skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I resonate completely. Proponents of piracy don’t understand that it takes teams of people (each with a family to feed, bills to pay) to build stuff. In short term, humanity would benefit from piracy. Everyone would get what they want for free. In long term, we’d just wipe out small businesses and studios that used to make stuff.

There is also a disconnect between “I never think twice to pay for a nice shirt” vs “Games should be free”. People don’t mind paying for things in the analog world.

I never ever feel bad about paying for something that I enjoy. It’s a transaction as old as human civilization. Exchanging value that is mutually beneficial.

I don’t know why I get this feeling that we are actively dismantling the society that used to produce amazing things through trade and trending towards nothing will be built, like some sort of a Frankenstein neo-communist society. I talk to young people and they want free stuff. If it’s not open source, you’re evil.
Ya sure but my threat level doesn’t include the worry of physical attacks like that.
He sold out his creation to Big Corporate. I'd expect his pivotal role in allowing DRM to be brought up first anywhere he's mentioned.

There's no washing hands of an act like this. He broke the free and open web permanently for everyone. Creating Solid is not an act of absolution because DRM will forever exist now in all browsers forever. Browsers that increasingly act as our total window into computing.

Who's going to put the genie back in the bottle? No one sitting on the W3C will ever go for it now or in the future.
Easy frictionless peer-to-peer no middleman financial transactions are a "Deliberately Unimplemented Feature".

Why? Because nation states have a very keen and vested interest in regulating the process of transacting in the currency.

So you will never see it. The moment you do is the moment that medium becomes the preferred medium for those that everybody collectively wishes kept out.
Have you tried wasmtime? Any noticeable difference?
Linking to the introduction bypasses the prominent note in the readme:

> RedisRaft is still being developed and is not yet ready for any real production use. Please do not use it for any mission critical purpose at this time.
AWS’ new MemoryDB also seems to be a strongly consistent Redis cluster service. Anyone know how they compare?

https://aws.amazon.com/memorydb/features/
Perhaps they subscribe (gasp!) to sites with paywalled content, sign in, and begin scraping.
I just want to say, whoever made the site did a really good job.
> Dictionaries

Dictionaries generally explicitly do not define what is correct, they describe what is in use (often with notes about the contexts of common use).

> style guides

Style guides do not define what is correct for the language, they define what is correct for those adopting the style, they are intentionally by design more limited than what is acceptable in the language to serve, for adopting institutions, the function of providing a common style (that’s why they are called style guides, rather than language guides.)
Real time ray traced global illumination is here just not widely available, it is that innovation that I think is the next batch of progress.
They have network effects.

Charging for network effects is rent seeking.
Let’s Randomize America
macOS Internals
> Do be real about who you are and what you care about

All of us have tendencies that are better repressed. This is why we have a brain.
Wasn't there a list of elected officials on Alzheimer's Drugs that was supposed to have been floating around that got shut down hard?

Also if you need another recent example you could reference Dianne Feinstein.
I know, but the list contains only flops (to me at least).
> The kidneys turn salt into fructose as far as I know

Huh, how is NaCl turned into C12H22O11. That'd need like a nuclear rection or alchemism.
And EVs with regen, brake usage is also vastly vastly reduced as well. Most folks aren't replacing their disc brakes in their EVs either until very high mileage unless they're hard on their cars.
More specifically, sugar tariffs and corn subsidies.
> some circuit courts have ruled that if the EULA says “no reverse-engineering,” it is actually a violation of contract to try to reverse-engineer the software

All that means is that I have to buy the software on the secondary market, and then immediately begin reverse-engineering it, without ever entering into the clickwrap by installing it, no?
I feel the same. The widgets/cashew stuff was totally insane.
I love the idea itself, but as a paid service... it feels like it's on the worst intersection of "people who know how to deal with GitHub" and "people who can't be bothered to run pelican/hugo/whatever and do it + page layout for free". Maybe there are some though... so good luck.
That seems… less than solid.

Do other industries do this as well?

“By opening this CD jewel case, you agree to only play this CD as directed by the following rules”?

“By turning the key in the ignition of this vehicle, you agree to be bound to the terms of service”?

“Every time you press the start button on this coffee maker, you agree to extend your SuperCoffee™ subscription to one year in the future”?
Illegal acts are the source of most freedoms derived in our modern world. When a law is unjust, it is not only acceptable, but duty to ignore or even publicly trangress.
I once had a job candidate - who clearly had no interest in the job - ask me in an interview "What's it like living in such a flat place?" I thought it was kind of strange, because flat places are just like non-flat places, but flatter. It was unclear what the question was. I answered that I wouldn't know, because it's not flat.
Yep: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?Ntt=Usb-c%20Flash%20Dr...

