skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A central repository for FOSS scenery, vehicles, buildings, graphics/audio content in general, would help a lot the development of new games. Artists could gather on a public forum to discuss and collaborate, then add their creations to the repository rather than support just a single game, so that developers could concentrate on the code itself knowing they could count on a huge library of assets ready to be added. Think of GitHub/GitLab/Codeberg etc. but for art and media content. Not that one of the above couldn't be used for that goal.
I ask for open mindedness that I bring religion here, I feel it necessary to discuss this question of ethics/morality: "Who gives a fuck?"

I quote Mark 12:15.

> But, knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, “Why put me to the test? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.” And they brought one. And he said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Jesus said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they marveled at him.

This is pretty much the reason I don't pirate.

I wasn't a Christian before. I first thought "if everyone else pays, why should I get it for free?". But eventually I came to question the concept of personal sharing of media being controlled by the state, and just gave in to 'piracy' (a silly name for the act). I suppose I also generally became jaded on social conscientiousness.

More recently I became a Christian and now I don't 'pirate' at all. It's because the above passage in my opinion can be applied to media (although it's not literally what was said, I think the rationale still works): most of the people who make such media don't approve of me 'pirating'. Therefore if I engage in it, which I actually have a choice about, rather than with the currency which frankly is mandatory for most people, then surely I owe them their price. And if I don't have a way to pay for it then I don't have any more right to it.

Respectfully, you act as if your hand is forced here, but you don't actually need to consume the media, you just want to.
Haha, I meant "anti-piracy". Freudian slip.
Check out Andino v. Apple too if you haven't already!
> to asymptotically approach zero over the course of a few years

Koomey's Law says compute costs will be ~1/16th / ~7% in a decade.

IIUC, storage prices & bandwidth reduce at slower rates.

"Approaching 0" and "a few years" seem a little hyperbolic.
> I've found that people that learned class-based React first and then switched to modern function-based React often have more trouble with useEffect than people who learned functional components directly

I’d say its the opposite; people who used lifecycle methods know that useEffect and friends eliminates an entire class of bugs. People who started with hooks dont understand the problems it solved, and only see the quirks
I think one of the acceptably ethical approaches is to pay for a legitimate copy (which is still not entirely under your control), then pirate a permanent copy.

Do not let the seller to manage what the seller alleges is yours; even if the seller is not malevolent, you can lose what you "legitimately bought". Take control into your hands.

Good distributors, like Bandcamp, or iTunes, or even Amazon, allow you to directly download the music that you've bought, and still continue streaming; always go for this option if you care about your purchase.

With movies and, paradoxically, books it's very often not nearly so straightforward; a direct download may be not available at all. See the first paragraph then.
Guess what: we're a sexually dimorphic species.

The view that every group of people you care to select is "equal" (whatever that means) is manifestly false.
I don't have Spotify. And I never will. I don't like depending on subscription services. There are satisfactory alternatives (I find pre-compiled YouTube sets to work well) but having a local copy has always been a priority for me, and I don't see it changing any time soon.
A hunter gatherer society would be the exact opposite of highly specialised ("doing what you're best at").

It has little margin for loss of function, so a poor performer is better and more likely to survive then losing the performance of the function entirely.
It's full of inaccuracies and hyperbole. It isn't frank, it is exaggerated to illicit a response.

For example,

> So I go to google play store and go through the 50,000 security verifications.

And this comment:

> Google is contributing to the destruction of the concept of ownership, as are many services of the modern age.

Pretty much any service that uses DRM. There is a lot to be upset with Google about, but this is like someone ranting that they can't figure out how to use a Google device. If you don't like it then buy a portable blu-ray or DVD player, or convert the DVD and blu-ray yourself to a digital format without DRM.
That's fucking great. Now, I am gonna be spammed even more.
Not the guy you ask, but for me, I just want convenient digital thing on my laptop I actually own, not rent. I live in 2022 and don't want that physical crap.

I would have no problem to pay for DRM-free and location-independent stuff, but all this thing with "rights owners", "you can't hear that in this location", "you can't download it to listen offline and locally" is a total bullshit. I don't care what some lawman or government thinks. I also don't care about 5$ per month, that's nothing. But for my money, for any amount, I expect some respect and not this "money cow" attitude.

If artists want to get money from people like me, they probably should release their works under some more ethical distribution systems, which actually respect their customers wherever they live and whatever way to listen they prefer.
Compelling use case of OpenAI for robotics
Imagine a GPT-X model that can understand concepts like algorithms and how to compile lists of steps based on a strict set of available instructions. This would ultimately fill the gaps of writing arbitrarily complex code to allow a robot to understand instructions in human language.

