skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the Internet is an information superhighway

Oh my.

Anyways, TL;DR:

unimportant (but somewhat understandable to Average Joe) background on how Internet works

Nonsense example witha female named Christabel

Two sentences with a corporate bullshit name to advertise what CF made a speed test site: https://speed.cloudflare.com/

Speetest looks.nice BTW and try to measure the jitter which is a thing most speed test doesn't bother.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait generally? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. We ban accounts that keep posting like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35608465

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35599412

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35587730
The usual argument is that the goal is to write fiction, and you need some plot device to cause interactions, or the end result ends up too boring (for the kind of fiction desired).

Consider trying to make a procedural cop show where each investigation takes 2+ months, and the trial takes place a year later.
I think you can physically block them, you can't sue them though.
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A sensible choice. Now only if open source developers would update their licenses, perhaps a new GPL license, to restrict reselling of IP through AI models. These folks need to adhere to rules if we are to have a healthy ecosystem.
Clearly not, since you can have consciousness with only half a brain. Even a full hemispherectomy doesn't make you not conscious. In fact, there may be little change to the personality or cognition at all.

The symmetry between right and left brain doesn't really correspond to the types of symmetries they're talking about in the article. They're usually expressed as "The laws of physics are independent of X; you can substitute X with Y and the laws work the same." There isn't any kind of substitution here, so no place to apply the symmetry.
Netflix is shutting down the DVD business
X-planes may solve the sonic boom problem
... growing firms are also penalized. Also, if a company goes bankrupt (like the majority of companies), those last 4 years of amortization just go into the government's pocket. Even if you could ignore the time value of money, it doesn't actually even out over the long run.
> I don't want tabloid trash baked into my start menu. It would be one thing if we were actually allowed to curate and choose the news, but it's all selected for us. It feels like they're trying to manipulate the way people think with decisions like that.

No, they're paid handsomely by others who are trying to manipulate the way people think.
> Downsize your lifestyle

Or just actually pay what it costs instead of having it subsidised by uncle sam.
Retired now, but was a self-employed programmer for 35 years. Fortunate to get away from consulting and contract work (not recommended) and into developing and selling my own software product (highly recommended). Marketing was much tougher in the old days. Finding a need and filling it was very lucrative. Be ready to turn on a dime. Don't get distracted trying to solve technical challenges you think are cool but for which the market is too small. Focus on what your customers really need (as opposed to what they think they want). If you truly enjoy programming, being your own boss is challenging, but done right can be a hell of a lot of fun.
You're already a slave to many things, you just accept them as status quo.
For companies I think you're right; but a price tag of a few thousand dollars was a strong deterrent for students or hobbyists/learners to get into doing those development. I think the web was great for learners in the 90s/00s because no special tools were necessary. All you needed was Notepad and a browser. If you did some CGI/Perl or PHP you may also need a $5-$20/mo web host account, that's about it.
> the USA has one of the highest rates of corporate tax in the world

That doesn't seem right. Apparently it ranks 81st?

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/publications/corporate-tax-rates-a...
If you were there when we were writing that copy back in 2005, you could have schooled us in how not to write like a LLM that hadn't been invented yet.

Also, the copy you're referring to was written by a contractor, not "a bureaucrat."
why can't you just be normal
> I agree with all of the naysayers ... Speed is not my problem today

> A mere 1000x speed increase and single point of configuration isn't good enough?
> this isn't an incompatible upgrade

I genuinely can't understand if you are for or against this tool.
That kind of depends, the Asian countries that are communist seem to have struck a balance between capitalism and communism that suits them (China, Vietnam)

The DPRK seems to be a basket case, with regular crop failures (we are told), but its relationship with China ensures that it continues to survive.

Capitalism in countries like the USA seems to work for part of their population, but not all, there are large swathes of poverty and homelessness, and the disparity between the haves and have nots is enormous.

The whole point of an economic system, whether it be Capitalism, Socialism, or the more common middle ground (almost every country has struck a balance between the two, with Welfare states, public housing, public health, etc), is to ensure that resources are managed such that they provide for the population.

Capitalism is great at a micro level, people get to decide for themselves how to spend their time, what they want to eat/drink/wear/grow on their farms, and so forth.

