skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
google fi has several usage plans. they all appear to switch you to a slower data speed based on a data cap. See https://fi.google.com/about/plans?selectedplan=4&pli=1#compa...

the highest plan, "unlimited plus", has "Unlimited data, with slower data after 50 GB per person". The lowest plan says "Pay $10/GB for the data you use, with slower data after 15 GB per person".
I listened to audio books for years, but really appreciated them after this: I had read James Joyce’s Ulysses and didn’t get much out of it. Later I listened to it as an audio book narrated by several good actors and the whole book became alive for me.
Idk if they can make the fee high enough to discourage this behavior without also discouraging legit businesses from signing up.
Don't let me sound like I think Elon Musk is coherent. We might not actually disagree about anything here, including Musk. It seems pretty clear what he's referring to when he uses the term "decolonization", but Musk unreasonably flattening a term for his own convenience would be unsurprising.
> Regardless of what any law says, once Steve told Bob his secret, he lost ownership of it.

This, therefore, means you don't believe in the enforceability of contracts, or that someone is free to make agreements as they see fit. That's kind of a problem in a capitalistic society, as contracts run, well, everything more complex than a simple transfer of ownership, which IP rights are not.

Besides, we're not really talking about the legality of any of this, we're focusing on the morality. In this case, the morality of asserting you won't do something, and then doing that anyway.

To apply our hypo, if Bob told Steve he wouldn't do something in order to satisfy Steve's conditions of transfer of ownership to Bob, but then Bob does what he claimed he would not, is that immoral?
Chrome is not having a great time on Sonoma: https://twitter.com/siracusa/status/1726248785683321050
By dollar value it is the largest category of theft in the USA, more than robbery, burglary, embezzling, all that stuff. And yet it barely even gets talked about, even though the perpetrators are in plain sight. Meanwhile someone breaks into a house to steal some ipads and gets 10 years.
> but the reality is that there is past effort that you don’t see.

This. Always this.
Canada will eventually make anything illegal that doesn't contain a Canadian actor or something equally dumb. So practice practice practice all your circuitous downloading and cryptography skills boys and girls
I 100% agree and I think the periodic table is an inappropriate abstraction for organizing tools.
The reality is that the vast majority of these FPGA-based clones don't actually perfectly emulate the logic. They're using the same reverse engineering techniques the traditional emulator developers used and sometimes even the same community documentation. The results are often quite good, but they're making a new implementation that matches the observed behavior of the original system to the best of their abilities.

Now there are some exceptions. Nuked MD FPGA[0] is a recent example of an FPGA recreation that is a fairly direct translation of the original logic using silicon die analysis. In this case, the logic is basically identical, but as you guessed the physical layout is different. Generally speaking, you write FPGA "gateware" in a language like Verilog or VHDL. These don't intrinsically have any information about the physical layout of the logic which is handled by the toolchain instead. As wmf says, this is generally not a problem most of the time. For synchronous logic, either the total propagation delay is small enough for a single cycle or it isn't. The toolchain will estimate this delay and report whether you met timing or not for the configured clockspeed.

Not everything you can do in silicon translates well to FPGAs (both clock edges is also generally not well supported for instance), but for the most part these things are easy enough to work around.

[0] https://github.com/nukeykt/Nuked-MD-FPGA
The Amateur Presenter
Regarding MiSTer :

Whether or not the 2023 entry price of a few hundred US dollars plus shipping (that is, a $225 DE10Nano board + $65 RAM module, with basic analog outs and USB able to be added via ~$20 generic dongles) is a ripoff or not, for a system that uses FPGA tech to simulate/emulate a large range of old computers and consoles to a leading standard, including a long (ever-growing) and impressive feature list of options, and a very stable longterm front-end ...is quite subjective.

