skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah these discussions always give me a bit of cognitive dissonance.

On one hand, I like owning my software or content I purchased (talking about DRM)

On the other, people expect most things to be a "live service" in terms of updates, which isn't sustainable if you only ever get paid a small onetime fee for your software. If you make the fee large, like Modo/Photoshop did, then it acts as a financial gatekeeper to your product. Even then, I feel like it creates wrong incentives for the product, so I'm not sure it's good either.
Would you mind providing a citation stating that someone has gone to jail in any country as a result of bypassing DRM for personal use on things they purchased? I am skeptical that this has ever occurred.

Even in the US, which has quite draconian anti-circumvention law under the DMCA, the criminal penalties associated with this behavior only apply to those that violate the statute “willfully and for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain”. A person who bought a DVD or blu ray and decrypted it for their own use would not be criminally liable.

https://law.justia.com/codes/us/2021/title-17/chapter-12/sec...

I’m not defending the law, which I disagree with, merely pointing out that “looking at jail time” for non commercial bypassing of purchased BluRay DRM is a stretch.
As far as I know, the monorail has been prepared to extend to the airport for years, and Fremont St is only a mile and a half away. It already runs through multiple casinos up and down the strip. Vegas has an existing mass transit system and after being constantly mystified that I can't use it to get between the strip and the airport it's a little frustrating to see so much capital poured into building a new road network directly underneath Vegas' existing overcongested road network.

A light rail on Maryland St has also been discussed [0]. I don't think the only option to improve transit options in Vegas is to dig a new, cramped road network underneath the existing one.

[0]https://lasvegassun.com/news/2018/apr/16/q-a-rtc-official-ou...
Pasteurized as in the meats are pre-cooked? Or are you possibly meaning pasture-raised?
> "The main aim of this fork is to provide once again a real community project where everyone's contributions are welcome and no one single commercial entity is in charge of the project."

Let's suppose this fork is successful and replaces the original. Wouldn't it be SUSE, another single commercial entity, who's now in charge?
Since benchmarks can be misleading I want to point out that the differences between Hydra and the "tuned"[0] PostgreSQL (which are some very basic settings) are a lot less convincing, with plain old PG coming ahead on quite a few: https://tinyurl.com/eju9tht2

I also noticed quite a bit of parity between Hydra and Citus on data set size. Is Hydra a fork of Citus columnar storage?

0 - https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/blob/main/postgresq...
I think this is an artifact of attribution. Something like 90% of Canada's land is owned by the Crown of Canada, which as far as I can tell is public land owned in a technical sense by the British royal family.

In practice it seems to be mostly owned and controlled by provinces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_land#Canada
> there are very few software RPN calculators _that aren't just HP emulators._

Command line: orpie [https://github.com/pelzlpj/orpie] is okay; it has math functions that dc doesn't have.

GUI: galculator, in RPN mode
I'd offer this example as counterpoint: I would not sell my dog for less than a 5-digits sum, but if my neighbor kills my dog all I'm owed is the ~$50 that it would cost to get a similar dog from the pound.

The dog's price is $50. The dog's value is much higher. See also: family heirlooms.
"Language developers are, in many ways, the modern aristocrats telling us what we can't or should not do."

This is offensive nonsense and breathtaking entitlement. They're providing you free tools to try to help you, usually not even being paid for their work.

Edit to add: I just got copypasta trolled, didn't I ...
Flutter Pros and Cons 2023 – Summary and Recommendations
Stack of questions with no answers

Cure for cancer, cure for AIDS
According to a quick googling, this would be enough density for for short range commuter aircraft to become viable.

https://theicct.org/aviation-global-expecting-electric-jul22...
Great utility. Almost the only thing I use Termux for nowadays.
I'll bet you there'll be RNAV approaches for gliders in a decade or two ;)
Most of my phoenix apps sit under or around 100mb resident, and they load a fair bout more than a script probably would.
10xjobs.net, High paying tech jobs (US)
F# also has units integrated into the type system. Seems like a great feature though I've never used a language with it.
> Where is the right line between "my hardware, my rules" and "my software, my rules"?

There's something obscene about unlocking existing physical features with more money, but there's also our mental model of what ownership means. Imagine you buy a new fridge, and it has an extra compartment that is installed, gets cooled but you have to pay to unlock. No one could ever verify that you didn't rip it open yourself. I don't think anyone would object either.

The current monetization strategies for software favor the corporations. They can withhold service in case of no payment, and they are trying to do the same to hardware. I personally feel we should regulate this as soon as possible, otherwise things like right to repair will simply disappear.
That's fascinating, especially this bit at the end:

The gene for chondrodysplasia in various short-legged breeds has been confirmed to trace back to a single ancestral mutation [presumably from Egypt, as the Egyptians since short legged dogs had been found in Egyptian households dating back thousands of years.