Human: Hey Robo1000, go to the kitchen, and get me a bag of potato chips out of the pantry.

Computer instructions inside Robo1000:
Given that I am a robot, with the following instruction set:

1) determine what direction I'm facing

2) determine if there is an obstacle in my way

3) go right

4) go left

5) go forward

6) go backward

7) open door

8) pick up object

9) identify object

10) determine what room I am in

11) determine where my destination is relative to my current location

12) identify the location of people in a room

13) identify which person made the request

14) etc, etc...

Assumptions:

1) If there is something in my way I must find a way to navigate around it

2) etc. etc..

Given that my instructions are to: "go to the kitchen, and get {name of as yet unidentified person} a bag of potato chips out of the pantry", generate the shortest algorithm that I can follow repeatedly that will make it possible for me to accomplish this task.

Generated list of instructions to accomplish task:

1) Determine who made the request

2) Determine what direction I am facing

3) Determine where my destination is relative to my current location

4) Turn left...

5) ... etc...
I'm just gonna comment on this instead of everyone and I won't reply after this because I've said my part.

In my opinion this is not comparable at all, slightly differently or prefixed property/attribute names are really very acceptable to me compared to the hacks we used to implement. Having to hack for multiple IEs while also ensuring those hacks are not applied to other browsers was a special kind of evil to battle, and we are not just talking about "oh IE does not support this so we need to do this another way" but also things like "oh IE like to double the specified padding because why not" - and then at some point they removed conditional comments because they were like "IE is good now." which of course it wasn't.

I develop for Safari amongst other browsers daily and have for years, and do not share these frustration everyone else seems to have for it. Do I agree there should be more frequent updates of Safari (also for older MacOS)? Yes. Do I agree iOS should allow other browser engines? Yes. Is supporting older Chromium engines annoying too? Yeah of course, I've run into that as well (don't have any concrete examples right now unfortunately). People like to think that you can expect Chrome to always be the latest version because of the auto updating, but I have experienced multiple issues caused by users with a (very) outdated version. Whether or not you support these depends on your business / target audience, I had to, and it was frustrating.

Different browser engines will always be different and implement standards at different rates, and standards are often implemented before they are finalised and some do this with prefixes and others do not. Supporting multiple browsers is part of the job, if you don't like it you should not be doing front-end web development.

I for one would hate living in a world that is run by Google (Chromium).
An important consideration that I have not seen mentioned yet is that masks have a 'best before date', this is because they are infused with a static charge that aims to attract particles to the mask material and this charge doesn't last forever. You can 'recharge' masks but that's a lot of work and usually not in the normal path for such supplies. So stockpiles that were present were not going to be effective against viruses (which are very small particles). Add to that that this was before there was positive confirmation the virus was airborne (though there were plenty of people suggesting that none had proof) to make the chaos complete. I don't think that even with hindsight there was a set of decisions that would not have left something to be disputed.
I think the notion of "established, continuing, and continuous front line" is anachronistic to the Revolutionary War in any case. As late as the American Civil War, an army could freely roam through the enemy countryside with relative impunity until a defending army caught up with them, as happened at Antietam and Gettysburg; there was no "front line" to punch through.
Here I would find some support for the parents point: There is a lot of room for interpretation.

To me, writing an email can be the most intense "working with people" thing, more so than any amount of small talk or doing manual labor with people. The amount of stress that goes into a hard to write email – mostly because it will also be a hard to read email and then also the anticipation of some sort of unpleasant reaction – and the amount of time you have to wallow in that stress, rivals few other social interactions in its intensity.
look up ReVanced
I think the question is highly related to "why are feathers and rainbows beautiful" and while rainbows signal rain, it's connection to food surely at most half of the story.
Something is wrong with your story, possibly the year (or you lived in a poor place). The 486 DX33 was released in 1990 and was lower midrange in 1994. In 1996, it was more or less outdated. I had that problem, a slow 486 in 1996 ;)
At one time Google had a first class music service, and I think they still rent and sell movies.

As for money making, I think a guarantee of 'yours forever, no takebacks' would put them way out front of their competition. But perhaps most people don't care enough for that to be true.
The vector database is a new kind of database for the AI era
You have a point, yet I feel the situation isn't as bright as you make it look.

I think Safari isn't broken in the ways IE was, because IE always had comptetitors running along it and pushing the enveloppe where Microsoft was pulling the brakes. Firefox and later Chrome were handicaped in adoption, yet had little to no limitations on the features they wanted to add.

