skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saying "I refuse to use the media as you provided it, will pirate it for my personal use" is akin to walking into a greengrocer, taking a 1kg bag of carrots and pulling two of them out and demanding to only pay for them because you only want two.

Particularly when it comes to arts - games (disclaimer: I work in games), music (disclaimer I make music), art, theatre, there is usually another person I the other side of it who has made decisions to get that to you in the first place. Saying "my way or the highway" doesn't show Amazon that you're not willing to engage with the Kindle DRM and will buy it if they provide CC licensed prints, it shows them you're willing to dodge paying $10 instead.

> it’s someone attempting a business model which is thwarted by how inexpensive it is for individuals to copy and share digital media. I instead lack sympathy for the people with an obviously bad business strategy and prefer to recognize this culture-renting as farcical.

An over idealistic belief of free market being the only way that a product can exist, and throwing jingoism and shade at at anything you disagree with furthers the idea that you're not open to compromise.

Compromising is the basis of any transaction - I want the item for free and you want to be recognised for it, so we come to an agreement.
Does Carbon or c++next fix the ootb handling?
There was the Famicom disk-system released in Japan which (I assume) used the lower port: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famicom_Disk_System - although that was based on floppy disks rather than CDs.
This is such an ignorant and sad point of view. What are you, some hatchling that can only eat what mama bird has chewed up? At least make an attempt to do some critical thinking.
It still does, given Microsoft's stance on security, and that C++ used to be the main systems language, hence why C support languished until pressure from relevant customers to pick it up.

I say used to be, given the recent announcement of Azure business unit to switch to Rust as the favoured systems language for new engineering activities.
What are the British population's attitude towards this post-Brexit reality now? Has anyone reflected on it?
You can't have nonzero share ratio on private trackers anyway, because seedboxes will inevitably steal all your leechers.
Slow orders abound on US freight roads. This time of year maintenance of way crews are being cut off to protect budgets and only the bare minimum of maintenance is being done until after the first of the year when the crews will be brought back.
Wouldn't that interpretation work itself out in a number of hours? CDNs are usually just a hot cache no?
Does DoH not solve this?
You will find that "rationality" as people today understand it is a treacherous path as well. One mistake (among others) is to assume that The Science is independent of political power structures, and can thus serve as an independent guiding star for what should be done, when the reality is that it is the other way around: science is used as a post-hoc justification for the things people wanted to do anyway. Climate change (note how it is not just "global warming" anymore) is just one example among many.
I work for an IP geolocation company and precision isn't the main goal of IP geolocation. Accuracy is the main goal. IP geolocation needs to be precise enough on a city or zip code level at best. If precision is the goal, IP geolocation is not a drop-in replacement for GPS geolocation.
Why charging customers still isn't a cakewalk
I would love it if there was a religion focused on conquering space, but there is none afaik. Actually i wouldnt mind setting one up - could do with the tax breaks.
The "philosophy on performance reviews" linked here seems to be only a few paragraphs, which I'd hardly characterize as a lot on Deming's views. His philosophy is essentially "performance reviews reward conformity rather than improvement of the review process".
Wow, that sounds pretty bad.

The only time when I encountered something even remotely similar here was when my parents lived in a big apartment building and they wanted to remodel a 4 bedroom flat into a 5 bedroom flat. We did need to get all kinds of permits, submit various certified drawings (mainly due to planned installation of the extra window on the outside), the permit was for 2 years, but it could be extended. I remember permits weren't expensive, but it took a lot of beaurocracy.

They needed all these permits, because it's an apartment building, also it's owned by a local version of a coop/housing association. It's a peculiar ownership structure I suppose common to ex-communist countries. Each member owns shares in the coop and the coop owns all the land, the buildings etc, it evolved from the communist times. It let people keep their flats without having to buy them fully. My parents couldn't buy more than a 5% stake in the flat and they paid rent for the remaining 95% (in addition to all the maintenance etc).

Many years later when I was building my house. The actual permit to build cost me $30 in fees. Of course I had to hire an architect, a building site manager, a land surveyor which amounted to around $3k if I remember correctly just for them to create all the paperwork, put their stamps on it and certify what I'm about to build is not going to fall on someone's head a decade later. Once I finished the house I had to submit a notice of finishing with 12 pieces of paper if I remember correctly that ranged from my electrician and plumber statements with their respective qualification numbers, to my well water lab analysis results, the ventilation survey, the energy efficiency survey and more. Most of these cost me money paid to individuals that did the checks, but not to the city. The notice was free to submit (well, it's cost was included in the $30 for the permit).
> I believe the "Rust will never have a 2.0" style thought is what ultimately leads these multi-year pursuits of perfect

probably, but if it had instead had a "Rust will break your code once a year/biyear" style thought then it likely would have been yet another nice ML-y language no one cared about.
What happens when your AI girlfriend dies?
Probably a 48%/52% split between "this is exactly what we said would happen" and "we've been hamstrung by leaders not negotiating a good deal"
Lilium Receives EASA Design Organization Approval
Never for work.
> It's not more mental bandwidth for me

Most people are not you. Which, I guess, also answers your original question of "Why many programmers [do the things not they way I would do]?". Incidentally, this is also the root of all the complexity in managing and coordinating people.
Microsoft is deprecating Application Guard for Office
> Sure, Super Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time are classics. But what’s a must-have 3rd party N64 exclusive? I can’t even think of one.

