skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are acting like entertainment exists in a vacuum. You go about your day, consume some movie, then go back to your life as if nothing happened.

In practice, new entertainment entices more people into consuming it. For example lets say your group of friend suddenly became huge fan of some unknown show, you didn't see it but they keep talking about it for days. You then notice that it costs $500. You indeed have the choice to not watch it, its not like you ever felt the need to before it has been mentioned to you, but won't you?

This example is a bit excessive but these kind of events happen all ever the case for entertainment that cost a fraction of it. The problem is that it stacks up.

As for your immoral accusation, its perfectly fine if you think this way, but I also believe that it is perfectly fine to think the opposite way. The only things companies can lose from piracy are potential sales, and ultimately if people aren't willing to pay for it I believe that it is fine for the company to shut down. Why should they be forced to pay for something they can access without causing any harm?
I hope nobody will take your comment seriously, because the performance of these is horrible compared to "truly" native apps
Amazon was losing money for nearly the first decade of its existence. It was a bit of a laughing stock among the traditional business community: "Lose money on every sale, but make it up in volume!" The loses were considered astronomical at the time; in 2000, it lost over a billion dollars.

The strategy was the right one, though. To put all of that in perspective, in 2018, it earned over 10 billion, and many businesses have since followed the Amazon model.

It's sort of a classic case study in business schools now.
Can they keep a straight face when trying to justify this clause of their terms? Isn't training on content without permission kind of their whole business model?
It is also not a US company. Where it's listed doesn't matter much. It matters where a) headquarters and other significant physical presences are located and b) where the majority shareholders reside. In that regard it is largely a European, and partially a Japanese company.
Pentagon X-37B Plane Launch Tomorrow Aboard SpaceX Falcon Heavy on 7th Mission
> QM67 machine, Fiorenzato grinder w/ timer

Nice! I got a bit burnt by a Quick Mill Andreja and have always wondered if it related to the the conversion to 240v that was done on it for New Zealand. The reality never came close to the reviews.

I’m now on a Faema E-61 Legend and an orange Mazzer Robur - it’s like having a particular large traffic cone in the kitchen. Every so often I consider a more tuneable double boiler, but going back to your comment, appearances matter and and my ridiculous setup makes the coffee seem better.
Same. I have noticed that the lighter the roast, the happier the beans are with less rest.

That being said, the best coffee I've had was Ethiopian style, roasted dark and brewed right in front of me with no rest.
It's technically unique since the kind of access it has to X is obviously proprietary.

It's not a fundamental advantage for most AI model uses or a particularly good source of knowledge of the world.
A Nutr machine so I can make quality nutmilks at home instead of buying store bought stuff loaded with nasty preservatives and very few nuts per serving.
Show me a useful LLM that hasn't been trained on copyrighted data.

(I'm hoping it's possible to do that, but I've not seen an example yet.)
https://archive.ph/wsg6m
> To the point where I now feel a bit attacked by sea of buttons when I get into a modern non-Tesla.

Going to need to read make/model/trim example before I believe that.

E.g., Mazda3 has very elegant non-cluttered knob UX. Also, the knobs available on last few years of Prius Prime LE are super obvious and bog standard for controlling heat/cool/etc. (E.g., red for heat and blue for cool IIRC.)

Even the newest Civics I've seen with the big slow touchscreens have just three obvious knobs that do obvious things, above which there is a solitary button that appears to be the bog standard triangular hazard lights button.
I have had some amazing experiences with Amazon CS, but mostly meh ones. Usually I have to spend 10-20 mins sorting out an issue that was not my fault (package never arrived, return never arrived at their warehouse after I dropped it at UPS), and at most they give a $5 credit for the trouble.