In comparison no other browser can run with the same privileges as Safari on the phone, while the iPhone is a dominant platform. So there just isn't the same space to innovate in a profitable way. The only company who can afford pushing the envelope is Google, and at this point their only real competitor is Firefox, that they basically pay to keep alive. They also have little incentve to really push the web as it doesn't impact their bottom line (native app ads also go in their pockets afterall)
That's not what `defaultValue` does. `defaultValue` is a JS (not HTML) attribute which simply allows you to retrieve the original value set in the HTML. So if you have this HTML:

<input id="foo" value="bar">

Then `document.getElementById('foo').defaultValue` will always return `'bar'`, even if the user has edited the value in the field.
Apple is very different to Google.
See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34146633
Interesting thought. My thought is that it wouldn't necessarily take many generations to evolve this trait. A single generation of bees dying after stinging would have a huge advantage over such a hypothetical disease.

Wondering:
1. Do all bee species die after stinging?
2. Do bees always die? What's the mortality rate?

There may be plenty of diseases out there living off bees and other hosts, that are pervasive enough to provide sustained evolutionary pressure to facilitate this development.

We are not speculating on much here. Some others have mentioned the unit economics of losing single bees vs. Losing the whole hive are really excellent.
Pretty much the only thing I use my Alexas for is timers (for cooking) and the weather.

You're right that I wouldn't pay for just that functionality directly, but I pay for Prime, and spend a fair chunk on AWS every month. And if amazon abandons Alexa then I'll just move everything to another ecosystem.
> gender differences appear to be greater in societies with greater gender equality and in which people have greater economic resources

I don't think this is a paradox at all. Discouraging 50% of the workforce talent pool is a wasteful luxury that only countries with abundant resources can afford.

I experienced this first hand when I moved to Sweden. I had never been made to feel like a freak for being a programmer until I moved to Sweden. I had never experienced being constantly excluded, discouraged and pushed away from technical activities in order to "rescue" me from things I'm being told me I'm not interested in.

I have a legal right to parental leave and I can get an IUD for free, so it's considered a paradox that there are so few female programmers in such an equal country. I don't see how there is a paradox.
Works both ways tho. I remade my Tinder account from the Vietnamese phone number I had, have used my Canadian credit card and changed my account's phone to my Canadian one (ported to VoIP) after 3-4 weeks, but I still get billed in động for their top subscription.

You could remake your Spotify account. Alternatively, make a family account and share it with 5 more members. Works out to just 3$/month (Canadian!) for us. Wonder what it would work out to from a cheaper geolocation.
I wished Elon Musk would fuck off to Mars already, he's done enough damage. But trust him to see how far he can milk this and it gets lapped up and amplified like it is the biggest scandal since Watergate, whereas the most you can take away from it is that there were a lot of people doing their utmost best to ensure the platform functioned with minimum damage potential.
I asked it this question and instructed it to answer in a witty or funny way. Its response:

”Can a machine like me be witty and funny? Ha! It's like asking if a toaster can tap dance. I may not have feelings or emotions like humans, but I can still try my best to make you chuckle. Just don't expect me to be the next stand-up comedy sensation or anything. I'm just a simple computer program, after all. But hey, at least I'm trying, right?”
You are buying a license to watch the movie. You are not renting it.
So do egalitarian countries have high uncertainty avoidance?
Oh no, but what about free speech? /s
> It would be a problem for upbringing as that is something adults have agency over. It's a bias that may not need to exist.

There's no evidence that adults are creating this bias. They are not.

On average women find tech work grindingly boring.

Why is it a problem? It isn't. Just let people do what they want with their lives.
The artists I listen to don't all sell on bandcamp (most don't).
With all due respect, the OP has bought the movie legitimately. He has paid for it. It was legally his.

It was Google's technical ineptitude that did not allow him to use his legitimately bought movie, which had been readily available before.

So he obtained an illegally made copy of the movie which he had legally obtained before, which he had every right to keep in his possession, formally. I don't see anyone's interests being hurt by this, including financial interests, or any moral wrong done.
And rightly so, doctors that take kickbacks are acting against their oath and should be relieved of their license to practice.
Torrent for the win.
Alexa is never going to be a meaningful business at Amazon's scale - and it's not critical to their business like Nest is for Google.

Amazon probably just wanted to ax a large division to cut costs to prop up the stock price, and Alexa was an obvious target.
Today I learned there are public BBQs in Australia.
Totally agree with this.

When you buy something it's your property that you own and you can sell it to someone else if you want.

