skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actual leather, yes. Fake leather isn’t usually as durable.
People used their service to run the illegal streams and then didn't pay for it. Or they abused a free trial credits and MUX got a takedown notice, so someone used their service for free and they got a bad rep for it.

As a side note, another way to look at this is like email spam relays. Illegal activity utilising public services to deliver content (although in this case those receiving it will actually want the traffic). It still hurts the reputation of the service provider with people who spend a lot of money. I don't work for MUX but I work in live sports and we certainly appreciate service providers who prevent piracy, as well as have a negative opinion of those that don't (e.g. Cloudflare).

I know my views are about as popular as health insurance providers among a significant number of people here. But ultimately I work in tech for a company that's investing a huge amount of effort into getting rights to consumers (based on what we've been able to license) and when people steal our work to profit from it, it sucks. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
Unfortunately Microsoft's overall size causes people to have knee-jerk reactions about them being "too big" without looking into the context: Microsoft is in last place in console market share this gen and the previous gen. In the gaming space Microsoft isn't a monopoly, they are the underdog that antitrust is supposed to product.
Who should we blame for slow softwares?
For example me opening the setting page of my phone, it always pops up after 100-500ms.

What exactly is my phone doing in that period? Solving the eigenvalue of the galaxy?

This shouldn't be this slow. But why is this happening? Who should be blame?
[EDIT: I was wrong -- the fact check also explictly references the article being discussed here]

This is about a different article, right? Fact check is on https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1125150 but the article we're discussing here is https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14117
This photographer contacted the wrong person.

LAION is a list of links to images.

LAION itself does not store the images. Therefore they are claiming they had no part in any AI use/misuse. They also committed no copyright infringement in what they did (which was to download an image, verify that it was in fact an image, and add it to their list).

However, since LAION had to retain a lawyer to deal with this (incorrect) request, they now want to be paid for that lawyers time - which seems reasonable.

Other parties used the LAION list to train AI models - and those parties are who the photographer should have made claims against in the first place.
Outside of central Tokyo housing is already quite affordable.
The methods definitely aren’t great but the effects may be. Although some of the goals the government has are not really about the populous and more about limiting private sector power vis a vis the government and not the populous.
You own the copyright to your comment here (congrats!)

That does not prevent me from including a URI to the comment in a list, along with metadata like "comments that misunderstand copyright law".

The photographer posted photos on a website with the express intent of distributing them there. Neither he, nor you, nor I can retroactively decide we don't like the way someone linked to our publicly-posted content.

He literally sued someone for including a URI in list. That deserves the smack own he got.
Getting {"error":"Missing generation data"} now
Medicine, law, accounting, professional engineering. Notice something in common with all of these?

With the exception of law, automation has already arrived in all of these fields (to accounting first, 1-2 generations ago) and there are now more people in each field rather than less.

Answering my own question: each has a comfortable regulatory moat and competent professional society to defend it.
It is indeed odd to me, that the only and all three missions distinct by funding all failed in exactly the same way, at exactly the same point, where those funded from a different source only did 1 in 25 times in that way.

Perhaps the randomly-drummed up engineers argument could have some merit for overall mission failure, though it doesn't adequately explain failure on only the same, final mode.

Were the same engineers involved? If so, it seems beyond the pale they didn't learn anything?

To be clear, it's not that these landers hit the moon and expired, they all stopped transmitting on the final leg. It's a weird failure and even weirder that it wasn't experienced more frequently in govt funded missions.

I've no plausible theory why, that's why it's interesting.

All reasonable explanations have to be a bit out there, other than the de facto "bad luck", which doesn't wash with me.

I'm not interested in investigating (beyond doing sums on wikipedia numbers). But I am interested in it being investigated by someone more qualified.
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This is a project transitioning from cheap and easy iterations to improve steel fabrications capabilities to one where each iteration entails 200+ tankers of LOX, methane, and nitrogen, 39 Raptor engines each with 1-3X the thrust of a Merlin, and 85,000kg of steel fabricated into two stages of Starship plus all the electronics and controls.

And, so far, they didn't learn from the previous time they heavily damaged the launch mount (and created a safety issue with flying debris). The fix they didn't use, a steel flame diverter, might be adequate, but the extent of damage indicates that is far from a sure thing. Why such a minimal fix? It has to fit under the current launch mount.

It is a collision of iterations getting slower and vastly more expensive and a limited set of solutions SpaceX management is willing or able to accept. That's how projects die.
This is akin to going to Google, or more accurately Open Street Map since we want to keep the metaphor, and threatening them with legal action for creating a map with the address of your house on it and noting that there's a priceless mural which you originally advertised and made publicly available elsewhere.

