skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a publisher for >10 years. At first I used the policing services, but I stopped worrying about torrent sites and other low-grade pirates when it was clear that A) most readers don't use them B) site operators are located overseas and don't give a FF about U.S. C&Ds and C) I have better things to do with my time.

As for pirates on Amazon itself, or other major marketplaces: That's a different story. I have a registered trademark on Amazon Brand Registry and do use it to find bogus copies and copyright violations (usually in the marketing copy or cover images) to get them removed, with about 60 or 70% success.
There's many different worlds out there.

I think most of the developers on HN have predominately worked on long-lived products where some culture of heavily testing things makes perfect sense and the idea of doing anything else seems strange. If you've got a customer base on some SaaS that depends on things working as expected, then yeah, having lots of tests to make sure that your system is consistent and changes on various edge cases spread over the course of years don't break subtle things is vital.

So there's probably sort of a developer cultural disconnect when somebody who has often built urgently needed, shorter-life, bespoke projects points out that there's some types of projects and environments where software testing brings a much different value-proposition. In some cases, you're not building something that's intended to last for years: maybe you're building a specific software that's intended to be used in a booth demonstration for 3 days in one industry conference, as an example. In some cases, the speed of development and an absolute lowest cost takes priority over perfect software engineering principles, or otherwise something couldn't even be built.
Remember:

1. The prohibition War on Drugs had nothing to do with public health, it was a cynical plot by the Nixon admin to attack its perceived enemies, African-Americans and leftist hippies, using the establishment and media. Ehrlichman admitted it in 1994 on tape.

https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/

2. The ideological cause of the Nixon admin was recreated by Roger Ailes in the vehicle of Fox News. It largely accomplished its goals of radicalizing millions of Americans towards their warped views and permitted the denigration and exploitation of women employees along the way. I would wager most nursing homes play Fox News constantly and their inhabitants, both worker and housed tend to lean that way. It's inexplicable how many poor whites believe/d Nixon and Trump were their saviors.

3. Nixon's alma mater's newspaper at Whittier College found an old listening device https://rense.com/general20/whi.htm

4. The assassination of Fred Hampton in 1969 by the Cook County's State Attorney, state police, Chicago police, and the FBI (J. Edgar era). Surely, POTUS Nixon signed-off on it. https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/1/24/22244731/new-fbi-reco...

5. The first episode of the Nixon interviews drew a 45 share, the highest in history for a political documentary which still stands. The interviews has its own play and a movie, both named Frost/Nixon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_interviews
So I had no idea what I would be reading when I started, but WOW what an amazing story. I could not stop. Halfway through I thought to myself this would make an amazing TV series as it seemingly has everything: finance, politics, spies, assassinations, backdrops of the UK, Germany, Libya, Singapore, Philippines, Russian mercenaries, private mansion gatherings, a cunning mastermind (Marsalek)...I'll just call it now and say that one day a production company will make a killer TV series out of this (a movie is too short to do it complete justice).
Great 2600 vibe
It's a popular right-wing conspiracy theory based on a completely unsubstantiated claim by an anonymous blog poster.
Using HDMI radio interference for high-speed data transfer
I didn't intend to patronize, just remind you to chill out. I need the same reminders from time to time.

I note that the conversation that started from your re-submitted (and much improved) comment was quite productive and insightful on all sides, which is exactly what the site guidelines are designed to enable.
Oh? Who is that 'known' by? Certainly not any of the over 100 regulatory agencies around the world who have made aspartame one of the most studied compounds on earth. Unless you have PKU or migraines there is literally no widely accepted science that says otherwise.
Isn't this a many times debunked myth that just keep coming back?
Exactly. For ASP.NET they also optimized latency heavily.
> my problem is that every other rapper sounds like T-Pain today

They really don't, but you've made up your mind so you'll only ever really hear it when it sounds like T-Pain, then go "you see! all sounds like T-pain!"