And of course there are native SSD drives, etc. As mentioned the dual sided ones are really convenient, but beware that many computers have the USB C connectors too close together so your flash drive might block the port next to it.
None of what parent said in any way resembles how kidneys or even biology in general functions.
Once running’s supreme challenge, has the value of a 4 minute mile diminished?
One of the reasons why Microsoft and OEMs are promoting TPM is to encourage planned obsolescence, so that users will replace their PCs as often as they replace their smartphones, right?

"(Lenovo) said people buy new smartphones every other year but became accustomed used to buying new PCs every six or seven years. The industry needs to do better at motivating people to buy new devices"

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/05/microsofts-panos-panay-expla...
How could mercury have gotten into HFCS?

Huge chlorine (chlor-alkali) plants using mercury cells produce “mercury-grade” caustic soda, hydro- chloric acid and other chemicals which are, in turn, used to produce thousands of other products, in- cluding food ingredients such as citric acid, sodium benzoate and HFCS.2 The mercury in these plants can contaminate their chemical products, as well as the broader environment.
In HFCS production, caustic soda and hydrochloric acid are used to separate corn starch from the corn kernel, as well as to adjust the pH of the process. The HFCS industry, according to Vulcan Chemical Company, former operator of one of these plants, is a primary user of “mercury-grade” caustic soda and hydrochloric acid.2 The Environmental Health commentary provides data substantiating that mercury contaminating commercial HFCS is a problem.

In the fall of 2008, we looked for total mercury in 55 brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS was the leading or second highest ingredient. An independent laboratory found total mercury, above the limit of detection, in about one in three products, including: dairy beverages, soft drinks, salad dressings, barbecue sauces, flavored syrups and jams. In other words, we found total mercury across the range of foods and beverages in which HFCS is routinely used.
Not being able to get past the paywall, I can only comment this way:

Water in the West is always about money, huge amounts of money. Many of those who would benefit from capturing the Sacramento-San Joaquin outflow, bought cheap worthless land (no water) and hope to make huge fortunes from dams payed for by tax-payers.
https://michaelhans.com/eclecticism/2003/10/23/even-microsof...
Or YouTube, if we're picking examples.
That's part of the point: pumped storage (and other solutions) can be used even though the climate changes. Batteries won't have to be the main storage solution.

Another part: over-provisioning does not increase the costs much as there will be flexible demand for the additional electricity produced.
> Seeing your arguments here, I'll guess that you're just more social than many people.

I'm not, at all. In fact, I'm very introverted. I think you're missing a number of nuances to this argument.

It's very true that some people are more comfortable approaching people online vs. in person, but that's actually an argument for in-person work. When you're in-person, you can get insight into your team and learn new things just by being around conversations. You don't need to actively participate in any way. Even if you're more comfortable approaching people online, it's still more overhead to approach people online than it is to sit at your desk literally doing nothing.

Second, saying "many, many people feel more comfortable approaching someone online vs. in person" isn't a good argument for two reasons:

1. What you're comfortable with isn't likely to be what's best overall. It's very often that you need to grow your comfort zone to grow as a person. For instance, it can feel very uncomfortable the first time you play a sport or do a hobby in front of others. It definitely feels more comfortable to stay at home. But you'll never get better that way.

2. Apparently, extroverts outnumber introverts by a large margin, so if you had to pick one method of work and apply it to the general population, then it would make sense to pick a method that favors extroverts. I'm not saying in-person working favors extroverts. I think the opposite, actually, because socializing online is harder so only those with a high social drive will actually do it. But I'm just pointing out a logical issue with that statement.
If FedNow™ delivers what it promises, we might see something someday.

But likely it's mainly because the demand on either side isn't there, and what demand is there has been eaten by Patreon et al.
There’s obviously nuance to it
Couldn't that be built in spite of lawmakers wishes?

Legislation and voting records are all public, are they not?

And looking to the future, how long until we have an LLM monitoring C-SPAN that can start keeping very specific logs?
Why are you making that comparison? Nintendo is known for their strategy of using cheap/old parts in innovative ways to both increase hardware profit margins, and create lock-in (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpei_Yokoi#Lateral_Thinking_...). They make quite a bit of money on each Switch sold, as they have on every console previous.
imo, the biggest contributor is soda. soda is roughly half as many grams of sugar as ice cream, but eating half a soda bottle of ice cream would make most people puke
Toucan is better for language learning. It replaces words in a page with your target language.

https://jointoucan.com/
It was for me on mobile safari.
Light flippers have been around for decades, I had one in the 90's. I recall it costing about fifty bucks. Was just a 555 timer based light flasher. This is a felony in the usa, so I strongly suggest you avoid using such a device, there are ways to track their use in many areas.
Yes, seeing as you're killing off the conversation as soon as it doesn't go your way. So why can't everyone else do the same to you.
> any of their fair use rights

Nintendo puts money into R&Ding product.