Since people can take the map, find your address on it, and take pictures of the priceless mural, which they can then use to train a monkey to incorporate the style of the mural into other murals that the monkey creates, thus violating your copyright. And the murals that the monkey produces are not copyrightable.

But also, yes, in that instance, if it's public and the door's open. Your analogy isn't a good one though. I like mine better, to illustrate the hoops the artist had to jump through.
The world population is still going up steadily and will continue to do so for a good while led by Africa no?

I think Africa's population growth is predicted to plateau around 2100
Who's "they"?

Slavery means people are not remunerated and have no personal freedom. Japanese are definitely remunerated and definitely have personal freedom.

"お疲れ様でした" (otsukaresamadeshita) = "Thank you for your hard work".

Japan takes great pride in work. Just because you don't understand the culture doesn't give you the right to call it slavery.

If you want to invoke a discussion on slavery in East Asia, do it in the right context.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewelinaochab/2020/04/04/the-fat...
Yes, actually. If your door is open the public and your documents are laying on your desk, then I can certainly walk in and take pictures of your documents with my phone.

Of course there are restrictions like if your office is already in a private building, probably not. But if it’s facing a public street and I just walk in, how would I know you didn’t leave it open all the time?

If you had some “no tresspassing” “private property” signs up and the door was open, then your scenario is less likely to work.

Or if your documents are locked up in a file cabinet, then I can’t break into it.
https://archive.is/SNy3B
So your trains of thought are ephemeral too?
Yes, and their point was that people on HN wouldn't even be interested at the $150k cap because they make more in the private sector.
I am in the Midwest and have the opposite experience. Most of the time I can't tell the difference between playing on the cloud vs locally on my Series X.

Playing battle toads, forza, spelunky 2, etc... I'll sometimes get visual artifacting. I even played Wo Ling and it felt as good as playing locally. When I stream, it's in my Galaxy Fold 4 so resolution doesn't matter to me on that size screen.
That's not how copyright works though. Whether you post an image publicly or not, it's covered by the standard copyright protection in most countries. It's not "without restriction" unless the author explicitly grants you such license.

There's a bit of nuance in this case, but in general, yes, you need a licence.
Great framework. Unfortunately Apple hijack certain arrow shapes (e.g. the home button) and incorrectly display these as emoji. There’s a CSS override you can add to prevent this but I don’t remember off top of my head.
Young population means high birthrate/population growth and/or low life expectancy. Neither is the case for China. Young populations are in Africa mostly.
My experience is that it's much better than the alternative of games running natively on your phone. I would say better than the switch too in most cases for me (more battery life, shorter load times) though may depend on the game.

I also noticed a significant improvement running it on WiFi after I upgraded to a mesh network. I've only tried over cloud a few times, can appreciate connection requirements may very high, but even being able to load it up wirelessly in different parts of the house or backyard is a big plus for me.
Japan already has a lot of semi-abandoned older properties that you can buy comparatively cheaply but the cost of bringing them up to modern standards is prohibitive due to regulation as I understand it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/17/realestate/japan-empty-ho...
Microsoft's deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard blocked in UK
Please do not downvote this. At least present your side of view and educate us. Many of us feel that productivity/ money are not the goals of life. That humans are putting too much pressure on the planet by consuming resources and in the end it’s going to be detrimental for our own existence.

Please let us know why we are wrong.
The Japanese
What user-agent does the tool use by default?
Plus every bugfix that eventually gets discovered now requires an update to be shipped to end users.

Atleast with websites, devs can ship a fix on the server immediately.

So the impact of different browsers behaving differently is much greater when distributing binaries with Neutralinojs. Having a bundled browser (eg Electron) atleast mitigates this vector for bugs
Probably some dependencies they did not plan for
This is interesting. very cool. What is this similar to? Wordpress?
In Japan a property is not seen as an investment so it cost almost nothing compared to US/Europe.
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China carefully controlled population growth for a lot of years. The result was very asymmetrical due to misogyny, but there was surely some addition to Chinese quality of life over the long term.
Wow, that's a lot of buzzwords and very flashy designs but very few details for a 3k$+ Android phone from 2 years ago running... on a Qualcomm chip. With no source code (the absolute bare minimum for privacy) in sight.

No thanks. What's better about it than a regular Android phone with one of those privacy-oriented OS, privacy-wise?

Also, two comments on HN, both about this phone?

