skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An odd article from an Australian perspective.

The bulk of Australian ISPs already "DNS Block" pirate sites and have done so for a decade or more.

In lay terms they provide a default IP address phone book with a slew of missing names and many Australian users simply use Google | CloudFlare | Other DNS providers with nary a hiccup.

The meat of the article is about what "Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Sony, Universal, Warner, local studio Village Roadshow, plus cinema groups and distributors" want from the Australian Government over and above what it already does.

Eg:

> There are additional proposals in the combined submissions but the key recommendations are as follows:

> ..

> Allow rightsholders to obtain customer data for enforcement purposes

That's the big one.

That's also going to require the reversal of a prior Australian High Court Decision:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadshow_Films_Pty_Ltd_v_iiNet...

In brief:

> The alliance of 34 companies ( aka AFACT ) unsuccessfully claimed that iiNet authorised primary copyright infringement by failing to take reasonable steps to prevent its customers from downloading and sharing infringing copies of films and television programs using BitTorrent.

with the result:

> The court found that AFACT had misled the court in regard to the number of infringing users, and, while iiNet users did infringe, this was not the responsibility of iiNet to deal with:

iiNet is not responsible if an iiNet user uses that system to bring about copyright infringement ... the law recognises no positive obligation on any person to protect the copyright of another

It's been established that Australian ISPs are not legally required to cough up customer data to outsiders.

The work around would be for the US based media companies to take over Australian ISPs . . .
I do not read them on kindle, but it works with technical concepts. Check this out

http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
The Apple Silicon chips are a massive innovation which have just massively changed the laptop landscape. People are buying new MacBooks left and right because they can do all their work on a tiny laptop now which doesn't run hot and has a battery like an iPad.
Summer camp? https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Летний_лагерь

When лагерь is used by itself, it depends on context - could be a prison/labor camp, kids summer camp, a historical military reference to an army camping on a campaign, or even a refugee camp or a tourist camp. Not that different from English “camp” really.

Russian also borrowed lager bier in “лагер” (without the softening “ь”), whereas Czech and Slovak have native words for it (ležák/ležiak) with a similar (if not greater) complexity in styles to Germany.
A tangent but it would be interesting to see survey data of how many devs default reach for SQL first these days. A lot of people use various other kinds of DB models which are preceived to have smoother learning curves.
Transparent communications, decent severance package, able to keep devices. 8/10
> Laying off people working on unsexy features

You guys are reading way, way too much into this press release.

People here are acting they've abandoned their existing product and is betting the company on AI, when it could just as easily just be what every single major company has said recently ("we're exploring AI").
No! For purists, those DVD releases don't cut it because they messed with the sound mix and the releases are not in the original frame format.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_changes_in_Star_War...

Their video quality is also terrible, even for DVD, being derived from a scan made for a Laserdisc release.
> Don't change the dialog

That would be one weird movie given how much the characters in Dune think about things rather than talk about them. There are important conversations of course, but... there would be a lot of "Paul thinking about the future" voiceover.
I have not heard of the “ratchet effect”. Some research on ddg showed me the Collingridge dilemma, but that’s different because it’s about regulation of technology and not law enforcement adoption of tech. Can you point to an example?
> Just film the book.

This is an impossible request. Movies are fundamentally different from books, they have different languages and cadences, different historical developments, different audiences, different expectations and traditions and tropes.

If you want to read the book, read the book. The film adapted from that book might not be for you and that’s okay.

> You wouldn’t hack up Shakespeare. . .

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is one of the greatest comedies of the modern era, and it gave us The Lion King 1 1/2, one of the greatest animated films made after the Disney Renaissance.
My personal experience was using Datomic backed by DynamoDB, at the second Clojure company I worked at. In particular I remember feeling like it was hard to anticipate and understand its performance characteristics in particular, and how indices can be leveraged effectively. Maybe if we had chosen Postgres as a backing store that would have been better? I dunno.

Using it was pretty nice at the scale of a small startup with a motivated team, but scaling it up organizationally-speaking was a challenge due to Datalog's relative idiosyncrasy and poor tooling around the database itself. This was compounded by the parallel challenge of keeping a Clojure codebase from going spaghetti-shaped, which happens in that language when teams scale without a lot of "convention and discipline"--it may be easier to manage otherwise. All of that said, this was years ago so maybe things have changed.

At this point I'd choose either PostgreSQL or SQLite for any project I'm getting started with, as they are both rock-solid, full-featured projects with great tooling and widespread adoption. If things need to scale a basic PostgreSQL setup can usually handle a lot until you need to move to e.g. RDS or whatever, and I'm probably biased but I think SQL is not really that much worse than Datalog for common use-cases. Datalog is nice though, don't get me wrong.