But, it's absolutely horrendous at a state/macro level - can you imagine roading being multiple companies competing by putting half a dozen roads between yourself and your work? Emergency services have tried that model (Fire engines used to be owned by one insurance company, or another, and you would have a label on your home letting the crews know which insurance company you were insured by, so if the wrong fire crew showed up they would just watch as your home burnt down)

It's super easy to say "Capitalism has incentivised innovation" but the Soviets were ahead of the USA in several engineering fields, without capitalism (their incentive was competition with the USA)
I am supposedly on GPT4 via GPT+. I try using it for boilerplatey things, like terraform, and the results are simply incorrect. It seems more helpful in providing examples, even for some far more complex tech - like rust code.
PC Engines apu platform EOL
The key problem here is that for 70+ years companies have had the option to amortize or expense these costs. This change was made as an accounting sleight of hand to make the 2017 tax cuts look paid for over a long-term basis, but Congress never intended for this change to take effect. They know it isn't good tax or economic policy.

So now small businesses and startups are being thrown into crisis because Congress has accidentally implemented policy that they haven't gotten around to fixing.
If you buy a car from a dealership, then yes indeed you are "less" of a customer of the manufacturer.

Consider this relationship:

Toyota makes a car to the specifications of general motors, who brands the car as a "Pontiac Vibe" and sells the car to a Pontiac dealership. The Pontiac dealership then sells you the car at mostly a wash because you're also financing the purchase and they want to sell "your" loan to a loan bundler and reseller.

So -- everyone gets a cut, and almost nobody's actually got a direct interest in how the schlub who buys a car feels about the car.
> They were so convinced cars would fly, they all came with wings on them

I think that styling trend was due to making them look like jet aircraft. The taillights mimicked jet exhaust pipes closely. Even the front grille was often fashioned to look like a turbine intake.

Jet engines were some of the coolest, most visible, and most advanced tech in the 50s.
Cat & mouse game. If you’re defending against a whitehat business scraping with curl from data center IPs, sure.

Against a less-savory actor using hundreds of IPs from residential proxies/compromised hosts, you’re gonna have a rough time, especially if you’re unwilling or unable to use aggresive fingerprinting or (vomit) CloudFlare. Not to mention CAPTCHAs are generally already a solved problem for scrapers.
> Your attitude is obnoxious.

Aggressive swipes will get your account banned here, so please don't post like this, regardless of how provocative another comment is or you feel it is.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Our Final Season
Netflix just sent me the following email, announcing the end of their physical disc shipment business.

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For 25 years, it's been our extraordinary privilege to mail movie nights to our members all across America. On September 29th, 2023, we will ship our final iconic red envelope.

While times have changed since our first shipment in March 1998, our goal has remained the same: to provide you with access to the broadest collection of movies and shows possible, delivered directly to your door, with no due dates or late fees.

As the DVD business continues to shrink, it’s going to become increasingly difficult to achieve that goal. In our final season, we’ll continue providing you the best service possible, all the way to the very last shipment.

You may have some questions, and we've tried to answer them in our Final Season FAQ - and if you want to share something with us, you can send feedback here.

We sincerely thank you for joining us on this amazing journey. We could never have shipped more than 5 billion discs without movie lovers like you. It's been a genuine privilege to share movie nights with you.

Pop the popcorn, fire up your player, and enjoy this final season of red envelopes.

Sincerely,
The Netflix DVD team
>>they had several on board already as passengers. But none of them could reach the headquarters quickly enough to tell them, look, we’ll work this flight. And so the flight ended up getting canceled.

>>Michael Barbaro: Even though the flight attendants were on the plane.

>>Niraj Chokshi: Right, exactly. And so this kind of thing was happening across the board. And the airline just could not keep up with the nature of the problem.

Perhaps more importantly, they had provided no means to push decision-making to the edges of the system.

This is apparently an absolutely critical difference between the armed forces of Ukraine and Russia, where UKR has updated to modern command & control pushing decision-making out as far into the field as possible, while RUS has very centralized C&C, so UKR can outfight them even though outnumbered 5:1, and both sides are running short of artillery.

Here, SW, cannot even fix parts of their system when the fix is literally on the tarmac fully configured and loaded, just not centrally approved. They can't just say, we're good, every item on the checklist is verified, we're going, here's the data, we can update via communications en-route. I'd bet that such solutions exist within an hour of scheduled takeoff for more than 50% of the situations. Instead, it looks like they are 100% shutdown.
IANAA, but very important to remember that:

1) R&D classification of a single employee should be a percentage. Accountants don't list employees one by one on a tax return, they're grouped together and a percentage of their wages can be allocated to different functions of a business outside of R&D.

2) A lot of things do not qualify as "R&D". For example...

- Fixing bugs

- Maintaining existing features

- Improving existing features (even enhancing functionality)

- Building a feature because sales promised it to a customer

- Refactoring code

- Anything related to devops/infrastructure, upgrading servers, updating dependencies

- Anything related to customer support, onboarding or retention

- Anything related to helping Sales/Marketing close new business or get more leads

- Anything related to supporting day-to-day business operations

I'm not an expert, but I think it will be relatively easy for accountants to do some magic behind the scenes by classifying only a small percent of wages toward R&D.

