skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you're part of a group and you speak against the group, esp. to another group, the group will move to destroy you.

Not all "groups" are created equal though. I think a big factor in this is how much people make the group a part of their personal identity. If they feel like they are the group (ie "I am American"), then they feel like an attack on the group is an attack on them (is "Americans are dumb" means I am dumb).

Not all groups latch on to their members sense of identity like that, and in that case an attack on the group is much more acceptable to members of the group.
Somebody help me. Do I rhyme Qatar with guitar or udder?
It seems they forgot to list the most popular sites for pirater material... /s
As far as I know, WhatsApp on iOS uses a special entitlement (com.apple.developer.usernotifications.filtering) for securely handling notifications.

They receive silent push notifications, which wake up the app (a reason for the entitlement being restricted). Once awake, the app takes over, managing the notification itself.

This approach circumvents sending notification content in cleartext through Apple's servers, thereby preserving their end-to-end encryption.
I agree with Gabe here. I basically stopped pirating games once I could add something that I like to my collection during steam sale for a nice discount instead of waiting for days for whatever service to ship it.

I can also return it if I end up not lilinkg it, not like with a physical copy.
Now there's an opinion I don't often see on HN... hi, fellow European!

(Putting aside my modest proposal, I still want to be able to research my family history.)
Perhaps today they’re vinyl, mostly, but the AI wasn’t wrong in saying that if the duck was made of rubber it’d be less dense than water
I kind of forgot about Sierra. My opinion at the time was, and still is: Whatever Sierra made (mostly adventures and flight sims), usually Lucasarts made something similar but IMO better.
Here's an interesting view I've encountered somewhere: yes, complex (not to mention intelligent) life might be very rare, but simple life might be extremely common (either easily arising from primordial soups, and/or trivially spread by panspermia). Imagine - millions of Earth-like planets in the Milky Way alone, all covered (or: infested) by unicellular goo.

(Before eventual colonization, this would warrant a really thorough "gamma soak" as in Alastair Reynolds' "Revelation space" SF series.)
It is still a very good system, and you can get quite a far away with only method-swaps, I love to use them in case of Spring apps, where changing a backend controller and doing another api call is a very fast REPL cycle basically.

But objects don’t give themselves very easily to hot reloading, there are a bunch of edge cases that are not well-defined in a semi-swapped state (e.g. this new field always gets a value in the constructor, but was no just added. Should you rerun the constructor, or have it be in an inconsistent state?)

Immutable/FP concepts are a much better fit, especially if the building blocks are as small as they are in case of Clojure.
Chipsynth C64 is an emulation of the SID so good, it can replace hardware
Because it is more convenient for paw enforcement and the pro-surveillance forces that came into power all over the world since the war on terror and the Patriot Act?
> I don't think it's specific to "the west" or "corrupt societies". It's human nature.

The west is unique because it has created a very believable façade of cleanliness, majority of the population believes that whistleblowing works and often allegations of corruption are treated like conspiracy theory.

In, let's say, Russia, everyone knows that things are corrupt, at least they are realists.

> fight an uphill battle

For some reason our ideology talks about entrepreneurs as wealth creators and completely forgets about wealth creators that our society doesn't reward or punishes, like whistle-blowers.
This is always the stat that I take exception to:

> More than 70,000 jobs per year in the US alone are lost because of the lost revenues that came from music piracy.
> (RIAA)
> Music industry piracy statistics highlight the costs of music piracy and the immense consequences on the American economy. Music theft costs American workers significant losses in jobs and earnings as well as costing the US government substantial lost tax revenues.

I get all the rest, and I'm at a point in my life where I pay for my media, and I don't believe in any philosophical or moral justification for piracy (nor do I condemn it - to each their own but don't be a hypocrite about what you're doing).

But these kinds of reports always lose me when they tack on these huge numbers of job and revenue losses.

