skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Disney differentiated with some pre-releases/theater times with $$ ups like Jungle Cruise during Covid, -- and should probably do more of that. But with the catalog system, I had 0 desire to see Ant Man and the Wasp knowing I could watch it at home in ~ 1 month.

It's what I don't get about these sites; I mean I do, but it baffles me. They have the perfect opportunity to re-invent and broaden consumption of their product except they dig their claws deeper into the media business of the 1980s refusing to imagine a world other than multi-year cable contracts with channel upsells.

These companies, especially Disney, should just have a yearly Day 1 Streaming pass that gives you release day streaming access like they were doing during COVID. I don't recall but I remember the single movie passes were pretty steep, like $30 per movie and apparently it worked.

Anyone who buys such a pass is already unlikely to go to the theater, so they aren't cannibalizing. What they would do is bring them into the movie sooner so you have more time to market to them from that movie (buy our plushies, buy a copy, come to the park, etc)
Bringing Dark Patterns to Light – FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection (2022) [pdf]
Why do we have square meters but not square seconds?
Backup your bitlocker keys (Twice)
Apparently the page for recovering the bitlocker keys of my device is not working. I hit the forums and saw someone other people with the same problem. Microsoft support couldn't help me and my backup drive has garbage instead of the keys I backed up less than 3 months ago, great.

This post is a reminder to you to print your bitlocker keys and store that paper safely somewhere. It is also a call for help if someone here works at microsoft.

Thanks :)
And thus piracy spikes again, the cycle continues.
None of those are loop holes in the system, just gaps in the market. A loophole implies bypassing existing laws or regulations.

I suppose you could make an pretty compelling argument that ride-sharing like Uber and Lift are a loophole around the regulations of taxies. Same with Airbnb. But not sure if those made anyone a billionaire. Multi millionaire for sure, but I don't think a billionaire.
I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it
There is ed as well
Is this a bad time to mention that SR 2e is my second favorite system? ;)

FWIW, my group is currently playing Free League's Alien, which is very much not crunchy.
Go and Rust do not compete at all in the same domain. A long time ago, Rust did not have the focus it as now and even included a GC

But now, asking Go vs. Rust does not make sense at all.

If you want a mediocre speed application with fast development, use Go

If you want good memory footpeint with mediocre development use rust
I noticed this project while comparing restic/borg and am thinking about trying it.

Initially I thought this was a corporate project and was looking for the monetization model, but then I found https://github.com/kopia/kopia/blob/master/GOVERNANCE.md

I feel like the project might benefit from making their governance model more prominent on the website.
You should look into the mods for replacing the GDROM drive with a SDCard reader.
I'll throw out the the GTFS transit standard involves publishing zipped CSVs representing your DB tables regularly. There are nice things about it and downsides IMO. This is how google map's transit directions function -- they rely on agencies to publish their schedules regularly in zipped CSVs I think.

One downside is that dev experience is pretty bad in my opinion. It took me years of fiddling in my free time to realize that if you happen to try to use the CSVs near a schedule change, you don't know what data you're missing, or that you're missing data, until you go to use it. My local agency doesn't publish historical CSVs so if you just missed that old CSV and need it, you're relying on the community to have a copy somewhere. Similarly, if a schedule change just happened but you failed to download the CSV, you don't know until you go to match up IDs in the APIs.
For all the praise cargo gets, the lack of namespaces seems like a pretty huge oversight :/
I wonder what the TOS is for a smaller model. I think it's not ok for training another LLM but what point does a Model become an LLM?
1) GDRP has been in effect since 2018. It doesn't matter that they were in violation of the law "only" two years - they broke the law.

2) Just because they are incompetent doesn't mean they get to break the law. Why should incompetent businesses be absolved from any wrongdoing?

3) If they want to do business in the EU they have to play by the EU's laws. If they cannot abide by the EU's rules, they probably should not try to make business in the EU.

4) That's why they only have to pay 2.6%.