Egypt was also thousands of years in advance of modern pet keeping by quasi-domesticating Ball Pythons.
I work at an "enterprise" company and I'm not expected to install 20 different apps. Duo is just one example, but it supports both push based 2FA and onetime tokens, and those two modalities cover every vendor integration and SSO we have. There's really no excuse to be using SMS nowadays.
Same here. Much like Firefox, I think it's important to use a search index that isn't tied to the larger players (Bing and Google in this case). I tried Brave a couple of months ago[1], I found the results better than Bing, but without image search it wasn't usable. Now I can give it another go.

[1]: https://jahed.dev/2023/07/01/trying-brave-search/
In the last few months Bing has been much more reliable for me at reverse finding original sources of cover album images that have been posted on Discogs. Google seems to not give me images that have been posted a long time ago (10+ years maybe), but Bing still does.
I won't be buying any car with software locked features.
From 1997 to 2012 I was the sole IT guy at a trade show company. We had a database called Smiley.... I wrote 3 different replacements for it, they were always afraid to convert over, even though I was fully prepared to run them both in parallel.

I've been this guy, sorta.

I've been afraid to even try personal projects since then... that job broke me.
We tested pgvector’s implementation of HNSW for you and compared it to pg_embbeding’s. This covers why this milestone is important for Postgres and why Neon is committed to supporting pgvector.
What if I want googlebot to crawl it but not bravebot? Every other search engine lets me block its crawler specifically. Only Brave has this shady policy.
A lot of the foundational papers in NLP were written like this too. Clear and concise without grandiose overstatements. Dana Angluin comes to mind.
Good point. I know next to nothing about making tunnels, but I wonder how hard it is to increase the tunnel diameter after it's originally dug out.
Intel briefly did have a scheme where you could pay to unlock parts of the processor that were disabled for segmentation reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Upgrade_Service

It was abandoned due to backlash but that didn't stop Intel from doing artificial segmentation, so instead of buying a chip with "3MB" of cache and being able to unlock it to 4MB later, now you buy a chip with "3MB" of cache and 1MB of dark silicon that's permanently lasered off at the factory. I get the objections, but the alternative isn't really an improvement.
These are all excellent defenses of a 12-14 year old boy who truly doesn't know better.
Yes, but if I lose/break my phone, I can legally resurrect my phone number.

For 2FA apps I need to securely store backup keys, and take them with me when travelling.

In my company we set up Duo, so at least IT Admin can bypass 2FA for me. But it doesn't work with all services, regular type-in OTP are still lost.
There are a few references online if you search for '"american inventors" "google"' or something. For obvious reasons it was never covered in any tech blog.

https://twitter.com/Micki_Harbour/status/894871335104630784

https://old.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/88a5hv/is_somethi...
lit looks like someone's trying to make a GUI in java, what is the need/deal with these annotations etc?
I've never quite understood this idea that Cloudflare is an MITM. An MITM is by definition a covert intermediary. Cloudflare is a service provider that's deliberately employed by a site operator. If CF is a MITM then so is AWS, GCP, and every other CDN service provider.
I just built the most amazing flutter mobile app with ChatGPT as my little assistant and I can't believe how fast I can go. I never used flutter before, didn't know the DART language, etc. But every single time I was stuck, I just asked my AI friend and I would be un-stuck in a few seconds. In the old days each one of the being stuck places would take hours or days to find how to do it!
If we didn't have NAT default home routers would ship with "all ports open and routed" firewalls; and in fact that can still happen with IPv6.

So in a very real way it has provided protection accidentally.
It's been about 1.5 years since we used it, so this may have changed since then.

I was vocal about it on the CF community, but no one seemed to care and no fix was possible so we setup a local DNS.
About Black Mirror season 6 episode 1-level creeped out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Is_Awful
Tesla committed fraud by “grossly” exaggerating EV range, class action says
Thanks, and I'm glad to hear! I'm Will's co-founder btw. Just wondering, what's the PR about?
Hot Coffee is and was an absurd case with absolutely no merit behind it.

It only became a large issue because it was a social fad for politicians and mass-media to dogpile "evil gaming companies corrupting poor mindless children", and Rockstar in particular with the GTA series was one of the most popular targets of said social fad.
wait

So the company that goes "we don't need physical buttons since we have voice commands" also goes "you don't need those in underground parkings"?!
The premise was that one doesn’t already have a half a million dollar on-prem setup…

Like a bootstrapped one or two person startup. Or could I borrow your globally distributed home lab? =)

The difference here is that I can pay AWS by the hour (or even by the minute or second). I can’t hire a sysadmin like that.

