skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Physical media also yield a marketplace that's more "democratic" and more efficient.

For example, if you're a hobbyist musician, then it's pretty favourable economics to put your songs on a CD, go out busking on the street, and sell the CD. The CD is a perpetual license to play the music as many times as you want, whenever you want, including the right to lend it to other people, pass it on to your children as part of an inheritance or otherwise, etc. etc.

So that's just about the widest possible legal right that the artist can possibly give to the listener, and, consequently, it should also command the highest possible price. You can charge, say, $10 for the CD, as opposed to, say, receiving $0.01 (don't know what the actual number would be), on each streaming-play of one of your songs.

Dealing in the wider right is much more advantageous to the artist who is low on capital: They've had an up-front cost in creating the music and recording the CD, and selling CDs will amortize that investment a lot quicker than selling streaming-plays. Streaming plays may pay more dividends later, if the music gets listened to a lot for a long period of time, but the redistribution of that cashflow towards the earliest possible point in time is financially much more advantageous.

So, if you have listeners paying for streaming plays, and artists requiring the largest possible payment at the earliest possible time, you require some moneybags intermediary to convert the one kind of cashflow into the other, and that opens the door to everyone getting ripped off in the process.

Obviously, one could interject that this is talking about the buy vs. rent distinction rather than the physical vs. download/streaming distinction. You could imagine the artist selling MP3s from their website through a paywall and charging for it as if it was a CD. But that opens problems on the listener's side, in the sense that it creates overhead and friction to look after an MP3 collection well.

But those two things are highly interdependent: Physical media is the technology that pretty much makes it the most frictionless on both sides of the transaction for customers to collect and use media over large time horizons. Once you walk down the path of download/streaming, you get into the territory where the thing you need to provide to the customer in order to exercise their legal right starts looking more like a service and less like a product, opening a whole can of worms and changing the economics fundamentally.
I’d be fine with them except that the stove completely turns off when the sensors get a drop of water on them. And your fingers has to be dry and clean to use them. Both conditions make them hopeless in a kitchen.
Ferrari to accept crypto as payment for its cars in the US
Which is pretty much none these days.
Software is more complex than a Wikipedia article.

All Wikipedia articles have the same set of general conventions. Most software projects have their own conventions.

Complexity brings greater cost.
For TV and film - Blu Ray has much higher bit-rates than anything streaming. The compression artifacts are practically gone.

Also, second hand, Blu Rays cost less than buying the media from an online marketplace.

Also, collecting and hunting for specific physical releases is a nice hobby.
this is most responses to anything anybody makes on here, it's a reddit-tier cesspit.
yeh they do. All the analytics show up right when it's mentioned people do it.
And that's why we should end Affirmative Action
Apple generally won't update iOS/iPad/tvOS devices after 7 years. And when that happens, apps will slowly stop updating too. If/when they stop signing certain OS versions, devices could potentially become un-restorable and un-activatable.
Hugely disappointed by Apple. After the latest Watch OS update the watch is effectively rendered useless, because it now needs three times a day recharging. Running 15km? Nope, not anymore.

4 years old, effectively rendered obsolete by a software update.

If you consider buying and replacing hardware as a subscription, the price finally doubled.

I was very proud of Apple for their long lasting hardware. A MacBook Pro from 2013 was 8 years very useful. But sadly this has changed drastically without reason.
Military doesn't need same quality to monitor, Starlink needs to also transmit and receive data(albeit slow speed), a military sat would just need to listen for a signal and know active and possibly identify some characteristics which combined other data sources Signal Int will have access to could be used to uniquely identify.

Starlink satellites are designed to be cheap(<$1M) and small in weight (~1,000Kg) and size(fit 20-60 in Falcon 9), and lot of the innovation is manufacturing at scale.

I am skeptical they come anywhere close to purpose built military satellites which costs upwards of $300-$400M[1] and are much larger in weight (5,000Kg-10,000+) and size (use full fairing ) and fly DH, Atlas as well and lever vertical integration. Given what we know about KH-11s, Trump photo tweet, the tech in the donated mirrors etc Military seem generation ahead in production tech not just experimental ones.

[1] There is some pork for sure in all government contracts, but not $299M worth.
Or we could use this logic to end the Ukraine war tomorrow
The 300-year-old Japanese method of upcyling
Or in fact in most habitats humans have colonised within the last hundred thousand years. People forget that fire, spears, clothing, constructed shelters, etc are technology.
I left a playlist on while working, so an anonymous account. A full on hour self-help seminar was playing as an ad.
if you don't skip the ads you get to some weird places.
Android updates: yep. It's even worse when it's cell phone carrier-branded system updates such as a Verizon Samsung Tab.