EDIT: one point I forgot to make: the killer feature of being an immutable data store that lets you go back in time is in fact super cool, and it's probably exactly what some organizations need, but it is also costly, and I suspect the number of organizations who really need that functionality is pretty small. The place I was at certainly didn't, which is probably part of the reason for the friction I experienced.
It’s either space shuttle controls vs touch screen. There are just too many features to fit it in all hardware buttons
This isn't about photos, it's about walking before you run and Dropbox failing to walk, firing their physical therapist, and talking up their big plans to hire a running coach.
Why are you afraid of police with guns?
Saying “no” also would provide a nice opportunity for Nubank to explain why.

To some, the answer is “open source” no matter the question. Hello wagging tail, meet dog.
I don't think that's a good analogy either. It's not like a wish will be granted and we'll all still be here but suddenly without tractors. The alternative to consider is being born into a world where industrialization took off slower and culture had more time to understand the consequences before they got really severe.
I don't get why anyone would use Google Authenticator over Authy which had device sync, backup and E2E encryption for years.
I suppose you could run it through a Java decompiler and clean up the results with an LLM. How long would that take? 5 years to make it useful?
Im all for sighing doors.
https://youtu.be/jn3Vv6VYdxw
> Blockchain still hasn't had a killer app that made people want to use it. LLMs do.

Well Blockchain promised a lot. I remember that in the beginning, I found it interesting and thought it would be the next big thing. Now we have had more than a decade to realize that Blockchain doesn't solve anything other than cryptocurrencies (and it's not clear if we want cryptocurrencies).

So yeah, I could totally imagine that many promises of LLMs today are similar to those of Blockchain back then. Let's see how it evolves in the next few years, I guess.
I'm with you mostly on the "really like" side. Sound all the way around is excellent. Little details like the horn blowing dust when they disembark from the ships on Arrakis are great. Salusa Secundus in the rain was great. The overall visual style is great. Casting was mostly great.

I just wish some of the sets were a bit more dense. The room for the Gom Jabbar scene, the Bene Gesserit walking back to the ship, cone of silence scene, and especially the palace fight on the stairs. Kinda gave my Sky Captain vibes.

I also don't like cutting the tension between Jessica and Thufir, although if Thufir doesn't end up under the Baron I guess I get it.
The Hays Code and the Comic Code were both arguably an industry self-censoring "somewhat" (for whatever value of that you want) so as to side-step government legislation.
Lager/bottom-fermenting: Helles, Dunkles, Kellerbier/Zwickel, Pils

Ale/top-fermenting: Weissbier/Weizenbier, dunkles Weissbier/Weizenbier, Alt, Kölsch
Noses were obscene and scandalous?
Anki helps.
People aren't selling ass or tearing out copper piping for gambling. It's not remotely comparable. There's no punishing withdrawal, no dying.

This is an insult to the victims of the Opioid crisis.
It's because politician's focus is to keep themselves employed and re elected, with entirely short term focus. They have special interests from the wealthy who try to influence policy, and usually wealthy people are in a system of making income off of others (i.e ownership).

To your point, it must just be a modern phenomena of the 24/7 news cycle and internet to get loud voices out there faster. Because if you look at the rust belt and places like Ohio that were thriving industrial cities you can clearly see that places come and go. Detroit is another good example of a new less glamorous normal. There are certain benefits of density w.r.t to economics and such but a river runs its course, if you try to mess with it one way it will eventually change in another.
Intel Ireland (Fab 24/34) will be producing Intel 4 and 3, which is an EUV based node
Which shouldn't surprise anyone in an economic environment where the money fountain dried up. Every company is desperately chasing new revenue sources over growing their existing ones right now.
Ideally, there would be no pressure involved. But in reality, there are pressures associated with deliveries and conflicting goals. You don't have to look far for these, and hiring for the ideal conditions is unrealistic.
Strong agree. there are vast, massive cost savings and performance advantages to be had if the model is that a shard of the dataset is in memory and the data persistence problem is the part that's made external. The only reason we are where we are today is that doing that well is hard.
Also depends mostly on your size.

The cost to rewrite your system to be twice as fast is about the same if you have 20k of hardware costs or 20M, but one saves 10k and the other 10M. Only one offsets the cost of the programmers
> Goto in newer languages is not bad

can you clarify that please.

> and exceptions which arent as criticized are way more powerful in goto-like sense

They are less general therefore less powerful, and by that, less capable of being abused.
Ah, the [cough] wisdom of [gag] outsourcing mission-critical military activities to private enterprise.

If you look at history - the British Crown started making their own gunpowder at the Tower of London, in the middle of the 13th Century. The British Board of Ordnance was formally constituted in 1683, by HRM King Charles the Second.