Since the T-Pain era (known as the ringtone rap era) we've had everything from To Pimp a Butterfly to Flower Boy to Kids See Ghosts to LP!

It's been a decade+ of innovation on a level that makes the old days look mundane.
I suppose you could treat it like a kind of subscription. But in a real subscription, you have to take upgrades, like it or not. When you're purchasing the software, you don't.

Also, and this is the huge problem with subscriptions, it's rather common that I need to work with old data that can only be dealt with by older versions of software. Subscriptions lead to a kind of rot, because you can't save the old versions of the software for future needs.
The Boston setup works great. The folks on the Boston Redevelopment Authority make a ton of money on the DL.

Oh did you mean work well for the general public?
ProofNet: Autoformalizing and Formally Proving Undergraduate-Level Mathematics
> We will (barely) survive

That a single company, in an unrelated market (ads), merely refusing to do business with you, can almost bankrupt you, means it's time for trust-busting. No single company should have such power.
Hugo is great but the learning curve is madness. I've used it twice with a couple years in-between, and succeeded, but it's very annoying to have 1-3 hours of failure before you see anything useful.

Add theme, follow tutorial, somehow blows up, need to figure out exactly where to put what, round and round then find a tiny wedge that works and just expand that until I have something that does what I need. But once it's set up it's really fast and you can iterate on your pages very nicely. No "tons of imports" that I needed with Jekyll.
I also didn't realize that police officers used HN.
Why else would all the stores around here have signs that say "No Hoodies / No Sagging Pants" /s

I hate society.
all other roads are shared infrastructure that can be legally used by those who are walking or are using vehicles other than cars.

Try walking on the road in any business district and see how long it is until you get a ticket for jaywalking or illegally walking in the road.

And while a rural highway with little to no shoulder may be legally open to pedestrians and bikes, it's practically inaccessible since sharing a road with 50 mph traffic (which means real-life 60+ mph speeds) is risky.
I only see two problems - take off and landing. How to you keep from having wing strikes with those back wings?
I think the idea is that the margins are better on luxury houses/apts/condos (less plumbing per sq ft, etc), so developers are incentivized to build at lower-density than is optimal for alleviating housing supply issues.
Show HN: Former game devs building a platform showcasing game projects
From my limited exposure to Cambridge, MA’s, it seems well balanced to me. As an abutter, I’ve gotten notices of a few different projects nearby and chosen to attend the meeting on each one (mostly to learn in case I wanted to go through the process for our property sometime; in each case, I went having submitted written comments in favor of whatever the neighbors were proposing to do, even in a case where I think what they chose is frankly pretty ugly).

In the course of attending those, I usually got to sit through 3-5 others each time. All of the discussions seemed quite reasonable and almost all were approved as proposed or with only minor changes. When an abutter is making obviously nonsense arguments, they get to say their piece and then the project is approved; when there are genuine concerns about the proposed variance, the design board seems to help the applicant reach a state that balances applicant’s desire to use their property and whatever the underlying reason for the rule they’re seeking relief from is.
When Adobe moved to a subscription model (and not a very nice one at that) I vindictively hoped that they would spiral down the drain to irrelevance.

Kanpai!
Not merely the modules but chipset and firmware support are required as well. Sometimes they are even incompatible so certification comes up. Put together a few cheap things and the price jumps to business levels.
Latin and Proto-Germanic were both Indo-European languages but that doesn’t make them the same language. A lot of the family resemblance between English and other related languages like German or Dutch is lost under the thick blanket of Romance vocabulary.
In Seattle if you want to put your money where your mouth is, you can legally purchase a parcel’s unused “air rights” (the unused development capacity).

It’s most commonly used in single family areas, where homes buy them from other lots to preserve their views.
Being a video is a pain point for me. I much prefer a useful text tutorial with code I can copy, etc. But I don't want to be a choosy beggar so you do you :)
ChatGPT Could Embed a ‘Watermark’ in the Text It Generates
I liked the hover effect on the navbar buttons. It's simple, but it gives a kind of cartoonish effect.
Well, no worries for me. I found out years ago I'm allergic to this stuff the hard way.