Banjo Kazooie? Developed by Rare but published by Nintendo, global sales of 3 million.
That’s quite sad in a way; Half Life 2 is still an incredibly influential and beloved game 20 years later.

Or is that maybe why? The weight of expectation is too great to live up to
The GP was presumably thinking about downward looking optical sensors. An 0.1km aperture in the visible at LEO would have quite significant resolving power.
'simple' in that the solution is obvious.
If this obvious solution is unrealistic for you, then you have made yourself too dependent on google, or are just unwilling to solve the problem. In both cases just stop whining.
Log and visualize multimodal data from C++/Python/Rust
Is this ai generated?
Watched it yesterday, game development is so wild. Especially this one, basically everybody were just amateur and passionate with little to no background in programming or even gaming.

Also demystify how it's done, almost none of the HL goodness where there at the beginning: the intro, gman, xen, crabs, music, etc. And were just made up along the way.
In a few these pictures it seems to be heavily influenced by the adaptation of I Robot with Will Smith in it for what robots look like.
Oh I love that RSS is not an obscure feature like in YT.
it is interesting to see a research region that I never imagined it.
I really loved my Sega CD though. Shining Force CD and Corpse Killer (a FMV shooter) seemed revolutionary at the time.

I also had some turn based Dracula adventure game where you chose how to spend your time that was terrifying to me so I once hit the “rest” button in my Victorian era London apartment until it was 1994, which I thought was pretty hilarious ( Dracula would just immediately kill you when you ventured outside but 10 year old me didn’t quite realize how video games worked).

The PS1 didn’t really have those weird experimental FMV games but wow demo disks were my bread and butter for a poor kid.
What Makes a Good Job?
I’ve read 106 books so far this year. Last year was 84 and I wanted to see what would happen if I put a more directed effort into reading this year. I think it’s like 65% fiction, 35% non-fiction.

Obviously my reading speed is pretty fast but I also try to commit to reading at least 45 minutes a day on the weekdays and usually a couple hours a day on the weekends. Even if I feel bad I’ll read a few pages just to keep the streak alive. I’ve been reading quickly since I was a kid and remember my mom going through 3 or 4 paperback thrillers each weekend.

I read entirely on my Kindle and buy a ton of ebooks. Wouldn’t surprise me if I’ve spent $1,500 or $2,000 this year on books. But it’s a cost that’s worth it to me because I always have something to read or something to look forward to reading.

A few days a week, I like to stop at a coffeeshop on the way home from work to read and relax. That’s a little treat for myself. Get a cookie and a cold brew and get my reading in for the day.
I am genuinely curious why there is a different build for every release of macOS?
This is what they use https://github.com/chocobozzz/p2p-media-loader forked from novage a while back. Nice explanation with diagrams at the link.

It has worked surprisingly well in my testing during livestreams when you can count on multiple simultaneous viewers.
+1 I should have made that clearer, thank you for filling in my gaps.
“Lateness is a for a little while, suck is forever” is a good quote
It is definitely there as indicated above.

https://imgur.com/a/lpiPtS2
I can only find very high-level descriptions of the pellet-beam approach. What's the advantage of accelerating the pellets after launch via laser ablation versus using a more powerful mass driver to launch the pellets and omitting the laser?
With digital id, a dystopian nightmare.
It's difficult to look to historic precedent because the heart of all of these issues is fertility. This [1] is a graph of fertility rates in the US. Fertility rates just started plummeting catastrophically in the 60s. The exact same thing happened in the Netherlands. [2]

And that's what's causing the crisis. Fertility rates define not only the population in a region, but also the age distribution. Low fertility rates result in a population that will have many times more elderly people than youthful people, and will start shrinking far more rapidly than most realize. It will lead to both economic and social catastrophe. Trying to use mass immigration as a means of solving this problem is an inherently modern idea, because the problem did not exist in the past.

And IMO this isn't just an issue of management of a nation. Trying to create a stable economy and healthy society with a collapsing fertility rate may well just not be possible. On top of cultural conflicts there's also the fact you'll have to tax the death out of the youth in order to subsidize the elderly, at the same time those youth will find ever shrinking economic opportunities as your economy itself also naturally shrinks.