But then there was one time where I literally got hundreds of dollars in refunds for a screw up on their end. I didn’t even ask for it — their guy volunteered it and I couldn’t believe he was serious. But he was: he refunded me for a dozen or so purchases to make up for one (expensive) item that was delayed past a birthday that it was supposed to be for. I got the item for free, and then some.
Why though? Nomad is perfect ;)
Have a look at the troubleshooting section in the docs https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#Troubleshooting for information how to get the logs, then report the issue to their bugtracker. Describe what fails and how and hopefully the logs will be enough to debug it. If they're not, you'll get more detailed questions.
All LLMs have this potential problem. In the USA whether it flouts copyright will inevitably be determined by the Supreme Court.
Please dont pollute this video demo with the degeneracy of "crypto"
> especially with products that have lot of features

No kidding. I'm 2 or 3 years into working on a SaaS app started in ~2013 and I still get bug reports from users that make me say "what!? we have that feature!?"
If you consider learning from reading copyrighted material flaunting copyright law, then yes. If you think flaunting copyright law is limited to reproduction of copyright law, then no.
Weighted blanket
They have no idea how to disrupt last mile delivery without corruption and theft. They’ve tried. My apartment building’s doorbox has Amazon Key, such that drivers have the ability to let themselves in and drop off packages in a secure area. I’ve confirmed with one of the better Amazon delivery drivers that it works like a charm.

The vast majority of them don’t (think/care to) use it. At this point I’m actually glad, lest they let themselves into the secure area and steal other packages.
Thank you!

I haven't used it much, but that was my first impression. It's good to see it confirmed.
Do you normally wear glasses?
Great product I recommend as well
https://forscore.co/

iPad pdf reader & annotator designed for sheet music. As a “tech” husband helping out a non technical musician wife it’s a game changer
Ask it for the latest news on Hamas and Israel. What does Grok say about it using its root access to X.com?

The best use cases for Grok are going to be in advertising. Corporations that pay X.com a lot of money will get privileged access to Grok features for sentiment analysis and ad placement. Basically, the AI is going to optimize advertising revenue because real-time access to data will allow advertisers to optimize their targeting as quickly as Grok can manage to summarize the relevant metrics for impact of the current ad campaign. Advertising agencies are not dumb so I suspect they will start pivoting to using generative assets for their A/B testing and optimization which means that something like Grok with the proper generative plug-ins will let them do a lot more with a smaller team of marketing "creatives".
We can listen to the Palestinians themselves:

"Would you be willing to share land equally with Jews in peace?"

https://youtu.be/Ry6kpYFHnxs

"Would you compromise with Israel for peace?"

https://youtu.be/CzM_QbnxOxs

"Do you want to expel the Jews?"

https://youtu.be/5VqmUgami_Y

"Why do you reject all peace offers?"

https://youtu.be/vb-nfYXm_tg

"Should Iran nuclear bomb Tel Aviv?"

https://youtu.be/RNyfUzWpeF8

"Is killing innocent Israelis heroic?"

https://youtu.be/L4qPsLfO-AQ

"What is your solution to the conflict?"

https://youtu.be/x7hQ4cMlrNU

"How do you explain Jewish archeology sites?"

https://youtu.be/mkLs-yOi9gQ

Etc

After watching that it's instructive to listen to Israelis answer the question "Why can't you admit there is an occupation?"

https://youtu.be/u_60-SwtF9M

Then "Did Israel steal Palestinian land?"

https://youtu.be/btVFgqkgkzw
Article seems to completely disregard the high cost of living of many high income earners.

Yes, it is possible to make $160k/yr while supporting a family of 4, and feel like you’re “just getting by” in the SF Bay Area or NYC.
Who's to say there aren't just as many such people know but we still have trouble recognizing them until well after the fact.
Summers has never “controlled” anyone
It's definitely possible to make a decent living with FOSS software. One of the main contributors to my note-taking app is @bjorn[1] who developed the awesome Tiled editor[2] and managed to figure out a sustainable way to earn a living from donations/sponsorships. There are probably more instances of that. I tried to go the same route, but other than a $5 monthly payment on Patreaon (thank you awesome contributor!) I couldn't figure it out.