Phone repair costs: also yep. My friend owns a cell phone repair chain. They cannot get front glass for iPhone 1[345] Pro (or Pro Max) because the screens just aren't available for any price. The consequence is the third-party cell phone repair business is presently dying.
This site is probably founded by someone
- whose parents/siblings are working in Intel
- who has Intel shares
- who was rejected for a job application by AMD
- A proxy of Intel PR department
Is he intending to drag the entire chess community through the mud because he's past his prime? What disgraceful behavior.
A STEP to making fusion a reality [pdf]
Nitpick: HSTS doesn't interfere with MITM. You're thinking of certificate pinning.
I know of a lot of hand me down phones in a lot of families with device models going back half a decade or more. Especially iPhones. I don’t think it’s a fair definition to say that a hand me down ends the lifespan.
Israel could have chosen a less conflict ridden destination
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast
A Jewish state has/had multiple viable locations
Yeah SHA3 isn't directly for password hashing. You should use a memory strong PBKDF (password based key derivation function) like Argon2, bcrypt, or scrypt. These functions are all constructions that run the hash many times, so the underlying hash speed is irrelevant

For high entropy inputs, like for a HMAC signature, you want the hash to be fast because its practically impossible to brute force the 256bit input key, and you often apply this to large inputs.
I don’t know why no one mentions this, but it’s nearly the only reason I buy physical:

The ownership of a physical game is tied to a physical token (the disk or cartridge) not an account on some server that can be closed or locked whenever for whatever reason. Nintendo actually ties a digital game to an account AND a device. My son got locked out of his Sony account forever, for a reason I’ve never been able to find out, and getting a human on the phone is not possible.

I’ve had so many problems trying to play digital games I’ve paid for. Physical always works, and sure, I probably need the internet, but I don’t need an account.
Hamas largely exists because Palestinians give them political power. Same way Putin's party exists because the people of Russia give him political power
If you're looking for a quick link, it's at https://wholeearth.info/
Yes, absolutely, although I currently lack good examples thanks to "tip of my brain".

The reason I'm certain is I spend an hour or so most days cleaning up and resyncing subtitles .. and there are often discrepancies between subtitles for first release Vs later streaming Vs DVD Vs BluRay releases still to this day.

This happened for a recent (within last two years) TV series that had a sound track that went from great (first release in country of origin) to "blah" on second international streaming release.

Probably UK? - It'll come to me (dammit).

Point being, yes, this stuff still happens.

Even older TV series differ between 10+ year old DVD box sets and this years streaming release - entire episodes get dropped, others get recut with scences dropped.
Anhedonia (Inability to feel pleasure) can be paired with other words like Musical Anhedonia - Inability to feel pleasure from music. I know this one because I’ve never had an emotional response to any music and wondered if there was a name for it.
They also forced resale of those games as part of it - so Ubisoft is allowed to sell Activision games. Originally MS proposed only playing games you’d already bought on Ubisoft’s platform
> That wouldn't be considered a license

Would you mind expanding what you're thinking about here? (FWIW the ”license” concept doesn't really exists in French law)

> droit à la copie privée wouldn't apply to the site sending you the file.

Sure, the website would be illegal without doubt, but that's independent. Illegal streaming services are illegal as well, but watching them isn't for instance.

For a more similar example, there used to be a website that gave you the ability to “record TV programs in the cloud” (recording what's happening on TV is legal because is falls under the «copie privée» definition): the website was prosecuted and found guilty, but no customers were.
Or just given some of their own land. Like in UK for example...
https://www.axios.com/2021/01/09/platforms-social-media-ban-...
I'm not sure what old phenomenon this is replicating
Got to Z plus two lowercase words at the end.

About 10% of the list are actively used. Rest are stuffy.
I used my 2009 MacBook white for 12 years. I did have to replace MacOS with Ubuntu for the last two or three years, and I upgraded the RAM and installed an SSD. I considered the initial high cost to be an investment and it paid off well. I would not buy a MacBook in the current market.
Iirc, mechanical watch repairers have a type of putty they can lay across sprung components likely to fly off never to be seen again …

Yeah: https://www.amazon.co.uk/BERGEON-Bergeon-Professional-Cleani...
Will be ready within 20 years. The same as with AI and Climate Catastrophe
But he is correct in that Apple never implemented the ability to disable the OCSP checks.
Honda had the electric engine essentially replacing the flywheel on their IMA system. They could have dropped the typical starter motor but it was kept for redundancy.