5) There were multiple breaches that exposed user's data. You might think that exposing user's data is not that serious, the EU has decided otherwise. The burden by law is with the company, not the parents.
That's essentially what GitHub Copilot is.
It is a personal media management application that has sprawled into offering streaming plugins. Thats it really. If you dont mind wrangling your metadata, it is a pretty fantastic way to stream your personal music or movie library.
> Google has extended security updates to 5 years for the newer Pixels.

It's not really 5 years. For example, if you buy a Pixel 6a today, a product that is not yet discontinued, you'll get less than 4 years support.

Unless you accept Google's misleading framing of "from when the product was first sold", rather than the more reasonable "from when a consumer bought it, unless they bought it after it was discontinued".

"When the product was first sold" is a meaningless date to a consumer who chooses to buy a product and this framing needs to die.
> I think at this point, the real question is who in their right mind would ever build a game in Unity again?

This is pretty unfortunate, because Unity is partly responsible for the surge of Linux gaming over the last 10 years. Supporting Linux comes nearly for free on Unity (compared to many other engines), and fewer Unity games will likely mean fewer Linux games.
PostgreSQL 16 Release Notes
Yeah, I've heard of it and it looks great. But it also means I need to maintain a media server (which costs me time and money, and is also a potential liability in terms of copyright mafia and script kiddies who find a vulnerability in it and end up on my network). One day I'll get around to building a proper setup, with automated deploys, isolated networking and secure hosting... but for now the least work is just downloading files one at a time when I need them, and otherwise just watching Netflix.

Frankly the motivation that will finally make me build this is that my mom is complaining about the streaming service fragmentation... each of her favorite shows is on a different service with its own $20/month subscription, and that's on top of the $100/month for cable. For now she's just password sharing, but when that stops working I'll get around to setting this up for her so I can manage it remotely. Or maybe by then the services will figure out they'd be better off just streaming everything free on the internet and splicing ads into the streams. You know, like TV...
> To reiterate, a company honest with consumers would inform them they were getting less for the same price, and try to make the case you're making now: "hey, sorry about this, but times are tough, and we can't raise prices"

How do they do this? They make a chocolate bar that a shop buys and puts on a shelf.
But like what does that actually mean and look like in practice? Pay everyone as much as they want? Run every business as a non-profit? Pay everyone the exact same amount?

It’s great to say things that sound nice, I guess, but it’s hard to see how to translate that into the real world.
HN's memory usage obsession is basically a meme now. You'll see vastly more JS consternation here for RAM usage than praise for benefits like getting MVPs up stunningly fast, having a gigantic hiring pool, using one codebase to deploy on every major platform, etc. (These critics are often ironically the same folks who endorse avoiding premature optimization.)

And hey, memory usage can be crucial! But the community's distorted emphasis on it is almost comical, when compared to reality. I think it's an understandable perspective, given some devs' proximity to bare metal. But man I wish it wasn't such an omnipresent refrain here. :/
Not just the owners: also the breeders. Once the remedies against the owners are exhausted breeders should be held responsible for each and every dog they send out into the world.
Asking someone making $0 to pay you X per download is even more pointless.
It’s nonsensical to claim that to prove something you have to disprove alternate explanations. In an information environment where confirmable facts are scarse, you get the clearest vision by operating on probability. And on black-swan-tier questions the ’wisdom of the crowd’ is worthless - too much noise caused by nobody willing to advocate the black swan event, and too little prior events for the crowd to be able to calibrate itself beyond this.
You’re missing the point entirely. I said I wouldn’t call them that, and the reasoning behind that is the important part. Get your head out of the pedantic sand.