Gave me hives all over my face for a few hours. Intensely itchy.

Now whenever I drink something new, I always look out for it.
France Owns 14 Countries
Socialism Boosts American Sport
My parents were English majors, and they met in Anglo-Saxon class.
My father described speaking Anglo-Saxon as being like cursing all the time. Everything is basic words like "shit" and "blood".
https://archive.md/kxM6I
It's an opt-in feature, so it's only for the emails you request to be summarized.
https://archive.ph/8SgyY
Because unity is not yet on CoreCLR. But unity shouldn‘t be much different to other applications. Jetbrains moved Rider only a few years ago to .NET Core, and everything became much snappier (it was on on .NET 4.x on windows and on mono for Linux/Mac before, which was even slower than the windows only full framework)
I have a fairly expensive to laymen watch collection. (Enthusiasts would consider it modest since prices can get silly)

I work in tech but my education was in mechanical engineering and I appreciate the little microcosm of precision manufacturing, materials science, and craftsmanship that goes into a rube Goldberg mechanical movement.

So I don’t really own them for any specific purpose and I just buy them when I feel like it.
Norwegians speaking their native tongue to me sound like they’re speaking German with a Geordie accent.
LA and SF seem trapped by their design. Sure they need way higher density, but that would require transit that handles density better than cars on a road. But in order to build high capacity transit they want people to prove that it would be fully utilized and that won't be true if you're servicing areas that are currently all single family homes.

So high density housing can't be build because there is no transit, and high capacity transit can't be built because there is no high density housing.
No, something is off:

> The $20 billion purchase price for Figma equated to 50 times its forecast $400 million annualized recurring revenues in 2022

If you think that serves Adobe shareholder interest, you are mistaken.
Unlike most comments here, I think this is very well made!, its much better than the original site, easy to read, easy to understand and invitijg to learn more about W3C, rather than an old website telling to stay away.

I think Debian should do the same, its much better now, but its no fedora website.
Not really. Airbus, a french company, is already providing high-quality satellite imagery. Based on the specs and the sample pic, I don't think this Sony thing is going to provide any useful imagery; its more of a fun artsy marketing campaign thing than something for serious use.

Just a month ago there was a startup announcement reselling satellite imagery to low-volume customers, and it raised fairly big comment thread. That thing has far better chance of democratizing satellite access https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34468644
But GitHub is a service, not software. Subsciptions to ongoing services make sense.
This is so painfully true, please, do yourself a favor and read the old papers of your field!

But, it takes courage to imitate our witty ancestors! I've been sneered at by many reviewers for my attempts ("unscientific style"?!). The best I've managed to pass through so far is starting a paper with a quotation from an old Agatha Christie novel: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ast.2019.05.015 (free copy here: https://core.ac.uk/reader/237464116 or at your local Sci-hub domain).
100 acres of farmland only requires 1 Ox 100 days of a year!
This is already obsolete.
Stupid, because it gives people a false sense of how this stuff actually works in the real world. Anti-knowledge if you will.

We sadly live in an age where we must be careful what we put out there.
Steam doesn't require DRM, some games purchased on steam can be run without steam running.

Valve provides a very simple (and easy to bypass) DRM which many games on steam use, this is likely what you're referring to.

Other games use third party DRM such as Denuvo which is hard to bypass and generally hated (can cause performance issues). These games have warnings on the store page.