[1] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SPDYNTFRTINUSA

[2] - https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/NLD/netherlands/fertil...
In Lua we have indexes off by one and in SIMD we have keyboard letters off by one
I'm listened briefly to some hard heavy metal.

Where is this physically hosted?
"Hey kids, get ready to die because our society decided war is bad m'kay and now we don't have the ability to defend ourselves."
Left-sided Cancer: Blame your bed and TV? (2010)
Definitely. People don't hate the game, they hate losing at the game.

Problems can be either solved in a constructive way (we see that's not going to happen) or in a nonconstructive way (societal explosion or breakdown of some sort). Or sometimes problems get superseded by bigger problems. Like when recently the home prices went down just a little bit, it was because of ECB's hand forced into fighting inflation with higher interest rates, which made mortgages less accessible.
According to the article the software is MIT licenced - one of the most permissive licences available. The Eclipse Foundation is an unusual choice, but amyone can use/modify or even fork this code if they want.
If the web server sets an Expires-At header with a date far in the future, none of the rechecking headers like etag, and the CDN endpoint isn't pressed for storage (or the site is requested enough to not be evicted), why would the CDN stop serving it?

Cloudflare makes this a feature, to continue serving your website even if your server is down.
Sweden: https://1409.se/

UK (not a map, similar view to what the signallers see): https://traksy.uk/live/M+58+STIRLNG
Wallet with plastic cards inside is pretty much guaranteed to survive falling on a concrete floor.
Ha! That's fun :')
Hmm yeah that's a good point, not much you can do about that as a user.
A basket of deplorables

Funny coming from The Guardian, the working man's newspaper.
just read an article yesterday that its not an asteroid its a super volacano that killed the dinos. of course, I don't care. I wish academics would allow us to study 40K years in the past without it being contraversial or feeling the need to injure peoples reputations
There was a post yesterday, or maybe the day before, here on HN about a BBC study that talked about intelligence related to a vote for Brexit. They claimed that people of low intelligence voted for Brexit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38413594
> This is a really nice comment, but I find the comparison at the end so strange. You shouldn't compare reading these books to using social media, a better comparison would be: given a limited amount of time, should you read these books, or some other one?

I don't get what you find strange about comparing reading TAOCP vs reading social media. Your time is limited, and each activity that you choose bears an opportunity cost. Of course it is an interesting question to ask whether you should read another book instead, but I bet that most people waste a lot more time on social media than reading a book that is not TAOCP, so svat's comparison does make a lot of sense in my opinion.
I believe there's a Myanmoto quote of exactly the same effect.
I started a spreadsheet in June 2020. It shows the following count:

June 2020 - May 2021 30 books

June 2021 - May 2022 36 books

June 2022 - May 2023 31 books

June 2023 - now 12 books

The books range from a 1000 pages geology textbook to a 6-hour light sci-fi audiobook. I only count books I have read in full though, so the count does not include massive time I have spent going through various other textbooks.

BTW VCs and VC-funded people like to boast of crazy book counts like 100-150 / year. I think that's easy to achieve if you read the kind of books that VCs read.

> it's too slow to consume all the books I have in front of me.

I like to have a growing bookshelf of unread books. These are the most interesting (see Nassim Taleb' description of Umberto Eco's library).
Nearly 40% of conventional baby food contains toxic pesticides, US study finds
What would be the discount be for small team? Does 1 user counts as small? I would like to use Gitea for personal hosting for pet projects, would there be a smaller plan with fewer features? Maybe just Git hosting without CI / CD runner?
I think what they meant was that even logic-based superhuman chess was overtaken by AlphaZero.
MB, darn those autocorrecting fingers ;-) I guess potentially the Mac in question could support 8MB, perhaps via a similar CPU daughterboard; of course now people complain about 8GB not being enough in entry-level Mac configurations.
The biggest problem with C++ isn't that you can't write clean, structured code with it.

It's that the language is so vast that the odds of any two developers working on two different projects agreeing on what that means are low. I programmed in C++ for a decade, then for a year or two at a second place, then picked it up again in a third... And all three places had nearly completely different best practice protocols. Pre-processor macros are banned, but deep template abstraction and CRTP abounds. Interface and implementation are separated even when templates demand they be in the same header chain, but here we do so by squirreling away the implementation in a separate file with a non-standard suffix instead of splitting it out but keeping it in the bottom of the same file. In my previous company, we used pointers to indicate the called function could mutate the data... In my new firm, pointers in interfaces are just about banned unless absolutely necessary and we indicate whether data could be mutated via const and documentation.

The language is broad enough to let the developer change almost anything, but it is unfortunately broad enough to let competent developers build competing and equivalently (un-)safe styles.
We don't need most advertising supported services at all. The ones that are actually useful I'm willing to pay for.
the mullite bricks certainly are good insulators themselves. As for the concrete ones, they're puffed up with air and also ok.

