skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Internet piracy isn’t ethically justifiable,

Let's try.

In the context of the ongoing debate on media piracy, recent actions by major streaming companies have brought to light a critical ethical dilemma. These corporations, wielding considerable monopolistic power, have increasingly adopted practices that can be seen as coercive and unethical, compelling consumers to reconsider the moral justification of piracy.

1. Price Hikes Amidst Monopolistic Control: Major streaming services like Disney+, Hulu, and Netflix have recently raised their subscription prices significantly. This increase, occurring within a relatively short span, demonstrates a trend of exploiting consumer dependency on these platforms. The illusion of fair pricing is often shattered by the fact that cheaper tiers lack standard features, pushing consumers towards more expensive options.

2. Dilution of Ownership Rights: The Sony PlayStation incident, where over 1,300 purchased TV shows were removed from user libraries without refunds, starkly highlights the erosion of digital ownership rights. This action represents a flagrant disregard for consumer investment and trust, characterizing a monopolistic overreach that undermines the very principles of fair trade and respect for consumer rights.

3. Ad-Inundated Streaming Experiences: The proliferation of ad-supported streaming models, even on platforms that previously promised ad-free experiences, adds another layer of coercion. This shift towards ad-laden content not only disrupts the viewing experience but also subtly coerces consumers into higher-priced, ad-free tiers.

4. Preservation of Cultural Artifacts: Piracy, in this context, emerges as a necessary counter to these unethical practices. It serves as a tool for preserving media in its original form, unaltered by corporate censorship or modern-day ethical reinterpretation. This aspect of piracy is crucial for maintaining the integrity of historical and cultural works.

5. Economic and Technical Exploitation: The technical details, such as limited bit depth and lack of HD in cheaper streaming options, are often obscured from the average consumer. This tactic of exploiting consumer ignorance for profit further emphasizes the unethical nature of these corporate strategies.

In the face of such corporate tyranny, piracy becomes a form of ethical defiance. It is a stand against the exploitation and manipulation of consumer rights and choices. While the legal implications of piracy cannot be ignored, the moral compulsion to resist monopolistic coercion and preserve the integrity of media content presents a compelling counter-argument.

The issue of piracy transcends mere legal boundaries and delves into the realm of ethical resistance. It's a call for fairer practices, transparency, and respect for consumer rights in the face of corporate monopolies that prioritize profit over ethical considerations.
>At this point it's almost like it has to be intentional, like some perceived tradeoff ingrained in the culture that generates shit software.

They're underpaying their hardware engineers, and if they wanted to hire good software engineers they'd need to pay more, which would cause their hardware engineers to demand better pay too.
Considering Sweden, Denmark, and Norway have some of the highest wealth per adult considering their size and labor practices, I think they're doing just fine.

Don't wanna play by Swedish rules? Don't go to Sweden.
I guess not...
If he had the power to raise the price on-demand, he'd do so all of the time since he owns stock and might even have performance bonuses tied to stock price. I highly doubt layoffs are execs sitting in a room scheming to make money but more likely they are trying to keep the company alive.
Everyone who memes long enough on the internet knows there's a meme about setting places / homes / etc on fire when talking about spiders right?

So, I was on Facebook a year ago, I saw a video, this little girl had a spider much larger than her hand, so I wrote a comment I remember verbatim only because of what happened next:

"Girl, get away from that thing, we gotta set the house on fire!"

I posted my comment, but didn't see it, a second later, Facebook told me that my comment was flagged, I thought that was too quickly for a report, so assumed AI, so I hit appeal, hoping for a human, they denied my appeal rather quickly (about 15 minutes) so I can only assume someone read it, DIDNT EVEN WATCH THE VIDEO, didn't even realize it was a joke.

I flat out stopped using Facebook, I had apps I was admin of for work at the time, so risking an account ban is not a fun conversation to have with your boss. Mind you, I've probably generated revenue for Facebook, I've clicked on their insanely targetted ads and actually purchased things, but now I refuse to use it flat out because the AI machine wants to punish me for posting meme comments.

