skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most fascinating thing, is that most people have been paying for media for so long that they FORGOT how piracy used to work.

When I explain to them how piracy works now, how automated and easy it's become to use (setup is another thing), they are shocked. Basically piracy took a kind of microservice approach, where one app does downloading, and another set of apps (each specific to a type of media) handle finding that specific thing, sending it to the download client, and then moving, renaming, when it's done. All you do is use an app of your choice to say I want this, and everything else goes to work .. then when you want to watch it, its streamed wherever you want by another app of your choice.

Sounds difficult but the actual use of it is very very simple. Gone is the manual searching, moving, checking, etc... Heck I don't even manually find and fix subtitles anymore.
So what? So does the Dutch police. But that still doesn't mean you're about to ride your horses in quantity into war. Especially not as long as the opposition has (1) tanks and (2) operational machine guns.
"The industry” is not a monolithic entity—-the different players might rather get a larger piece of a smaller pie.
Every wonder of the world was built without todo apps. Every enduring work of literature, every renaissance painting, every leap forward in sanitation and medicine, every architectural triumph, every breakthrough in our understanding of the cosmos, every great expedition, every moon landing. All these achievements involved organisation and planning – including breaking things down into lists of tasks – but I bet very few of them involved people fretting about how to redesign their lists to be more 'motivating'.

The modern notion that we can derive enduring motivation from the design of a list-making methodology, if only we could find the winning formula, is insane. Motivation comes from beholding the intended achievement itself. If you don't want to carry out a task, either the task is not in service of a worthwhile goal, or it is but you are failing to notice that.
I've been looking at quadrant for a while. But I'm unable to understand the following

1. Can I package it inside a swift app?
2. Can I scale it decent rally using a network of peer-to-peer nodes?
And yet, the percentage of Java programmers using clojure is less than 1%. Looked at another way, how many applications need the fast startup time, and why can’t they be run in a daemon?
> But the buyer/seller relationship we have in everyday life automatically carries over into this world.

Only because people don't read the license which explicitly says YOUR EXPECTATIONS ARE WORTH SQUAT.
That doesn't really work in practice though.

I've seen the aftermath of a Renault Megane hitting a Ford Explorer, and it wasn't pretty. The Megane was a writeoff, with significant intrusion into the passenger area. The Explorer looked like it had been de-orbited rather than centre-punched by a small hatchback, with the bodywork in four pieces and parts scattered for about 100m. The occupants did not fare well, and indeed none of the small pieces of the occupants spread around fared well either.
I wish people would stop posting paywalled links.
Yeah I mean they're not great, but for that much money one could buy a pair of the Honda 2000w inverter generators and run them on natural gas and cycle between them quite handily. Have the "on" generator and the "just off of the latest rebuild cycle" generator.

I've also thought that if one could figure out some of the power electronics a wrecked Prius engine just ticking over at idle would probably provide most of your off-peak power and charge batteries and then during peak times it could just ramp up a bit. I've never heard of a natural gas conversion though so it would be a long road I suspect.
It won't live in WebGPU itself, but I do expect to start to see more third-party libraries for text. There’s already wgpu_glyph (https://github.com/hecrj/wgpu_glyph/tree/master) which uses a glyph atlas (CPU-rendered sprite map of characters), but techniques for signed-distance field fonts have come a long way too.
AI at Work: What People Are Saying
Honestly Michael Dell and his team were brilliant at continuously pivoting the business into the value.

They could have been lost to history like Compaq (Houston-based), Gateway, and many others were but knew that selling consumer PCs were a race to the bottom very early on.

Dell does much, much, much more than PCs and servers these days, though pretty much everything they do is done to sell more PCs and servers.