While the ICE would still move at all times valves could stay up for 1 (only 3 firing) to 4 cylinders (no ignition at all) to eliminate pump loss (there's still friction loss). Sadly the electric engine is a bit weak for full EV operation except coasting but I found the approach quite elegant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Motor_Assist
Thank you. I have decided not to watch anymore of their videos after a number of inaccurate statements made as fact that was disproven with a single Google search. If they are not even going to fact check things they state as fact, then I cannot trust anything they state, and so my time is spent better elsewhere.
The IRS primarily goes after the middle-class and small business owners because it's the path of least resistance.

But when you're very rich, you have the advantages of an army of tax attorneys and accountants who implement tax minimization/BEPS and tax planning. They also have bending the tax code in their favor, a form of regulatory capture, through lobbyists, powerful friends, and elected officials.
When you see stats like this it is hard to not just go full doomer and think most people are sheep
Will you want to play those PS4 games in 10-20 years? To give an example of how this goes, Xbox Live, which launched in Nov 2002, stopped supporting the original Xbox in April 2010. If you had digital purchases and didn't already download them to your Xbox, they're gone forever.

While the lifespan of online services is typically a bit longer now, chances are that game consoles and game discs will long outlive their respective online services. Xbox 360's store is shutting down July 2024[0], making purchases on that console impossible (though downloads of existing purchases will keep working, for however long). The 360 was released Nov 2005, so it's had a much longer online-service lifespan of 18 years, but it's easy to guess that it probably won't hit, say 30. Probably not even 25, I'd wager.

Just to put the PlayStation 4 in perspective, that system was released in Nov 2013. Already 10 years old. I'd like to think it will easily have another 10 years of being able to purchase and download titles online for it, but who knows?

I mean, fortunately I never have to care about this issue - I always purchase the physical version of any console game for this exact reason. I'll deal with a little inconvenience if it means I get to keep my games for decades.

[0] https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2023/08/17/xbox-360-store-will-c...
South Africa, but UK also had it if I'm not mistaken.
These magazines were beautiful. It's a shame that little on the web can compete with them on that front. The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension was a fair crack, when it first came out, but that analogue look, with real human artwork is loads better.
Perhaps you’ll enjoy rap n hip hop and battle rap. It’s words with friends plus music.
Doubt it because companies usually spend more on recruitment than retention. Sometimes hiring for the same position at a higher range than the one given to existing employees for the same role.
I recommend anyone with an interest in world affairs read this.
The v6 Accord with IMA is pretty quick. I rallycrossed one and it did well.
Long intros are the worst. You had a nice click bait title and thumbnail fucking get to the content instead of telling me how busy you have been and how you feel/sound sick or entire history of everything and everyone even remotely related to the topic if the video.

Just give me the meat and give it to me raw
checks rx7600 price on local amazon

it's over 300 euro, twice the price of OP's

Sometimes I hate being in Europe.
The US tax code is purposefully, unnecessarily byzantine to gamify tax avoidance for some and entrap others. It should be an income and situational gradual tax computed by the government. There should no need for tax preparation software, only tax estimation software.
Disappointed to not see any mention of psephology or psephologists with the 2024 cycle looming large.
For a large group of people, lifespan of a phone is the same as the lifespan of the battery. They complain that the phone gets slower day by day, but they don’t know what causes it. Most of them come up with deleting WhatsApp messages so that the storage will be freed and phone will get faster.

Showing a persistent notification that “the battery has degraded and should be replaced” can increase the average lifespan of a smart phone significantly. These people don’t really care about shiny new apps or security patches. They just call people and send messages on WhatsApp. And maybe do some browsing on Facebook.

On iPhones, if the battery is degraded at least it drains up quickly and this hints that there is a problem with the battery. However, on most Android phones even 4-5 years old batteries last at least a day and they do so by reducing the CPU clock speed significantly. I know that Apple got fined for doing this in the past, but I haven’t heard any Android brand got fined for the same thing.

As anecdata, I have replaced the battery of my iPhone 6S at least three times and I will probably replace it again in a few months. And the phone is still very much usable.
But that is something you can fix when you virtualize the file system. In the end it is text. And I think there is some movement. See other comments.
It's not 10% all the time. It's 10% with high beams on and every conceivable thing on max. Even then you'd probably have to have a super awesome stereo :D
The current PS and Xbox consoles use discs for mere authentication, while installation to the disc is mandatory. Additionally, many games are online-only or have their value greatly diminished without online access. Therefore, the claim that discs save storage space or that physical media retains value is at best applicable to only some Nintendo Switch games.
You don't "buy" games, you license them. Digital distribution via DRM'd platforms makes it that much easier to enforce license terms against you. It's only "win win" if you see no problem with living in a corporate dystopia where you own nothing.
Most of NGOs are business or politics financed objects. In Germany government finances nearly all of them, except those which are financed by Russia and China ( Extinction Rebellion for example). 90% of ecological NGOs are just business or politics agents lobbying for bailout for inefficient technologies of renewables. They are inefficient not beca6 of technology, but because bailout allows it to be completely useless ( intermittent) while financially profitable. Sustainability however should start from economical sustainability especially at energy market.
The worst thing for democracy is NGO having political influence. It is just lobbying, nothing more, and it is the most manipulative kind of corruption UE has
Skimming the website... that's not what I see. He'd do well to make what you said more evident. If it's for game engine development how does it access the GPU?

