skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mostly play smaller or indie games, which have less aggressive monetization.

If I were to go and play the latest AAA like Assassin's Creed or whatever, I would definitely pirate it, but the game doesn't call to me anyway. Not only due to pricing and additional monetization, but mainly to remove the invasive DRM these kinds of titles use.

YouTube Premium I do the janky family sharing thing that makes the price tolerable, but it pays creators better so that's good.

Spotify, I'm on the verge of just going and pirating all the songs I want, because their UI is optimized for entirely the opposite way I listen to music (this could be a rant by itself).

Movies, I never stopped pirating. Just figuring out where I can find a movie in the quality and language I want requires being up to date on the existence, platform support, and terms of like 10 services. And yes, justwatch exists but A) I only watch like one movie a month, but most movies can't be rented, and are only available in a subscription which is a hassle to sign up and cancel every month, not to mention the expense. Versus pirating, where I can use 1 piece of software that will aggregate all the movies and series in the world and provide with an unified access.
If you want the video camera to be able to point up to the sun and your TV to display the sun in the video with the same brightness as the actual sun, then yeah, you will need a very very bright TV (and a pretty special video camera and video coding format as well).
most of my life it was effortless for me to stay skinny - it actually took effort not to be underweight. then I started a medication. initially my BMI was 22 but it shot up to 28. I developed a terrible sweet tooth and binged on carbs, insatiably.

I quit the medication and promptly went back to 22. no willpower involved.

I'm sorry you have to struggle against your body. your body makes it a fight requiring massive willpower, mine doesn't - it's just down to genes or something.
Nice. I was starting to wonder when I'd see these news. :-)

Surely this is Microsoft's end game after becoming a "preferred partner" to OpenAI?

Many of us has seen how it kills Google or at least vastly outperforms it in many respects, and Microsoft of course knew this all along, including when they started seeing the potential and investing in it? We're just reacting late to what Microsoft saw many moons ago. And we aren't even seeing the finalized product that will surely be based on GPT-4 rather than GPT-3?

I honestly wonder how far back this stretches. Nadella has steered this ship so well compared to Ballmer. His focus on Azure and later AI aligns so well with where computing at large is moving, and meanwhile Google seems stuck.
What if there is no alternative? Imagine you're already paying for 3-4 streaming services but none of them have the content available, would you result to piracy then or just give up to watch it?

What if they had the provided content, but not dubbed/subtitled/cc'ed in the language you need?
Consistent Naming with Voldemort Rules in Python Projects
It’s more than that, it’s also that all of the wannabe journalists out there have contempt for people that are more successful than them that are lower social status.

That being said I don’t think that has anything to do with Amazon in this case, just negative coverage of tech more broadly.
Hah. Yeah pirate that shit lol. It’s almost as if these people think we’re not tech savvy.
I had a RIO 300.. then later got the 500... would compress to wma 64 K so I could load a decent amount of songs.....
My friend had a chemistry set that included a lead bar. We liked to chew on it -- imagine, a metal soft enough that you could easily dent it with your teeth!
while I agree that despite fragmentation, it is more accessible, this can be a US-centric view. Even if you're aware of the service that can provide a series, you might need a VPN to subscribe and use.
I do it all the time but I pay for all the services too. Everything about the quality of streaming is worse, but it’s convenient for the rest of the family and occasionally me. I’d gladly buy full quality DRM free stuff directly if anyone would make it available.
Piracy has driven and given political cover to all all sorts of abusive technology.

This was entirely predictable, I and others pleaded decades ago that exactly this would happen, but people just wanted free stuff. And here we are.

Yes, the big media companies are often unlikeable. But US piracy gives up any high ground, and helps grease the push of further anti-consumer conventions and legislation. "Lawmakers, don't let big media do this latest anti-consumer thing (while we are taking their paid product for free)!" doesn't have a lot of credibility.
I broke out my Sony a6000 and 35mm f1.8 prime at a new years party. I don't use it much anymore but it had always excelled above my phone in low light "party shots".

The next morning I imported them and flipped through commingled a6000 and iPhone shots. The difference was stark. The iPhone (14 pro) had _significantly_ better quality across the board. The only exception was an amusing amount of bokeh on some fireworks (as mentioned by the author). I think portrait mode may have been able to do a passable version of this had I thought to try it. I was not using ProRes.

Aside from the disparity in quality, picking up my old camera again THIS year was pretty underwhelming. Focus was slow and hunted a bit. It prevented rapid shots to catch fireworks in the background. The screen and viewfinder was grainy/low-res. The import was clunky.

It's listed on FB marketplace if anyone is interested.