Sidebar: remember the words Trust and Safety, they're recycled by every major tech company / social media company/ It is how they unilaterally decide what can be done across so many websites in one swoop.

Edit:

Adding Trust and Safety Link: https://dtspartnership.org/
I remember seeing this when it first came up (I looked it up, 1993). Somewhere in the late 90s I lost track of it. I'm very glad to see it is online. It is currently getting hugged to death, however it is available at the Internet Archive. The very first archived version of this page (1996) is https://web.archive.org/web/19961221052744/http://pespmc1.vu....
Electricity from electric eels may transfer genetic material to nearby animals
apollo was the only way to possibly consume reddit without losing your mind: i had a filter list with words like 'dead, death, kill, killed, shot, murdered...'

this actually turned Reddit into a wonderful place where I learned a lot about my favorite tech and microcontroller platforms and still got a good dose of cool memes

i genuinely feel like i haven't been able to participate in a lot of things anymore because the generated noise from their current metric, 'if it bleeds, it leads', is too high
I've actually been thinking quite a bit about this very issue. As it stands, it's not really possible to do E2E encryption on the web in a secure way, since the server can always just silently update the client side code for a particular user to steal any encrypted data. I'm kind of curious about what you're doing with service workers to lock the server out of being able to update its own client side application. That sounds almost like a bug.

My ideal solution to this problem would be Web Bundles[1] signed by the server's TLS key[2], combined with Binary Transparency[3] to make targeted attacks impossible to hide (and maybe independent Static Analysis[4] to make attacks impossible to carry out in the first place), but work on many of those standards seems to have died out in the last few years.

[1]: https://wpack-wg.github.io/bundled-responses/draft-ietf-wpac...

[2]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-yasskin-http-ori...

[3]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-yasskin-http-ori...

[4]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-yasskin-http-ori...
Most MOSFETS are 50 volt rated. 50 volts is a sweet spot for switching the most powerful load with the smallest and cheapest switch.
> native desktop software

But it can. I mentioned Igalia and MediaInfo, and developed on this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38556450#38557836

I don't really know about games and good developer tooling, so I can't speak for these domains. Games are probably particularly tough. But I really think people may pay you for implementing features they need, buy support and for doing custom dev work. That last one takes your time out of your main product though, but if you manage to do custom work on top of your main product, it can still be a good deal.
If you watch the documentaries with the original developers and CEO they expected the life of the system to be ~2 years. At that point they would refresh with maybe 100-200 games total for the system. But they realized they could play a different game and lock competitors out by buying up key components or tying up component makers and keep it going for longer. By the time 83/84 rolled around the mid 70s system was looking and sounding really dated next to a ti99 or c64 (with similar price points). It did not help that former atari devs were starting their own shops and cranking out games too. That 4-8 week cadence and they were blasting games out.

Nintendo with its seal of approval was to keep the number of games down and the quality up. But most importantly get in a percentage of every single sale.
I have a 15 year old reddit account, and when reddit was good, it was so good. Now, it's a rotting carcass. They blocked it at my work and I am sad to say I don't even really miss it.
But that can't be true - the thing I asked it about pixi.js is much more recent than that (October+).
All of these use cases are encrypting files, some of them with a few extra steps as sauce. Stuff like whatsapp / signal is the exact UX that GPG has, fixed by instead ignoring everything that's hard (trust). The asymmetric cryptography is not fundamentally novel or interesting, and the end result of it could be applied to literally anything if they allowed you to touch your own things (which they don't). These modern solutions are build on the infantilisation of their own users, nothing else.
>Electric organ discharge from electric eel facilitates DNA transformation into teleost larvae in laboratory conditions

https://peerj.com/articles/16596/
WinDiskWriter: Windows boot disk creator for macOS. Now supports Legacy BIOS
Good day everyone!
About 3 months ago (sorry, if it's considered as a frequent repost), I posted about my Free & Open-Source Software for creating Windows USB drives on macOS.