Ultimately Steam had (has?) a monopoly on the PC distribution market and didn't really take advantage of it to do anything anti-consumer (instead this period introduced a number of prosumer changes like refunds) so while it is a company it's one I trust more than most.
IANAL, but be aware that contracts can be binding without a signed document. If you had a verbal agreement, drafted it up, and both kept up the terms of that agreement, the lack of a signature is not going to invalidate the contract. Talk to an attorney.
Can it fix merge conflicts?
Today’s left leaners: “I disapprove with what you say, so I will get angry and harass until you agree with me”
Actually, your kids care
This rings so true. Simplistic but can explain most things that are wrong in the US. For an immigrant I see this pattern everywhere from Corporates, Housing, Immigration, Homelessness making friends. Selfishness is in the fabric of society here.
Just to add to the conversation, I found this episode on the subject particularly interesting https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/311...
I played the Atari version of Popeye and always wanted to play the arcade version but they never had it around. Funny because Al Copeland was a friend of a family friend and Popeye and Popeye's was huge business around town. Most of my childhood friends managed to be on TV for "Popeye and Pals," a studio show where they'd show Popeye cartoons in between interview segments with the kids in the audience who were all busy munching down on 2 piece boxes of fried chicken.
I actually get subscription fatigue (per the title of another post) and am pretty careful personally about adding another "money leak" as a friend of mine correctly calls them. I'm mostly just pushing back on the notion that, when it comes to software, there can generally be the same sort of perpetual ownership (or at least useful ownership) that one associates with, say, buying a physical book.
This is kind of true, but misses an important point. Builders won't increase the supply if unit price is close to unit cost as their profit would be narrowed.

This is to say, if materials, labor etc is expensive, affordable housing may not be affordable either.
Lebanon news agency's photo archive stolen
You can't. Most cities have very restrictive hight limitations for all the reasons you can read about in this article -- complaints about congestion, traffic, shadows, etc.
And versatile. From getting your groceries to exploring those places you'd never been before. Not even speaking about the benefits for your health.

Here in Latin America we somehow imported the car-centric culture from the USA but slowly people has been realizing it just don't fit too well our own
complexities. Things like the Ciclovía[1] here in Bogotá came to be in part of that - people didn't liked how we surrended that much space for cars, and people wanted to do some workout. Why can't we take some of that space for that, at least temporarily?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciclovía
Developers can bribe individual politicians but NIMBYs hold all the power. NIMBYs control the votes. Developers don't.

> Yet somehow everything ends up paved over with a high rise on it eventually, like it or not.

Also this is just false.
"Currently, this service is available only at Japan and United States"

https://starsphere.sony.com/en/
Classy. At some point that 'nice neighborhood' was low-density farmland or widely spaced residential that no doubt didn't want to see new packed urban housing in their nice neighborhood. If you live in a city housing around you will steadily increase in density. You need to live with that, you own your property - you don't own everyone else's.
The bubbler map is one of those most pronounced examples of a dialect in Wisconsin.

There's a radio program (incidentally from Wisconsin) on some NPR stations - A Way With Words. Upon looking it up, I'm pleased that it's still going.

https://www.waywordradio.org/

On the flip side of "I'm pleased its still going" is "way too many search results"

(think... search... ah ha! There's an episode I remember that had the book in question https://www.waywordradio.org/johnny-on-the-spot/ )

Dictionary of American Regional English - https://dare.wisc.edu

There are some maps that make Indiana look like polkadots for certain words. ... And remembering again...

https://www.daredictionary.com/search?rcode=region.IN

https://www.waywordradio.org/regional-term-pitch-in/ (in particular https://soundcloud.com/waywordradio/1322-callersabrina-pitch... )
But that point is pretty far out, and even when you hit it, you can still make it work.
Adobe got lucky with this deal in a way that Musk could only wish for.
Barely https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?ssl=12&ssc=1&pln=12&pc=4...
Air Force nav satellite to launch on Vulcan’s first national security mission
I'm not sure this is exactly true though. There's plenty of (common) ways to build intentionally expensive housing, whether that's large minimum square footage or fancy shared amenities that up the cost of living there.