I hate serving shitty Google ads. They are also not a stable source of income and the revenue is low in my case. It's time for me to move on.

[1] https://github.com/bjorn

[2] https://github.com/mapeditor/tiled
Good luck packaging that on Windows though. PyQt generally works better if you need cross-platform support.
Does it really makes a difference ?
That's coming from demand being so high.
This isn't just an Amazon problem. I requested a refund from Expedia because their search listed a hotel from another state with a city by the same name when I made a specific city & state search. Their search functionality clearly had a bug and we reserved a hotel in the wrong city. Upon realizing this an hour later we phoned Expedia who told us to phone the hotel; when we talked to the hotel the person that answered said only a manager could refund my purchase and to call in the morning. When I called in the morning the manager told me they held the room for me so I had to pay for it anyway. I realized that I had been gaslit, willingly, but the people who worked there. I talked to Expedia who offered me a partial refund, which I refused. I called my credit card company and they filed a dispute, eventually citing that I'd had several successful bookings with Expedia before (totally unrelated to my case).

To me, the issue is that credit card companies no longer exist to protect and defend consumers the way they used to. They're deep in the pockets of vendors, massaging their backs for a kick of the churn. There's room here for a very heavy handed, national agency in each country that makes these companies lives hell when they lie or drag their feet.
Why would anyone do this given a) it's harder and b) linux users don't pay for stuff not worth paying for?
I feel the need to get a bit pedantic here. I'm not trying to pick a fight; I truly hope it helps clear up a few things.

Signal is open source. It's a fair argument that they make it difficult to use servers other than theirs, and we can't be sure exactly what they run server-side, but their code is possible to fork and all that. Their licensing is clear. Even the choice of AGPL is significant here: they must provide the source for exactly what they run on their server.

Network access is orthogonal to source availability/openness. Closing source as a means to limit access is security through obscurity. Not to say that it wouldn't work, but we certainly wouldn't expect the Signal Foundation to take this approach.

The most significant measure Signal uses to manage access to their network has to do with the phone number requirement. That's an intentional choice on their part (arguably controversial, but I don't have an opinion about it).

I've never received a spam message from another Signal user... is this common for you (or anyone)? I think in all the years I've used Signal I've only received less than 5 spammy "message requests" that are quite obvious/easy to decline because I don't already have their phone number in my contacts. I've always had to first ask someone "hey, can we use Signal?" so I'm already expecting legitimate message requests when they arrive.
I use features of programs with people who can use it. I don't want to call friends that have bad audio quality as often and I'm not as comfortable on unencrypted services. I prefer facetime for the quality. We all use something Android users can use when we want to include them, but it degrades the experience.

Most people don't talk to people they don't communicate as well with.
This box cutter tool, which is <$12 https://a.co/d/aOxoVOp. It makes opening packages so much easier. It doesn’t have a blade, so it’s much safer to use than scissors or a knife.
... Could you reformulate the puzzle? Right now I couldn't solve it.
Forgive my ignorance, but what does compliance have to do with HSM support? Aren't they orthogonal features?
What you call Israel is their land where their people lived until European Jews decided to emigrate en masse 100 years ago. There was only 25k Jews in modern day Israel before WW1, then Britain forcefully turned it a "jewish homeland" to get the Rothschilds on their side during the war. Basically typical western disregard for anyone who isn't white.

They shouldn't have to move in with their neighbors.
Sarcasm itself is not banned here. The community pushes back against sarcasm because it is often associated with poor quality comments. I've quoted some comments by dang about sarcasm with links to his source comment - it helps to read his well-thought-out opinions within their context.

The guidelines don't rule out sarcasm. They ask for comments to be civil and substantive. The Venn diagram of those things may not have a lot of common area but there's definitely some. Just don't ask me to specify what it is—that's probably too hard.[1]

The community here avoids sarcasm not for the reasons you so condescendingly note, but because sarcasm tends to reduce discussion quality.

