skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say it's "historic" but it's not important. It will roil markets less than a shutdown would, and that story would not be particularly HN-worthy either.

Sometimes I wish there was a way to designate some posts "off topic" but still be visible on the front page -- like a topical Jubilee Day. I'm genuinely interested in what some of the HN crowd think about (some of) the non-tech, non-intellectually-curious stuff that goes on in the world.

But I suspect that we'd all just turn out to be dopey ignoramuses, opining well beyond our knowledge, and the discussion would devolve into the same canned narrative crap that we see everywhere else.

HN probably has nothing to contribute to the discussion, and policing that line through downvotes and flagging is almost certainly the prophylaxis that keeps the infection at bay. Alas.
DRM.

It is a pain in the ass for everyone except pirates. Tell me a show on Netflix and I will find you a torrent uploaded in highest quality on release date.

If I wanted to watch the same show on my desktop via Netflix, they wouldn't even offer that quality because it's not "secure" enough for them.
MS Bitlocker with TPM.
I was thinking about Sagan or the author himself. :-)
Well since this a US lawsuit…
Lol...not for me.
It's just my natural pedantry from years of helping students clarify their research statements. :-)
Yes, but is that really why people want the context window to be "infinite"? In my experience, the desire for bigger context is the ability to say, dump an 1000 page book into an LLM and ask questions about any part of it, not just the last chapter.
I'm still using YNAB4. Total game changer for me since I started years ago.
Uhh, we call them "shifts". 2 clerks can keep one store open (assuming we only need one clerk) anywhere from 6-12 hours if we do 6 hour shifts.

A store isn't a baby, one employee isn't needed 24/7 to keep the lights on.
Spotify premium, superhuman, YouTube premium, airtable, chatgpt/gpt, 1Password, otter, sublime text, rewind

I’d miss each of them if I couldn’t access them and had to switch to an alternative
And the government has lost every single case it brought against BigTech in the last 4-5 years
Coppicing predates writing, pollarding was written about in 1st century BC so it’s at least that old. Daisugi is mentioned as 600 years old so ~1500 years more recent.

Daisugi could in theory be significantly older than 600 years, but it’s origins seems well documented.
Oh, for sure! My point is just that America has a lot of factors that exacerbate the reasons those feelings happen.

Americana is a good example, IMO. It's more a stereotype used in country songs idealizing a conservative, rural America; but it's not something actually practiced or related to by most Americans. Heck, it's often actively opposed!
Look at other languages, they all have their culture to make stuff. Elixir is my goto, but we haven't had the vibe of building/shipping things into the world.
Came here to say this exact thing. We aren't perfect, but YNAB has really helped my wife and me to get our finances more in hand. It's probably the best money I've ever spent on software.
I had that discussion with someone before. They were under the impression that the registry is rally permanent while GitHub could go away. Aside from the platform betting, they really thought their 2012 package (and particularly its tests) would be useful in 2052. But who am I to say otherwise.

The recent HN discussion about “that one npm maintainer” confirms please hold onto the most painful ideas.
I'm a bit naive on things like WebRTC unfortunately. I can share displays... but specific applications, I'm not sure - I don't believe so.

This is with WebEx which I think uses WebRTC; it got funny when I disabled too much fingerprinting [in my browser].

I've managed without specific-app-sharing by using workspaces

OBS worked okay the last I toyed with it, IIRC using Pipewire for the capturing.
Just watch where you point your burns with some of the more exotic drives, and all should be fine. ;-)
I'd think the application would be used more for understanding the psychedelic experience. Not about safety. There is such a wide tome of experiences - there are going to emerge similarities to a knowledgeable AI that can load it all up at once. I'm very curious what patterns can emerge with up to date language models.
Their documentaries are horrible. One hour stretched over eight.
Eh, it goes both ways. Back in the 1970's and 1980's there was a whole lot of suspicion about changes that the NSA made to DES S-boxes with limited explanation- was it a backdoor in some way? Then in 1989 white hats "discovered" differential cryptography, and realized that the changes that were made to the algorithm actually protected it from a then-unknown (to the general public) cryptographic attack. Differential cryptography worked beautifully on some other popular cryptosystems of the era, e.g. the FEAL-4 cipher could be broken with just 8 plaintext examples, while DES offered protection up to 2^47 chosen plaintexts.