There's certainly demand for those things, and it's probably more profitable to saturate the most expensive "high rent" portions of the market first, but it's worth having incentives to also build smaller 1-bedroom places, or complexes without a pool, or without hardwood or stone floors.
I am just curious why we are allowing foreigners to buy homes in the US when we have a housing crisis. Here in New England, Chinese/Russians came in and started buying homes in the past two decades. Not only that, we end up educating their children for free in our public schools. Why? They don’t even let our companies operate in their country.

Edit: they should not be able to invest in real estate in the US if US citizens are not afforded the same rights in their county. Reciprocity. It’s not asking for much.
Getting a random pool works when your size (n) is not so many magnitudeblevels below of totalvpopulation (N). For example, say we are about to measure X variable on a deer population of 10k. If we capture 100 dears, we are good. Of we get less, maybe too. But with humans, the population is huge. This doesnt mean its impossible.
> it was built on top of v8

Was never built on top of V8 in any shape of form. Dart VM does not even share any code with V8.

Dart 1 was designed by people who originally started V8 (Lars Bak and Kasper Lund), that's the only connection.
Linux Kernel: Why the “volatile” type class should not be used
It only serves their interest if it creates a monopoly.
The issue of temperature control is covered extensively in the video as are some economic concerns (he sells oranges at NE farmer's markets!). What I wonder is if this could be a viable business. Land and possibly water could be cheap in that part of the country. Energy costs are negligible due to the design. Of course, there would have to be a big upfront capital expenditure and some time to get something like this going.
> Ultimately, you get what you incentivize

I've already claimed this for my tombstone
This is an important check to developer greed. You have to be able to maintain quality of life with new development.
The concept of a "luxury apartment" is an oxymoron. It's a rhetorical tool used by NIMBYs. Those apartments that get labelled this way are barely sufficient to fit a family and cost less than the median house, yet the median house would never be labelled a "luxury house".
It sounds like you are not familiar with the most vexing parse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_vexing_parse , https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14077608/what-is-the-pur...

Also pointer/multiplication ambiguity: https://medium.com/@bartobri/exploring-the-ambiguous-nature-... , https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1245... , https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41331871/how-c-c-parser-...
MS Flight Simulator Introduces Antonov An-225 Mriya
All proceeds to go toward the rebuilding effort for the Ukrainian aircraft.
Only solution is to work with some of Google Ads Partners to run Ads on their behalf.
They were probably not complicit in the fraud. They just looked the other way, because a scam in that scale was unthinkable for them. As far as I know there are no cases of bad faith or corruption known. They „just“ didn’t do their job carefully enough.
Design review in general is bad, if only because requiring individual approvals on projects is cumbersome to do for every single thing.

For example, projects compliant with zoning in New York can be built as-of-right and all review processes are administrative (e.g. fire code compliance)
Seattle has a particularly bad one. As far as I can tell it’s a general problem — our light rail expansion has been slowed down by the same tendency to wait until there’s near-unanimous consent.

Edit: I reminded myself elsewhere that SF is also pretty bad as this goes.
Norwegian has several loanwords from English. Some are pronounced differently (such as "juice"), while others use the English pronunciation, but sometimes with a Norwegian ending. The latter is more common among the youth.

An example:

"Denne eplejuicen er helt fucka / føkka"

-> This apple juice is fucked up.

Gamers often talk about "lev'le opp" ("level up") for example, but it's not used that often in its written form. It just looks strange to me.

Sometimes gamers even replace a Norwegian word such as "oppgradere" with its English equivalent ("upgrade"). In some cases it is pronounced as English with a Norwegian "e" sound at the end, like the "é" in French "café"

We also have a few loanwords from German, such as:

- "Vorse", from the German "vorspiel" (prelude). We use it to describe starting the evening drinking and partying at a friend's apartment before going to a nightclub / bar.

- "Dass". from "das Haüschen" ("little house"). This is used as a slang for toilet.

I don't see an end to this, as the Norwegian language is not as protected as Icelandic. The Norwegian language council sometimes tries to provide alternatives, but they are usually either too late or it just sounds silly.
More like less money to be made while it's available for free so why bother offering it at all