No wonder you don’t understand.
The reason that Pixel C was so uncharacteristically good for a google tablet is that the usual suspects in the Android team had basically no part in designing it and making it. It was a ChromeOS team project meant to run ChromeOS, until the 11th hour when an edict forced it to run android. This can be seen in many ways, including in the way it boots, the existence of the standard chrome ec, etc...
Godot is completely free but I still suggest trying to write your own small frameworks. A lot of Unity’s code is third party. All their 2d rigid body physics is Erin Catto’s Box2D.
> logarithmic drop off in the available key space

What do you mean by that? The key space is either 2^160 for hashed keys, or about 2^256 for unhashed or Schnorr keys.
The number of keys appearing on-chain is not limited by emission but by the block size limit of 4M weight units (each new key contributing a few hundred weight units).
Depends what they jump to; godot, for instance, should be similar AIUI?
Every ToS-style contract has a "we can change anything about this at any time, screw you" clause, but they also almost never use it except to change their privacy policy.
I do the same. (This further depresses the revenue of their competitors though, so it reinforces my point about it being an anti-competitive business model.)
I do also use Python (pandas) partway down the page :) I'm just trying to show different tools to give people ideas about how much is possible with stuff that is already in /usr/bin/

If you were to ask my own tool preferences which I use for $DAYJOB: pandas for data cleaning and small data because I think that dataframes are genuinely a good API. I use SQL for larger datasets and I am not keen on matplotlib but still use it for graphs I have to show to other people.
Have you checked out the Dominions series? It uses D6s and an "exploding dice" style where you reroll and sum every time you get a 6 resulting in a really interesting long-tailed distribution.

https://illwiki.com/dom5/dominions-random-number

Edit: The genre is more of a strategy game than an RPG.
I don't think he's wrong at all. Streaming services are not only selling but producing enormous amounts of content which if anything has gotten more expensive. I think most people are old enough to remember what it cost to buy a DVD box set of one season of a show, or even just rent a physical copy of a movie over a weekend. Goes for other media as well. Spotify giving you access to a substantial amount of the world's music for about ten bucks is kind of wild, or Game Pass. All these services are easily operating under their actual market value.

Something has to give in that equation, either its artists, studio profits in the name of user acquisition, but it never seemed sustainable or very reasonable to me. It was always obvious that at some point they'd switch from subsidizing their platforms to raising prices. It's arguably healthier.
Seems like something that will continue unless people vote with their feet and switch to a different platform.
Ok Mea Culpa - it was a hot take as the number seemed pretty low. Still feels relatively low but probably should be taken as a warning shot.

$367M USD (If that's the final cost to Tik Tok) vs their $11B revenue for 2022 - is a noticeable hit for the company.
I don't think the location of servers is relevant to GDPR. It's about storing and processing data of citizens of any EU member country.
I think a lot of people in this thread are glossing over a difference in definitions. Some people see "API" as "how to get data, even if that means all data with no filtering." Personally, I regard downloading an entire table as downloading a data model without any logic operating on the model, and an API as logic that returns only part of the model filtered in some way that interests me.
They have a lifetime subscription
That's great in theory, but most people don't have the funds for a rack, let alone a cage, or people to stack and maintain it all. The hardware alone to run a proper DB cluster is going to be prohibitive for most startups.
Yeah, I just hope people shift to mastodon because I'm not signing up for that site again.
Isn’t Gitea a fork of Gogs?
Yes it does, on page 3;

> A developer who wanted to pursue that kind of claim in court could argue using the concept of promissory estoppel, or the "notion that you can't just change the deal if somebody else relied upon it," as Hoeg put it.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/09/wait-is-unity-allowed...
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> Repeat after me - the private housing sector is not going to build sufficient housing stock to tank prices in... the private housing sector.

Are personal computer manufacturers willing to build sufficient computers to tank prices in computers? (They did.)

Are television manufacturers willing to build sufficient televisions to tank prices in televisions? (They did.)

What makes you think that builders aren't willing to build enough to tank prices overall, if it still lets them make a buck?
Oh my, this is a fantastic view of life - from the czkawka github page:

Czkawka is a Polish word which means hiccup.

I chose this name because I wanted to hear people speaking other languages pronounce it, so feel free to spell it the way you want.

