skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> * Artificial scarcity. Recorded music is a scarce good only because the law says so. You wouldn't download a car and so on

But this scarcity is good. It enables, or would enable, production of music which wouldn't otherwise be produced. If music piracy weren't so much an issue today, the music industry size would probably be several times its current size (it would have simply grown with the rest of the economy, as it did ik the 90s) which would mean far more musicians could earn a living with their work. Especially musicians which make a type of music which isn't well suited for concerts. As a consequence, a lot of this music simply doesn't get made today. Yes, we instead got impossibly cheap Spotify (I don't think cheap flat rate streaming would have ever become a thing if it wasn't for piracy making actually selling tracks near impossible), but we also got less music, and consequently, less good music.

Compare this to the video game market, where piracy isn't as big of a problem as in music, due to much larger file sizes and better copy protection. Many of the great games we have couldn't have been made if video game piracy was significantly more common.
Didnt they intentionally make older versions of the OS slow to make you buy a new phone?
I just made my own CLI that gives me a higher score if I don't switch apps in OSX. Kind of a different take on the problem

https://github.com/softwaredoug/attend
I mean... I also expect the people handing out the free samples to be able to say "no more" to me. I'm not paying them, and they can stop being "nice" at any point without doing anything wrong.

I don't see how this is any different?

He wasn't harmed in the sense that netlify drove to his house and stabbed him. He lost access to a free food platter.
Your comment doesn’t seem to come from a bad place but is a bit out of touch in my opinion.

I’m generalising but can imagine that, for a woman, dealing with a group of pissed city boys feels much more uncomfortable than your brush ins with hen do’s.

This is all ignoring the fact that this thread is around drinking during work hours. So I don’t think the comparison to hen do’s is fair in the first place.
maybe it's their IE6 moment.
I have been in the tank for Apple since the 80's. So no doubt I'm distorted but content.

Financial transactions could become so streamlined that a "commerce fob" is likely to emerge. That would be a credit card with a screen and buttons.

Think about how streamlined all these tasks have become. Putting those in a single ROM that has a screen and is tied into some legitimate network will emerge.

It is only out of convenience that these services are currently tied to a "phone".
Consider this scenario:

- Content sites implement Web Integrity API to block bots

- But they still allow Google crawlers, because Google is their source of traffic

- Google competitors are locked out

How do attesters solve this problem?
My former business bank actually did this. They insisted their web app "was compatible with all modern browsers, but more compatible with Chrome" - I couldn't make transfers to other accounts with Firefox, it just hung indefinitely.

Virgin Money, UK - https://uk.virginmoney.com/
Also if Netflix or Twitter decide to require device authentication they can give you an error message and instruct you how to turn the holdback feature off
Not sure about you guys, but I plan to not give my kids a phone until they reach at least the age of 14 (7 and 3 atm)

Is this realistic? Any experiences?
I've actually been cutting out caffeine after listening to Michael Pollan talk about drugs and society on NPR.

Turns out the half life is typically long enough that using caffeine every day long term will lead to cognitive decline because of sleep deprivation. It's good for an occasional boost, but you're really burning the candle at both ends.
apple is one of the bad guys before the bad guys know they're bad guys..they already implemented this stuff
And if they are broken up, now you’re in 5 companies’ databases, win?

And then they are all probably going to implement “sign in with Google”.
Workaround: check WEI across 4 domains, P(failure) = 0.000001%
I hear Firefox is mismanaged all the time, but it seems to be a perfectly fine browser for the most part. I hear all about sites that won’t render in comments on this website, but they must all be internal tools or something because I never encounter them.
The only way to preserve tuna is not to eat wild captured fish and farmed carnivore fish (they're fed bycatch, 1 kg of farmed fish upto 5kg of bycatch).

Commercial fishing is extremely destructive industry, with huge amount of bycatch, no real oversight, no limits, and huge plastic pollution (46% of pacific garbage patch is fishing nets).

https://www.seaspiracy.org/facts

Bluefin tuna is one of the most expensive fish on the planet.

