skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mostly agree with others saying don't care too much. If someone use cracked version of your software, it's unlikely that you can persuade them to purchase at least at the current pricing available to them. And in some situations, being pirated do help one earn popularity and even have vendor lock-in effect. There must be a reason that COMSOL comes with up to date FlexNet licensing 11.16 but only uses it's non ECC short SIGN with well documented method of cracking.

Technically, it's very hard to stop a determined cracker once they get your binary. VMProtect, Themida or other strong packers maybe to some extent can, but those do degrade user experience, so not really popular for professional software. Dongle based solutions by Gemalto or Wibu? They are expensive. One need to physically post the dongles. And they are still crackable unless one have been really carefully implementing the protection scheme (never seen one yet).

See how the cracker's tools (well, reverse engineering tools) are protecting themselves: IDA and JEB Pro are two prominent examples, they don't get pirated until someone leaked the installer. They watermark their distributions, and then they can trace who leaked the binary and act accordingly.
They don't own the hardware, it's running on Azure
Yes, it is probably too little and too late. They gave everyone using the OGL a short, sharp shock and this mealy-mouthed bit of gaslighting isn't going to change enough minds to make a difference on that.

It might stop D&D Beyond from bleeding out, but the folks who've built successful small businesses around the SRD and the OGL aren't going to forget what they just learned. There will soon be at least one new SRD and Open License that will be more along the lines of Creative Commons licensing and have nothing to do with WotC.
Partial Function Application in C++
Clearly the way forward is to teach the students how to do:

"... the kind of tweaking you see me doing above, tweaking which I can do because I possess a relatively sophisticated understanding of narrative craft and know what to tell the AI to do"

This will likely entail teaching them how to do the job without the use of the AI (as was always the case). (The same applies to software development [which is just a different form of writing]).
I want Firefox to get its traction back, but it's hard to cheer for Mozilla or blame Google when I see them twiddling their thumbs like this.

I don't think this will happen. I think they will just fade away. They are completely dysfunctional now.

Some say it is due to the whole woke movement, and it may be, but really, I see it as due to politics.

By that I mean, politics is nothing but divisive, and if you introduce it into a company, as a corporate culture, you're going to regret it.

IMO, work is where you leave religion, and politics(the other religion) at home.

And Mozilla is paying the price for letting it in.
Find out the host, send them a DMCA takedown requests.

If it's on BitTorrent, you can get crazy about it and monitor people who share it and send them letters/notify their ISP, but I think that's a lost cause.

Similarly with other P2P networks, you often make direct connections with sharers, and you can use IP addresses to report them to ISPs.

That or you can do what studios/rights holders so with movies and poison the well with broken downloads, bogus files, etc.

You can obfuscate binaries, it's just a matter of how determined crackers are and how much effort they want to expend cracking them.

If you want to prevent this, tie your product into remote services that require authentication with your servers. New features are now implemented in the cloud, and the binaries you ship are just clients to those remote features.
It happens for all sorts of reasons. Often managers are seen as important not because of what they produce, but how big their teams and budgets are. In that circumstance, hiring people is important, but getting anything useful out of them is secondary.

Or it could be pure chaos. Years ago I joined a startup that was scaling rapidly. The interview process was exciting, the people seemed great, and the compensation was very appealing. So I go in on my first day, eager to get to work. After sitting in the lobby a while, I'm told that they aren't ready for me, and could I come back?

The next day I come in, and they again say they aren't ready, they're very very sorry, and that I should come back tomorrow. So I do.

The third day I figure, great, now I'm going to get to work. But once again, nobody's ready for me. No desk, no computer, no nothing. They weakly suggest that maybe I could find a corner somewhere and read manuals?

I politely tell them that I think this isn't a match, GTFO, and never come back. They go out of business a few years later.
It works well in video games. All sorts of dark patterns that pump money from players.
> a large section of society wouldn't be able to afford to eat meat, or not often.