Anecdotally, I run an all-Apple household but really liked my experiences with Dell. Their four-hour rapid response service is no joke either!
Huh. I'm a millennial. We scored a perfect 100%. Beat that zoomers.
There is a chasm of difference between taking some shrooms and testing a black hole analogue.
We could build websites from snippets of paywalled links. Just using them as resource for something usefull.
You have the kind of opposite due to the "Chicken tax". There is a 25% tariffs on light duty trucks and vans. SO, they are shipped to the US configured as passenger vehicles and then stripped after arriving in the US to a cargo configuration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax#Circumventing_the_...
Most people are pirating movies and tv not music.

Why?

Because music doesn't do that much exclusives, so you can just choose a platform and you're ok. Whereas movies and tv shows are ALL exclusives now, so you have to subscribe to multiple places. It wasn't always like this as you remember, and that's why piracy died for a time.. you could just have one streaming service, and you're good.

But people got greedy. They saw what Netflix had, and wanted it for themselves.. not realizing what that would mean
Wait what? Really? In that case why not pirate your content? You already paid for it.
-And pay-per-movie (eg itunes) is just ridiculously expensive, $10/movie, that's a whole day's salary in poorer countries.
I don't think this is relevant for Denmark, bc their salaries are much bigger. But it's imo expensive anyways
I feel you, but I’d like to point the Finger in the other direction as well: (modern) programming is not sane. The tools and the environment are not made to be sharp and minimal, we are not using hammers and screwdrivers, we are all using custom made chainsaws with hundreds of proprietary extensions and that’s about as minimal as it gets. Sometimes it’s actually more like wielding multiple nunchucks each covered with chainsaws.

It’s quite disappointing we need multiple layers of assistance to even begin our work. Syntax, autocomplete, go-to def. These sound like simple things, but are fiendishly difficult. Catering to all the various languages’ their idiosyncrasies is, as you have noticed, a task beyond the community.

If something like editing some basic pieces of code takes multiple man-years to facilitate and requires “language servers” I tend to look towards the environment that produces such monstrosities.

Maybe we could stop complicating things so damn much? Impractical I know, but I won’t give up an ideal just because it can’t be reached (now).
Well we did have WW2 only 20 years after WW1...
I have also been able to program for years in C with vim + ale + gutentags but if you start doing some web with all its litlle dsl, it gets overwhelming quite rapidly. In this case LunarVim (or others) is a relief.
The five stages of eddiotism:

- this isn't funny

- hahaha, I get it now, funny!

- meh, it's obvious

- this really isn't funny

- hahaha, I really get it now, funny!
$11,250 straight from China.

https://electricimportmotors.com/collections/trucks/products...
Having looked into RV trailers in both the US and EU, I can say that the US trailers are by and large MUCH bigger than in the EU. A quick Google search showed a trailer[0] on sale in the UK, weighing in at 3289 lb. This is a typical size that I would see being towed around where I live in southern Germany.
In the US, a typical trailer[1] size could come in at ~4500 lbs. Mind you, this weight is what we call dry, not counting the weight of a filled fresh water tank, important living items (i.e. food, dishes, clothing, etc), and any other items you might want to take camping.

Although this is (slightly) on the more extreme side, "fifth-wheels"[2] are also common to see on the road. These certainly require larger vehicles to pull.

[0]https://autoline24.uk/-/auction/caravan-trailers/Bailey/Pega...
[1]https://rv.campingworld.com/rvdetails/used-travel-trailer-rv...
[2]https://rv.campingworld.com/rvdetails/used-fifth-wheel-rvs/2...
This. As someone now in their 30s who didn't learn to code until their 20s, I've tried several times with vim/emacs but it just isn't worth the hassle because I just don't have the free time anymore to endlessly fuck about with config files and learning the ins and outs of each program. So many of the absolute best seem to use one of vim/emacs but then so many of the absolute best started coding when they were children or teenagers with time on their side. It would be a lot easier if they could develop some kind of easy way to switch between these pre made configs but last time I tried chemacs and cheovim I couldn't get them to work as expected. I think emacs has built this feature or something similar into the release coming out soon so I might give it another go in a year or two but I dunno.
Like many things in our field, we try to justify our choices, and because generally folks in our field holds high standards about themselves, we should justify as the only right way. What in reality, it is all about user preference.