I think it's still exceedingly good value. But certainly not the only, or outright cheapest, option.
Sigh. I’m getting old. Everything I once loved is dying.
> even if you were talking you could hear little bits coming through (including silence)

Do you mean comfort noise by any chance? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_noise

I don't see why that strategy wouldn't work for VoLTE, but I don't doubt that some implementations might not have bothered.
They cited sources, it'd be fair if you would too.
If you don't think contracts should be entered into freely, then you have a problem with one of the core tenets of capitalism -- ownership of goods. I disagree with you, but capitalism has many flaws!
The image heading this article shows traditional Greek-style marble columns toppling over as if they are rigid single objects.

Greek columns can't topple like that because they aren't single objects. They are built of horizontal sections in a vertical stack.

In Imperial Rome, the very most prestigious kind of column was a rather ugly type made of Egyptian granite. Columns like this were prestigious because they were staggeringly expensive, and I believe the shipping cost -- of a column that was in fact just one piece -- was a major contributor to the exorbitant price.
I disagree with this decision by Arc, and had the same reaction you did, but I just want to note that I'm very glad I gave it another shot months later – it really is a fantastic browser, much better than FF or Chrome.
> by law it has to be taken down until a counterclaim or X amount of time has passed

Not quite. Nothing in the DMCA compels a takedown. What happens is that the free harbor granted under the DMCA (that it's illegal to sue Y Combinator for copyright violations in HN comments) is active only so long as HN takes quick and effective action to remove infringing materials.

So what happens is that hosts of user-generated content (like HN comments, or Android TV Apps in the linked article) are naturally going to err on the side of a takedown just to be safe.
Funny, I just re-watched the Gener8 DD pitch yesterday coincidentally and checked out where you guys were at since then.

Great write up! Just need to upgrade my iPad OS to give it a spin
One of the things you learn when you have more than one kid is that kids have their own personalities, and you have to adapt to them to a certain degree. With kid one, she would have terrible crying jags and she needed a lot of coaching to stop falling to pieces very easily. With kid two, he has a much better degree of control, but then the tantrums are more physical and less emotional.

The other thing you learn is that no plan survives contact with the enemy.
The Crosstown Trail: San Francisco in 17 Miles
> I am not ashamed to say you are truly a nonhuman.

You should be.
Surely there are limits. Otherwise I could write a brief poem, copyright it, and start issuing DMCA take downs en masse saying that, say, the source code of Youtube plagiarized it.

This very obviously wouldn't work, right?
I don’t know why when I read through your list and see “Unix filesystem commands”, I find it oddly out off place and feels like this should not have been in the list, as if it is harmful like screen time.
The `hanging-punctuation property` in CSS
> are you supposed to be forbidden from re-using the experience you gained working for a company ?

No but adding implementations to competiting company's product based on the innovations seen in the first falls squarely under IP misuse (At the least, bypassing patent licensing etc.)

Software domain would see acrimonious litigations cases based on mundane things like the rubber band scrolling (Apple vs. Samsung). Adding readout specific databus improves acquisition speeds by order of 2 or 3x - and that is not a trivial change which can be disregarded. Most times they've been misused since they were minor trade secrets not patents. There was no way to attempt litigation in this one without opening up certain parts of software ecosystem to legal scrutiny/comparison (which probably exposes more IP).
Before 2020, there was no covid, but the number of deaths from influenza was higher. Once covid arrived, there were many fewer influenza deaths:

2018: 8594
2019: 6945
2020: 6037
2021: 4115
2022: 5985

Who dies of influenza? Very old people. Same for covid. Perhaps what we're seeing in these statistics is that the grim reaper may have changed, but he's still gonna get you at end of life.
I sure do. Lift weights for 23 years and do lots of soul searching, praying and eating healthy (blood-free diet). ;)
Yes, I'm wearing one right now that I know I bought at least 18 months ago. If you wash them in cold water and hang dry them, they will last a long time.
It is a scientific fact that grandparents have forgotten every damn thing they learned about child rearing, because they never did any of this crap when I was a kid.
Lego has had issues for years, and has faced bankruptcy[1] through to several years ago just going "Whoops we made too many bricks..."[2]

Lego's original core competency was toys, but not plastic ones. The original Lego toys were nearly all wooden, but they gained success with the plastic bricks.