Since then, I have made many improvements and added new features that will surely be useful for someone:
· Support for the x86 (x32) Windows Images
· Support for Legacy BIOS
· Support for patching Windows 11 Installer
· Improved RAM-management
· Fixed UI freezes when a rapid stream of logs is displayed on the screen
· Updated UI
· ⌨ Fixed keyboard shortcuts

Dear users,
I have devoted a lot of time to understand the logic of how operating systems boot on old motherboards with Legacy BIOS, so I would appreciate it *if you could test this new functionality on your hardware*.
I have already verified it on two computers with AMI BIOS, but I am curious to know how it performs with other motherboards.

· Currently, WinDiskWriter can run on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard up to macOS 14.0 Sonoma and supports all versions of Microsoft Windows, staring with Vista up to 11 both 32-bit and 64-bit, for booting in UEFI and Legacy mode.

Please, I need someone to verify the Legacy Boot feature. Especially on AWARD and InsydeH2O BIOSes.
You can tell me about your experience here or in the GitHub Issues.

Thank you!
As a frontend dev who also works in UX and graphics from time to time, I find it helpful to be able to do both, looking at SVGs as both a vector graphics format and a human-readable XML. IME the workflow depends more on whether any SVG is meant to be illustrative (like art) or quantitative (like charts) or interactive and animated/mutable (like a game).

For something like this bell example (https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/bell), you can certainly hand-code it if you're really math-inclined and can estimate the formulas of curves just by looking at them, but for us mere mortals, it's easier to just draw out the curves in a graphics app (like https://youtu.be/5x2uHUB_pzw?si=fSLjRKlZNgVKVcOx&t=123 for Figma) then export as an SVG. And for things like the ringer (is that what you call it? the orange ball thing at the bottom of the bell that strikes the bell to make the sound), being able to visually draw it on a canvas, change its size, drag it around and play with its colors and dimensions, etc. is really helpful. Figma is fine for simpler graphics, but it's really more of a UX tool than a graphic design tool, and Illustrator is a lot more powerful. Inkscape is a FOSS option.

In other circumstances, though, manipulating the SVG XML directly is also very helpful. Let's say you want to programatically generate a bar chart. If you have a big dataset, it's going to take a designer forever to manually plot them and change them every time the data changes. But it's easy for a dev to use Javascript (or any language) to draw each rectangle, programmatically adjust their heights and colors based on the data, add tooltips, etc. And that way you can dynamically update them in real-time whenever the data changes (like if the user selects a different date range, or new events come in). A lot of this is made easier by libs like https://frappe.io/charts or https://apexcharts.com. But before you take that approach, you should know that for complex charts, sometimes Canvas rendering (or just generating graphics in the backend) can be more performant than SVG.

SVGs can also be animated and interactive, not just with CSS transitions but by directly manipulating the XML geometries, like http://snapsvg.io/demos/ or https://www.svgator.com/ or https://codepen.io/collection/XpwMLO/. This is fine for product pages and such, but for really graphics-intensive apps (full games) it's probably slower than other rendering pipelines. (Not my specialty, won't speculate too much.)

TLDR Drawing them in a graphics app is usually easier for the designers, but the XML can be programmatically manipulated afterward to great effect. The ideal workflow depends on what you're trying to accomplish, and also who you have on your team.
> You know you can block them right?

1) Causing massive pollution of the Web and then saying this to the 95% of the world who are not represented by the EU is tone-deaf.

2) This is an added tool that has to be installed, meaning most people will still experience the popups.

3) uBlock origin has limited browser support. Telling the world they need to browse the Web differently is an answer that is only a variant of the pop-up problem that also tells users to brows the Web differently (by navigating popups).
Why don’t Bitcoin maxis prefer Monero? It seems you get better decentralization plus a more private digital gold and something that’s much more similar to p2p cash than Bitcoin, without needing a proof of stake chain.
waiting for the picoplastic
I’ve seen it multiple times and gone to several performances to figure out what I’m missing and figured out I’m missing nothing. It’s not good, and not so bad that it’s good.