Highest value of bluefin tuna: $3,100,000, conservation status: endangered

Bluefin tunas are warm-blooded and can accelerate faster than a Ferrari

Today only 3% of Pacific bluefin tuna remain

A Mitsbishi subsidiary controls 40% of the worlds blue fin tuna

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/revealed-t...

Bluefin tuna frozen at -60C now could be sold in several years' time for astronomical sums if Atlantic bluefin becomes commercially extinct as forecast, a result of the near free-for-all enjoyed by the tuna fleet.

https://fiskerforum.com/mitsubishi-hoards-frozen-bluefin-tun...

It is observed that if the fish goes commercially extinct, the company is hopeful that it can turn a hefty profit from its frozen bluefin cache.

Conservationists informed that legally commercial hauls are limited to 22,000 tons per year, but the actual catch is 60,000 tons, more than four times the maximum sustainable level. By its own estimates, Mitsubishi controls 35 to 40 percent of that stock.
You’re gonna have to swallow your pride and use the best option here. If you are American you already have lifelong training in this dynamic and you know if you don’t, it just gets so much worse.
How about offering training, consulting, courses / books, etc?
Living things contain protein (arrays of amino acids and sugars), lipids (fats), and carbohydrates (sugars). Much of this converts to glucose by digestion or combustion (which is how they measure calorie content and such).
A new TikTok trend has people drinking toxic borax. An expert explains the risks
Is the Mozilla organization generally responsive to social media? I have had a hard time trying to figure out where the organization responds to publicly, generally.

I would love to have a Mozilla hosted email and calendar service from them, for example. I don't understand why they aren't branching out into more common web citizen needed services.
> more distinct voices than you have heartbeats in a lifetime

Quotable!
The same that happened to the ones who decided to stick with powered by IE.
I've created a Chrome extension to mess with Elon a bit and bring Twitter back to the state it deserves, with the bird.
You Can’t Hire (2011)
Even if you don't give them a phone, all it takes is one of their friends having one. They'll all huddle around it, or share it.
Pay to download or for other services: Not worth it; users can find the software somewhere else and they don't need your other services.
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The user subscribes to a developer of their choice and in return, all developers (and everyone else who wants to) can give that user some kind of benefit, like giving them access to downloads
Why would developers use this over just asking for money?

What are you going to do about people asking for 1 cent to join the network?
Toward Cloud IAM Collaboration: Introducing Workspaces in Leapp
Hah, that’s cool :D They are on Spotify, nowadays, though. But yeah, I own all their albums, though it took until last week for me to realize they had a 25th anniversary album in 2019. Without facebook it’s hard keeping up with releases of bands not on Bandcamp.
I doubt Ben Franklin the abolitionist was slave driving in the 1780's. And even though he was old as hell he was probably one of the most functional human beings in history.
I thought the same. But now I'm looking for a job, and I regret that I don't have a polished project on GitHub that I could show. You don't have to code for another three hours after work, but doing one or two projects on GitHub doesn't hurt. It's relatively easy and adds many points when looking for a job.
It’s bad enough google captcha is broken on Firefox with all the privacy extensions on.
Imgdiet, a Go module that provides a simpler API for C's libvips
Hi, everyone,

I recently released imgdiet[1], a simple and fast image processing and compression Go module that provides a simpler API for libvips[2]. I usually only need to optimize or resize an image, so I wrote something that lets me do just that.

The module only supports PNG and JPG images for now, but I'll be adding more formats with time. Patches are welcome and I would love the community's feedback!

[1] https://sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/imgdiet/

[2] https://github.com/libvips/libvips
It’s not the ads that are problematic. The corporate panopticon is.
Yeah, that fits. Leave the phone at home, or in a locker and go to class. How is that not also helping with self control?
Stop contributing to chromium. Fork it.
I don't think that matters in this case. The list of node-types is static in the context of the execution of the program so there is no need for nodes of the same types to have different behaviour, apart from the data/configuration that they store.

