skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
github has kicked people off the platform for using the verb "retard" in a mathematical sense. And they upheld it when escalated to a chief something-or-other.

Anything github does the burden of proof is definitely on them.
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Is this a bot account?

In any case, the submission is a dupe.
I used to buy nice quality Sony point and shoot models and used to like playing around with manual mode as you could do things phones at the time could not, particularly in low light. They were also somewhat portable and just about fit in a pocket, there was no way I was going to carry around a DSLR

But I don't think i've touched it in years now, not quite sure which iPhone suddenly made it redundant, I think maybe the iPhone 10? Low light performance on the iPhone has advanced in leaps and bounds and that's what I found I used it most for.
Are you saying that voices across all races, cultures etc sound the same?
Most European countries do share similar demographic trends relative to the US as Germany. In fact Germany's enrollment rates are above average.

Again, wealth gaps don't affect the prices of goods. The cost of cars, cell phones, and plenty of other things are largely the same between the US and other developed countries. Housing in the US is plenty cheap outside desirable metros. And Europe similarly has expensive housing in desirable metros. Housing is expensive in Stockholm, the better parts of London, etc.
this sounds economical but also a major chore
Chat-GPT and StableDiffusion aren't perfect. They still produce weird responses or visual artifacts sometimes. But, it can be easy to move past these idiosyncrasies.

I think the brain is just more sensitive to speech, because inflection and tone is a key part of communication. So even subtle artifacts in the generated voice are really obvious and annoying.

Plus, as another commenter mentioned, books are long. An issue in 1 out of 10,000 words will be enough to break emersion.
As I get older I feel that I care less about watching shows and movies, I would rather watch something interesting on YT, read a book, or just do some other hobby.

Music is handled by Spotify and I'm happy with that, Games through Steam which I also like just fine.

I have a netflix subscription, but I rarely use it now and I don't think my parents do either.
But not all types of music are equally in demand. If consumer tastes change, it would obviously make sense to layoff musicians trained to make music for a genre that nobody wants to buy anymore.
That's a great story. Had no idea about that either.

In my case, I had a Packard Bell - which had 1 floppy & 1 CD-ROM.

https://www.weavweb.net/2020/09/22/packard-bell-486-dx2-66mh...
I find it immoral to give money to (c)opywrong companies who support Intellectual Slavery.

Their products are also strictly inferior to simply downloading movie files.

I'm older now so am not pirating myself like I used to, but I fight each and every day to try and get momentum going for a Constitutional Amendment in the USA to abolish (c)opywrong and patents laws once and for all: https://breckyunits.com/the-intellectual-freedom-amendment.h...
I agree, 2007 is closer to the epicenter. However, I also think the shift away from social media and cell phones is rather uncommon. I have had no social media for almost a decade, but we are few and far between.
I just got back into Usenet.
A peer review young earth creationist journal would still gatekeep anything that did not come from a young earth perspective.
>Papers can be in any scientific, or social scientific, field, but must be from a young-earth perspective and aim to assist the development of the creation model of origins

The problem is that inherently peer review is designed to act as a brake:
>Peer review, in which a scientist's paper is scrutinized by a group of colleagues, is designed to find errors and weed out half-baked ideas.

But in blocking you are going to reject ideas.
>And although some have criticized peer review for rejecting new ideas just because they're too radical for the establishment to stomach

How much of a problem and how many revolutionary ideas are stopped, I don't know. I am more concerned about the reproducibility problem in science.
I think part of the problem is that there are a lot of integrations from Slack that aren't available on Mattermost. You can certainly make the argument that those integrations won't be developed until more users abandon Slack for Mattermost, but for some it's not worth the loss of functionality.
Piracy is illegal.

Before I proceed, I have to say that in my personal opinion piracy makes sense when it comes to media, as in music, movies, shows. I feel like application piracy is a different thing. Mainly because with an application you use it a lot, while media, you own a CD, you can listen to it, but it won't be daily for years (like Windows for example). I'm also against book piracy, with the exception of university books because it's predatory.

If I did pirate stuff it would for the exact same reasons why I would have had a pirate FTP server in the 90s.

In the 90s it was because you had to pay multiple fees (or had to buy multiple CDs etc) to get access to media. If you lacked the money, you had no access. As a poor college student, it made sense to use piracy bridged that gap financially.

In the mid 2000s you basically had to use Netflix and Pandora/Spotify/Internet Radio, I have to pay a few fees, and have access, or watch small advertisements and get it for free. At that point piracy would be doing more work to get the same result.