Readers here recognize sarcasm, but they also recognize what happens to a web forum where it is allowed to proliferate.

We don't have any problem with satire and sarcasm as such, but on a large public forum like HN, with everything a mile wide and an inch deep, they are nearly always associated with really low-quality discussion.[2]

The logic is similar to why jokes are discouraged[3].

I've often wondered why jabs, swipes and sarcasm are so corrosive on HN when anyone who knows about the history of discourse knows what a lively role they have played. [The lack of sarcasm] makes the discourse a little more bland, but the alternative is not lively exchanges of high wit, it's YouTube comments.[4]

I think sarcasm is more of a problem on HN than lame humor is. Humor doesn't always succeed, but at least it's intended to make others feel good. (Think "good humor".) Sarcasm is only marginally related to humor. It's really about scorn. Sarcasm is verbal bile. It feels good to let it out, but it acidifies the environment. It feels like you're being smart[5]

Like you, I love sarcasm (New Zealander's tend to slather it on) and when used well it is a often a subtle compliment to the receiver. Over the years I have learned to tone my sarcasm down because I tended not to use it helpfully and respectfully.

Note that Dang seems to personally like to use sarcasm[6].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10411394

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18506429

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18284457

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9378899

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9342526

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7544169
Were they the shipper or seller? I can understand them saying they can’t cancel the order midstream, but once it’s been over a week from the order time, they can’t exactly stand by that default rule. You can’t take someone’s money and leave them with nothing for a month.
Is Lua performance sensitive?
Other guess is Javascript is much more programmer friendly than Lua.
Why didn't they just lower the allowed bitrates in Korea? That seems like a more reasonable option than just totally exiting.
What is a particularly good source of knowledge of the world?
CO2 Monitor to let me know when I need to let some new air into my office. Mine is a TFA Dostmann 31.5009, but any model with an NDIR sensor should be fine, there are many choices around 70-150 EUR.
I guess people should ask politely when requesting a difficult task and thanks afterward.
Even if the question of whether using public data to train AI is considered a form of infringement vs transformative fair use similar to a search engine was answered and that answer was 'yes it is infringement', training on the output of other AIs would seem hard to sell as infringement as AI output cannot be copyrighted since it has no human creative inputs.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/ai-generated-art-cannot-receiv...

>not a lawyer, go ask one if you need a legal opinion
OK, what about IVF?
>I've also been using Perplexity.ai and I would say it hits a sweet spot and is impressive. It's essentially a RAG-based search engine that's fast and snappy and it works much better than Bing or ChatGPT Bing. Because it's primarily RAG driven, the content is primarily external and you get links to original sources so you can verify the answer. This means the level of hallucination is lower than foundational models.

That is what worries me about the Google Bard; it rarely gives references to its answers so I'm not sure if I can trust it or not but you can double check the answer by Google Bard searching it on Google Search and then giving you the source and its textual reference.
If they aren't OpenAI customers so they aren't subject to the terms.

There is a meaningful distinction between using ChatGPT directly, putting in the prompts and taking the results, and just finding random output that other people have published in the internet and using that.
The American Way of Economic War
Have they said anything yet about how they plan to compensate for Twitter being full of stuff that isn't true?
Reading the recent New Yorker article about genomic sleuthing[1] caused me to conclude that there is no such thing as anonymous genomic analysis - at least not the type that analyzes your genome to identify risks and commonalities.

All it takes are a few related (even distantly related) samples and a skilled observer can quickly narrow down where on a genetic tree a sample came from - without knowing anything about the person at all.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/22/how-your-famil...
I think the UK actually managed Covid rather well compared to many European countries but anyway...

Lagging productivity in the UK is linked to immigration, which considering the high numbers might be suspected of being a conspiracy. High influx of labour keeps wages down and extremely down at the lower end and removes incentives to increase productivity.

One example is car valeting. In the UK manual valeting by a bunch of people is common (think Marty McFly when he arrives in 1955...). These are extremely low paid, low productivity jobs that only exist because of this continuous high influx of unskilled labour willing to take them.