I can try a few high GPU instances for 6 hours and shut them down. But if I need to buy 6 4090’s and the hardware to run them, I’m stuck with the choice and down a few tens of thousands.
keeps getting reposted, and is only a theoretical simulation.

and the title seems to be deliberate clickbait to confuse Lawrence Berkeley National Lab with the Argonne National Lab effort to synthesize and characterize the material properties.
On-disk HNSW index for Postgres with pg_embedding
I just can't write normal software
I don't think most people get really creeped out by targeted ads. That's a pathology that seems to only exist within the tech community.

I don't even know what an "entire TV show that was ultra-targeted" would even be, shows that could be customized by personal preference? That seems like something people would actually like.
Someone gave me a book about the Bell Witch in the 1970s and I just remember it scaring the hell out of me. I usually don't get scared easily, even back then. But things like that did for some reason.
pretty much—according to wikipedia, he resigned, though apparently moz actually tried to keep him around (just not as CEO, his appointment as which flagged the donations initially)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
A movie like "Being John Malkovich" except it's you!
> But the software we sell* comes with legal restrictions on what the buyer* can and can't do with it. Which means that we're restricting what our customers can do with the hardware that they own.

I'd say the software equivalent to right to repair would specifically be about restrictions against inspecting/decompiling/modifying the software running on your machine.

While I also think copyright is flawed in general, restrictions against redistribution of the software seem like a separate matter - in the same way hardware right to repair doesn't mean you can set up a manufacturing line for new John Deere tractors to sell to others.

> h4ck0rz came out with a crack that unlocked the premium features on it

If someone grafts on useful features using only what you have already downloaded to my device, I think that's fair game.
my favorite part of this read comes early on (ahem, clears throat): "I’m not going to spend too long" ~ proceeds to introduce "The Sales Pitch" for several paragraphs <3 in any case, im sold, will check this out next hackathon
Highlighted for your convenience:

> We are aiming to deliver a Rust-based compute platform that will efficiently run Polars at any scale.

> We believe that the Polars API can be used for both local and cloud/distributed environments. Our API is designed to work well on multiple cores, this design also makes it well poised for a distributed environment. We also believe that a Rust based columnar OLAP engine (Polars), is perfectly suited for efficient distributed computing.

I suspect they will sell "cloud-scale distributed computation" systems. Perhaps something like snowflake?
Hardly anybody uses F-Droid, comparatively. The people that do are generally less likely to fall for simple scams.
Reading this, I'd think we get all of our Beef from Australia.

Do Australians really have that many cows?

Or do they just have a fewer large farms, and large farms show up on this list, as opposed to in US that has lot of smaller farms.??

So does US eat more beef, but have smaller farms?
That was what made IE dangerous: everything Microsoft did in IE was the standard for a bunch of years. They built things like XHR and the concept of "AJAX". The CSS model of IE was eventually enshrined as box-sizing: border-box, because designers loved it and it was easier to work with.

For many years in IE4/5/6 every browser was criticized for not supporting IE standards.

That's how IE6 got a huge marketshare and then kept that marketshare for far longer than it ever should have.

That's why those of us that remember browser history worry that Chrome is the new IE. It's defining the standards. It has crazy momentum behind it. People are (victim) blaming Safari and Firefox for not "keeping up with standards", even though the standards they aren't keeping up with are often things Google decided to do without finishing the standards process first. That's what IE did.

People remember the years after the interregnum of the web slowly cleaning up that mess. Of standards finally getting passed and IE being the one incompatible. They don't remember as well that IE was the problem child so much because it defined standards for years and that's what cemented its huge marketshare and inability to go away quietly when it came time to clean things up. Cleaning things up was so hard because it had defined so many standards. Worrying about "Chrome is the new IE" now is trying to prevent that mess from happening a second time.
I'm not sure I understand your question but most opinions are fine on HN as long as they're expressed in a way that fits the site guidelines, i.e. thoughtfully, respectfully, curiously.
Game theory at play. Tesla and its customers are adversaries, vying for the same dollars. Tesla implementing these security measures directly translates to being able to charge more for services. Same as John Deere and many others. This is a minmax problem. How to pay the least to cause the other actor to pay the most. If the feature costs $15K and breaking security costs $15K then it is effective security. Obviously not the case here.
Wasting time when I should be working.

I was reading through jwz's blog and someone linked to the icon contest winners. I saw Marsh named as the artist who spruced up the animation, so I checked if his company had a website portfolio. The current website wasn't useful, but I checked the archived version and poked around until I saw the Netscape icon page.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/12/the-secret-history-of-about...

http://web.archive.org/web/20080206124223/http://wp.netscape...

http://dataglyph.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/20011214155044/http://dataglyph....
> Nobody starts using because they have a great life but they’re just curious what a bit of meth feels like and then accidentally get hooked.