Nowadays you have multiple services, they each have tiny niches which is exactly how Cable TV works in the States, and why piracy made sense in the 90s to begin with. If you like 4 TV shows, there are probably in 4 different streaming apps you need to use. All with their own fees. To make things worse services like Hulu, and others are still going to have advertisements. Essentially you are paying the services to watch a show, and they make money a second time by forcing advertisements down your throat.

That's BS. Maybe I just don't like spending money.

There is another problem about ownership. Anything in the cloud, you don't own, even if you paid for it. $4.99 to get this movie online annoys me. I have no control of it. I can't resell it. Sometimes it's hard to even tell what you own. I rather have it in my hard drive, then I can do what I want to it.

Ultimately though, piracy is about greed and money, both for the pirate and the services that get affected. In the 90s it was about freedom of access. That's not as much an issue case anymore.
Regarding your last paragraph, could you expand a bit on why you believe that copying creative content does indeed remove something from the author?

I guess the usual argument is that a copy of something cannot, by definition be theft. The author still has the object in question.

Sometimes people counter by saying that a potential sale has been lost, but you can’t steal something that you didn’t have in the first place (the sale). The assumption that someone would have otherwise paid always seems to me a bit of a stretch.

I guess you have thought about this more than i have so I’m curious as to what you’ve come up with.
I'm not there yet, but the fragmentation of movie and tv services is a killer.

I want to watch the latest of <series I enjoy>, which service is it on? Prime? Netflix? Great. Disney? OK, that has a lot of content we enjoy too.

But there's also Stan, Binge (or NowTV in the UK) ... and wtf? Apple tv? Not really there yet IMHO though the dinosaur thing was good. AMC or Paramount? Now you're just taking the piss. One or two services is fine, but what seems to be happening is the old-school distributors are trying to get in on the game (NowTV/Binge etc) and the production networks are trying to regain access to streaming bucks by pulling a few 'anchor' shows off the other services and putting them on their otherwise execrable offering.

I don't know what the answer is. But I do know I'm already using a VPN to log into the same services in different countries to try and watch stuff, and taking a lot of 'free trials' that I then cancel when I've watched the thing I want.

Piracy has got to be easier! And when it is, it thrives. When paying is easier (Spotify/Deezer/Whatever) then that wins.
I’m not playing the "which service is this show or movie on" game. The alternatives are still a better user experience than buying legit. I have one place where I go for everything and there are no ads anywhere, I'll pay for content but I’m not going to compromise on experience.
This. I just got back into it a couple weeks ago.
I never wanted to subscribe to multiple streaming services. Netflix was a great solution but having more than one is a deal breaker for me. Password sharing with friends with other services alleviates that but the industry is trending against that practice.

This alone is a dealbreaker for me. Pricing is ridiculous for third world countries.

The competition and drying up of licenses has also diminished a lot of netflix's value. If you think of a random movie, chances are you wont find it there and said chances are steadily diminishing every year.

I think these trends make piracy more and more palatable each day.
Why gyms don't work but Superhuman does
I have Prime as an Amazon subscriber and beyond that I tend to cycle through film subscriptions every few months. Just closed off Disney+ and now back in Netflix, had Mubi last summer, and prior to that Netflix.

This seems to be a sensible approach, provided you're not frothing at the mouth for new film releases.
In my recollection the fed actually ruled out a 75 bps hike back in the summer for basically no reason which many thought was a huge mistake then quickly reversed course when cpi came in much higher than expected and did hike 75. Yet another reason why they have very little credibility.

Link for reference: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/unhinged-markets-followed-...

Fed funds futures predict what they will do -> cnbc talking heads use fed funds futures in their predictions -> the fed does what everyone thinks they will, rinse and repeat
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Interesting, as I've grown older, I have had to actively try and keep my morals defined.

Constantly seeing people behave badly and get rewarded for it has increasingly led to me to believe that obeying the rules is a fools game.
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Is there a body of evidence that suggests people get more misled and confused after using things like ChatGPT? It seems like a reasonable hypothesis, but my own experience doesn't necessarily support it. I've used the language model at character.ai for a bit and have found it to be clarifying in a sense. When the model spits out some overconfident misinformation, it's a great opportunity to argue with the bot about it in ways one could never argue with another person - certainly not a stranger, at least.

Perhaps I've been confused and misled so badly I don't realize it, so all I can really say is I think it's premature to assume people will be any more misled or confused by technologies like ChatGPT when all they have to do now is get on the internet or flip on a TV to be personally targeted with misleading and confusing information already. I think there's very real potential for the technology to give people a lever against misinformation if it helps them understand and explore their own thoughts/thought processes.