Do you have anything constructive to say about the PinePhone? "Absolute trash" does not really cut it.
The Elexon API is down again unfortunately. Lesson learnt that I should be storing this data myself in future to avoid it taking down the entire map.
Yeah absolutely not true here in Australia either. Uber / DiDi fares are about ½ the price taxis were even go back 8 years ago.
It seems that there is a second issue due to a fire in a GlobalSwitch datacenter where Google host Edge cache locations (article in french):

https://dcmag.fr/breve-un-depart-dincendie-dans-un-batiment-...
Whenever people mention the awful state of the industry, I feel an urge to point out that the only thing that matters in a capitalist society is what the consumer votes for with their wallet

Ubisoft is far from bankrupt. EA is far from bankrupt. All the microtransactions, all the stupid "big open world" bollocks, all mind numbing grind-a-thons, the sheer creative bankruptcy that AAA games often show... they are what people consistently vote for, every year

In the last month, the last Carl On Duty has made more money than Ultrakill ever will. By a few orders of magnitude. And the same will happen for the next one

If gamers wanted quality, they should have spent their money accordingly instead of consistently buying shit
Japan has a public pension program, and having fewer young workers paying into this will definitely pose a challenge.
Are you aware of the one child policy that was enacted in China for many years?
In American business culture, the only "safe" job is one you create for yourself.

The ease with which this can be achieved (compared to the rest of the world) is the only real advantage American business culture has left to offer.

If you are not working toward this goal, I see a rude awakening in your future.
I don't think this has anything to do with any specific money figure.

I'm not from US or another international tech hub, I work remotely as a freelancer from the Italian country side.

Still, I make 93k, which puts me 4 times above the italian average. I'm in the top 1% globally, top 2% in Italy/Europe.

Not that I care much that I'm richer, but to reiterate that I care to struggle less for money than the average worker which was the best financial part of being in tech.

Going back to the median is not an appealing option to be honest.
YouTube hit me worst: I rented my all time favourite movie "Where eagles dare" and got it voiced over in French...

Never again will I rent / buy anything from YouTube, ever.

Either Netflix has it, or down to pirate bay it is.
My perception is that at least in Europe, mass layoffs have had almost no impact on the tech sector. I would say there is still a shortage of people for desired roles and therefore job offers and salaries are still high.

Not talking about FAANG positions (or salaries) of course, more run-of-the-mill roles that companies struggle to fulfill.
I believe these are added after the response is generated. I.e the response is used as the query and the results are returned.
Japan is not alone. Whole western world will shrink signify in this century. There is only single family with 2 kids in 9 houses in close neighborhood. In other 8 houses live retirees between 70 and 90 years old. That’s west Germany close to Munich. Other places do not really look younger.

I am really very curious which country will emerge in 2084. It will not be an European one for sure.

Edit: Many people don’t like the truth. Please take your time and look at UN demographic forecast: https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/sites/www.un.org.deve...
There is also a desirable number of cabs to be driving. Having cabs lined up idling on the side of every street, even if they are profitable, isn't optimal for the city. So there is a legitimate reason to provide a limit. Of course it is clear that the medallion system has other problems like raising barrier to entry. Maybe it would make more sense if the city rented/auctioned the desired number directly on relatively short timeframes.
If Microsoft and Activision are both US companies, but have international offices, do they have to get approval from every country they operate in? Could they merge just the US parts or non-UK parts?
The ChatGPT 4 developer demo showcased literally all three of those.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-watch-first-d...
I don't doubt they found someone willing to charge that rate. Very convenient for them.

But you won't me convince me that such a routine letter required 2 hours of work at what is probably the top 0.1% wage rate in the nation as a "necessary" cost.

A company that routinely crawls millions of websites can't send a form letter for less than $1000 a pop? Don't buy it. Scam.
I feel like understanding why a framework does things in some way makes it easier to wrap my head around it.

There's a book about modernizing PHP applications that when you read it you feel you are reading about symfony's architecture.
As a gamer Activision is a shitty big company and while Microsoft is in the same category, Microsoft is an improvement over Activision.
8 billion people is just fine. The problem is that wealthier nation just consume more and waste more. We literally feed perfectly good farmlands to cows, for example.
Thanks for the response! I will definitely dive into that.

> even though building a few sidewalks and converting surface parking lot into businesses bring even more economic activity.

I will say, I think we are seeing a bit of movement this direction. The work-from-home boom from Covid has shows that living at the office isn't the dream it used to be. People are beginning to see the benefits of local community and business as not just the economic impact but the freedom that that proximity can provide.
Yet they yearned for adventure - and many, many people went on such adventures. Now we live in an age of mass transportation where people routinely leave their towns to venture elsewhere. They take airplanes to fly to different parts of the world, they take their cars to go on trips, they go on cruises: they travel. They may live in the same town in which they grew up, but they've travelled quite further.

How is that going to work for your population confined to a ship the size of a small town? It isn't. It's science fiction.
I know a guy who started as Java developer in some entrylevel company. No education, on previous job he used to drive trucks. He already has more job-specific knowledge than I do, though lacks some fundamentals.
That's a terrible comparison, unless you're asserting that the photographer's own website was infringing his copyright, so LIAON has the same vicarious liability that TPB (arguably) did.