So yeah, I very much concur.
Sure - there's an RFC - https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6596
Mind if I ask where you're from? While not really adding anything or altering the meaning (so technically it could be called superfluous), removing it here to my British brain makes the sentence sound lazy and I was definitely taught in school that it should be there. I do also agree that the sentence is terribly written in general though.
Yeah I started seriously considering piracy once again a few months ago. Partly because I've started worrying that we will see some major failure in AWS/Azure/GCP at some point in the near future leading to cascading failures, taking a long time to recover from. So, sudden failure of service is one thing. Another is that it is sometimes hard to find a show or movie you are looking for in any of the streaming services I subscribe to. Third, I want more freedom, piracy gives some back.
That’s how I use chatGBT to learn. It’s rarely precisely correct but it’s answers are often basically right or direct me to a lot of concepts to investigate further. For instance I want to build a TEC based CO2 freezing chamber but need a low temperature TEC. I asked it about what TEC materials operate at low temperature. It gave me 10 different TEC semiconductors with operating temperatures, which were sometimes right. I then used Kagi (seriously, google?) to find literature. Using the two together - one to get a rough outline of the domain explained in simple and concise language and the other to retrieve information.

IR systems lack the bootstrapping phase - unless you know precisely what you want to learn you’ll end up in SEO hell sifting through loosely related garbage produced by algorithms to include as many relevant terms but zero insightful knowledge. I think for learning chatGPT is great for bootstrapping, then I turn to IR to refine and get accurate information.
Agreed, there are services like Just Watch, but an official API from each streaming service would be nice.

https://www.justwatch.com/us
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I never 'left' piracy. Part because third world issues, part because I couldn't get much sense of that: never went into any streaming service. At home we "still" consume cable TV (4 families with 5 tvs, via coax cable, 118 channels and a fee of around USD$6/month). I admit I pirate music though half of my catalog is stuff I downloaded from Jamendo.
It is not a zero sum game.

A better phrase would be: "Why pay when you can copy for no cost".
To answer the last question first: Yes instruction decoding is dirt cheap (generally speaking) the thing that slows down a CPU is memory model, register retirement etc.

In theory RISC was intended to be basically no microcode where the CPU would expose the hardware instructions. In reality that is done to an extent but superscalar basically made the advantage that had mostly obsolete. This left RISC having the main advantage of having a ton of registers which does simplify other things when designing a superscalar CPU. But at the end of the day most architectures are falling into the "FISC" singularity where speed is all that matters. This is why AARCH64 was deliberately designed to be insanely superscalar from the ground up.
It's too bad that Apple's Season Pass was such a failure. If it would have been successful it's possible it could have attracted almost universal participation by all the majors given its price point, and competitors with a similar model would have sprung up.

$20 or $30 just for a single season of a TV show seemed outrageous. Why pay $20 for a single season of a TV show when you can pay $10/month for unlimited?

Now most people are paying > $50/month for TV subscriptions and still don't get everything they want. So in a year that's $600. That'd buy you 20-30 season passes. How many people watch more than 20-30 shows for their $600?
I did pretty much the same in HLSL just a few days ago. Here’s one idea to try.

You don’t actually need 3 tiles in groupshared memory.

With some care, it’s possible to go with 2 tiles there. One tile is loaded from the first source matrices. Another tile is accumulator for the output matrix tile. And then in the main function of the compute shader load values for the second source matrix from the global memory, and update all affected elements of the output tile with these mad() instructions.

Shader model 5.0 limits amount of group shared memory to 32kb, and that streaming trick allows to push to the limit, with 64x64 tiles. I think I got about 15% performance win from that trick on some of the GPUs I’m testing my software.
It turns out sufficiently advanced compilers are hard to write (see: Itanium)
Not to watch them?
I'm willing to pay a lot to have all the content I care about in one place. I do that with Steam, for example. I'm lucky that I don't have to pay a lot for all the music I care about in Spotify. For movies and shows, unless the industry can figure out how to be more convenient than Plex, I'll be sticking with Plex.
Arguably vulnerabilities would be more likely to be found and disclosed if the code was open source.
It seems that this has been the case for years, at least going from the (obviously logged-out) archive.org saves of the Linux repo:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180115003453/https://github.co...
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Yes. I’m fairly active. I do two one hour swimming sessions a week, a daily Tabata HIIT, and other activities in the week. I’ve no interest in becoming an iron man competitor, but I find the maintaining of decent cardio improves my mental well being considerably. I am personally fine with my weight - when I look at the extreme athletes in my family they all have a similar body makeup, and their body fat percentage stays constant even as they add muscle. Everyone in my family live into their 90’s without onset health issues. When I do medical histories with my GP it’s short and boring.
Dupe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34253478 (402 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34256083

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34256850

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34257365

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Regarding music, we are in a golden age, in which nearly every song I want is available from either an affordable Amazon music subscription or Spotify. I fear some day it will become segmented, and that you will need multiple services to get all the bands you want. Maybe I should be preparing with MP3s backups.
I pay for my basically all of my games and music, proving Gabe Newell's old quote about piracy being the result of lack of convenience in the legal method of acquiring things (paraphrasing). Steam is convenient and I still have all access to all the games I bought 10+ years ago. And as for music, I stream it like most people, and also buy vinyl records for albums I particularly like which gives me something tangible and sends the artist some actual money in the process.