I guess to me, fundamentally, it's a question of who's the one with agency over using it, and to what end. I'd be much more comfortable once we can fit models like this on home computers and worry less about them suddenly trying to sell us sponsored products or convince us of some ideology because their creator was paid to do so.
Lotta good tips here for those wanting to pirate again lol. Thank you.
It’s funny, I’m more sympathetic than ever to pirates, given how frequently creative works are disappeared or moved these days - pulled from streaming for political/social norms reasons (1984 style), “purchased” items removed from libraries for licensing reasons or because a platform outright closes, and then the garden variety shuffling of content between platforms in what seems like a hypermodern version of IP musical chairs (“who has 30 rock this week”).

But at the same time I engage in piracy less than ever before. For me it seems like the hard part used to be obtaining the content — “why can’t I buy or rent the new Sopranos online” — but now the hard part is choosing something worth my time in the oceans of available titles.

This past week I watched a Norwegian miniseries about people stuck in an airport at Christmas (Netflix). Prior week I watched videos from a London Clojure conference (YouTube premium). Prior to that I rewatched an old Jim Jarmusch movie (Criterion). A couple months ago I was on a Hulu binge (The Bear, Only Murderers) before cancelling. I bought a comedy special from Louis CK’s own website. I only used a couple months of a free year of Apple TV, to watch Ted Lasso.

My default is to watch old Anthony Bourdain, either streaming (back when I had Hulu, or when I had HBO Now for Curb Your Enthusiasm) or buy a copy on Apple’s store.

But just as often I look around and give up. Most nights there’s nothing I want to watch. If I can, I make myself read a book or do some coding or maybe a podcast. I subscribe to streaming platforms then cancel. It’s so easy to sign up and then leave.

My point is, if I can find something I want watch it’s only a few clicks to watch it legally for a decent price (helps that I am not in my 20s, income wise). But it’s hard to find anything I want to watch. Piracy is almost a non sequitir these days, most of the time. But sure, if you find something you love, make sure to torrent a copy, because it will disappear eventually for one reason or another.
It surprises me that anybody that knew how to do it would ever stop.
There are very few species to befriend that are smart enough to use tools. It's entertaining watching smart animals.
I'm paying for YoutubeTV / YT Premium / Netflix / Prime / D+. We're getting AppleTV as part of some free bundle but can't remember why.

Despite all that. The thing I watch the most is content loaded on to my Plex server. It's just easier than dealing with trying to track down shows at all the places.

IMO what stopped music piracy was having all the content under one easy to access service. It's a lesson that TV / Movies studios haven't figured out yet.
I can get that some people have different satiety levels or have lower resting energy consumption, but this is just stupid. Unless you're running a nuclear reactor inside of you, there is a limit to how much calories/joules you extract by oxidizing things.
If CEOs pressure me to neglect security, I always tell them "Do you want to be on the top of the German news magazine Der Spiegel with a bad headline?".
China has imposed AI generated content to be clearly signaled as AI generated content, being images, text or whatever... On november 12.

They also made all crypto related things illegal just before the bubble pops.

I'm not saying China is good and everything else bad, but clearly there should be a middle ground betweens no regulation at all until people got burned and regulating to near death an entire industry (like electronic cigarettes) before anybody get hurt.
I understand that a racist would never write something like: "finally, the injustice has been corrected"
You are missing an important thing.

Netflix allowed a huge library of DVDs to be rented. You could have 3-4 DVDs on rotation for a rather cheap price.

This happened when Blockbuster would charge you $5 per movie, and Netflix would charge $10.99 for unlimited DVDs, but you could only have 3 DVDs checked out.

That's why Netflix was huge and killed Video Store rentals.
> “We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem,” he said. “If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate’s service is more valuable.” -- Gabe Newell

There have been many times where I've found DRM encumbered products inferior: trying to stream anime on Crunchyroll during primetime only to experience slowdowns; trying to screenshot something for a wallpaper only to get it blacked out; trying to download offline shows with subtitles, only to find subtitles didn't get downloaded with the video. Compound that with The Streaming Wars, I can't help but feel like a lot of people will turn to piracy out of necessity. It isn't enough that there are like 10 subscriptions to get all of the content you might want. It's also that each provider reinvents the wheel and each version is slightly jagged in different ways and doesn't work like a wheel. It's like 10 inferior clones of a wheel. Piracy, much to the chagrin of all of these services, usually fixes this: an H.265 .mkv file usually "just works" without problems in your favorite media player.

It's just a mess right now.
"It’s easy to imagine that decades from now, the chemistry of batteries will have changed so much that they will use two, three, or four times less than today."

It's easy to imagine, but is it even possible? My understanding is that the lithium is the charge carrier, and while there is some room to improve efficiency, less lithium means less capacity.