I’ll watch a movie my friends like a second time to see if there was something I didn’t get. Sometimes it clicks, usually it doesn’t.

Edit to add: I typically don’t think movies should be watched multiple times to be enjoyed. There are occasions where expectations, state of mind, mood, company, etc. effect a viewing and something needs to change to get a different perspective. Sometimes enjoyment comes from the repetition (especially so bad it’s good movies), but that should be the exception.
does anyone know any paper that can accept video as input.

I hope to understand how to tokenize videos.
Is it the employees or the agency that decided that?
Right, and they don’t. The workers do.
Unfortunately it doesn't work for matrix valued coefficients. Unless I am mistaken?
I hadn't connected the dots that all the various pumps (and fans) have to switch from mechanically connected to the engine via the accessory belt to electrically driven. That's a fair point.
Does it? Should Spotify keep employing people if it's not in their business interest?

It sucks if you're fired but they went to work for a publicly traded company that drove the income from streaming music to almost zero for musicians, not a charity.
I told the CISO he was an idiot who didn't understand security (in front of many peers), because we disagreed on implementation. Soon after I was fired for "violating company policy".

I realized being right is not the most important thing in the world, certainly not more important than being employed. The other lesson was to never involve myself in office politics again: it is irrelevant and ultimately lowers your standing in an organization.
If you’re into electronics and can sweep aside some crusty EE opinions, the EEvblog forums are quite fun and informative.
It depends. If it is using YouTube's transcript API, it shouldn't be that bad. The problem with that is that it tends to mess up when there are multiple people in the video.
A relevant video by Veritasium which provides a lot more context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFlu60qs7_4
Ah! Thanks. I tried several different visual search methods whilst writing those post but was coming up blank.
I used to think this way about recipe stories, but I've changed my mind about it.

There are arguments about people doing this for SEO or ad revenue. But also personally I really don't mind the stories. I think it can give a lot of interesting background context for a particular recipe. If it's not interesting it takes like 2 seconds to scroll past it.

Also it feels just a smidge karen-y complaining about a recipe that's shared with readers for free on someone's personal blog just because it also has an easily skippable life story attached (you know, life stories, the kind of thing that you'd normally put on a blog).

Maybe you could make an argument that such an author could optimize for less frustrated viewers from search engines looking for recipes if they removed the fluff. But I think either (1) they would prefer to optimize for the more loyal recurring viewers with an interest in the author rather than the grab-recipe-and-go type of viewer, or (2) the fluff is what adds the SEO that brings in more of the viewers in the first place.
Not that anyone is going to stick a plow on a Cybertruck, but holy shit is the hydraulic pump on one of those a huge current draw. It's 4AWG wire on mine. The battery is kind of marginal[0] and when I raise the plow, the volt meter goes down to 7-8 volts if the engine's at idle and the alternator can't supply the needed current. Gunning the engine improves the situation somewhat, but wow, was that an eye opener.

[0] Everything on that truck is kind of marginal, actually. If you aren't plowing for money, plow truck is the last stop before the big parking lot in the sky.
In the case of the cybertruck, the windshield wiper motor to drive that massive 4 foot wiper blade is 5hp and would require 300 amps at 12V. That's larger than a starter motor.
Moody's Faces Growing Backlash over Its Negative Outlook on China
Original with more detail, posted in 2003 or earlier: https://web.archive.org/web/20030601111810/http://ohlssonvox...

WIRED picked this up in 2009 for some reason.
> but I can't imagine doing it on Twitter.

Right, use sigmoid.social instead.
>is there anything preventing the government from a legislative solution? Just mandate collective agreements?

I am not sure, but it is ironic when the guys complaining about over regulation want to regulate a free market that worked well in those countries for so long.