In the end, use whatever your feel most comfortable. I hate the VSCode interface and all of those notifications/popups and general slow interface, but I can understand who doesn't care or think that even with those VSCode is still more efficient for them. I also can completely understand the issue that folks say when they lost a long time tuning their Neovim configuration to their preferences, considering that I just have done so. But I still prefer neovim to VSCode nowadays, and not everyone needs to think the same, and this is fine.
There's an analogy to the Danegeld in there somewhere. But who is doing the raiding in this case?
I find your comment interesting, but I don't know what this is referring to. Any chance you can expand on this point? or link to something that explains it?
For me: Relax - woodworking or brewing beer. Friends - team sport. Good luck!
I want to do this too... But what's annoying is sometimes things don't come to VOD, just to a streaming service.
Netflix shielded from Hollywood strike by global crew, strong pipeline
Who is filling those header fields in? The malicious device.
Are you hinting at infinitesimals?
PE conceptually is fine and if it worked the way you describe then nobody (respectable) would be complaining. But in practice you see it turn healthy or struggling but fixable companies into a shell to hold onto debt.

Its a twisted way of using the financial structure to siphon money without creating value (I would argue it destroys value instead).

See the story of Toys R Us as an example.
There's more than one "math" system and Riemann Spheres allow division by zero. How does that help visualise the universe?
Don't worry that bed will be occupied by a opioid addict anyway.
Oh, we know the reason. It is because UI looked ugly and the latency was high.
The one part of being a CEO I could never do would be sitting through this bullshit without speaking my mind.
Something that shocked me when I left the USA a few years ago was how aggressively region locked everything is outside of the states.

More than half the times I’ve tried to find something it’s “oh, this isn’t available in your region”. “Oh, this is available in your region but you need a credit card from this region”. “Oh, this is available in your region but your email address is tied to an account in a different region”. “Oh, this is available in your region but only in low quality”. The unholy combo of “oh, this is available in your account’s region, and it’s available in the region you’re visiting, but in this region we can only show the content to people from this region”.

It’s no surprise that piracy/vpns are still widespread - streaming companies (really media producers) are blocking people from purchasing their services!!!
Evaluation of ChatGPT 3.5, ChatGPT 4.0, Bing AI, and Bard in News Fact-Checking
I'm sorry to be blunt, but do you really not understand that you are not the only one hurt when you crash a car? I often see this with regards to car crashes, people often say "the only one you hurt is yourself", and I feel like I must be on drugs or something, because I am pretty damn sure that this is not true
JetBrains product has always been fast for me, as I wouldn't run them on a 10-year-old computer with an HDD drive. They've been very configurable, more than other IDEs I've used. An IDE is a host of tools, so the UI can be dense because they can do so much stuff. You invest in your tools, and that can also mean buying a powerful enough computer to do the stuff you want.
Only 50%? I'm disappointed.
The term chiptune, and the technical approach and associated musical character, was firmly cemented in the Amiga scene already in the first half of the 90s. The composer who coined the term (in the beginning of the 90s) was legendary computer musician Matt "4-Mat" Simmonds. Everyone understands the difference between oscillators and sample playback, but notwithstanding the term being "technically lopsided" this is still the history of it.
If you weren't online twenty years ago it's from Despair.com

https://despair.com/products/meetings?variant=2457301507
‘The Man Who Organized Nature’: Linnaeus
As a recent LunarVim user, I can really recommend it.
Coming from vanilla vim, it has been a pleasure to use. More power at the cost of less configuration. And beginner friendly (for someone that's familiar with vim)
To me that suggests that we need to go through another such dark episode before a cold slap of reality returns us all to more sensibility.
Okay now that is an entirely different amount of mess (and completely unacceptable), still troubling to see businesses having such a low amount of runway. I mean, anything could drive them into disaster at that point, even an unrelated natural disaster cutting off the roads to the village or whatever.
My naive guess to what's going on is gzip here is set on tame settings, such that when it sees the same codeblock twice it shrinks it in a more space-efficient less cpu-efficient way. When it sees it just once, it doesn't.