It's unfortunate how many spinoffs they've had that failed.

[1] https://business.time.com/2012/07/23/innovation-almost-bankr...

[2]https://www.bbc.com/news/business-43298897
Yeah, I know it - I have a 1960s-built home. Problem is, despite no major upgrades since then, in the 70s or 80s I could have bought it for 3-3.5x the median wage, when I bought it in 2017 it was about 7x the median wage, and in the post-COVID craziness its value has gone up at least two more median wages, so we're talking 9x now, so as financially screwed as my generation has been, the next generations will have it even worse...

And honestly I don't care that the value has gone up so much since I bought it, because any house I would want to shift to if I sold it will have also gone up in value just as much - basically the only benefit is to those with multiple houses, or those inheriting houses from relatives...
real Hacker News vibes

thanks for the mindfuck
ACLU, Knight Institute, and Digital Rights Groups Support Nonprofit in Lawsuit
It'd be big if they'd manage to get a decision on scraping in general, but I guess that's high hopes.
Tech writers are like the hub in a team-wheel. What they learn, they amplify and share. It's the greatest ROI of all the team positions.

Hats off to our under-appreciated friends, the writers.

P.S. I once worked at a place where many of the Engineering managers started out in Tech Writing. It made perfect sense, because the writers had to know everything to document it. A good Engineer will master one tiny sliver, plus may have knowledge of a few adjacent parts. The Writer hears/sees/writes it all.
This sums up my optimism about AI.

I finally have a patient, infallible teacher without a direct agenda to game SEO to sell ads or a product.

It feels like the earliest days of the web when I consumed every page of howstuffworks.com and surfed webrings out of curiosity.
As long as there is a standard [1]...

[1] See https://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck#Implementation_issues and https://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck#Conventions for details.
I got hooked by listening to it, here's a piece that I've quite like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfMHiTIm-zc
I get this, but that's why I usually want to eat at the restaurant instead of getting to-go.
Fine, it's tautological, if not circular. The point remains it's useless on its own, i.e. in the context of this conversation.

And yes, we get into the difference between ownership and licensure in... another comment somewhere, I don't recall specifically where.

And can you say more about the introduction of artificial scarcity predating capitalism? I'm sure you're right now that you say it, but I'm curious what you think is most relevant.
I don't think visual metaphors have to be historically accurate.
I don’t get the reference.
Yeah I understand your point, but vinyl is kinda sacred.

I mean, of all the things you mentioned, it's by far the most likely to still be usable in the future. Even in a post-apocalyptic world people might figure out how to play vinyl. MP3s? Not a chance.

Full disclosure: I never liked cassettes. Oh, and I made the mistake of choosing Beta over VHS....
https://web.archive.org/web/20231128020909/https://www.theat...
It may not work, but talk with your management before you quit, explain your situation, and ask if you can take a long time, perhaps six weeks, without pay to refresh. Promise than a better worker after a refresh and they may say yes.
Those are the tough years, yes. Hold on. When they're 3 and 5, it will be easier to get them to go in the same direction. Especially when everyone is potty trained.
Companies do not HAVE to comply with DMCA take down requests. The reason the vast majority do is because of the safe harbour provisions. The platform is protected and has no liability if they comply with the DMCA take down notice.

If a company chooses to not comply the next step is for the alleged rights holder to file a copyright infringement suit. If that doesn't happen then the Platform is fine. If an infringement suit is filed then the Platform could be dragged in and held partially liable for damages.

Platforms have stood up to obviously frivolous takedown notices before, though not usually from big rights holders that have lots of copyright attorneys.

This is definitely a part of the law that is unbalanced and needs some tunning to punish/prevent abuse.
Yes and that would be a correct claim. Unless one assumes that a language is objectively "good" or "bad", in which case, rationally speaking, we would only be using "good" languages, which is clearly not the case. Ironically the same happens with natural language. In theory we should all be using Esperanto by now, in practice English as the de facto international language is totally fine.