The majority of people who pirate wouldn't spend the money if they couldn't pirate. So these are totally fake numbers.
Kotlin for WebAssembly Goes Alpha
I wish I had a way to quantify it, but it also seems like _investment_ has skyrocketed. 20 years ago HBO might make a high quality, high budget show. Now we have shows like the Marvel TV Shows, Wheel of Time, Foundation, House of the Dragon, the Mandalorian, Rings of Power, etc.. that all have MASSIVE budgets. A lot of that was funded by free money, but I think the quality and expectation of TV shows has gone up quite a bit.
https://slate.com/technology/2011/07/netflix-streaming-is-ki...

> It’s convenient, it’s not that expensive, and the selection is just good enough.

Welp, netflix (and others) are 3 for 3 on eroding those advantages.
It is very difficult for humans to remember just a set of facts and reason over them. So stories are how we spread the facts out thin and link them. This is also the technique which athlete memorizers use to remember the order of deck of cards. Story telling or associative memory or stream of consciousness is how we remember stuff.
It also must be said that the story can be quite different for other ISO standards (e.g. some mentioned in the article). They can obviously get quite in the weeds. 27001 is the one that’s all-encompassing, head in the clouds, sort of stuff, and IME tends to be the one that orgs care the most about during procurement.
Always struck by the economics these sort of orgs must be fabricating to assume that:

"Digital video piracy is costing the US economy between $29.2 and $71 billion each year." (What an absolutely huge margin)
and
"Annual global revenue losses from digital piracy are between $40 and $97.1 billion in the movie industry."

As if all these people who consume this pirate content would be purchasing it if the free alternative wasn't available to them. It's a very out of touch assumption to be making I think.
> This is rather incoherent. Am I allowed to have fun?

Yes, but you should feel guilty about it.
For code reviews that take days/weeks, it is useful to not rebase the branch to main/master on every update… But I certainly see no point in merging it in when it based on an ancient ancestor…

I’ve heard some like the non-fast-forward approach because it preserves the historical state of the tree when a developer was writing something… Often the same people who don’t squash commits and merge 100 commit branches where 99 are a complete mess.

But to me, what matters is the actual change to main/master at the time the thing is merged — that is what affects the team.

If some people want to keep unsquashed, unrebased branches for archival purposes? Fine! But rebase before merging to main/master!
If you want to take portability to the next level, check out the Pentel Sharp Kerry. They have pen-like, post-able caps!
Networks of Hate [pdf]
“Plan 9” is rather predictable: mostly valued low, but some find it interesting because of that badness.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052077/ratings/

A good Christian-themed movie will be much more polarizing and for real. For example “Old-Fashioned” (2014):

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2048824/ratings/

(Found it by specifically searching Rotten Tomatoes for movies rated lowly by critics and highly by the audience. For “Old-Fashioned” the ratio is 17/83. For “Plan 9” the ratio is 66/45, nothing spectacular.)
I started building a 48TB NAS this year after giving up on consumer-grade external hard drives.

I am fed up of wanting to watch something and needing to figure out which platform to watch it in. I'm even more fed up when stuff is region locked. What makes things worse are device limits. I have nearly a dozen devices at home and would like to watch on whatever device I'm currently using. Just because you're concerned about people sharing passwords, you should not limit me to using your app on one or two devices. It's a broken system.

Streaming is... Horrible. The experience of having to wait a year for a season of a show when US has it on day one is horrible.

And stuff which is in copyright limbo? Being unable to watch older cartoons because it's politically incorrect or because it's inappropriate for today's audiences is downright demeaning. I'd like to laugh at a Tom and Jerry bit without worrying about 2023's current comedy palette.

Spotify also ruined my music tastes by randomly polluting my playlists with stuff it thinks I should listen to because other people around me do. I do not. I'd rather listen to offline music that I've downloaded and made into manual playlists. I used to scrobble my music so I'd get recommendations. Right now, I just want to listen to a small subset of music I loved 10 years ago. Nothing new excites me.