However it happens, I think if you're being real, it would take A LOT of these micro-optimizations multiplied by A LOT of cache misses to add up to anything important.

What I got out of this is, unless you're looking at the specific bytes in the network tab every time you edit your code, just minify/gzip and forget about it.
This also describes the ultra-wealthy quite well, but few are in favor of a wealth tax.
There is also an online tool / API for this, which can be quite helpful for non npm using vanilla.js workflows.

https://closure-compiler.appspot.com/

Should be set to:

// @language_in UNSTABLE
// @language_out ECMASCRIPT_NEXT

for it to work as expected.
On an European level, that doesn't seem to be the case so:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

Except the global dip during Covid, development is either stable or slightly increasing. A 50% drop in production sounds like a strong claim, requiring equally strong sources to back up.
They are certainly still trying. I used vscode a while ago. Some of the best and most essential extensions like LiveShare and Remote are proprietary and worked only on the proprietary build of vscode (the last time I checked) and wouldn't work on OSS builds like vscodium (why though?). Both these extensions and the proprietary build of vscode come with telemetry that's either opt-out or always enabled. They nudge you ever so slightly and gradually towards the proprietary build. I left vscode since I don't like such manipulations.
“One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue. The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.” -Gabe Newell
Looks more open core than open source, given the massive premium banner.
Some countries in Europe decided that it was impossible to stop piracy. Instead they added a fee to storage devices, like disks and USB drives, that is supposed to compensate for the lost revenue. I don't remember where that money goes, but probably to big media companies?
There are all the changes related to turning Loghorn ideas from .NET into COM as of Vista, and then the WinRT evolution with a new type system based on .NET metadata.
And in the first paragraph the PR article should mention all these numbers and how they compare to the existing batteries the "breakthrough" is purporting to replace
French too.
> The sheer disdain in that sentence alone.

I'm sorry that you read it this way, I think I could have written it differently. That being said, I don't agree that any of the things you listed are tools.

Moreover, reading what you wrote in your original comment from a more negative stance, I also think it's easy to read it as disdainful but I chose not to read it that way. I would appreciate it if you were more positive in your reading of what I write.

Tools in my mind are things like: a keyboard, your IDE/editor, your build system, your VCS, your userspace utilities (sed, awk, cat, ls, grep, etc), code formatters, code linters. I guess "tool" is probably not the best name for these categories given that I can understand why you would also call a library a tool but to bring in an analogy from woodworking, tools are things you use to make things from the materials (what would be libraries, frameworks, programming languages, etc).

So having this distinction in mind, I don't think it's necessarily incorrect to state that you are of the opinion that what I would categorise as "tools" are not worth learning and (I should add) modifying.

Again, I would like to stress, I am not trying to make any objective claims as to how correct your approach is. I am simply observing that there seem to be broadly two categories of programmers. Those who feel like investing time in learning and writing/modifying "tooling" is worthwhile and those who do not. I feel like you fall into the latter category.

In this sense, I don't think vim, neovim, or emacs are really appropriate for people who don't feel like time spent learning and writing or modifying (let's call them) peripheral tools is worthwhile. Whereas you feel constrained by the need to understand what to you might feel are "irrelevant details" (the need to know the API) about neovim, I feel constrained by what you might feel are "irrelevant details" (the need to adjust to a specific workflow which I might not be used to, the need to constrain myself to a specific set of plugins) about VScode.