Then somebody goes on GitHub and says "let me help diminish sales of said product and open source their otherwise intellectual property"

I don't know if that is "fair use". Fair use in their terms is:

buy our product, use it like a regular person

If there was a clause that said "you can only run this emulator if you don't use pirated ROMs and you need to also own a physical unit", then... maybe? But I think your definition of free use is a little stretched. Would be curious to hear from others if I'm wrong.
Yeah, I ran it bare metal on a laptop for a while and the only thing that really killed it for me is that Haiku is mouse-heavy and 1. I don't like that, and 2. that laptop had poor mouse input.
Yes, by not charging to 100%, so you have some room for additional charging by regenerative braking. Virtually all EVs come with a setting, usually enabled by default, that stops the charge at a preset percentage, like 80 or 90%. Chevy aptly calls theirs "hilltop reserve".
Hi,
I'm happy to chat with your brother, to help him work out what are some good questions to ask, when looking for the best kind of service provider / consultant is best for him. I might then either be able to help him myself, or I recommend someone from my network, or send a wider call on my linkedin profile for someone to help him.

martin @ robertsanalytics.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinroberts/
I always was told that the heating aids need to match the user. By that it means heating is tested and what frequency loss the patient has the hearing aid will then take that frequency and alter it to one the client can hear. It’s not a matter of higher volume. It seems now however a simple app on a phone could do the hearing test and then match up what the patient needs with an open sourced hearing aid.
Ironic that you would confuse your emotionally felt bias, for a fact. There are many good and decent people, who are firmly rooted in reality and facts, that count themselves as part of the Republican base. We need to return to political argument, rather than vilification.
Thanks for this - what a great find this evening!
Is there a way to reach you to talk about this further?
I'm afraid your posts in this thread (that is, this one and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35847273) have broken the site guidelines. Can you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN in the intended spirit? It's extremely important on sensitive subjects to remain respectful towards other users.

To be clear, you are both welcome here and welcome to share your experience. But please do it without crossing into personal attack or flamewar. There's plenty of room to share your experience without those things, and doing so will increase the odds of you being heard correctly.
dude, he was and is batsh*t insane. you are listing things he would / could do like he was a rational actor that really cared about anything.
While i agree that the people in the OP thread are highly arrogant. Piracy is really a service problem, and most pirates like in the op thread wouldnt pay for the product anyways (they are most likely kids, poor, or live in region where the service isnt offered). If i could play switch games on pc legally, i would probably buy more switch games. Only reason i own switch is due to it being a great party game system, so its great having around with guests.
#2 and #3 are arguments against the naive strawman version of this that I didn't say, where people just try to start a new journal and get people to publish in it. A threshold trigger agreement entirely short-circuits these problems: the journal doesn't exist at all, until enough people sign onto it; and then suddenly, after the threshold passes, the journal is immediately not just existent but pre-eminent in its field, and the old journal immediately kneecapped by a majority of the field being legally obligated to no longer publish in it, or subscribe to it. The "researchers happy with the status quo" would be left behind in a world where their comfy old journal suddenly stops publishing before the next issue comes out, due to an effective bank-run of churn; at which point they'll have to either raise their heads and look around to find out what's replaced it, or become irrelevant.

(This is a not an obscure technique — it's the bit of game-theory that Groupon is based on.)
Misunderstanding. I am not in Wyoming. We're all in Seattle area, near Bill Gates... well, near enough.
We used NNTP for the D programming language forums for many years. It would regularly come up "why don't you use modern discussion forum software." The problem with that software is the signal to noise ratio of the presentation was very low, while with NNTP it was very high.

We also liked that NNTP didn't allow anything but text. No emojis, no pictures.

But yes, there were advantages to modern forum software. This inspired Vladimir Panteleev to write DFeed, a shell and gui around NNTP. It works as you can see here:

https://forum.dlang.org/

and the articles are still accessible by NNTP newsreaders.
Gmail marks emails from certain political parties as spam, even though they are smart enough to know it's not real spam I suspect.
Thank you for confirming that fair use is not a right. Second, yes it absolutely concerns derivative works as it is a concept in the domain of copyright. While not every violation of copyright is a derivative work, only derivative works are justified under fair use. For instance, piracy can never be justified under fair use. The new work must be transformative to a significant degree.

This topic on the other hand has nothing to do with fair use as there is no derivative work being created. It also isn't a copyright violation, it's a violation of the DMCA. Specifically it violates the DMCA's provision that prohibits distributing tools used to violate the copyright of other work.
New Jersey had a law like this, where upon the creation of a viable smart gun all other guns would be banned for sale in the state. That pushed a lot of people away from making any smart guns. In the past few years (2019 I think) they amended that so that once a viable smart gun was introduced all dealers in the state had to carry it
Is that the definition of Molloc? Do you have any links?
expanding: I played Metroid Dread on my Switch, and being a fan of the series, enjoyed it through the end.