Piracy isn't just about free stuff. It's about being able to use something freely. I'm still paying for these platforms, but I don't stream anything off them anymore. My parents use my accounts instead. I'm going to use Plex with my NAS so I can stream anything I want into my devices.
archive.is doesn't use Cloudflare. The captcha is reCAPTCHA.
It's inherently dishonest to go on and about how piracy hurts industries without taking a moment to point the enormous benefit it gave them.

There is absolutely, completely no way in hell the music and video industries would have their current sizes and audiences without piracy. Netflix and Spotify wouldn't have been made if it wasn't for piracy to begin with. What kind of insane madman would ever license material to these companies in a world with no piracy whatsoever? What kind of audience is there in the first place?

I don't, for a single one goddamned second, believe that the vast majority of musicians and film makers haven't resorted to pirated material, the cost to actually have a decent collection otherwise is preposterous, the cultural benefit of piracy is ginormous, it can hardly be put into words.
Yeah, I suspect “bundles” will become a new business model, if they can remove the corruption (good luck with that).

I find it to be a huge pain.
I'm very naive about economics, but couldn't we go further and say that the money would just be spent somewhere else in that same economy?
I like how the PostgreSQL docs use the term “profitable” for whether an index helps.

The purpose of the index often is to lower the “cost” (greater profit), by providing more values the query is accessing (filtering, ordering, selecting) within the index entries, for faster retrieval.

When users have the skills to generate query plans and review whether an index supports a query, verifying that the index is picked by the planner, and indeed lowers the cost, then they can answer this question for their own unique combination of hardware, data distribution, queries, and indexes.

As generic advice, I think more often than not the index won’t be used for Boolean columns. But it’s generic advice and it does depend.

As you suggested, users must check their own system.

My book also covers the 2 and 3 value variations (nulls allowed) for Boolean columns.

For readers wanting to build these skills themselves, here’s more info:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38407585

Good nudge that it depends!
Why Parents Can't Quit the Elite College Arms Race
Neither, but closer to guitar, just with a much shorter a sound
One way to handle this is to send a notification with data that is meaningless, like a notification id or something, to trigger the app, which then (thanks to background app refresh, etc), pings your backend server with the id and retrieves the actual notification details. The only way to be 100% sure things are not being snooped while passing through push servers (or any third party you put your trust into), is to make the data they handle meaningless without also having access to your systems after they handle your push. Government can spy on your notification UUIDS that you send all day long, it won't do them much good though.

These concerns are not unique to government. Don't trust any third party with your data. Security 101
I own a full cable package with rights to ESPN, but didn't have the app downloaded on my phone. I tried to catch the end of a game in the web browser, and ESPN.com refused to allow access via web. Guess what was faster to search for?
>the gov't cannot open your letters if it's first class mail

Even if the government has a warrant? The article you linked to seems to say the government can do it with a warrant:

>By law, first-class mail is sealed against inspection, meaning that government officials may not open it without first getting a warrant from a judge.
I really find it very misleading to report the piracy in terms of lost money. Because this always assumes that if no piracy exists, then 100% of people who did it will pay for the material otherwise. The argument goes along, this really hurts the economy by this amount. Which reminds me of the argument 'but think of the children' when talking about online privacy.
So many good scenes. Personal favorite, grappling with the role of journalism: "What are you?! Are you a businessman or are you a newsman?" Such a powerful question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe2vBnfKCC4
Sure, but if one in a million people bothers to check what it is actually sending through their router, then any malicious activity would get detected and disclosed to the public - and since that hasn't happened, we can assume that it isn't happening on a large scale.
> Real wages, real per capita GDP, real median income et. al. are all higher now than before covid.

You literally said nothing about cost of living here?
I basically got good enough at drawing to do simple thumbnails, storyboards, and concept art for the 3D art I actually enjoy making. I used to be better, but it was always a slog, and I quit. There's something different about working directly with objects rather than constructing them with lines on paper. But the ability to quickly iterate with primitives and cropped detail sketches on paper is hard to beat.