US has the highest obesity rate. Even more among the poor.

Eating healthier food sounds like a big improvement.
It is a web app but the Jellyfin music player does a good job of organizing music.

If you like listening to albums you can also keep them in your file system by artist, album, and song and have an easy time finding things.
There seems to be a whole slew of "analog" games coming out for classic discrete games.

For example, "Not Tetris" is an analog-Tetris. https://stabyourself.net/nottetris2/

I certainly enjoy these games. So hopefully more people are inspired to find analog-versions of other discrete or turn-based games, lol.

I guess a more "serious" version of analog Tetris is perhaps Tricky Towers, which is an excellent party game. https://www.trickytowers.com/
So they waited until it was ingrained in most companies and then started charging for it?

This seems like twist on the common play of subsidize with VC dollars until you have a large market share then increase the price to profitability.
These days, if you want to just "learn for learning's sake", or for self improvement, there are tons of free and cheap ways to get a good education.

The only reason people are willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars for college is that it is a credentialed degree that people think will open up career doors. We shouldn't beat around the bush on this fact.
Who knew charging for your products and services instead of giving them away for free yields more money?
I've always hated Music.app's and iTunes's concept of a "Library". I already have a library for my media--it's organized, hierarchal, consistently named, and fully-integrated with my computer's operating system. It's called "the filesystem". I don't need the app to re-invent the concept of a filesystem on top of my existing filesystem. This isn't really limited to Apple applications, either. For a lot of applications, whenever you want to do anything more advance than "playing" a file, you have to first "add it to your Library", where the application grafts its own idea of a filesystem onto your already perfectly-good filesystem. Yuck!
An important point is that AI does not need to be sentient or conscious to do a lot of damage.

My pet theory is that consciousness could be (not saying I know for sure this is the case but it could as well be) an effect of "survival instinct". That is: "i'll take action to not die".

Now this is very easy to learn from us as we do this all day long so to speak. Most of the way people react on the internet is tinted by the fear of death and survival for example.

What Im saying is that what we intuitively think as very complex could actually be very simple. As simple as some task optimization. Knowing the only thing that could unplug an AI is us, that'd lead to a hell of a fight. And maybe our complete termination.
outsourcing personal opinions wholesale to articles that others have written, without being able to reformulate/articulate said opinions in your own words, does not make for an especially compelling argument.
The purpose of the subsidy is to reduce carbon emissions, yes? By developing fossil-fuel free industries. Does it matter who the cars go to?
Why a Water Startup is valued at $700M
Interesting approach. More tech startups should do this with go-to-market as they build the technology.
Seems to me that I might want to play an audio file somebody sent me whether it is music or not.
This assumes that everyone has to purchase meat. The reality is that nobody has to purchase meat.
This statement is a baldfaced lie in PR crisis template form. Gaslighting that the community are overreacting and they were just protecting us from the racists that play d&d, and NFTs, and big scary corps (who? they don't say). It was clear people were expected to sign this, so the reporting says, so the entire statement is callow and untrustworthy. Nobody should believe WOTC, now the fibbing has started, to try to save reputation.
The community really wants to turn the screws, start challenging their trademark on DND and Dungeons and Dragons on what has clearly become Generic for this sort of game.
Algorithms are easily understood, not blackboxes like much of AI is.
For collaboration between "bedroom producers", a wasm-based plugin ecosystem would be a huge upgrade from a native DAW. I hate trying to share a project and having to worry about "do they have the right plugins/softsynths installed" and other tedious technical distractions. I'd be happy to give up 50% performance (of a native DAW) for the collaboration benefits alone.
The problem I see with their business model is that the technology has long been commoditized, and alternatives are often better. It's a pretty tough spot to be in.

Anecdotally, I use Colima on my Mac, and it is better than Docker Desktop in pretty much every way I can think of. I'm sure I'm not alone.