The main difference with JS is that we don't know whether it would be so commonly used if it wasn't for browsers. Still, it seems that the majority of efforts are towards augmenting JS' capabilities rather than finding ways to use alternative languages on the web (yes, I'm aware of WASM and maybe in the long run this statement will be proven false).
Except there is a very clear agreement in the case where you purchase a DVD. You own the physical DVD, but you license the contents of that DVD. It's right there on the DVD box itself.
Never trust anyone sporting a manicured goatee :o
You can tell them apart, the fool and expert, when they open their mouth.
I agree. Started subscribing to magazines again because trying to read articles online is such a nightmare.
If I remember correctly, Leonardo da Vinci also had a similar routine.
Marvel Studios's Origin Story
What's your best advice from your profession?
I've never gone full meat, but I've certainly eaten 5000+ clean(ish) calories a day while working out HARD and put on a significant amount of muscle. Happily eat a 28 oz steak for dinner, then 1000 calorie breakfast, then a thousand calorie shake..

I have to ask, where are you getting your fibre, vitamins and minerals from?

Please tell me you're at least taking a multivitamin.
Perhaps these are cheap Americanized replicas, thus acting as a poignant metaphor for ah I give up.
How did you give it access to your inbox? Does it use the Code Interpreter with the Gmail API, and ask for your credentials, or something?
Nice that’s great. Yeah exactly, I think there’s some interesting things to try out in different price segments. I’d love a “recurring” subscription type thing for personal garments especially as seasons change.
IMO the real mistake is assuming that any survey + observational style study constitutes advice for individuals. The unfortunate truth in coaching is there's so little broad advice that can be given, that is guaranteed to not have a slice of humanity for which it's actually damaging. That is, for the vast majority of the advisable ways of living/eating, there are folks out there whom if they adhered to the advice they'd actually deteriorate. Which is a big part of what medical advisors (doctors, nutritionists, integrative medicine et al) exist, and taking advice from an influencer of 1000s or millions of followers is simply irresponsible.

Rather, one needs to first do the science to understand the mechanisms, and 2nd do the labwork to understand the individual.. Then apply the mechanisms which will bring that individual to better health, and iterate too because often times the advice can either go too far, or not far enough.
> if Apple were to use AirJet instead of the fans it uses in the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro, it could free up space that the company can use for, say, a bigger battery.

No, they can't put a bigger battery. The 16" MBPs already have a 100 Wh battery, which is the maximum size allowed by the TSA [1].

[1] https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/....
Speaking as a contributor to Prettier, it is _not_ an easy codebase for someone who knows JS to just jump into and contribute.

Furthermore, projects like Ruff show you can have a lot of contributors for projects like this. Maybe because there are lots of devs who use TS or Python in their day job, but want excuses to use Rust on the side.
I’m trying to get a startup going that’s essentially a DMCA agent service. Any advice?
Can you share your use case with the Python function?
Forgot about Linux
What is a blood-free diet? I've never heard of it before and DuckDuckGo doesn't give relevant results.
I don't think Google treat this app any differently than any other.

The problem isn't Google per se, it's the inadequacy between a mass distribution platform, and an inadequate legal framework. There is probably, at any time, thousands of apps being wrongly shutdown, and thousands infringing copyrights.

The whole concept of these distribution platforms (Play Store, App Store, YouTube, you name it) is to scale beyond the capabilities of what even an industrialized manual system could do. Yet the laws (especially related to IP) are intrinsically interpretation based.

There is no intersection of such two systems that wouldn't massively tip the scale for one or the other party.