The point in question was what happens if new node-types come in (e.g. through a plugin that extends the language). But in this case the number of node-types is still static and the new functionality can therefore be adapted using type-classes.
I've never understood why so many tech oriented people have turned a blind eye to Cloudflare.
A team of researchers claims to have had a major breakthrough in anti-aging developments, thanks to AIs capacity to see patterns at scale. Their paper was posted on Aging-US. The team includes researchers from Harvard, with contributions from MIT, Moscow State University, Cambridge and University of Maine.
This is timely, I recently commented about paying for software [0], professional software is very expensive, but it's very expensive to create.

There's thankless work such as programming language development, operating systems (Linux), databases and Linux distributions that are profoundly valuable. Even just wrangling them from a devops perspective is painful though.

I've never paid for any of the work that went into Ubuntu, Python or Java (I use Corretto) or MySQL or C.

I kind of want a community of people that help run a sideproject PaaS and solve the things I would prefer not to work on. Servers that are up-to-date and patched and scalable and robust.

I use OmniNotes on my Android phone, I use FreeFileSync, Typora (paid software), IntelliJ Community.

What's a price that you would pay pay for your open source software?

If it was like Spotify, spotify is like $9.99 a month and apparently 210 million susbcribers according to Bing search "spotify number of subscribers". That's a fair amount of people's living costs to pay for.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36827698
An error isn't (always) an exception
In most programming languages, the default way to alert that something went wrong is to throw an exception. This interrupts the regular flow of the program until, as it crawls up the call stack, it meets a piece of code that handles exceptions in the call stack, thus leaving the happy path. If you’re unlucky, the error is unhandled and can crash your whole program.
This is exactly why people criticized secure boot. To not allow such system to establish themselves is the best defense. True for secure boot as well. Security is not the argument anymore, it is market domination.
What's the alternative, Microsoft Surface?
That is all very semi-mathematically correct, in the utopia of economics text books with all individuals are rational with equal with perfect knowledge and resources.

What actually happens in practice, humans are not rational, they have to eat, and all decisions are compromised. Corporations are a group of individuals, but I've seen plenty of middle managers, that have to hit their numbers, are feeling the pressure, and they will definitely break laws, dump waste, take advantage of underlings. And, the underlings, they have bills, have to eat, they go along with it. It is pressure all the way down through the organization, nobody is free to make 'contracts' between individuals. There are no free decisions.

Guess overall, think you are missing the the power dynamic and how that plays out in groups. LOL - Groups of monkeys.
Perhaps I'm wrong... but as far as I can see, no RAM technology currently allows variable latency?

Ie. the host says "I want data from this address", and the RAM can reply 2 clock cycles later with "Here is that data you asked for" or "I'm still getting that data for you, just wait a few more clock cycles please".

Such schemes allow the RAM manufacturer to implement error detection/correction/remapping, which would allow them to push their designs far closer to what physics allows. (you can make something much much smaller/faster if you only need it to work 99% of the time, and use a fallback path/mechanism for the remaining 1%)
They weren't, iTunes (and other services before that) existed before Steam. The music industry was ahead of the games industry, not the other way round. The difference is that video game DRM (Steam) succeeded, but music DRM didn't.
On desktop macs, there's strong reasons to use Firefox for many power users
Recycling is happily promoted and encouraged by corporations because it is the only one of the three that does not reduce consumption. To the corporation, reducing consumption is totally unacceptable.
I think you want to wait a bit after the s.
Show HN: Ditch 𝕏, bring the bird logo back to Twitter
Not a big fan of this new 𝕏 thing on Twitter so I've built a chrome extension that brings our beloved bird logo back.
I have been maca and L-theanine jacking with the effect the focus lasts longer than with caffeine. My bias is that I have ADHD and now use a MAO inhibitor nootropics approach combined with Maca
They were not losing money even before AWS:

https://dazeinfo.com/2019/11/06/amazon-net-income-by-year-gr...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/profit...