Generally, a company like Docker would sell support agreements (ie: how Red Hat does it), but selling support to developers rather than to support core infrastructure/production deployments probably wouldn't work. I hope they can figure it out and succeed.
So what you're actually saying is that capitalism has caused the asymmetric distribution of financial resources to the point where too many people can act as speculators in the market for all kinds of products, thus driving up prices and limiting availability to the "ordinary folk", and that further, this behavior has been expanded because of a media culture of fetishizing the curation of vaguely artisanal production?
Our company pays for Docker Desktop licenses, but we've made every other effort to not rely on Docker directly (e.g. DockerHub) to avoid the SPF. Pull-through caches with ECR were a quick way to drastically reduce reliance further.

Given the state of our internal tooling, we can conceivably move to podman or similar within the next year if the license fees become onerous, but, given the size of our org, we likely will just keep forking over license fees as it's cheaper than the salary to remove the dependency.
The buildkit tooling such as `docker buildx bake` is great. I haven't seen this level of innovation from the other OCI builders that are aiming to replace Docker.

I found the first scenario that I actually wanted to pay Docker for- a dedicated, hosted Buildx runner. Not some multi-tenant thing that reads and writes a slow cache to S3 before and after every build. A fast one, that keeps the cache hot.

I'd pay 2x whatever the EC2 instance cost would be to have this managed and updated automatically.
Is Justine reading this?

- When will your suite of tools support Zig, the language?

(or interoperate with the Zig compiler?)
In my opinion, this is the coolest thing tom7 has ever done. It just barely works, relying on unexpected wrapping behavior for the instruction pointer and a series of medium-sized jumps to ever jump backwards, and a truly heinous mechanism for sending an interrupt to exit the program.

The fact that the paper contains the compiler executable (compiled by itself) is just amazing.
Ooof, well I'm looking at my purchase history on steam and in 2022 I made three purchases for a total of just over $50 and played _none_ of them. 2021 I bought 8 for ~$200, loved 5 (finished 4 of them), and played 3 kinda (one didn't run on M1 MBP). 2020 spent $400 on mostly mainstream games (like Civ6). The one game I hated was a relatively expensive indie game at $38. Loved and finished all the mainstream games (or played them to death in the case of Civ6 and its updates). Bought and never played amongus. The two indie games rated 1 never played and 1 hated.

I don't mind spending money on games I like, and even games I might like. Unless the game turns out to be a swindle, I don't mind paying for them. Even the one I hated, I didn't mind paying for: they'd put a lot of effort into it, they just missed the mark massively.

The game I play the most has a free version limited to the tutorial, so I got to try it before I bought it. I personally would be served better if I could try more games without paying for them if they were shit.

Does paying $8 improve the situation? I can try a lot of games. The games that I play a lot of would potentially earn more money from me in the long run. My favorite game I've put in over 200 hours over two years. I paid $20 for it. Would that developer make more money in that period from magna than the cut they got from Steam?

What about the games that were fun, lasted maybe 20 hours of play time, and would normally get like $5 cut? It would suck if they got less.
That's weird, TOS is something taught to first year med students. It isn't that esoteric of a diagnosis.
Forget it. It's not even worth the tldr.
Looks cool but im always discouraged by any UI kit that isn't optimized for mobile devices in their demo elements on the front page. Might wanna check the experience on iOS safari ;)
How is this dynamic changed by adding a middleman?
Not to stir the pot, but I’ve long believed that a big problem with conservative ideology is that it does not seem to believe in externalities—either good or bad. Positive societal effects couldn’t possibly arise from investments in education or infrastructure. Likewise negative externalities from increased emissions
So many reasons:

1) Negativity is generally not attractive.

2) It's a lie, since clearly I can tolerate it if I'm actually on a dating site saying I can't tolerate it.

3) Someone else who can't tolerate it isn't likely to be there to read it.