The actual way that the NSA had tried to limit DES was to cap its key length at 48 bits, figuring that their advantage in computing power would let them brute force it when no one else could. (NIST compromised between the NSA's desire for 48 and the rest of the world's desire for 64, which was why DES had the always bizarre 56 bit key.) So sometimes they strengthen it, sometimes they weaken it, and so I'm not sure it appropriate to presume malice.
Intel plans to IPO programmable chip unit within three years
And also because human typists don't always strike each key with the same force.
Google photos, I have all devices syncing photos to one place and now I don’t need to worry about did in-law A remember to backup their phone when they inevitably lose it at the grocery store. Arguably the only remotely important thing we have on our phones is photos and maybe chat history but it’s not earth shattering to lose that. Despite having more photos of ourselves than any other generation ever, It’s still soul crushing to lose family photos.

That said, I’ve been gradually losing trust in Google storage services so I’m searching for alternatives (and not finding anything remotely as good unfortunately).

Key features I live by
* search by ocr, object, location, face
* multi-platform sync
* originals storage
* auto-face match
* duplicate detection
The New Tax on Engineering Against the Grain
Oh that's a good point.
The performance boost you get from using a GPU is incredible.

You might as well say they're free to make monitors that don't rely on color.
All this.
Withdrawn. Time to go to bed.
You assume the 5 day work week was made with logic and kept due to logic. That's your first mistake. Look at all the forced RTOs happening to show that business logic isn't entirely rooted in hard numbers.

They aren't stupid but companies are inherently risk averse. And short of a global pandemic companies won't want to change what they don't see as broken.
We all (family of 4) have iPhones and use FindMy to see where everyone is and when they’re going to be home to time dinner. We also have a family chat on iMessage that really comes in handy.
> Doing this raises the labor cost to the point of making it uneconomical in many cases that it wouldn't be otherwise.

You're arguing against the specialization of labor. I don't think this is a winning argument.
Yeah I think it's fair to assume DRM will be a never-ending cat and mouse between developers and end-users.

Netflix for example can implement any DRM tech they want -- ultimately they're putting a picture on my screen, and it's impossible to stop me from extracting it.
It happened just not in the way we anticipated.

Women went from carrying washboards to the rivers edge to walking downstairs and dropping a load into the washing machine. Root cellars became ice boxes became refrigerators. Instead of beating the rugs you run a vacuum, etc.

Women could've hung out at home with this newfound time, but instead they mostly went into the workplace. This roughly doubled the labor force and over time essentially halved wages workers took home, making dual income households the norm and now essentially a requirement to own property.
were fonts ever sacred? monotype has made a whole business off of making helvetica and times new roman alternatives that are basically indistinguishable to the originals but don't require licencing fees.

that seems like exactly the sort of business that deserves to be taken over by AI.
The sea becomes more salty over time when just the salt is added back.
We have been using AnyList for what seems like 10+ years now and I, too, recommend it to anyone and everyone.

We had the pay-for version for a year or two but it works just fine without as well!
What are the meaningful changes?
It produces straighter wood and looks less harmful to the tree.

So it’s a question of trade offs.
Purring, parasites and pure love: what makes someone a cat person?
Internet Archive: <https://archive.org/details/wilhelm-reich-the-mass-psycholog...> (full text)

Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mass_Psychology_of_Fascism>
Completely agree. We tried a number of others and settled on that.