If their reports claim AWS profits are now offsetting losses in retail, then I guess their retail division has started losing money in the last few years for some reason. Which is odd given COVID landing in their lap.
Some Google services I regularly depend on (like YouTube and Google Meet) don't work as well on Firefox as they do on Chrome, in ways that actually matter. Besides that I think most websites work fine.
If those engineers that Google wants to keep are so good, then why they cant deliver anything?

Or do they just game google and will spend years doing nothing
Such as? Everything I care about works fine. I've no idea what people are referring to when they say sites don't.
Yes I know, I specifically avoided to talk about it since it did not really meet the demand at the time. The catalog was too small and DRMs were not removable at the time (until 2009) so it was pretty much useless for an mp3 player. I still give it to iTunes, it was the only legal place to buy music for the longest time even if it was limited.

Also the Windows version and the music store only launched in 2003.
I just spent £700 to have my own app on my iPhone (2022)
> Unfortunately, the outcome of that survey was even more stark, with many incorrectly putting non-recyclable waste, such as plastic bags and lightbulbs, into the virtual recycle bin.

In some countries there are recycle bins for this, where was this study conducted?
A few reasons:

1. Native integration across devices: Safari integrates seamlessly with Apple's ecosystem due to proprietary features like iCloud, Handoff, and universal clipboard, allowing for a consistent user experience across all Apple devices, with seamless transition among them to stay in your flow across devices.

2. iCloud Private Relay: This is a recent security tool from Apple and participating CDNs that encrypts all Safari traffic and protects the user's privacy by preventing anyone, including both Apple and network providers, from seeing which sites are visited.

3. Password Management Integration: Safari offers seamless integration with Apple’s Keychain for password and two-factor authentication (2FA) management across devices and across apps and browsers. Safari leverages Apple's OS level full password manager that's been quietly iterated each major release, now including support for TOTP and compromised-site checks.

4. Increased security/privacy: Safari uses AI/ML backed Intelligent Tracking Prevention to identify and block trackers, ensuring enhanced user privacy. While similar features can be added to Firefox via extensions, Safari has these capabilities by default.

5. Improved Power Efficiency and Performance: Multiple battery life tests confirm that Safari is significantly more power-efficient than Firefox and Chrome. Apple pulls this off through co-optimization of hardware and software, power-efficient technologies, hardware acceleration, conservative use of resources, efficient resource handling, and the blocking of resource-heavy ads and trackers. In real world use, you may see twice the battery life during web heavy usage.

6. Extended Support for WebKit: Use the browser your users use, so you understand and support their experience.

Other factors like persistent tab groups, 120hz scroll performance, and first class "retina" typography simply add to the smooth experience Safari provides on macOS and iOS.

Here are some lesser known tips for tuning up Safari to your liking and using features folks may be less familiar with:

https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/hidden-tricks-inside-apples-saf...
I don't see a more elegant solution than this, but it's a bummer. Smartphones are so useful; the world's information AND a computer in your pocket! The ideal would be to give students and parents an avenue to remove/combat the addictive elements of their smartphones, but most students (and parents) don't see those elements as a problem, but a feature.
They are not more secure at all.
> As a developer you sell subscriptions independently; you set the price, handle the money and do all of the interactions with the customer. Then you register the subscription in the system by using a simple API.

What prevents me, as a rogue actor, from just adding all my mates to the database without them paying me anything? Would they get access to all other software from the developers who take part in this affair?
Can you please explain why a third party browser can’t lie about its hash, just like it can lie about it’s user agent?
It is an option, but there are two downsides:
- such a current generates a huge electromagnetic field. So it won't work for a car battery, but may work for grid storage.
- price - there is a limit to how much current you can store, and so far this was the limiting factor - i.e. we don't really care about room temperature superconductivity in this case, but we care about the price of materials to build such batteries
This needs Show HN:
Show HN: HumHire, a marketplace for AI-free creativity
Hi HN!