And if you look at the more-recent era, when the US started shutting down most of its own government armories, arsenals, etc. - that happened fairly shortly after the old tradition of leading American families having their sons (at least the ones who wanted to becomes notable leaders themselves) serve in the military faded away. If you no longer have any skin in the game...
> It's a language which had a reason to exist 25 years ago, but has since been surpassed in every way by other faster, more robust, more compatible languages that don't have such quirky syntax.

The same could be said about C++, but yet, here we are. Stroustrop's quip comes to mind: "There are languages people complain about, and languages no one uses". Just look at how much people complain about JS.

I don't know how old people here are, but from the early 2000's till probably the mid 2010's, Python really was the great language, with few alternatives - at least when you consider the libraries available for it.

It's not an accident that people began using it heavily for numerical computing. The only viable alternative at the time was MATLAB.
Yes, there is. Almost no downtime compared to free version. At least to me. And ChatGPT 4 is available.
We must be working in a different world. In all my career I've not once worked with a serious business that did not have a support contract for their database system open source or not.

Most of those had escrow agreements for central closed source components with vendors in case the vendor went out of business. (obviously only for things perceived as critical and from companies with some perceived risk of failure).

And god knows how many times have I experienced companies biting themselves because they bought into a product that turned out not to deliver what was promised after the contracts were signed.
wastefully
I'd imagine it was rarely trained on images of random industry equipment
If I had finally made a billion dollars, getting on a rented helicopter with a rented pilot seems like the last thing I'd want to do.
Unless I personally found the best helicopter pilot ever, and found the most trustworthy set of helicopter mechanics to double check each other's work, you couldn't get me on that thing.
Excision still isn't supported for cloud, it is / was on their plan but there was never any movement in that direction.
>I don't recognize claims of continuity here

Yes, you only recognize a thief briding his way, while a country was under occupation, to break archeological artifacts from the temple structure, and take them away from their original site and land.

>so what special meaning is there to modern Greeks

Maybe ask modern Greeks then?

This is some next level colonial entitlement.
The problem is that Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson have turned out 20ish volumes of bad fanfic.

(I have nothing against good fanfic.)
TIL way too many people here are relying on Reddit as a source for news and political discussion
I’ve been endlessly saddened by the state of VR gaming.

Halflife Alyx has been the absolute pinnacle, came and went.

This looks like it could be fun.
If I recall correctly, Datomic gives you the ability to query the database at a given timestamp. Are there other DBs with this feature that folks are aware of?
> the video captures the otherworldliness of oil production and large scale infrastructure in a hypnotic way

If you're in to that kind of stuff check out Koyaanisqatsi & Powaqqatsi
On what level of topics do you query LLMs to help you learn? As you become a domain expert, the usefulness of LLMs diminishes, I imagine?

Regarding the learning of learning from first principles vs from 'working interfaces', could this be said as 'learning top to bottom' (high-level ideas first) vs 'bottom to top' (low-level first, e.g. understanding axioms of real numbers before understanding algebra)?
Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
Maybe you've created your own AR program for wearables that shows the definition of a word when you highlight it IRL, or you've built a personal calendar app for your family to display on a monitor in the kitchen. Whatever it is, I'd love to hear it.
Synching telemetry can be disabled. In fact, it's disabled by default.
even pedophiles ? I don't like that buddha guy
returns in this context would be inclusive of NPV
Even being able to train a personal model on the user’s handwriting to digitize the notes will be a big hit. I would love to have that. I’m this close to train my own Tessaract instance to do it.
I would strongly say: yes. I was very skeptic, I am a big fan of the book and actually liked the first movie. All newer productions ever failed to excite me - until the new movie. That in my eyes is really well made. Looking forward to the second part!
This is great. I think visual tools like this are under utilized. They’re fun to use and can often reveal interesting insights.
I'd be more sympathetic to this statement if any of the modern operating systems had halfway decent sandboxing.

Insert inevitable reference to "the Birth and Death of Javascript" but native platforms should be copying the web more in general. The DOM is just structured CLI output, with all of the advantages that CLIs have. Seriously, as a user nearly every native app on my machine ought to (in a better world) be rendering its interface to a structured text format that I can inspect and modify on the fly and pipe into other applications or dynamically restyle as I see fit. Because of that structure, most web-apps can be extended arbitrarily with user extensions. The sandboxing on the web is... okay it's not great, but it's better than what anybody else is doing. The delivery platform for apps is better specifically because the sandboxing is better, which allows me to try out apps quickly without giving them a lot of unnecessary access to my computer.

People are building apps in the browser because browsers offer capabilities that native operating systems don't offer. The few platforms where browser dominance doesn't hold true (iOS, Android) largely maintain native dominance by severely limiting what web browsers can do. That's the wrong way to move forward; offer a native experience that's as good as the web and people won't need to build apps on the web.