Over the past year I believe net immigration has been about 700k (an absolute record) while GDP has remained roughly flat. This means that per capita the UK has become poorer, and that productivity has gone down.
It could be part of Meta ToS. Saying that all your friends are allowed to ask payment for eye contact. Hopefully you read it already.

Consent is a really hard thing to guarantee. You have already lost. There is no moral stance to have here, its all made up agreement.
> but not in the fridge

I thought that storing them in fridge will keep them fresh longer
>Zinc prevents vaginal candidiasis by inhibiting expression of fungal protein in mice — "4 too long"
PostgreSQL (+PgBouncer) will be more than enough and actually can reach higher transaction numbers than MongoDB since I doubt you need horizontal scaling for such workload.

It has the added benefit of doing a lot for you. With MongoDB you'll need app logic to do certain things. MongoDB improved ACID support but it's not as smooth as just starting PostgreSQL and use it right away.

But that all doesn't matter. Pick what you're comfortable with.
A few thoughts:

1. I've never heard of your app, and I follow this space closely. It's extremely competitive.

2. I clicked to check how much you're asking for premium. It's reasonable on an annual basis, but I only saw an option for a monthly subscription. That's not happening.

3. I'd be more likely to give you a donation than to pay for a premium version for an app like this. That model has worked well for Obsidian. I don't think getting early access to features is worth much, but a lot of people have paid them to support their work.

4. My observation is that a closed core product with a large open source ecosystem around it gives folks a reason to pay.
I've had noise canceling headphones for a while now, and I love using them in flights, but somehow I could never get to use it all the time to focus like some of my friends do. I am definitely not an expert in this area, and I have no evidence to argue for this, but somehow it feels like actively producing sounds to cancel out the noise and blasting it into your ear all day (i.e., when noise cancellation is on) can't be good.
> Just ask the semiconductor industry. That was also offshored to Asia from the west by the metric boatload because it was not considered high value and prestigious enough

It was and still is also incredibly dirty. Silicon Valley is among the top Superfund site collections for that reason - tons of semiconductor companies were very lax regarding pollution, and while the EPA cracked down on that pretty hard in the US, most Asian countries don't give a shit about the environment as long as the short-term profits are high enough.
>Feels totalitarian.

Meh, it's just propaganda and not all propaganda is minted by totalitarian regimes. The US/west also minted their own during the cold war.
What does it exactly mean by "100% backward compatible"? It looks like some optimizations could be backported to the existing encoder/decoder without breaking the format but this is more of an optimization. My impression is that this is backward compatible in a way similar to APNG (it will return some reasonable images if the file is using a new functionality), but I'm not sure if I understand it correctly.
The questions are still worth asking
The Linux ecosystem isn't as splintered as people think it is. Yes, there are technically lot's of distros but most of them are really just derivatives that don't add much.

The vast majority of Desktop users just use Debian or Debian-based distros like Ubuntu, Linux Mint and so on.

So in the end, it is just a matter of whatever pre-installed software you get. It used to be that vanilla Debian was a bit hard to use but I don't think that is true anymore. (Though I still recommend Linux Mint for the absolute "just works" experience.)

For 90% of users, they are not going wrong using Debian or one of the popular Debian-based distros. After that is is basically just a matter of specialized needs.

Want to make administering your system a hobby and part of your personality? Have some Arch.

Need professional support? OpenSuse.

Need reproducible builds? Nix/Guix.

Need a minimalist distro that runts on potatoes? Puppy Linux and whatever else.

Wayland vs X11? Systemd? If you know these words, you are already way too deep in the rabbit hole.
There's also wails.io that is a much better alternative to Electron, imo, and uses native APIs for OS functionality. Added benefit: Wails is also cross platform.
Agreed just don’t go too heavy. I did and I am unable to move under it.
Here are some benchmarks: https://bellard.org/quickjs/bench.html