve-benjamins/circles
Not just children - adults can be suicidal too, and in certain places that's a pretty bad crime.

Radical transparency only works if you remove all externalities - but we live in the real world.
Malice aforethought
Since 2000, left-wing parties have ruled for the past X years in:

Ireland: 0 years

The Netherlands: 2 years (Kok - 2000-2002)

Belgium: 3 years (Di Rupo, 2011-2014)

France: 5 years (Hollande - 2012-2017)

Germany: 6 years (Schröder - 2000-2005, Scholz - 2021-now)

United Kingdom: 10 years (Blair - 2000-2007, Brown - 2007-2010)

Austria: 18 years (Fischer, 2004-2016, Buren - 2016-2017, Van der Bellen - 2017-now)

So yeah, with the exception of Austria and arguably perhaps the UK, western Europe is pretty right-wing. In general, Western Europe has been very heavily on the neoliberal train since the 90s, including a significant amount of privatization. The current state of healthcare is a direct result of this.
Given the way most of these politicised productions have been underperforming and sometimes even crashing this seems to be unlikely. It is not the market which demands this type of programming but more likely to be an outflow of the focus on ESG by certain investment companies which will eventually find out their investments tend to loose value if they insist on pushing a political agenda before profitability. These companies are not dealing with their own money so they hold a fiduciary duty towards their clients who are, by and large, not in it for pushing politics. Once their investments start tanking they'll start looking for someone to blame and sue which is when Blackrock, Vantage and the other investment companies pushing ESG will start to feel the heat.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt
You step on one Lego, you step on two Legos.

It’s like Kleenex and kleenecies.
I’ve just given up on the guilt. I live near one of the largest rivers in the world. I’m surrounded by the most fertile farmland in the world. These may be problems for people that live in places that in retrospect aren’t great for human habitation, but not here.

I think I’m going to buy myself a shower head with a removable water regulator for Christmas. I spent two weeks in hotels and my home shower feels terrible in comparison to that water pressure. Why do the hotels get to have objectively better showers than I do?
I don’t think it’s a waste of government resources to be reporting people who are trying to suppress voting by e.g. giving incorrect polling dates or locations.

Also don’t think it’s a waste to try to prevent ISIS recruiting material from reaching more confused and angry young men.

Both are legal though!
We’re paying a ton of money in America and have worse results.
Would you want to be fly fished?
I Can't wait for the Twitter Drops covering the last week or two.
Interference Hunting in 5G Networks
explorer.exe isn't responsible for file picker dialogs in Windows 98 (file picker != file manager). And the Win98 file dialogs didn't have thumbnail support.

HN is no place for low-effort troll comments.
Chomsky and Gary Marcus predict that the current approach will not be sufficient; is and will increasingly be detrimental to society because of that “almost right at best” reason. Chomsky only has hopes in a combined approach that integrates “old AI” with the engineering / data / GPU driven one. See also discussion here for anyone interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33857543
First, I want to note that the comment didn't meant to take a jab at GitLab. I'm administering self-hosted GitLab on two installations for a decade now, and had no problems with it. Actually, I wanted to move to GitLab when I decided to leave GitHub, but, Source Hut fits my needs better.

I went to "www.gitlab.com", which sent me to "about.gitlab.com". I scanned the page, and looked to solutions first, expecting to see "Self Hosted", not seeing it, I clicked to Pricing, where I failed to see Self-managed install. Possibly frustrated, scrolled down and found the "Install" link.

I remember peeking at Resources menu, too but I looked to the first three or so entries possibly. I chalk the situation to a bona fide PEBKAC + Friday tiredness.

> I assume that the intention was to download GitLab's source code and start the installation from there?

Actually no. I trust to a codebase which I'm using for a decade. In most cases, I try to find the code repository to look at the licenses, code organization, or to see how something works. In this case I wanted to do the same (see the licenses, and find the repo in general). I expected to find a direct link to the source code repository. This case was the same. I just want to see the code, and take a look around.

Being able to find the source code repository only via documentation, at least for me, sends the message of "The code is there, but we actually don't want you to see/access it so easily, unless you really want to".

> The source code is available for both, open source (CE) and source available (EE), following GitLab's stewardship promise.

I didn't know that EE was source available. I'm adding this as a plus to my mental notebook, and honestly thanks for being like this.

All in all, I understand (and deeply respect) GitLab for being what it is. I witnessed it becoming from a GitHub clone(ish) to a CI/CD first development platform. I possibly wanted to be greeted by a more developer-oriented webpage than a customer-oriented one, but I guess this works well for you, so I have no complaints.

Thanks for directly answering my comment, and filling the gaps in my knowledge. I really, greatly appreciate it.
I'm guessing it's intentionally confusing to garner attention. It's for sure a VR space (spaces?) but they talk about "Restaurants and lounges that stimulate the senses."

The only sense the restaurant will stimulate is sight and sound ofc, and zero people want to sit in a VR restaurant - but it's good marketing to put people through the ringer I suppose.
> VSCode is one of the greatest pieces of engineering of our time.

> VSCode is the greatest productivity tool in the history of software engineering

VSCode just seems like an IDE to me. Here's some things that are either better feats of engineering or better for software productivity:

- moving from line-based editing to screen-based editing

- any mainstream database

- any mainstream browser

- compilers

- linters

- any mainstream OS

- continuous integration

- headphones

- big monitors

- stack overflow

- any graphics driver

- any mainstream 3D platform (Unity, Unreal)

- version control (edit: added, how could I have left it out??)

I'm team Vim so I'm obviously salty, but even so I think you're going a little overboard here haha. I don't even think this about Vim!
What I see is the government involved in pressuring and directing companies to censor legal speech. You seem to think this is OK because you think it will only ever be done to people you disagree with. History has repeatedly shown that is a dangerously naive view.

The whole point is that these cases aren't going in front of a judge or jury to decide. Without that system of checks and balances, "all parties agree" is meaningless because it can't be challenged. "All parties agreed" that the civil rights or anti-war movement were destabilizing and needed to be suppressed...you seem to support that kind of unchecked power. I don't know why people are so quick to forget our very recent history.