OTOH, it's quite possible that, eg, sodium batteries become viable, and the whole debate becomes moot.
Lithium iron phosphate (lifepo4) do not contain cobalt
I switched to purchasing one of the first among my peers, for any type of service. But I will pirate stuff which is artificially restricted for me by the location and won't feel any remorse. Regional locks should have died decade ago. As for the service fragmentation - I've picked two of each - Netflix+Prime Video, Steam+GOG, Spotify+YT, so far I simply don't have more free time to watch or play anything more. My wait lists are rather long even on these few services :) .
If other companies try to create artificial scarcity by pulling content to their new silos, well, it's their loss. They won't get my money that way.
If an antitrust related issue is detected in one region of the world, there is no reason for other parts of the world to re-use not the already detected issue.

And be real: in "big tech", antitrust related issues are bazillions. Vanguard and blackrock have to fixed that in the big tech companies they own/steer.
Reader here, it's a perfectly fine sentence.
> But imagine you have two TVs, identical sizes. A 4K TV that uses 900W and a 8K TV that uses 905W.

Assuming the same amount of visible light output, the 900W one is more efficient. What’s controversial about that? It’s no different than how a car might have a more appealing appearance but that causes it to be less fuel efficient. The efficiency calculation is not complicated by the fact that sometimes people value things other than efficiency.
This is my philosophy as well. I think it's a balanced approach. You are supporting the industry but also yourself. Even with this approach, I torrent much less now because there is so much high quality content that I can pay for.
> There is an interview with Siddharth Kara that suggests all lithium batteries contain cobalt and thusly depend on child slave labor

That is demonstrably not true. AFAIK the majority of EVs use LFP batteries that have no cobalt. The current RWD Model 3 in the US also uses LFP. That's the direction most EVs will probably head over the next few years.
Games: I rarely use it as demo if I’m not sure about a game. Helped me avoid CP77 ;)

Music: I gave up on my RIAA&Co protest and nowadays just buy the albums, usually on bandcamp. Not using streaming services.

TV: Depends a lot on availability. Sometimes things are not available in English with English subs (I’m in Germany), sometimes not available at all. Don’t have much patience for either issue. Otherwise, I always have Prime and often Netflix.

Movies: I don’t watch movies.

About Amazon Prime, they are finally raising the prices in Germany, from 70€/year to 90€ a year. But besides the streaming being decent, the shipping is a nice bonus (and here Amazon has the best prices quite often, especially if shipping is free), and there’s also Twitch Prime, canceling Prime would mean I’d subscribe to one more channel, which would be almost 50€ a year anyway…
LinkedIn has been wonderful for me.
I don't know what the situation is like in Germany, but here in the US there are far more people who are good at music than there are jobs. There are a lot more than 2 great Pianists in Des Moines (population 700k). I'm pretty sure just out local universities' piano professors account for more than two, plus their students are presumably great in their own right (I have not checked to see what they have) I have to believe Hamburg has some form of university with great professors.
Following up-- for anyone that wants to try it, if you use a referral link (plenty on Youtube if you look for lingq reviews) you can get like 120 lingqs upon signing up. That's a much better trial.

So far I'm liking it.
I never stopped being.
I don't know what all these companies were thinking when they started splitting up content into different services like this. Piracy only really arises when there's a service problem, and right now that's the case.
Yea I immediately recognized him, hope he's getting paid for this.
Again, skyscrapers pretty much always use garbage chutes and consolidate their trash. It gets sent to the he dump multiple times per day, not part of the street trash pickup schedule. You seem to be under the impression that the trash distribution is like this sequence:

1, 1, 9, 1, 2, 0, 8, 1, 9

In reality it's like this:

1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1

There's a few gaps where there's little trash to pick up. But there's no hot spots where there's massive amounts of garbage bags to pick up off the street.
It's possible if there was so much load on the server (traffic from Slashdot?) he couldn't telnet in or open an FTP session to change the HTML.

/. post: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/99/10/21/0848202/risc-vs-cis...
119 comments wasn't considered doing big numbers then.
Note someone does call out the Cube issue. No upvotes.

However, in this case it doesn't make much sense - he was changing the file anyway by putting in the "editor's note", with a lot of fancy formatting to boot.

My guess is the author was being cute in writing an acknowledgement of the mistake rather than fixing it silently.
SourceHut as a solution to centralized censorship is...questionable.

SourceHut bans anything blockchain/crypto related from their platform.
That's a pretty poor tone for HN. We don't do that sort of thing here.
I don't think warren buffet has worked out a day in his life and has publicly said that he consumes 6 cans of coke everyday( not 'once in a while') and works 14hrs sitting. What exactly is the personal cook feeding him that is offsetting his lifestyle.

I don't buy your theory that secret to longevity is a personal chef or a nutrition expert.
Seems like you have decided that based off of someone's race that all circumstantial evidence should be assumed to prove guilt