Even just good application sandboxing alone would be a good start, and yet whenever something like Flatpak tries to make progress in that direction, people are constantly complaining about it and explaining that sandboxing is the wrong way to approach app security. It's not really surprising then that people look at that discussion and take away from it that maybe the desktop isn't a good fit for their app.

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My only critique of the webGPU direction is people bypassing the DOM, which... is usually the result of native developers and native frameworks trying to bring native development patterns to the web instead of rallying behind the idea of user-inspectable pure-text interfaces in the DOM. In that regard, and very specifically in that regard, I do kind of agree that the web is becoming too much like a native operating system. In the sense that it is repeating the same exact mistakes that native operating systems made.

But in regards to people just generally building apps in browsers... good. Honestly, progressive web apps are a safer, more user-respecting way to deliver functionality than native OSes are.
As an engineer and former cyclist, this is amazing to see!!
We can crank it up all the way 11G.
The chat control is another thing. I don't think they have censorship in mind with that thing. As for the DSA, I really see nothing in it that would entail "deeper surveillance and exclusions of users". Quite the contrary, the rights of users are extended substantially. Granted, it is not perfect and it was a really hard bargain. It is not easy to draft laws for the new digital era.
I'm surprised that a company that effectively just provides a cloud-hosted object storage API even had 500 employees to begin with!
I think part of this is that when an API developer tries to write frontend code, they'll naturally use the underlying schema as their frontend domain model because they're already thinking in those terms.

I definitely suffer from that problem when trying to work out what a good API for frontend would be, and frontend people often have their own blind spots which makes working together to find something actually good a tricky process.

Then again, getting REST/GraphSQL/API-of-choice designs 'actually good' is hardly a trivial problem at the best of times, so how much of this is developer biases and how much inherent difficulty isn't something I'd be confident trying to estimate.
These stats only matter if police take reports, which of course, they no longer do in SF.
I mean, sure, this comment sounds nice on a web forum, but some of us have 0 hesitance bucketing others on a scale of competence. Looking at the state of software I interact with on a daily basis, I really don't care about being nice anymore.
Tried betting on sports and horses in my 20s and learned my lesson

I really like sports but have no interest betting

But I do buy lottery tickets now and then
Sure, but "I don't understand" cannot reasonably be followed by "therefore I will inject my own fears into this". WebAuthn is just a way for a website to tell your device it needs to authenticate. It has nothing to do with a specific company, hardware or software, etc.

If you want, you can keep on using your existing password manager for WebAuthn, or use a password. The standard doesn't care.
You can create types in postgresql and use them as columns... so you can have your "object" style encapsulation at a column level. So you can have a "currency" type that has both the amount and the currency.
The article is largely based on comments from Phil Metzger, who definitely knows a thing or two about launch pad design and debris thrown out by thrust impacting surface features like the lunar regolith.
Really cool application. It worked flawlessly on my own phone but when I installed it on my husband's phone (iPhone 8 iOS 16) it didn't show up as an option... But when opening keyboard settings it shows up as an active option but cannot be selected via the globe. Any idea what could've gone wrong?

Solved: For some reason a restart was necessary on his phone.

Thanks, y'all! This will be game-changing.
Nubank bought Cognitect/Datomic a few years back, so they own it I believe
Kinda shocking the lack of redundancy here
The pricing page mentions it's free.

> This section only applies to Datomic 990-9202 and lower. Newer versions of Datomic Cloud will be free of licensing related costs, and you will only pay for the hardware that you use to run the system.
So is Apple planning to use the N3E this year (not the N3)?
what if i told you i know that, but i don't want to do the work or ongoing management of that myself. i just want somebody else to do it for me. for money that i pay them, and not for money that some VC or data broker pays them
Same here. I hate that my thinking has become so zero-sum, but after four months of this, the first thing I think now when I see another high-profile layoff is “great, more name-recognition resumes to consign mine to the trash.”
Gravitational waves travel trough spacetime at the speed of light. So no, not even gravitational waves can escape black hole.
Quicssh: SSH over QUIC
Old Twitter really did an amazing job trying to strike a balance.
If it somehow be able to answer prompts like "show me the picture of Jeff from that trip we took 4 or 5 years ago" it might've been mildly useful. No idea whether worth the price of research tho
I can’t recommend it enough. Install your own directory servers, and you’ll have true invisible infrastructure.
In the book Tales from The Mos Eisley Cantina, the other two Rodians in the Cantina at the time of that scene were present to execute Greedo (for a clan rivalry). Solo shooting Greedo let them claim the bounty. Every story in that book centers around the scenes from the film that took place inside the cantina.

0 - https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Eisley-Cantina-Star-Wars/dp/055...
bring out the black bar!