In which case, I guess he should sue himself. That's the nonsense world this silly claim leads to.

The open web depends on being able to freely link to content. Don't let an emotional response to AI turn you against by hyperlinks.
What MS could do, and would make sense, is to just withdraw from the UK Market.

I know they won't actually do that, but it would seem they would make more money in the US, Canada, EU and other countries that approve the deal, than they would if they ignore the deal and stay in the UK.

Besides which, the UK would relent and ask them to come back anyway.
That makes the current fare even cheaper. Because it would be $30 dollars then to $12 now.
If you want a TensorFlow implementation, here it is: https://machinelearningmastery.com/building-transformer-mode...
The unintended consequences of WWII are mind boggling. 78 years latter we are still seeing the social consequences playing out in demographics. A big Baby Boom, followed by a bust. Economists don't look at demographic models enough.
Japan will become extinct at some point in the future. No girls growing up in Japan think to themselves "I want 2.1 children someday". But they'd all have to think this for population decline to plateau.

Since not all girls will think this, the few that think such will have to have an even higher number. You won't see 1 in 5 think to themselves "I want 10.5 children".

That you want this to happen everywhere is bizarrely misanthropic. It's an Erlichean death cult.
> Google on the other hand, do this correctly. You can configure a consumer Google account to only have secure options listed.

Are you sure about that? I couldn't activate 2FA in my Google account for years because they didn't enable the option without giving a phone number first. Based on my HN experience, many users gave their phone number from the get go and therefore didn't notice that they couldn't activate 2FA without it.
> Water intrusion in europe-west9-a

> We expect general unavailability of the europe-west9 region.

Why would emergency shutdown of a single AZ lead to general unavailability of a region? Isn't that the point of multiple AZs?

> There is no current ETA for recovery of operations in the europe-west9 region at this time, but it is expected to be an extended outage

yikes
Because there are 10 claims a day that NP=P or NP!=P or Goldbach is true or Goldbach is false. Always they are wrong. I am as certain that the sun will rise tomorrow as that this is wrong.

When a proof is published in the Annals of Mathematics I'll take a look, an unreviewed paper on arxiv? hahah, no
You have to take quite a narrow view of the business world to say Apple and Microsoft aren't comparable. They might have different products, but it's not like Apple is a greengrocer.
Because they want King for the mobile gaming aspect. They were preparing to launch a mobile game store on iOS once sideloading is allowed (rumored to be soon in Europe if not everywhere)
Unironically
> It will not be an European one for sure.

No-one forces Europe to allow such high immigration...
Don't forget:

1Password: We /have/ to move to Electron because we don't have any money.

Also 1Password: oh hey by the way we got $920,000,000 from VC...
People like paganel are why you should keep an eye on politics even if you hate everyone or are basically satisfied with the status quo. There’re always those who has no problem with political violence as long as the violent are on their side. Be watchful.
Yeah, sorry about that! Turns out the Elexon API I use for the generation data doesn't like being on the HN front page. Lesson learnt that I should add a proxy store between their API and the map.
Microsoft needs to clean up Activision-Blizzard, I totally agree.

Two big bag companies, but surprising Microsoft is the better one.
Didn't Microsoft agree that Nvidia could stream ABK games on GeForce Now if the deal closed? It seems like it could have helped GeForce Now grow.
Tesla’s carbon footprint is bigger than the company let on in the past
Yup, it's by no means equally distributed, but fertility is dropping fast in Africa too.
> This is about a different article, right?

"Several of the authors speculated in a review published in March..."

is referring to this article.
Why do you say that? You can get 4k120hz for about the price of a console so price isn't a limiting factor.
There are lots of methods that pirates use, their websites are an absolute nightmare to navigate sometimes and you can't be sure that the link you're clicking on is an ad, an extra referral hop, an embed, or the actual video.

There is a whole secondary market of paywalled pirate services which makes it harder to discover. But then the anti-piracy companies just join the telegram groups, subscribe to those services, and then get the links in order to issue the takedown notices. There's a lot of human intelligence as well as automation. Heck, a handful of agents in India can do a heck of a lot of manual link hunting in an afternoon.

It's also worth noting that a lot of illegal streams are syndicated, so you take down one source and it'll break 50 websites.
Thanks, interesting read. I guess the decision to sell all of those 100,00 shares at the Apple IPO was a pretty expensive blunder.
I‘m currently on the market and the situation is definitely very different from the same time last year. Companies are hesitant/waiting to see where the economy is heading, a lot if startups ran out of money. It‘s not that easy anymore, at least in my bubble.
I think it'll plateau well before that though because they'll see so much pressure on food and water resources. Africa doesn't feed itself now and if the rest of the world needs to direct more food production locally due to lower yield caused by climate change then Africa is positioned to suffer the most.