We also use it as a quick todo list for things that don’t go into the family asana

Other note- asana, mostly for repeating and long term scheduled tasks has been a huge family boon for us
In theory this won’t matter in a couple months when Threads gets ActivityPub support. Makes sense from a branding perspective
One of us has done their math terribly wrong.

A cubic meter is 1000 liters. If we assume (as you said) that 1m^2 can produce 50L per day, you would need 20m^2 (1000/50) to produce a cubic meter. Not 20,000m^2(!!).

So for 600k cubic meters of desalinated water you'd need 12 million m^2 (or 12km^2 or ~3000 acres), which sounds very doable.
Off topic but the writing style is so weird. It's sad they have to make articles a few paragraphs with a bolded titles to get people to read.
Tody (https://todyapp.com/) an app for household chores. It makes it easy to create chores to do, tune the cadence to do them at, and divide them up by room and by person. It keeps chores more fair and balanced between my wife and I and helps out with those chores that need to happen every few weeks or months and you forget about them. I also am the type of person that needs a clean inbox or 0 unread messages so it definitely works for my brain. I'm sure there are alternatives or systems that work just as well or better but it works well for us so sticking with it until it doesn't.
*deprecate or “EOL” (for continuing support). Depreciate is a tax and accounting concept, though often at the end of a MACRS depreciation schedule office equipment is often immediately replaced since it’s no longer contributing to tax write-offs. (Really, just not replaced as long as it continues to contribute to tax deductions)
My solution to this is to have https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/enhancer-for-... installed in my browser. It is also available for Chromium. It works perfectly and I have not been interrupted with ads at all. Highly recommended.

While I understand the need to support content creators, the way the ads work is highly disruptive of the flow of the contents of the video. I have no issue if the ads are at the start of the video (or even the end), but the way it has been showing up on browsers that don't have this plugin, is downright annoying.
Good point, and agreed the landing page is a bit sensational. I mentioned it elsewhere but between MatX and cuPy we see a 3-4x performance difference on average. The gap tends to widen with more complex workflows where compile-time kernel fusion gives more improvements compared to something like a single GEMM.
Joplin (free, but sponsored) in combination with a Storagebox at Hetzner. Joplin allows us to share notes, shopping lists, to do lists, etc via Webdav between our various devices (mobile phones, laptops, desktops).

https://joplinapp.org and https://www.hetzner.com/de/storage/storage-box
I pay for a fitness app and a meditation app. I’m such a better parent when I’m not constantly burnt out and at the end of my rope.
Yes, it is impossible to stop theft.
I get an involuntary shudder of PTSD at seeing “Threads” and “BBC” in the same sentence.
I quoted your post up thread word for word.

I’m done here.
Feels like anonymity and “loud quitting” don’t go well together.
Pg_partman feature highlight, partitioning in Postgres
It’s a great user experience if you fall into the happy path. If you don’t (water damage on a MacBook, older than 3 year iPhone, …) it’s preposterously expensive and impractical.

At that point, you don’t have any third party alternatives, because of all the intentional anti-competitive measures they take to snuff them out.
What about mass stream technology? Why everyone forgets mass stream technology?

https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/47e1bb1fc898c

"Using accelerated streams of projectiles or particles to either transfer momentum or support a large structure."

This is basically active super strong matter that requires uninterrupted continuous control, power supply and real time adjustments - or bad things happen very very quickly. What is there not to love?! ;-)
RT-X: the largest open-source robot dataset
I'm sure some of it is down to LLCs owned in their names that took out PPP loans from which contractors building a home office were paid out.
yonron's comment made a specific claim: "Amazon will raise the price in the long run and capture monopolistic profits."

aga98mtl pointed out this isn't actually true in practice.