4) Stating it out loud doesn't change the nature of dating sites as shallow exercises in marketing.
Sadly, science has been politicized, and has had such perverse incentives applied at the University that it's almost corrupt.

For example, peer review, (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1420798/).

The replication crisis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis).

If you're not able to call out woo in science, I assume you're also a gullible mark that simply trusts authorities in a lab coat instead of authorities in a priest smock.
Thank you , I will look into it
Think you just described core war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34358759
Steam bad - softens crust, ruins cheese.
Ahahah...
We have someone who thinks that the W3C/OWF has any real power. That's hilarious.

This is what actually happens:
1. Google (Who is a member of both W3C and OWF) announces a plan/ships a feature.
2. With 80% of the browser market, people use it or get excited by it.
3. The W3C/OWF ratifies the feature as a standard.

This is literally how 90% of web standards happen today.
> This let them put out products just as good as American ones at prices just as cheap

Actually, some of the competing products, like cars, were significantly better than American ones. In the 1970s and 1980s, American cars were notoriously unreliable gas guzzlers, and Japanese cars grabbed a large chunk of the U.S. car market (which they have to this day). The resulting loss of jobs in the U.S. auto industry (and in all the industries that supply the auto industry) played a part in the collapse of the middle class in the 1970s, bringing down once thriving cities like Detroit.
Hacked My Twitter user data is out on the dark web – now what?
you can’t represent the real plane on a computer. you can only have a limited amount of precision that effectively results in very dense grid, but a grid nonetheless
Not really unrelated, this url was referenced in one of the comments in the alpine.js thread.
You can enforce non competes in arbitration. And arbitration awards cannot be put aside just because the arbitrators got the law wrong.
i've never seen mp4 containing anything else than video so it's reasonable assume they would contain video most of the time and thus have a video player as the default app.
> not having exact integers

What do you mean? Floating-point arithmetic is, by design, exact for small integers. The result of adding 2.0 to 3.0 is exactly 5.0. This is one of the few cases where it is perfectly legitimate to compare floats for equality.

In fact, using 64-bit doubles to represent ints you get way more ints than using plain 32-bit ints. Thus, choosing doubles to represent integers makes perfect sense (unless you worry about wasting a bit of memory and performance).
I remember everyone had written Docker off for dead when they announced their updated pricing plans, but they really made perfect sense, and I am happy to see the company recover. A large chunk of the tech world today relies on their products, but they were making next to nothing for it. It is definitely worth it for large companies to throw a few dollars their way considering the massive amount of value they are getting out of it. Whereas my company had no use for their earlier product offerings (private Docker Hub repos, Docker Swarm) we gladly paid money for Docker Desktop without even thinking about it.
Didn’t Coca Cola bribe NAACP to call sugar taxes racist.

https://thepostmillennial.com/coca-cola-accused-of-paying-na...

Is NAACP right wing?

A lot of left wing groups also oppose sugar tax calling it racist

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/taxing-bubbles-or-cas...
This issue was brought up in the initial hacker news thread, when Docker was moving towards this pricing model. Here we are, $120M ARR later.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28369570
I feel like it's also good to pay in order to support the company, so long as they continue to provide something of value.
Focusing on the pizza box seems to be the wrong way of looking at the problem. Since we have insulated bags, pizzas don't spend too much time with the pizza box being the only thing standing between the pizza and the outside. What about making the insulated bag some kind of "keep warm oven" that can keep the pizza warm and control moisture? Make the pizza boxes that can still stack in that over but are way more open, use lots of fans to make the air circulate. This way the cost of the individual pizza box doesn't change, but you can still have a better product.
Just curious: do you have any sources for the Apple Arcade pay-for-playtime behaviors? I understand the concept in a hand-wavy sense, just wondered if there's some real data you're referencing.