Movies and TV shows though, I basically pirate all of it. When it was mostly all on Netflix there was a convenient legal offering to watch a lot of content, but these days I have no idea where anything I want to watch is streaming. And even then, stuff moves around because contracts expire, new deals are formed, etc. And it's even worse if you're outside of the US (Canada in my case). You look up where to watch something and all the results tell you one thing, you go check, and it's not there because there's different distribution in Canada. I don't want to subscribe to 10 services when I'm probably not gonna use most of them in a month, and I'm not spending hours managing which services I'm subscribed to every month because it's a waste of time and it's not like I plan what I'm going to watch that far in advance anyway. Some things are only streamable on some network's website where they expect you to login with your account through a cable provider. So yeah, screw that - I flick my VPN on, load a torrent into my client, refresh my Plex and I'm watching in a few minutes. And half the time it's better quality cause it's a Bluray rip instead of running through an ugly compression algorithm.

I still do what I can to support shows I enjoy so they get some of my actual money -- buying merch or physical copies of the show/movie. But even if I buy a physical copy I still usually end up just watching it through my Plex server cause it's more convenient than grabbing a disc from my shelf and loading it into the disc drive that my current PC doesn't even have.
As a startup, some must-have sections for our landing page have been the following:

-A clear and compelling value proposition that explains the benefits of our product or service

-Social proof, such as customer testimonials or case studies, to build credibility and trust

-A visual design that is consistent with our brand and helps convey our message effectively

-A simple and effective call to action that guides visitors to take the next step

We recently hired a Blockchain page (https://www.ratherlabs.com) to help us build our web3 project, and they were able to incorporate all of these elements into our landing page. Their expertise in web3 technologies and user experience design was invaluable in creating a landing page that effectively communicates our message and converts visitors into customers.
Fully agree.

I didnt read the full thing but the point is, is any code worth less because it’s author is making some statements that in the eyes of some people would not be not acceptable? Who decides that?

I think this is the point where github ceases to be of use as a platform to host code, since at any point they could come down on you, and in succession break hundreds of other programs that would have dependencies on the “banned” code, etc…
If you "don't have an issue" with JavaScript but you think the tools you're using are bad because of the "depth of hole you can quickly end up in though is not to be underestimated", then perhaps you should reconsider your decision to continue using them when you're writing JS and why you ever thought they were necessary.

None of those things (package-lock.json, node_modules, or p?npm|yarn) actually come from ECMA-262...
> I cannot observe propositions or truth claims or numbers or...

Of course you can.

> what is "natural" and what is "supernatural" according to naturalists?

It changes over time. At the moment, "natural" is anything that can be accounted for by quantum mechanics and general relativity, and "supernatural" is anything that can't: Ghosts. Demons. Deities. Telekenesis. Stuff like that.
It is still cost-benefit thing for me.

When I was young, I did it a lot with Microsoft Office, Photoshop, Movies, MP3, and etc. Because I didn't have money.

I don't pirate anymore because I make money.

In this day of age, piracy has increased risk with malware that mines bitcoin or locks your disk for ransom, so the risk is much higher and effectively lowers the benefit.
I think in some european countries it is, but don't quote me on that.
I don't agree with money being the issue. While I think copyright is far too long, most of the stuff people complain about would be well within coverage even at the original 14 years. I don't think it's wrong for creators (including companies) to set prices as they wish.

What does bother me though and I do think is genuinely against the core public bargain of copyright is when material simply isn't available at all, or when copyright holders attempt to extract rights beyond copyright via layering DRM and such on top. The whole reason the public grants copyright is to encourage the creation and availability of quality IP. If IP isn't available at all in a given market for a reasonable period of time, IMO it should lose copyright protection. I'd support a separate "credit right", whereby for a long period of time after expiration of copyright anyone making derivative works would need to reasonably prominently credit the original with links, but copyright should never be about keeping things away from the public, that's literally the polar opposite of the point. I should be able to go buy a DRM-free FLAC or the like of music or DRM-free MKV of movies I'm interested and then use them on all of my devices, and be able to do that for any content made anywhere in the world (at least within Berne convention type countries, which is most of them). With books, original music and so on, the protection was the law and that was that. That's what it was all built around. Copyright holders should not be able to have it both ways, to get legal protection and then add tons of stuff beyond legal protection (and lobby to disgustingly and retroactively extend copyright as they frequently did).