The only possible solutions are to

- scale down these massive distribution platforms (unlikely)

- accept their drawbacks and the business risk to depend on them (most likely)

- find an other way of defining IP, such as some forms of resistant watermarks (unlikely)

- move all distribution platforms to some form of DRM such that extracting content is impossible (most likely)

The future is not bright.
With this much sharing, I'd reckon that a third life time award is coming. But I wonder whether the same sharing is going on for business users?
There is a whole slew of AI based video summarizing tools in existence already, enough so that a search for "video summarizer" has a bunch of listicles in the results.
Nah. It's either autopilot or ot's not. You cannoy take the credit when it works and blame the driver when it fails. That's not how life works and how self driving cars should work. It's not self-driving and the stupid deceptive marketing makes it hard for legit tech to actually get adopted.
I mean, maybe? Presumably there's some level of human review on counter-claims, and not everyone has the deep expertise of a rando HN commenter. It probably went something like "Claim says that the app downloads DMCA content ... Yup, it's a downloader."

I mean, sure, you want everyone to get everything right. But if you're an app vendor, maybe try to help out the reviewers at least a little by not naming your app for a TV device "Downloader"? Think of it like defensive driving.
Thanks Obama I suppose though I have never bought insurance on the individual market; I’m reliant on remaining employed for my healthcare (good thing I like my employer at least).

It may be that the fix for me is a hip replacement which has had some advancements in the past decade or two so that is also something I suppose.
What you want now is Hanes Premium slim fit, which is a cotton/poly blend similar to the old ComfortSoft.

Watch out because some Hanes Premium are 100% cotton, which is not what you want at least at this price point.
Claims to be faster (when using multiple cores) but beyond that, I'm also curious.
What's the issue with that, provided the input number is random?

My issue with Sqids is they're longer and more complicated than the input!
“Oh, so you _didn’t_ help us develop our chemical weapons and space programs in a cynical ploy to avoid hanging at Nuremberg? DENIED.”
If a drunk asshole plows into someone, the drunk asshole is responsible. Period.

If a "self-driving" car plows into someone who is responsible?
This doesn't go against what the other commenter said. The understanding was correct.
Going to Pearson airport in Toronto with my dad is one of my few early childhood memories. I don’t know exactly where we were but it was a popular enough spot that someone had set up a hotdog stand. In my mind it very clearly registers as a scene from the 80s. The aircraft everyone was hoping for was the 747. I still remember the roar of that thing coming in.
I wear poly ones that are spf50 all the time when I’m fishing so I don’t need to worry about applying sunscreen to large parts of my body multiple times a day.
> If e.g. Google were to start censoring news.ycombinator.com by blocklisting its CAs, I could switch browsers to view it anyway.

You could if it got to that point, but the CA would almost certainly "voluntarily" stop issuing certificates to news.ycombinator.com rather than face the risk of being blocklisted, and there's no way for you to opt out of that.
That codingunicorn (or unicorncoding) account in Reddit was shitting on Uncle Bob 2 years ago https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ojk66h/comment...

It's strange that now Uncle Bob seems defending that person by calling out "Cancel culture".
The first line of my prompt is:

Create a diagram in mermaid syntax based on what the user asked. Pass the code to the create_mermaid_link function below to get a link to Mermaid Live. Display the clickable link to the user.

The prompt has more detail that tells it what types of diagrams to prefer, what types of escaping to use, how to order lines etc.

The file I uploaded contains the create_mermaid_link() function, which relies on being able to base64 encode a string.
I bought some from the 30s, 40s and 50s. Each magazine was 300 pages of Radio or TV repairman training courses, and a dozen pages with some fluff about the 'future' or advertisement article about a new tool.
It's part of the Shopify and BigCommerce's design pattern explicity. Like, yes we offer webhooks, but also you need to come back once an X (I typically do hourly) and sweep for missed data.

Not to mention with Shopify, webhooks are not guaranteed to be at all ordered. You may receive an order.updated event prior to an order.create event. Delivery milage and timing may vary.

So, after all that back and forth we asked ourselves, why do we even bother with webhooks?

Well for one, it helps our clients being real time to improve their shipping speed, keeping real time inventory, and so forth. Secondly, it keeps our processing more flat. We might run an hourly cron to pickup stragglers, but we don't do huge data dumps per hour. In some our busier systems it can be a real challenge when clients do things like monthly invoicing all their customers. Using webhooks and processing records as they come in keeps the queue as small as reasonable.