This probably relates in some way to why I prefer working with a MIDI roll and virtual instruments in a DAW over trying to learn a "real" instrument. Noodling on a pad controller locked to a scale leads to interesting melodies, but it's far from the end goal.
Ok, but how can I use this practically in my day to day?
This is silly, it assumes people will purchase instead. I pirate stuff because I am bored and just want to watch something, my order of priorities are:
Pirate, not watch, purchase.
It wasn't terrible, but the satire should have been much subtler. The cast of all A-listers came across as self-indulgent and annoying to me as well.
> Chaos Communication Congress tickets still available

Why, though? I mean the congress was sold out very quickly in the years before and now there are still tickets? I find this... unusual. Did I miss something?
I don't think that is true as I could use a better relational calculus that exhibits all the of the same positive attributes that SQL brings to the table. SQL's traps are not all fundamental, just straight up poor language design. SQL's biggest trap is where it grossly deviates from Codd's relational algebra model. A relational system that is more "pure" would solve many bug vectors right out of the gate.
That's a non issue for most cheap phones form the last few years, even sub 200 Euro phones, as most ship with at least 128GB as base storage. My OnePlus 3T came with 128 GB of base storage. In 2016! 7 years ago.

Hell, on Amazon right now I can find a brand new 99 Euro 'Chinese Brand' Android phone with 128GB of storage and 8GB of RAM. Granted, I wouldn't recommend anyone actually go and buy that one, but it shows even if you're tight on cash and need a phone with lots of storage you can get it even on rock bottom prices.

Only Apple is the one left who shortchanges you in 2023 wiht 64GB base storage even at +500 Euro phones, but that's an Apple-only problem, not a smartphone problem.

Still, I'd much rather pay a bit extra for more storage on a phone to keep my encrypted messages locally than in the cloud of some shady app like Telegram that's "FREE" and yet needs to finance it's massive cloud bills somehow.
I like your UI.
What were the death tolls from pandemics in history?
That is how it works, read the paper.
Yes, but price is definitely a part of the service. This one is easy for me: Disney jacks prices by 80%, people decide not to pay for it.
Qatar was not financing science. It was compromising humanities and social sciences departments with their divisive agenda.
I read that he leaked a very large (100 GB of documents) dataset to a news publication and did not properly redact or remove some information. Didn’t seem like intentional doxxing.
Many others didn't. Steam games are widely pirated.
This particular is easy to pick up and remember.

Also, a proficient developer looks at the SQL logs anyway as they develop a given feature.

Rails' flavor of ORM is particularly composable and transparent - you can easily mix/match it with vanilla SQL.
Thank you for your feedback!

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So the answer is more DRM, more surveillance? What about making stuff cheaper so people have less incentive to download said stuff?
Illegal streaming turning back is a sign that nowadays there are too many legal streaming services, and they cost too much. In Europe, you can spend several hundreds/month € and still non be able to view everything legally.
"As of 31 December 2023, due to our content licensing arrangements with content providers, you will no longer be able to watch any of your previously purchased Discovery content and the content will be removed from your video library."

When consumers are dissuaded from purchasing content, when a purchase is not a purchase, arguments against piracy are almost insulting.
Then it would be quatarghazi. Nobody going to jail.
US House Advances Blockchain Bill
Fair point. More detailed profiles and news/events are on the radar, I'm trying to figure out the best way to programmatically fetch those for each startup.
>certainly didn't drink beer

>out of reach for large parts of the population

Claims that the poster base on nothing at all, but still claim it in a peremptory fashion.
I don't mind paying for a service at all; I'll happily switch one service for another every month or few months. The main sticking point the diaspora causes for me is I can't find what I want. Maybe some people subscribe to a service and happily browse and watch what's available. I'm not a huge show or movie buff so I tend to go by personal recommendations so for me the process is flipped. I start with a movie or a show and go 'okay, where do I watch this?'. Finding out is ridiculously annoying. Furthermore, there are services like Prime that will show you what they have in stock that is for sale AND what's included with the subscription in the same view. That means I can't tell at a glance what I can watch as part of my subscription and what I have to pay extra for.