I don't get how "reducing heat transfer" is not "insulating" though.

Another plus of bricks I left out is soundproofing.
Haha yes I remember being very confused as a kid that The Addams Family for the NES was a sophisticated game and the SNES game felt like an arcade game. They were developed by totally different teams and were different games that sort of rhymed but the SNES one wasn’t nearly as cohesive or fun.
You can add .limo and it'll resolve
So weapons should be the priority as weapons have again and again saved lives.
> not repeating Tony Hoare's billion dollar mistake yet again

This is the killer for me. After using Swift for a while, I no longer have the tolerance for languages that don’t have proper option types (and perhaps more importantly, which don’t use option types pervasively and by-default.) It’s just 100% the wrong way to design a language nowadays. Option types are table stakes.
Reminded me of Ralph Cifaretto's exchange with Paulie at a sit-down over a some money it was owed to Paulie:

- (Paulie) "You're late!"

- (Ralphie) "Well, tomorrow I can be on-time, but you'll be stupid forever"
I work for IPinfo and let me go off on a tangent here. We use our own infrastructure system to probe IP addresses and determine geolocation. This system is based on technology similar to GPS satellites (ping and check RTT from multiple servers).

Other providers mostly rely on WHOIS data and other public databases. These sources are not very accurate and often contain stale data because the IP range geolocation reporting mechanism for ISPs is mainly voluntary.

Sometimes, even though an IP address is pingable and we have evidence of the round trip time, the majority of providers will indicate one location while we indicate another. So, who is correct in this situation? Is it the majority or us?

If someone needs to verify the location of an IP, I usually recommend visiting that site first. If there are any discrepancies, I recommend pinging the IP address and checking the WHOIS records.
It's sad. There are some blogspot owner who are in jail (like for political or religion reasons), they can't access Google so their blog and accounts might get deleted forever.
I would pay for an adless and algo control version of Facebook, Insta and Twitter/X.

With Twitter even if I pay, still get the same number ads.

I want to customize what is shown in my feed.
> Unique isn't a bad thing really. The trick is to regularly be unique in a different way.

This perspective is new to me, and very interesting. If it's intractable to know which parts of the finger could change, the fingerprinting becomes useless.
affordable care act vs Obamacare

Those are the same thing…
Sad reminder of the crunch, even when the result turns out to be a success. Hours like that pushed me out of modding and into boring old business software.
You hit the nail on the head. Hacker News ironically tends to be pretty hostile towards open-source.

Offering free and open alternatives is often met with the criticism of "this will never take off and it's not really an alternative because it doesn't do what the multi-billion dollar corporate competitor does to a tee."
With all due respect (and I'm definitely more on the Israeli side of this latest conflict) - those Arabs and Africans coming in don't get their own state in Europe in any way, shape or form.
Because technically, they didn't. As they say in the documentary, the version of the game that they made after the first year or so was bad, and they acknowledged it, and they changed their processes and introduced the "cabal" - so they basically paid that first year to gather experience. And what's important, their publisher Sierra was okay with it.

I don't see that happening today, to be honest, in "AAA" titles at least. Budgets have gone through the roof, and the publisher won't give you a plan B, they will force the developer to duct-tape what they have and ship it no matter what. And the game can always be patched later, right?
Show HN: A Replit client based on Vite
A toy tool created over the weekend that allows you to run JavaScript or TypeScript locally without the need to install the npm packages it utilizes
Funny how 'cartridges' beat out discs in the long term in the since that flash memory has eaten everything.

There was this short time in the 1990s when everybody and his brother were inventing some kind of 'disc', for instance there were the magneto-optical discs like the audio Minidisc (love 'em but my Net MD recorder just died) and the MO disc used by the NeXT cube and then there were the "floptical" discs like the ZIP disks and the N64 DD disc.

Writable and rewritable optical discs dropped in price more quickly than anyone thought possible and not long after that, USB flash drives and SD cards where everywhere.

Most portable game consoles since 2010 have been flash-based, often with some kind of modified SD card (e.g. Vita, Nintendo Switch.) I just bought a 256 GB SD card for $20 which is bigger than any commercialized disc even if it is a little pricey for software distribution.

And of course stationary consoles are going towards digital distribution, you can buy a digital PS5 now and a digital XBOX is coming soon and ultimately the storage is... Flash.
Agreed that the article is extremely opinionated. Separation of powers contains a lot of very subtle and non-obvious answers to society's fundamental organizacional sociology.

Particularly noticeable with regards to this subject is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._78 where Hamilton posits that the Judicial power is the most frail one: with the executive holding the military power and the congress holding the money.
If you prefer to read a book rather than read slides: http://www.icce.rug.nl/documents/cplusplus/
i buy this. cf the “lossy jpeg of the web” analogy; sure there’s structure: we put it there!
This is just an idea at this point. Ask again in 30 years.