When I see the "Joy" of programming, honestly I don't care. Pretty much nobody cares. Just because someone says it's joyful doesn't make it joyful. This is essentially what he's saying: "Hey buddy use my generic product that exists in a thousand different forms everywhere, it makes you joyful"

That's why nobody cares. He did well by having examples of the code, he didn't do well by not stating where it excels above other languages. I left thinking it's like python with types.

>So, if your negatives, which are so much more important than feelings or if the truths you referenced are substantive criticisms of the actual artifact, I would say lay them out and maybe have a conversation. But I don’t see anything substantial, just complaints about a person pursuing something they choose to pursue and making, what seems to be, a darn good effort in the process.

If there's enough un-substantive criticism of a product it points to ineffective communication. If everyone is taking a shit on the product then it doesn't even matter if the product is good, it's still shit.

There's your conversation. If you want people to listen and have a conversation you need to effectively communicate. This site spawned a lot of criticism, so that's a problem stemming from the person STARTING the conversation.

You see what I wrote? Sounds mean right? But, personally I think it's better and more real than any advice you've given him.
No, they account for shrinkflation: https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-12/measuring-shrinkflati...

They also try to account for changes in quality (they call it hedonic quality adjustment): https://www.bls.gov/cpi/quality-adjustment/questions-and-ans...
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I think that s-curve is the target (i.e. the overall end-to-end system gamma, combining the encoding and decoding transfer functions). If it's linear to reproduce the source, but for various reasons [1] sometimes it's preferable to have a gradual roll-of

[1] https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3081411
There is in my opinion a plateau where you are focussed on cleanliness that it slows your programming down as you apply more technique but which also produces the cleanest result. Some improvements are disproportionate in time cost. However as your experience with a language, libraries and approach grows you gain productivity even when focussing on just making something it still ends up cleaner with less repetition. You often can save yourself considerable time on the lines you don't have to write.
Let's have an international building code for bird safe facade design!
That's complete BS. Off-road stuff can't possibly contribute to 90% of pollution even if everyone had a V8 off-road buggy and used it every weekend. It is waaaaaaaay less than 1%.
I like spending $1,500 on a graphics card so I can re-use my existing $4,000 4k monitor to play pong.
The argument is flawed, for though digital copies of new games are rarely discounted on platforms like the PS Store, physical copies are often sold at a reduced price at brick-and-mortar stores.
In my opinion Linux and eBPF is considerably better and more flexible when it comes to firewalling and deep packet inspection based blocking.

The mentioned use case perfectly fits the eBPF XDP module's feature set, and could easily be mitigated with the LPM trie offered by the kernel.

I wish that in those regards BSD maintainers would start to cooperate more with Linux, because everybody benefits from cross-kernel compatibility when it comes to eBPF.

I always admired the BSD maintainers, back in the days they were very innovative but I always have the feeling that at some point when their innovations take off they just stop following up with it due to either very opinionated views or lack of interest. Especially with the ongoing eBPF community.
Why can’t everyone be as productive as Steve? When I assign something to him, it’s done in a week! When I want you to add a tiny feature, it takes three!
You got a licence for those pliers?
I mean if nobody work there would be no food to eat and no energy to power your house and car. I think we need people to work
In the last couple of years I've been thinking more often about a Venus scenario where life does not survive. We are just hoping that life will find a new equilibrium in the next couple million years like it has in the past. But if temperatures rise too fast, the planet will just get cooked before enough CO2 will be sequestered. The great filter is still in front of us.
Though, not any of the words on this list.
That is where the supply is, but 27" used to be 1440p and should be 5k now.
Or give me 24" 4k.
Currently my mother in law uses iPhone XS I got back in 2018. Is very happy with it. It's the original battery in it still.

The problem is manufacturers of Android phones that stop meaningful software updates and support basically directly after sale.

iPhone have 8 years lifespan easily today. EU should mandate 10-12 years. I look forward to Samsung et al following that.