It sounds like you're describing a different form of potentially anti-competitive behavior, which is not the same as the one yonron accused Amazon of.
Ask HN: What hardware are you using for AI tinkering?
I'm curious what everyone is using hardware-wise for AI experimentation and tinkering. I'm due to replace my desktop hardware and while I typically go with Apple hardware, I'm wondering whether a Mac Mini M2 Pro or a Mac Studio with M2 Max would still pale in comparison to a Windows based box with an NVIDIA GPU.
May I ask what made you to switch from Laravel to Next.js?
Some people share this view.

http://avodonosov.blogspot.com/2014/08/semantic-versioning-i...

https://github.com/semver/semver/issues/771
at the agency i work at we have been using https://lando.dev for some time with a lot of success. It is an abstraction over docker which isn't ideal but it allows us to quickly get going with projects and switch with no down time.
What is a typical path to becoming a judge? I thought it's normally prosecutor -> judge rather than lawyer -> judge. Like they are almost set up to be opposing from the start of career.
Great, maybe California can give us back some of our Colorado River water rights.
She raised expansion capital from traditional loans. It was a not for profit and she has a badass MBA. Yeah the margins were rough, distribution deals even rougher.
*discarded
It was mentioned elsewhere, but we support down to cuda 11.4, which supports down to the Maxwell architecture (nearly 10 years old now).
It could very well double as emergency reaction mass/ring weight trim/liquid radiation shielding/source of drinkable water and oxygen. :)
Building SRE from Scratch at Coinbase During Hypergrowth
When is someone going to run this on the blockchain...

(ducks)
To be fair, Native American culture was the victim of a 200-year genocide, is still actively repressed today for corporate interests, and has virtually no healthy, nostalgic population left to actively champion and revive it.

There were Native American cities with the population of London, they had (ephemeral, regional) writing and counting systems, etc. But aside from anthropologists and a few survivors, all of that culture is dead and gone.
Partiful allows event creators to broadcast events to mutuals. Not exactly the same as Meetup, but semi-public invites to IRL social events nonetheless.
Why in the world would you keep your whole net worth in a shady crypto startup like FTX? What's wrong with Vanguard, Blackrock, Fidelity, etc.?
What fraction do you expect that was? Even just giving a completely unfounded guess.
> I imagine mentors and services like Kumon are popular with this crowd?

Not in my bubble at least.
Thank you for being human. You are the best. :-)
We use AnyList (https://www.anylist.com) for grocery shopping. Much as we like to imagine we are wide-ranging eaters, we eat similar ingredients every week.

AnyList lets us make shopping lists easily, add items as they run low (with previous items available to us, and check them off as we shop. There are some more sophisticated features we don't use like recipe imports and meal planning.

We also have lists for eg the hardware store, which notify us when we are nearby. And I use it for eg making packing lists for overnight trips.
Id have assumed they had the perfect climate for giant solar installations directly feeding desalination plants
Huge fan of this app. It's really changed how I think about eating on a fundamental level. In particular I learned very quickly I wasn't eating enough protein, and since adding more protein into my diet I'm much less tired and also believe I'm thinking more clearly.
Many features broken now on X mobile app. Few weeks ago they remove swipe right to jump to the next video. Now they bring it back but you need swipe twice to jump to the next video, really annoying. Also timeline refresh randomly, the tweets I read gone before I finish read it.
actually a good reason to unionize, companies doing unnecessary things at the expense of employees

that checks the box, doesn't matter what other industries do they’re not living in the 21st century like we are, bring these companies to the negotiating table.
Isn't this only a type of tree? The way you phrased your first sentence make it seem like a common natural occurrence for all trees.
I’m sad they rewrote it for the web and made an inferior, subscription-based product.
Otter.ai

Audio transcription with auto summarization. Saves me tons of time and edfort.
This was answered by the Ars Staff in the comments.

> Answered your own question. There really aren't good actively developed cross-platform battery life tests available, at all. And rolling and maintaining my own, especially one that's in any way indicative of real-world performance, isn't something I have the resources to do (or the authority to make anyone else on staff use, honestly).

https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/review-framework-lapto...
The useful question isn't that fraction, though I'd bet it's larger than you'd expect, but how much free money was injected into the economy this way. I'm sure that's a consequential sum, especially if you expand the money we're looking at to include corporations paying other corporations inflated rates, coordinated by having execs/board members in common.
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Welcome to climate change: Citrus trees take a while to bear fruit, so uncommon weather patterns lead to bad harvests.