No, I know people who've been hooked meth and heroin (all different people) who not only tried them for the high, but used them "safely" for years before they lost control.

EDIT: Here's a post from an HN user who followed exactly this path - no intention of self harm at all. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36965442

This single anecdote disproves your "nobody starts" claim.

> They do it because there’s no better life path open to them. It’s really a form of suicide.

No, less than one in twenty at most wants to die or has circumstances that would make the average person want to be dead if they had the addiction treated. (Which with modern drug-based methods is actually pretty easy.)

> Criminalizing will make the suicide process faster and less visible to you.

It's not suicide though, that's just want you're saying. It's your opinion. Given that most people recognize this isn't suicide, and most users did not and do not want to die, it should not be treated flippantly and the responses shouldn't be denigrated.

Banning hard drugs is like banning unsafe food or medical products - it's what we expect our government to do.

> Making it illegal would be like criminalizing sugar because of the obesity epidemic.

That would work and would save a lot of lives. And fwiw, the argument isn't if we should criminalize sugar which we already do in many goods and forms, it's about at what point the FDA should set the allowed value.
Any modern enterprise firewall has app identification built in and will quickly identify you trying to send non dns traffic. And after the solarwinds debacle, everyone with a security team is looking for it.
An AWS Horror Story: Organization Migration
The datacenter hardware still needs people to purchase and manage the physical stuff. And those people aren’t exactly cheap.
Native apps cost far more than just 1% over web apps.

I'd argue each native version costs about as much as an web app.

The real shame was Gtk and Qt not getting the support they deserve.
My priority for search is that it’s free of political censorship and weighting. Google is abysmal on this issue, then we had the DDG CEO on here making excuses for his very clear statements about Russian news sources. I don’t need or want anyone else to decide for me what qualifies as “misinformation” I will decide that for myself.

It surprisingly comes up for image searching. Google for example has been known to censor images of Tiananmen Square.
not sure about the resources to support its development long-term, though
Yes he mentioned that too.
Is 90% of Canada more or less valuable than the other 10% of Canada?
Surely your ancestors were much much better persons
and what happens when there is a Li battery fire?
Reviving the ornament of a dead child at the Neolithic village of Ba`ja (Jordan)
This will be neat if it works but really there isn't going to be a huge market for 500+ mile cars vs the cost savings of getting a 300-400 mile car. The exception might be road-trippers and people who do a lot of towing but I suspect that is a much smaller population than people tend to think.
> I don't even know what an "entire TV show that was ultra-targeted" would even be, shows that could be customized by personal preference? That seems like something people would actually like.

Yes, but full of product placement and other marketing messages.
Maybe, but I know that I'd happily pay for a browser that was better than the ones that currently exist, as long as it wasn't a subscription/SaaS thing. So I know there's some sort of market. How large it is, I have no idea. Has anyone actually done this market research?
CEO of Neon here. After we built an in memory HNSW index for Postgres that allowed us to establish a baseline in performance and prove that it's the right approach to support vector search we now built it "the right way" and now it support restarts of Postgres, replication and the rest of the Postgres machinery.
> Is it a societal good to pay a bunch of people to loiter in a coffee shop pretending to talk in the background of every coffee shop shot?

I'd wager that more societal good comes from paying actual humans actual money than it does to digitize those humans' likenesses so that money can instead remain in producers' pockets.
> Running multiple servers at work where I set up containers that I gave collegues access to and such. I find that the "VM's but not" approach quite nice.

Out of curiosity, why? Wouldn't it be easier to give them a URL and tell them to execute "docker run ..." to get the same environment?
Yes, it only pushes the inevitable lean battle further down the road and never solves anything. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
You're talking about tasks known in advance; I'm not.
I'm not sure your example disproves OP. Your artisanal butcher can pass on any costs of compliance to you, and people like you who live in wealth-dense NYC and are willing to pay extra for pasture-raised meats. That is not true for much of the population that expects to pay $5 for a Costco rotisserie chicken.
I think they meant that now that an AI can write the tests they can bring themselves to write enough to hit the 100% coverage. And I think importance of coverage just depends on if you want to build fast or have better maintenance, but I could be wrong since I usually only write e2e tests at most.
Really sad jj wasn't short for "JoJo's Bazaar Gitventure".
I just had it fix some outdated copy in a part of the UI. The nice thing is I didn't have to find the file myself, I just described what was wrong like I would a junior eng and let it find and fix it. Worked on the first try!
Proton pass, proton VPN, proton email, next: proton browser and proton OS.. never put all your eggs in one basket.