This name is not as bad as it seems, because I was also thinking about using words like żółć, gżegżółka or żołądź
My DM will often check the bonus the armor offers and, if the attack was close enough to hit that it was blocked by the armor's bonus, describe the attack as being stopped by the armor. Shields (spell and equipment varieties) work similarly. Otherwise it's dodged.
Has anyone tried the smaller version of this so far?
> The main reason that I subscribed to it was for its broad range of exclusive animated content, like Close Enough, Final Space, Infinity Train, and Adventure Time: Distant Lands. All but one of those have been removed from Max now (I guess for tax writeoffs and avoiding royalties?), and with their recent price increase for a bunch of awful reality TV shows, I'm done.

The depressing US tradition of animation (especially the 2D variety) being treated as third-rate or worse continues.
It’s obvious that it’s the labels that are the problem. If the artists I listened to in a month got part of my subscription directly they would probably make a decent bit. If I listen to 8 artists maybe as much as a buck. Instead I would be surprised if they got any more that a couple of cents each.
Or how powerful survivor bias is. Something over 99% of the best movies were made over a year ago. I guess that's why recent remakes are usually available for free on streaming, but you have to pay to watch the originals.
Many US states actually have price gouging laws. In the US, during a natural disaster, many places deploy emergency personnel employed by the government (eg national guard) to pass out water and aid. I’d say the US ranks highly among developed nations as “politicians who are assholes due to bad incentives”.

Thankfully not everyone behaves like an economics textbook.
csvbase does ship parquet!

Just add ".parquet" - eg https://csvbase.com/meripaterson/stock-exchanges.parquet
Building an economy simulator from scratch
The best legible monotype font for computer screens I know of is M+ 1m regular.

Example:
https://www.dafontfree.net/data/41/m/94730/map/0-charmap-m-1...
I have an iPhone 12 and have had cancer that's typically caused by radiation. Should I be worried?
Yes, but no history.
So to summarize the answer to the title: Probably, unless a dev used an older version that had language around being able to keep the old terms, in which case it'll be for the courts to decide.

And of course "is that legal" may or may not quickly play second fiddle to "is anyone going to use them ever again after this stunt".
ok, but how ?
The author has written extensively about why he does things like this, and I'll sum up:

He is a professor of pre-modern military history, and students come into his classes thinking that pre-modern European battles were at least a little bit like the things they see in 300, or LotR, or D&D games, when in fact they get more wrong than right.

Also, the fact that a setting is fantasy is not carte-blanche for being unrealistic. We could e.g. critique characters as acting against their motivation if they do so, we don't just say "There are dragons so who cares if someone just randomly decides to hit themselves in the head with a hammer"
> Instead of attempting to eradicate coca bush farms, as it did in the past, the Colombian government is instead targeting exporters and laboratories that turn the coca leaf into cocaine. That's led to a surge in crop yields for coca bushes in the past few years, with 230,028 hectares of the plant being cultivated in 2022.

Seems like the policy of targeting exporters/labs is a failure if the higher yield is still making it to the market.
No, it's the whole thing. Under his contract he retained ownership of all the material, and presumably nothing about his contract actually bars him from releasing it as public domain.
They've added plenty of exceptions in the name of "cards". Wikipedia, movies, celebrities, ...
You might find a lot of interesting tools in the Datasette ecosystem. Data dashboarding for SQLite with all sorts of import and export and visualization plugins.

https://datasette.io/
Cats always roamed outdoors. like kids used to do. It is a fucking part of life dying, having diseases.

Keep your cat vaccines up-to-date, neuter them and have regular checkups.
An indoor cat is a miserable life, intended to be an object of some over-controlling miserable person who is afraid of life and want everyone else to be as miserable, paranoid and afraid as them.
Yup, I always believe writing a simple 2d engine gives a lot of insights about why commercial engines do this or that.

Even as simple as a tile based Ultima-spinoff engine, it's still a lot of work.
> Money is a social invention, it can never be apolitical.