Something similar happens with Spanish olives, and with them, olive oil. Most Olive groves are not irrigated, because they historically don't need to be, and we've had two very dry years. Production is down to 50% of what it was, and irrigating isn't cheap or easy. And again, replanting isn't a sensible choice, as the trees don't mature in a season. We can plant different kinds of corn and wheat in different places as weather changes: A winter that is a little too short, and too long, and big ag will sell you a different bag to adapt to your updated planting date with minimal yield losses. But not with trees.
They do, but when you have a huge glut of high-quality crude, that is easier.
> He loves it so much and abhors the mass manufactured stuff

Sounds like your uncle and I would get along really well.

It's sad that Bellam Avakaya (or Bellapu Avakaya as we call it in our home) is not as famous as the other varieties.
The Gulf states seem to be doing a decent job.
Both Hulu and Peacock recently increased their prices by a dollar or something. Then Spotify did it. They’re just squeezing the last little bit of revenue they can before we’re all completely broke.
Outlier in what sense? Oregon is more of an outlier than Sweden. Let’s not even add East Asia to the spectrum of drug policy approaches.
Related? Others?

Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27708411 - July 2021 (227 comments)

Simple, solar-powered water desalination - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22269115 - Feb 2020 (192 comments)
I stand corrected. It is indeed ఊరగాయ.
Yep, for me Plex is the solution that "just works".

I eventually got annoyed that my 4 subscriptions costing $80/month only having 2-4 of the shows I wanted to watch every month, with the other 1-3 not being available to legally purchase in my country or on yet another service with an even lower hit rate.

Since Plex worked so good for these other shows, even better than my subs (e.g. crunchyroll) I decided to do away with them completely. I kept some like crunchyroll for a bit as a sort of "donation" while I used Plex for the exact same shows available on crunchyroll for the better experience.

Once I found out how little of my "donation" went to the creators of those shows I cancelled that subscription and try to make up for it by buying manga/official merch instead.
Would it taste as nice as Hetch Hetchy water though?

I swear that SF water started tasting worse after they started adding groundwater a few years ago:

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco-new-sour...
Since when was 37.8 percent a monopoly?

And it was also predicted by analysts that Windows Phone would overtake the iPhone by 2017

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2473666/windows-phone-...
> Copyright, or Trademark?

Always copyright, sometimes both. Really though fictional works have a really low bar for copyright infringement.

> It may contain enough information to recreate it, but is that the same thing?

Yes. The law currently doesn’t give a shit about how you got the information just it’s ultimate origin. It’s the same reason MP3’s absolutely qualify as as copies even though none of the bits map 1:1 with the source material.

An LLM that reproduces a lossy copy of some work is just another lossy format. A judge isn’t going to care about AI magic, they are just going to see the infringement. The only defense is to not create copies of copyrighted works which shouldn’t be an issue if this stuff is actually transformative.
I hear you, but I don't think it's possible for an HN thread about it not to just disintegrate into partisan bits, and nasty ones at that.

(btw, if you emailed recently, I'm sorry I haven't had a chance to answer yet - it's just the inbox doing its brutal thing. if that wasn't you, please ignore.)
it does, just more round-a-bout. The land does not have infinite value. If you overpaid for the land, you will have lost that value to the seller.

Therefore, these bidding is really just a price discovery mechanism. Unfortunately, because the transaction costs are high, and land being quite illiquid, the price doesn't rapidly converge to the "correct" one (aka, the true price might've moved faster than the bidding can catches up).

> does nothing for the economy.

Unless if the seller only ever reinvest into more land (and that seller also only reinvest into more land, ad-infinitum), the capital freed up from a sale will lubricate another sector of the economy.