That being said, I will say again, to claim that vim takes a lot of time to use and configure is simply wrong. But if you feel like having to learn an API to use an editor is a waste of time then it would explain why your experience might be like this. It's not possible to use vim quickly without having learned the API. Likewise, I feel like having to adjust to a specific way of editing as envisioned by a specific company and a specific plugin writer is a waste of my time and it would explain why my experience of VScode is that it takes a lot of time to configure and use whereas your experience is different. This doesn't mean that VScode takes a lot of time to use and configure, just that it's fundamentally not for me.

I hope the above clarifies things. I would be happy to agree on a different term than "tool" or a clearer way to distinguish between e.g. an IDE and a library or framework.
This sort of happens in the wild too. Weaverbirds spend their life on spiny trees and build their nests on branches of such spiny trees.
It also makes it easy to write and share your own packages when you need something that's not in the repos (or the AUR). The first package will take you about an hour of reading documentation (which is 10+ times less than it took to build my first Debian package), but the next ones will not take more than 5-10 minutes.
I wonder if they were aware Patrick Suppes' group at Stanford was doing Logo already in the 1960s. They used Imlacs for turtle graphics, the very same Douglas Hofstadter used to edit his manuscript for "Gödel, Escher, Bach".
Sorry, totally missed your reply!
At first we had normal text and then we switched them for hand-drawn sprites. The text animation consists of 2D transformations (translation, rotation, scale) interpolated over time. It's all animated in code. NanoVG helps by having a transformation stack like OpenGL. In Zig I can open a block like this:

{
vg.save();
defer vg.restore(); // undo all transformations at the end of the block

vg.translate(...);
vg.rotate(...);
vg.scale(...);
// draw sprite

}
// continue to draw the rest of the scene
There's an additional tax on all storage media, be it harddrives, usb sticks, burnable CDs. If you can write data to it, the tax is applied. The tax is used to compensate rights holders. I don't know exactly how it's distributed or who is actually receiving the money, but the goal was to offset the alleged loss of income from piracy
> why not pirate your content? You already paid for it

Because you didn't pay for the content.

Assuming it's analogous to the Dutch law, the tax compensates lost income from you being able to store publicly broadcast copyrighted materials, such as music on the radio or movies shown on TV. That's why it is taxed on storage devices and varies per device type.

You haven't gotten a license on every piece of music, software, and movie in existence. That would be great lol, I'd sign up for that tax. Essentially, that's what Netflix was for movies until Disney etc. decided they wanted not to participate and now we wonder why piracy hasn't died
It seems that VR is the only reasonable application.
Don’t forget Paramount+, Peacock, Hulu, and Amazon Prime.
Only if you paid the people who own the content.
The phrase "[s]he turns fluids into black holes" could have come directly from some new-age bible. The only thing that made me think "maybe they're talking about a person" was seeing it featured on HN, so that was purely by context. For me, your suggested change isn't patronizing -- rather, it's an essential addition that upgrades the headline from content-free gibberish to an interest-piquing description.
>Were the subjects actually exposed in a meaningful way to another source of asbestos

One of the subjects previously filed a workers comp claim for asbestos exposure at a textile plant where she worked, despite being considered to have had no asbestos exposure other than from cosmetic talc for the purposes of the quoted study.

https://retractionwatch.com/2023/01/24/jj-subsidiary-alleges...
> It is unwise, in the course of a search and rescue operation, to report that you think the vessel was irrecoverably lost.

I made this point several times on social media during the Titan incident but it fell on deaf ears; it seemed crazy to me that people were accusing the US Navy of some nefarious cover-up regarding possible acoustic detection of implosion.

Anyone who’s ever worked with any type of signal analysis would be aware of the huge uncertainty involved; the idea that we could positively identify the specific destruction of the Titan remotely was ludicrous on its face.

That aside, even if the Navy was 100% certain, would you want the search for your loved ones called off because someone heard a noise? Of course not. You search for people missing at sea until you find them or until the point where any reasonable hope of finding them is gone. That applies to billionaires as well as anyone else.