Seems like the good old "everything is political" argument.
Have you used duckdb? It's great for that.
Does he own the rights to the art though? All the penciling and coloring was done by people under contract, not him.
This is no different from Oracle. When tides change you can see how a company like Microsoft reacted (make embrace OSS) vs how Oracle reacts which is to double down on its expensive out of touch offering. It’s clear Oracle isnt fully irrelevant now because there’s a lot of legacy clients who have inertia. It’ll only be a problem for them a decade from now. Unity’s leadership likely decided similarly. If they thought about this at all that is.
It's not lipids you should be worried about, it's emulsifiers:

> celluloses, mono and diglycerides of fatty acids, modified starches, lecithins, carrageenans, phosphates, gums, and pectins. Some recent studies have indicated that emulsifiers can disturb gut bacteria and promote inflammation, potentially increasing susceptibility to cardiovascular issues.[0]

0. https://studyfinds.org/food-e-numbers-heart-disease/
I could see that, but based on the massive stock unloads from numerous high level execs right before hand, it seems more likely to me that it's just another company that's going to be cratered inside of a year, stir up tons of controversy and legal problems with stupid decisions, and then everyone responsible will leave after the bankruptcy up millions of dollars. And another perfectly viable business will be stripped and sold for parts on the market because that looks better on balance sheets than just making and selling a product these days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN1WwnEDWAM
They have to alter the packaging to account for the changes. They can either do so in a way that makes apparent to the customers that they're receiving less value for their money, making sure they're aware of it, or they can do so in a way that attempts to deceive consumers and hide this information.

An example of messaging for the former is described in the quote you quoted. Another would be to use different-looking packaging, to indicate that it is not what it was before. If a consumer will still buy the item when properly informed of the lower value, then this apparent labeling should not have any effect on sales. If it does, it means the information hiding was material, which makes it bad.

tl;dr: companies hide this information because being deceptive increases sales, if it didn't, they wouldn't
Same experience here. Could never get reliable playback.
It just depends on the business in question, and the external pressures on the business. Jeff Bezos managed to not pay dividends for years by focusing on value, but also by zooming ahead of the pack in a greenfield environment that was ludicrously profitable. Low margin businesses, private or public, will struggle and have to do something to offer value for money; e.g. make a smaller chocolate bar that's the same price, and a larger chocolate bar that costs more.

On selling stock: I think this is a bit silly. A company can't just sell its stock as a viable strategy. What happens when it runs out? And who would buy it anyway?
... It does mention it.
Strange. I've never seen a store in California (which they list as requiring such things) that uses consistent units of measure.

Too bad there's not an obvious way to report violations.
Honestly, that sounds quite weird to me. I've been remotely running my instance with only 100Mb/s connection and it hasn't even struggled running 4K film. All this on a budget i3 9100. And I'm quite sure it should be able to run on even slower hardware if need be.
While this looks nice, their example listbox in nue vs react/vue seems misleading.

https://nuejs.org/compare/component.html

Even just skimming through, the huge React version includes much more functionality, more accessible (aria attributes are only set on the React version, not on nue).

But its always interesting to see these new projects and approaches pop up.
I have not, but that looks pretty cool too
Fabulous… I heart data
We’re doing this pretty successfully to identify products from massive text content, and even more importantly, we then perform a second pass and let the models categorise the identified products, and then do a third pass to build a category hierarchy. This gets us a full product taxonomy with practically no sweat. It’s amazing, really.
The Hot Water Rectangle (2022)
and if everything is political, nothing is political?

but politics is just what happens when power interacts in a social context!

...and everything IS social
Keynes' comment about gold is always pertinent.

Murdered Quote Warning: One might as well seal paper money inside bottles and bury them in disused coal mines for people to dig up.

Bitcoin is exactly that. Even better you don't even need to bury the stuff.
‘A fairytale wooden world’: Soviet country cottages – in pictures