So if I go to get something and it's "not available in your region" or exclusively via DRM'd streaming then yes, I'm open to copyright infringement. Even more so and without hesitation if it's just not published at all anymore. Copyright should never, EVER be about REMOVING IP from the public sphere. But if a game is on GOG and they want $60 or $90? Or hell if someone wanted to charge $500 for the Ultra Hyper DigiGigi Polkadot Edition? Then I'll respect that. If it seems worth it I'll get it, if it doesn't I won't, but "monetization" isn't wrong for luxury goods. There is lots of choice, including doing stuff ourselves more easily than ever. What I do think is absolutely wrong is not putting things up for honest direct sale.
Yes, the Lithium and Cobalt sources we have currently running wouldn't be enough to turn every single vehicle in the world to an EV.

But we don't need to do that.

New mines for both Lithium and Cobalt are being started, new battery chemistries are being investigated (including ones based on _wood_ [0]), there is also the option of ethanol/biogas/biodiesel for existing ICEs and maybe even green hydrogen if someone manages to optimise the process about 5x to make it cost-effective.

And the main thing people tend to forget: EV batteries are highly recyclable. We're up to 90% now, closing up on 95%. The biggest thing keeping it from being a huge industry is lack of batteries to recycle.

Like the article says, reuse of old EV batteries is a hugely valid option, more so than recycling. A 50kWh battery with 50% capacity loss is till a 25kWh battery, which will run a full American McMansion for a few days easily.

Compare that to ICEs where the fuel is literally burned up in smoke and is exactly 0% recyclable.

[0] https://www.storaenso.com/en/newsroom/regulatory-and-investo...
How do you save on YouTube Premium? Is it accounting for the money value of time that you save on ads, replacing another music service, or the value of listening to the videos in background?
That old classic chestnut of lies by Closed Source companies intent on making CIOs believe Open Source is not secure...
Children's interests can be fickle. Learning a skill takes a serious investment of time, and a child left totally to their own devices could end up bailing on a lot of interests prematurely, because they never get over the initial hump. This is a natural part of parenting, to teach your children about investment of effort.

The horror cases like GP's "9 years" are essentially a miscalibration, failing to recognize a suitable stopping point.

"Cheap babysitting" is not it. Lessons are short and more expensive than childcare. Enforcement of practice time is a hassle (and a balancing act!)
I think that comparability is usually pretty important. You want want a cpu that your existing compiled programs will run on. Also compiler support, if every new revision required a new instruction set then all the compilers out here would need updating each time. I believe instruction decoding is pretty damn fast (and pipelined too!)
Except none of the shipping big.LITTLE implementations are "RISC" under the framework of the article, though. ARM is very definitely post-RISC and has very CISC-y features. Apple's versions go even farther and include x86 compatibility modes, very CISC-Y. And if course Intel's x86 is never accused of being RISC, either.

And really the entire reason big.LITTLE even exists at all is because the cores got too large and complex. Or, alternatively, they got too "CISC-y". So big.LITTLE is therefore about shipping a "CISC" and "RISC" core on the same piece of silicon really.
Can't fault him on hiring a crew to craft his videos. He has better things to do with his time. Wouldn't you outsource that if you were in his position?

My 2 mins of googling came up with more like 3.6B$ on malaria, but even 2B$ is a shit-ton of money. I certainly haven't donated 2% of my net value to malaria (and it's only on the order of 1/10000 of his!).

Malaria rates are down around 30% since 2010, thanks in part to Gates. He's likely saved thousands to hundreds of thousands of lives.

Malaria is just one part of his philanthropy. I'd love to see the numbers for Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk. It would be great to all billionaires follow suit with this kind of "easy decision".
What did people think was going to happen with subscription services? That you get everything you wanted in just one? This was inevitable, I am not quite sure why people were so excited about Netflix. It just meant that we own even less of what we consume. When you brought a disc (or even a digital version of it), you can kind of claim ownership. With subscription services? You can't even morally argue that you own it.
Even "blacklist" is a bad word at this point I think.
>"The Itanium design was to encode multiple instructions in very long instruction words, where all of the instructions in a given word can be executed at once.

I believe you are describing VLIW architecture here? Is that correct?

>"This removes the need for the hardware to do reordering, and shoves the responsibility for finding parallelism onto the human or compiler, both of which can, presumably, take a more global view of the problem than a piece of silicon can."

Interesting. How exactly does a VLIW architecture remove the need for reordering? Is it just that any instructions in a word mean automatically mean there's no dependencies in that long instruction? Was that the original intention of VLIW?

I'm curious did Itanium fail because the model of pushing the complexity onto the software and a human failed or did it fail because of lack backward compatibility for a world that was largely x86 at that point?