I think the average engineer spends less than 20% of their time on "true" R&D, and if that's the case, 80% of wages can be deducted as an expense without amortizing.
Watch the Jetsons. You'd be surprised at how many of their futuristic gadgets we have today.
I recently bought a MacBook for myself, moving from Linux because it was a pain to manage with the amount of time I have to manage it (zero). My wife also got the same model, moving from Windows because of 11 being shitty.

Where MS has changed the Windows UI look and flow a million times since I started using it with Windows 3.0 or so, I still recognize extremely similar or exactly the same UI on my MacBook as on a MacBook I owned in 2013, and on the Macs I used as a kid in like 1990! It's absolutely awesome that the UI is improved, but the same-ish.
Even if this was the explanation, it doesn't explain why specifically Freud and not <insert another jewish psychologist> didn't become the authoritative source right?
Throwing away the plastic products is just a longer process of decomposition, but I agree that wood products should be disposed of properly.
We won't know where the line is until we get guidance from the courts.

A lot of things in real estate that you might think qualify as just maintenance actually have to be depreciated. Like, repairing a roof has to be capitalized since the roof will be around for awhile. The devops equivalent might be migrating from docker swarm to k8s-- the k8s cluster will be around for awhile.
I haven't tried it yet but: https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown

My only speedbump at this point is non-steam games, specifically in my case overwatch2 and diablo4. Can I run the battlenet launcher and it's games on steam os .. can i do it and not be banned by their 'anti cheat' spyware?
Yikes! R&D costs, meaning actually paying the devs to make stuff, is your biggest expense, and it's a big one. Rubber bands, paper clips and toner for the office printer don't cost anything.

If your business has one large expense and you depend on writing it off, and suddenly can't, that's bad news.
> Is "Lockdown Mode" a well-known thing that I just missed?

https://www.google.com/search?q=apple+lockdown+mode+ios

It's very new. August 2022 is the earliest I see anything, iOS 16 (the current release)

It struck me as something designed for people like Jeff Bezos basically lol
Oxide and Friends – Rust Trademark: Argle-Bargle or Foofaraw? [audio]
Logo Factory Animations
European software companies don't go broke and AFAIK they have 0% tax credit for salaries (in most countries, I know there are some R&D schemes in UK).
I think everyone that's worked with him, would agree :)

For the brief time he was at Cedar, he contributed a lot of high quality code
If the computer is suspended at the time it's seized, does it become easier to recover the FDE key from the computer's memory? Or is that encrypted with the user password, or something like that? (On stock ubuntu, say.)
Makes sense, but why not (genuinely asking)? Is it just that the bank can repossess the building if necessary, but repossessing bespoke software is kind of pointless?
The legal system in the UK recognizes several rights against self-incrimination, but there is a carve-out for the per se crime of failing to disclose a key to encrypted information - punishable by years in prison.

How is this different than refusing to tell where you've buried the bodies? Why should the police be permitted to assume you're guilty and in possession of vital information under certain circumstances?
Faster Scala.js development with front-end tooling and new tutorials
Netflix DVD – The Final Season
> But when it's almost freely given away...

If that's a problem it's one created by Microsoft themselves. They're the one that sets their license fees. Their execs set stock guidance.
"At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, one of which is the error of blaming it on the computer."

— Tom Glib
Star Trek convinced me that keyboards spit out sparks and smoke and throw you across the room if you type in illogic.
I used to find it irritating that I had to jiggle the mouse to find the cursor, because it doesn't really stick out on screen when it is white or black and I have a lot of screen area. Then I tried turning the cursor yellow with a black border. It is great, it's obvious where it is with a glance now.
I disagree. "Adults are stupid and we have to fix everything for them, sometimes with them even working against us" is an old trope. It was common in the 90s, like with rugrats and pretty much every made for kids movie, but I'd argue it even goes back to movies like Goonies and matilda and Little Rascals.

The mid 2000s dystopia fest in young adult stuff is just follow the leader with Hunger Games. The oppression is used not for it's own sake, but because its an easy excuse for your teens to be more "mature" and more in control of their own lives. It's escapism for teens who think parents "just don't get us"
So the title is not correct? API access is free. Crawling is not?

A major title change came from the New York Times source that is "Reddit Wants to Get Paid for Helping to Teach Big A.I. Systems". Now that makes it much more clear what this is all about and why it is happening right now.
When I was younger, liking cute things as a dude felt like pedalling drugs in a Conservative household, but it's significantly more acceptable now than ever, so, net win?