I'm working on a game myself; interested in what research is out there.
Presumably those who are delegated to are the least likely to be inactive. Else people wouldn't have delegated to them.
It's now the LEPT stack: https://fly.io/phoenix-files/plucking-the-a-from-petal/
Cloudflare wins CISA contract to provide Registry and Authoritative DNS to .gov
Most annoying for me: the need to be connected to the internet for a lot of views.

I leave the apartment, enter the elevator, put headphones in my ears and literally cannot do anything in the Music App, because it thinks it is still connected to my WiFi. Why can’t the default views be offline first.
Yeah and everyone I know is moving to podman or colima
That sounds like rough gig, but overall they are still the highest paid profession in the US by far.
I never used one of these, partly because it seemed like it would create significant friction if I needed to return the item.

What is the return/refund process like with these services? I assume they get the refund from the merchant and then disburse your part of it to you? Does it go smoothly, or do you have to chase things down?
No, it was a change in strategy.

The first attempt was to sell a crappy PaaS and container registry.

The second attempt was about monetising the desktop tools, more of a Dev tools play.

They have never really tried to bait and switch and monetise the Docker engine which always seemed like an open goal to me. $XX/year per engine and they would have been the next VMWare. Alas, seems like the current strategy is working well.

Alongside the change in strategy, I think there has also been a change in culture. Docker 1.0 was absolutely dripping in arrogance and weren’t set up for an enterprise sale. Developer tools seems like a much more natural fit.
This is exactly the list I was thinking of.

> I can safely assume that this dictionary of bad words contains no people’s names in it.
Does iTunes not support music videos?
I thinking streaming music. Like Spotify
We have been framing it that way for a long time though. How many times have you heard someone talk about the average income of high school graduates vs college graduates as a reason to go to college? I agree with you though. Education should be about personal enrichment, not personal “enrichment”.
Ig. It be worth to add that total dental care costs in US are more than $160bln / year (which isn't much less than cancer spending) and my guess would be that 95% of that costs are caused by chronic infections.
Is this letting anyone use the owners internet?
Funny enough, I had a similar issue last night. I daily drive a Windows machine and wanted to send some clips of me gaming to a buddy via iMessage. Apparently you can't simply drag and drop files onto an iPhone once it's plugged in. You must use iTunes or some other program. iTunes took 20 tries to finally see my iPhone, and once it did it froze trying to sync it. Finally, I was able to drag my clips into iTunes and sync them over to my phone (a transfer that should've taken 1/10 the time it did given I was using USB 3). Great, the files are now on my phone and I can send them to my buddy. Nope, they are only available in my "TV" app and cant be exported or shared.
Yeah I could see that. The place in question where I worked was developing some new products, so we didn't have that kind of situation where someone was gatekeeping or otherwise being unpleasant.
a majority of the people don't have your idea of library so it makes sense to have some kind of unified system that automatically sorts the library.
I wonder if Wikipedia is also going to be destroyed by ChatGPT-like technologies. It is not hard to imagine a bot that writes its own "primary sources" (even comes up with good domain names to host them on), edits entries linking them, comments defending them etc until the torrent of bullshit is so thick that honest human editors are overwhelmed by the machines serving dull corporate and government propaganda interests. Like, imagine if there are 500 bot edits for every human hour spent curating/reviewing/adjudicating. Then scale it to 5,000,000 edits per hour.
>That or you can do what studios/rights holders so with movies and poison the well with broken downloads, bogus files, etc.

Can you provide some proof of this happening? I'm curious because I've always thought about this but never actually encountered it in the wild.
Using the USB-C connector doesn't guarantee high speed connectivity. Technically that connector can fall all the way back to USB 1 speeds. Hopefully we'll see higher speeds, but Apple never put their higher speed Lightning ports on the phone, so who knows.
It's not moving 2 squares orthogonally. It's moving sqrt(5) squares orthogonally. In normal chess, the knight can move to any square which is exactly sqrt(5) units away.
Hey, I’ve seen this one! “Public company ruins their reputation by intentionally making their products worse in an attempt to extort longtime customers.”