It seems purposely obtuse to me, to nickel and dime. And even if I do pay extra to 'buy' a movie, the Sony debacle has shown that I can't assume I can watch stuff that I have bought indefinitely.
> Internet piracy isn’t ethically justifiable....

It ABSOLUTELY is ethically justifiable. https://xkcd.com/488/

And these companies aren't happy will selling us media one time. They demand that we buy it in VHS... Then DVD... Then HDDVD, oh nope BLURay. Then 'streaming'. And our rights go down and down each iteration.

I also have stacks of movies in various formats. Again, even format shifting something like a Macrovision'ed VHS or ripping a DVD is a crime. So buying legit and format shifting is a crime? Cool, I'll just download and be a pirate.

It's laughable that they even try to play the 'ethics' card. Like, how else would Weird Al get his $12 sandwich for the millions of plays? https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/weird-al-yanko...
Solving a problem internally within your mind is a form of communication as well. This is also the reason why rubber duck debugging works. The solution is not revealed to you unless you are Ramanujan.
> Illegal downloading of copyrighted materials takes up 24% of the global bandwidth.

This seems shockingly high. I wonder how different this is geographically. I would think streaming via Netflix and others, YouTube, Twitch, etc would have shrunk illegal streaming to a much smaller percentage of the total.
You lost an opportunity...

https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview
> Internet piracy isn’t ethically justifiable, but it is convenient.

I don't know. I used to pirate heavily and always said once I could afford to buy stuff I would buy stuff. Then I could afford to buy stuff so I bought stuff, I used Netflix, Amazon Prime, Spotify, etc. Then I started to lose things I bought. Until they make digital purchases an actual purchase then I choose to boycott them and pirate instead. Boycotting them and not enjoying things because of this would be cutting my face off to spite my face and hurt me more than the company with the unethical business model. But if I pirate it, it only hurts them.
> the lack of any COVID precautions

I'm not sure where you are from, but there aren't anymore COVID precautions at all at any events in Germany. Not sure why the CCC should be different?
> AGI would not have the biological instinct to grow/spread/reproduce

what supports this idea
Recently wanted to rewatch Continuum.

Amazon Prime in Germany has S2-4 as stream, sells S1-4. But everything only in German, and no subs.

Apple sells something? Maybe only S1? I don’t understand how I can see it without an iTunes account or maybe iTunes installed? Good job having a worse UX than either Google or Amazon, though, that takes work.

Google has only S1, and again only in German.

Sure is convenient to be able to get what I want at all, because apparently no one else sells or rents it. Sure, I could buy the DVDs (probably for a fraction of the price of buying it at Amazon), go through the hassle of ripping everything, fix the subtitles etc. like I did for ReGenesis, but that’s hours of work, so yeah, you bet I go with the convenient version, and I find it perfectly ethically justifiable.
Life appeared on Earth almost as soon as it was possible, but it took almost 2.5 BILLION years for it to make the jump to multicellular (a.k.a. complex life). It then took another billion-plus years for life that had the slightest bit of intelligence.

The universe is probably teeming with life, but sadly, most of it is probably just goo.
> 70,000 jobs a year are lost in the United States due to music piracy.

In other words, if not for the piracy, a significant part of the workforce would be music producers by now.

Napster saved us all from a weirdly dystopian future.
Let's not even talk about the NFL, there are 2 times a year where I cannot watch a Dolphins game, living in Florida, while paying for NFL+ / NFL Game Pass. The whole streaming rights system is a joke, I forget the exact issue but IIRC NFL doesn't have rights to sell the games to local broadcasters, so it simply isn't available in the teams home state on their service.