My name is Billy Gardner McIntyre. I’m a developer and writer, and for the last eight years, I’ve earned my living as a freelance writer on Fiverr, where I’m “Top Rated” and “Pro verified” and where I’ve worked with thousands of entrepreneurs and businesses owners from around the world. There are some articles out there about me if you’d like to read more about the small business I’ve built on Fiverr.

Today, I’m announcing that I’ve built my own platform for freelancers – focusing on enabling creative professionals to provide evidence (in the form of videos, streams, and more methods to come) that they’ve done something without generative AI. These methods will also be available outside the context of the marketplace - for bloggers, schools, working creatives, and anyone else who wants to use them.

My platform is called HumHire – like “human hire,” get it? I got the idea for it about a year and a half ago and started to record myself writing, because I was playing around with the GPT-3 API in command line and I could see that it was improving quickly. I started building HumHire this spring and really picked up the pace about a month ago, when some of my peers started to reach out to me to ask how my business was faring.

The thing is, I’m still making a comfortable living on Fiverr as of today. Revenue has gone down, but not to zero like my copywriter friends’ revenue has. Because I specialize in ghostwriting people’s memoirs, which are too long for the ChatGPT token slot and very interview-intensive, I suspect that would be true for at least a little while longer.

But I’ve decided not to wait. I know that a lot of people will think this is pointless – or that I’m a luddite or something. I’ve heard as much from many friends I’ve told about this, and it’s all good! It’s important to me, though, and with the WGA/SAG strikes and everything, I suspect HumHire could turn out to be important to a lot of other people too.

Like I said, it’s still in very early stages, but I didn’t want to put off the launch any longer. I’ll be manually reviewing and approving all other creators for the next 30 days, just to take things slow and ensure the integrity of the platform, but if you have any feedback now, I would love to hear it.

Thank you very much,

Billy

Founder, HumHire

https://humhire.com

Blog on HumHire “What We Lose”: https://humhire.com/blog/what-we-lose

Mock Order Page for “What We Lose”: https://humhire.com/sample
Say that to Huawei.
I sparingly run into sites that don't render properly on Firefox but they do exist. As an example, Ticketmaster's account page has problems on Firefox that I don't get on Chromium.
It's proven that mass marketing works. Tell me how a minority of informed and caring users can avoid on their own that a single large scale bad actor pours millions over millions of dollars to convince the uninformed masses about whatever they want. It even happens in actual elections when some factions use misinformation campaigns to alter the average voter's perception! So not an easy task to solve without help.
Switchroot: Open-source baremetal and kernel development on the Nintendo Switch
>What does this comment actually contribute to the dialogue

Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know YOU were reading. Let me break down the concrete assertions in a numbered list for you. Feel free to attack any or all of them:

1. The origin of belief is unknown.
2. The success of belief is the thing.
3. Belief success is best analyzed as a system of selection, not generation.
4. The selection pressure on a belief changes over time.
5. An example of selection pressure is anything contributing to feelings of safety.
6. An example of selection pressure changing is when "abundance" is linked to "externalities".

And, I would also add:

7. People are very attached to belief either as identity or as comfort.
8. (Subjective) there is a profound comfort in dispelling illusions and embracing nuanced understanding of a thing
9. (Normative) you should try it!
10. A false assertion at one time can be true in another time.

EDIT:

11. Malthus did not anticipate technological advance, esp ammonia fertilizer tech, that invalidated his timeline.
12. Tech advances end. An example of the end of a tech advance ending is Moore's Law.
Meta, Microsoft and Amazon team up on maps project
Whatever keeps them working. Occupationally coffee is good enough for me
Zuck is positioned to offer to trade X(TM) for Twitter(TM).