But I don't feel like it was a net win—even as only an infrequent pervayor of the animes, I loved the old nerd counter culture of the internet, "weebs", video game fans, and it got absolutely blown apart, decontextualized, dismantled. It's great that some mostly-shounen anime has achieved mainstream success outside of Japan, but it's such a small section of a rich medium. Even considering that most anime is pretty bad, what I love about it is how it's often eccentric and weird, pushing boundaries, stunningly shameless. The stuff I liked mostly didn't gain mainstream success at all, what really became mainstream was "shows like Dragon Ball Z." That's cool and everything, but people in that corner massively outnumber the old communities of nerd losers that I once occupied, leaving me yet again out of place.

Obviously I can either accept reality or die mad, so I try not to spend too much time dwelling on it anymore. But wow, what a monkey's paw seeing some of the things I liked going more mainstream has been. Be careful what you wish for.
Reddit founder wants to charge Big Tech for scraped data used to train AIs
they sure know how to make a website! quite a change from ye old README.md
But it is a huge market!!! And o so many people I work with in telcos and such work on their company provided windows laptops
I want to be a part of it for the community. Moderators are the (un)necessary evil.
The fact that you seem to see moderators as "owners" of a subreddit doesn't really help the case.
R+D is "research and development", not "research" and "development". It's specifically development of research into new products. Otherwise a carpenter could be seen as "developing" wood into cabinets. If there's no research or experimental process involved in the work, then it's not R+D.
AI Generated News Media
One of the immediate concerns was the likelihood that someone would have leveraged LLMs to create a fully blown news site. But it seems like no-one has, aside from the proliferation of low level content, has anyone coherently put this into a single purely AI driven media outlet yet?
I thought Evangelion was about biblical themed panspermia robots and exoskeletons?
He's being extremely sarcastic. He's massively for it
> Do people in Europe actually believe that to be the case?

Of course.

> So, the supply disruptions have absolutely nothing to do with Europe freezing payments and accounts,

The gas was being paid for. There's basically no time or casual connection to frozen accounts. Bulgaria was e.g. one of the first cut-off countries despite not freezing any accounts.

> You can't really live in a reality where you both claim yourself to be a victim of a countries supply disruptions and lead an economic war against it, right?

I'm not playing the victim card. Europe did what it did, knowing the probable consequences. All I'm saying is that it was Russia who stopped pumping the gas, not Europe.

> We now publicly (thanks to Merkel's and Hollande's confessions) know that EU had been preparing to a full scale war under the guise of peace agreements.

Nice try at throwing the blame everywhere, maybe people will forget that that Russia is invading Ukraine for the 3rd time in the last 10 years. But sure, it's Germany who is the bloodthirsty country.

I don't believe Merkel anyway. Her foreign minister Steinmeier (current German president) has been actively pushing for Minsk-2 implementation. I believe she just tries to whitewash herself.
That's a noteworthy limitation, but the OP's link is even more out-of-date. It's not a significant concern for me -- I primarily use "old" syscalls anyway, and I assume that is common. So it's good that you bring it up, but being up-to-date wasn't one of the benefits I listed.
It's possible but might end up more expensive (and definitely less reliable) than just paying whatever reddit asks for.
"/junk/just-a-fleshwound.webp" for those on mobile
If it were written for Linux first, it would even be available for Windows simultaneously.
I tried to play spider solitaire not too long ago.

It used to be a clean simple application, now it's adware - literal adware in the professional version of a non-free OS.

Utter fucking madness.

I quit in disgust and had another go at Tumbleweed.

Windows 11 made KDE better.
Click the preview images to play the animations
No. I don’t even have early access. I read their blog and that’s it.
Arch Linux.

Great community and excellent documentation wiki that'll hold your hand every step of the way.
> It isn’t difficult to imagine these sorts of agreements giving rise to bidding wars between municipalities, each vying to offer the most generous kickbacks in exchange for a large corporation allocating its state sales to that locale.

> This benefits no one save for the corporation with the deepest pockets.

I am maybe missing something? Surely it would also benefit the winning municipality, which is why they would want to bid on it.
the hinting patents expired a long time ago
Is it supposed to have mass appeal? I thought it was for a small number of people who are such high-value targets that an adversary would be willing to burn a zero-day on compromising them.
"There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy" Yes that is indeed Reddit in a nutshell. May not want Reddit content in your next ChatGPT model, so not necessarily a bad thing.
More like:

1,000,000 Revenue
- 1,000,000 Salary expense # this does not magically shrink to 200K
- 200,000 tax on revenue (random percentage out of a hat)
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(200,000) In the red!

If paying salaries isn't an expense you can write off, you still have to pay all those salaries, and then pay tax on the money used for those salaries.