I did not seen that much support for Tesla in Europe communities so the US government would be needed to have any chance to force such regulations.
The Thermodynamics of Prediction
Some of us never stopped posting on forums
Audiosciencereview.com
One might expect that scholarly institutions that have benefited from this autocracy’s money would rethink their partnership after Qatar’s foreign minister said...

Surely a scholarly institution changing their policies based on what someone says would be wokist deplatforming cancel culture and not supported at all by such a libertarian bastion.
I'm guessing that in this case enforcing that would break the right of government employees to strike.
They're not allowed to pick and choose themselves. Why and when you can strike and sympathy strike is clearly defined, if you take action outside this framework it would be an illegal strike.

And just to add, the postal service in question is private and works like a private company, though the states of Sweden and Denmark fully owns it. Employees are not state employees.
Number of Deserting Russian Troops Surges
Sidelining all the interesting stuff that the article discusses people decided to focus on the picture of Lenna. Yes, I understand it is a problem but it needs to be dealt with in a collective manner by tech community, by say introducing an alternative.
Fond memories of running Rockbox on my iPod Video. Today, like many, I want to get away from my smartphone that only distracts me, and I wish I had kept my old iPod and upgraded its storage to flash. I wonder what battery availability is like now.

One of the many disappointing aspects of the PinePhone is that it would often stutter playing FLACs, something that Rockbox on weaker hardware never did.
Some people I know despise their unions and union leadership. How would you structure it so that people aren't forced to support a union they hate?
Forums are terrible as a medium for discussion. So much noise between the pages you need to scroll through, the huge signatures, the reposts/quotes of prior content just to add a simple message.

I much prefer the HN/Reddit format. It also lets the community bubble-up a good response to the top.

I have been big in the car community since before I was old enough to drive. Forums are a nightmare when it comes to finding an answer to a problem.

All this being said, L1Techs has a decent forum for what I would consider professional hardware nerds.
If you like the artsier side of hardware, the hackaday community is really nice
The Age of Doom – How social media has convinced us that everything is awful
Most of this goes back to the "Saltsjöbaden Agreement", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltsj%C3%B6baden_Agreement.

To quote myself from the other day: "Basically, the government has left to the industry and unions to agree on a lot of stuff that is decided by law in other countries. E.g. Sweden does not have a minimum wage. This system has led to much fewer costly conflicts and strikes compared to many other countries for almost a century."
A split 48/12 system makes a lot more sense. Run the heater/heat pump, power steering, coolant pump, etc on 48V and keep entertainment and controls on 12V.
Local subsistence farming is better for you, so you eat from your land plot? What are you harvesting today for dinner?
Your comment makes more sense read in a sarcastic tone
Used to just walk out of Fry’s like this all the time to the bewildered looks of the 20 people waiting in line to exit. RIP Fry’s
> Hamas definitely started this particular fist-fight.

A few months before the Hamas attack, the Israeli minister of finances, Bezalel Smotrich (who also is tasked with the responsibility for administrating the occupied West Bank) said: "There is no such thing as the Palestinian people":

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-minister-s...

I am horrified by the Hamas attack, shocked and sad, but not surprised.

https://twitter.com/mabintou/status/1717987416252817891

Did you know, that the British, during WWII, bombarded German settlements, holding mostly women, children and elderly, on purpose ("Area bombing directive")? In Germany they still call it: "Bombenterror gegen die Zivilbevölkerung", or, "Bombing terror against the civilian population". Here is the Wikipedia article on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_bombing_directive

I do not take any side in this conflict. I think, both sides are monsters. But feeling this way, I can not tolerate one sided commenting, that paints one side as "reasonable" while not accepting what the other side has to endure.
No, we have nice things in spite of money.
Usually popularity doesnt increase quality, so promoting them here may be harmful for those small communities
3D Glass Portal Card Effect with React Three Fiber and Gaussian Splatting
People should assume the prompt is able to be leaked. There should not be secret information the user of the LLM should not have access too.
They still exist... sounds like you're addicted to big tech.