When you rent something it's still owned by someone else restricting what you can do with it.

In my mind it's fraud to pretend to sell a thing when you are in fact renting it out.

Maybe something for EU to regulate next!
That we’re still debating this stuff is ridiculous, everyone seems to be trying to create a narrative out of actions performed with good intentions and imperfect information. I think Twitter and the press had an almost impossible job attempting to manage public health messaging. There does not need to be a red vs blue debate on this as if it’s some religious war. The way it’s debated verges on conspiracy theory to me.

I can’t believe how well Germany did with masking, testing and vaccination mandates to be able to take part in society again and consequently they have 1/3 fewer deaths than the comparably more open UK. A lot of people’s parents would still be with us if the UK and US weren’t divided and arguing about pointless stuff when we have loads of evidence the societies with more locking down and more extreme interventions saved more lives.
and play nicely with NASes
add -x to yt-dlp to directly remux to .opus and --add-metadata to write tags.
I haven't seen it used that way outside of the elixir space but I suppose it could be catching on in some dev spheres.
Nominally left-leaning yoga moms should stick to yoga. The same goes for nominally right-leaning yoga moms. And yoga dads. Unless they feel like ditching every other 'human made' component from their lives as well for consistency.

Essential oils for broken legs.
It’s worth noting that some big companies have something like what you describe. I was building packages for one and it’s basically reverse engineering however something is packed (e.g an RPM) and making it build/bundle in the way big corp operates.

It’s a lot of busy work but we guaranteed that we had all dependencies in house and that the same package had the same layout of files across every OS
That sounds like a pretty big abuse of their power and potentially raises anti-trust concerns. They could easily wield that power for nefarious reasons and I don't think any of us would want that. We can change laws. Companies should abide by them, however insufficient they may be at a given point in time.
> Spytify records the same quality that Spotify outputs

But it's still doing bad transcoding. It's like taking a screenshot of a JPEG photo: if you save it, you end up with more artifacts.

I'd just use one of the numerous Deezer downloaders – they decrypt the actual audio stream, and the input quality is just as good.
> yours forever, no takebacks

MP3s available form Amazon, iTunes, Bandcamp at the very least all have this commendable property.

And the sale is once and forever, while an enticing revenue source is a recurring one %)
Elon is doing his level best to create more controversy and hence more eyeballs. He also doesn't give a care about the damage to society that may cause as long as it increases the chances of his finances remaining solid.
Real Names Considered Harmful
"How dare Google use their market dominance to do X"

but also

"Why doesn't Google use their market dominance to do X"
Imagine telling your family or friends you work at google. Embarrassing.
> I almost hate is cyclists

Then you definitively will hate car drivers. For each cyclist that has bothered me as a pedestrian there are ten cars doing something crazy dangerous. And in my city there are a lot of bikes, as much as cars.

But I see that pedestrians are expected to deal with car behaviour, even dangerous one, without complaining. The fault is always on pedestrians or cyclist even that are car drivers the ones that kill many people or send them to a wheelchair for life.
i am mind blown facebook ever thought their approach to spamming users with notifications, was anything other than self sabotage in the long run.

The perception of increased app usage at the expense of satisfaction with the app, was always going to be only short term.
Yeah, the only way things will change is if Google becomes a production studio. This won't be a better for situation for listeners nor for artists.
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So you want people to have to purchase cd rom players and be limited to whatever can be physically shipped, or else they’re not allowed to enjoy music at all?

Those limitations were a hard cap years ago. Now they aren’t: if you put them on somebody, they are arbitrary.

And you’re going on a weird-ass rant about capitalism yet you’re not seeing that this is a classic capitalistic problem? You’re expecting people to go a route that is more difficult, more expensive, more time consuming and has less choice, because a fraction of a percent of their effort and money will then maybe go to the original producer of the music?

Let people pirate if it’s the easy route for them FFS. Blame the record labels and distributors, they’re the ones at fault here.
Same. Lies after lies and dirty tricks from Google..

Changed Google, got logged out of Chromecast/Google TV. And reinstall process is "allow locatio ", "no, allow precise location", "allow bluetooth", "allow voice match", ... - all this to stream music in my local network...
I might try that but I have a lot of data already on my spotify account. The Spotify support tried to help me, escalated like four times, told me to talk to my bank (my card works on other sites and my bank said there should be no issues), etc. So I think it may not even work on a new account.
The benefit for me is knowing what installs where so that i can later uninstall everything without having to rely on an uninstaller that leaves bits behind. Of course I'm talking about a different scenario where I'm already assuming the script and binaries it installs are safe.