A while later I saw a streamer playing the game at 4X resolution, and was blown away at how much better the game looked. I watched them play the whole thing just to experience how good the game looks without jaggies everywhere.

I wish my Nintendo Game License included a clause that allowed me to use an alternative rendering path for their game code. I already paid for the license; just let me run it on better hardware if I have the opportunity.
Just cause in the end you lose money cause of X doesn't make X illegal, nor does it imply X is immoral.

Also, the rules are "buy our product, do whatever you want with it." Craftsman can't pursue legal action on me because I publish guides on using hammers (even their proprietary hammer) as a doorstop. The world of software has apparently been hard at work to take away our right to do whatever we want with the things we own, but I'd encourage all who read this to push back on others trying to move the goal posts on your right to do what you like with the things you pay cold hard cash for.
Then you don't need a jumper - you can trust the firmware to impose any policy you've set (re-flashing firmware is mediated by the firmware, so you can just have a setup option that lets you choose which signing keys are trusted)
Fair use in the terms of TV networks was "watch it when we broadcast it like a regular person, home recording on VHS will literally destroy television," but luckily we didn't let rights-holders dictate what fair use was.
Lies, just a pile of lies.
AI tool designs mRNA vaccines that are more potent and stable
The cross cutting issue is that I paid for the Switch and should be allowed to do whatever I want with my hardware. If Nintendo did not want me to be able to do that then they shouldn't sell my a Switch - they should license it to me.

Otherwise first sale doctrine means they can pound sand.
I needed some artwork for the Empire game, and needed it right away. So I made some "placeholder" graphics with MS-Paint, in my 2nd grader style, and never got around to doing proper artwork.
This looks incredibly interesting. I have previously used the free version of Reportlab, but this templating system would be significantly easier than futzing with the Reportlab DSL.
Noah Webster, of the US Webster's Dictionary was a language reformer and created a prescriptive dictionary intended to "correctly instruct" people about what he believed the correct use and spelling of English to be.

He introduced American spelling and American English.

By constrast the Oxford English Dictionary was created by lexicographers intent on mapping the usage of English across space and time, they created multiple entries for each form | usage of root words and added copious notes (in the full multi volume OED editions) regarding first usage, alternate spellings, regional changes, etc.

The OED is a descriptive dictionary.
This cannot be stressed enough.

You need to go to an expert and have a sleep study done for your initial settings, but it is no different from going to your eye doctor then buying glasses off of Zenni Optical. The whole medical equipment industry is just very expensive rent seeking, offering little support or expertise.

This is particularly nasty for simple accessories like hoses, masks, filters, etc wherein the markup and insurance overhead is massively outpacing the raw cost of these goods (and if you know where to look you can buy them 75% off without those things).

This is a true story: With insurance, my PERSONAL cost, was $1K though a medical equipment company. Then I had to have a modem in it and had my insurance spy on me for six months. Alternatively, for $900 I could have gone onto an online CPAP store, supplied by script, and been handed an identical machine (with included mask). Done.
I also imagine I'm not the only one who doesn't use their work laptop for personal stuff (even on a separate partition). At my previous job, I never even took my work laptop home, and in my current remote job, my work laptop gets booted up at the start of each work day and shut down at the end; I have my own devices for non-work use.
It's actually not in there, but in one of the sources quoted.

> 4 Techniques for measuring altitude : Altitude measurements seem to have been made with a chorobates, a primitive leveller with a vessel for water, or forerunners of this instrument. Eupalinos probably measured the south and independently the north entrances more than to check once his between results and to obtain a higher level of accuracy. He would have chosen a flat path around the mountain following a contour line not necessarily on the same level as the entrances. When the two parts meet in the tunnel after three km, the closing error of the levelling is small, only a few decimetres and the accuracy is still better at the entrances. Eupalinos had probably arranged two stone blocks at each entrance, with flat and levelled top surfaces, aligned with the tunnels, from which the level of the floor of the tunnel could be guided. Possibly a movable wooden pole was used to level it with the surface of the two outer stone blocks. Further into the tunnels lines on the walls seem to have taken over the role of the outer stones. Eupalinos himself seems to have expected a somewhat less precise result as he raised the ceiling of the north tunnel by 2.5 m and lowered the floor of the south tunnel by 0.6 m, when approaching the meeting point.
It's a funny bit, but this particular voice over is awful. Simply terrible, F- quality. There are 10 other links intthis thread that would have produced a better voice, or the publisher could have just read the material themselves.