skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've often wondered what an AG(S?)I would want, and I tend to agree that most of our desires come from our innate biology and most of our reasoning goes into justifying said desires. Given that an artificial intelligence would be on an artificial substrate, it seems very difficult to imagine what, if anything, it might desire.

These are philosophical threads that I'd honestly rather not pull, because I suspect that in the end, the nihilists are most correct, and I just got into this business because I thought computers/video games were cool, but it seems that collectively we insist on it.
It also seems to assume that all women in the USA have had an abortion???
>"Digital video piracy is costing the US economy between $29.2 and $71 billion each year."

That is assuming that people would pay if forced to stop downloading. But what if people just quit watching the said content instead? Then should we make some laws to force people to buy content to save US economy between $29.2 and $71 billion each year?

Isn't there a kind of a difference between stealing a car and downloading a movie?

Anyway, legally obtained or illegally, it would be nice for people to binge watch content less. Get out with friends, get some fresh air, do something nice.
Also con: the weather in the winter is miserable for 4-5 months straight. It's turned me into a sun worshipper and as soon as I can get out I will.
Physical Characterization of Moon Impactor WE0913A
Your first graph for Median usual weekly real earnings shows a fall from 393 in Q2 2020 to 365 in Q2 2023.

Your third graph for Real Median Household Income shows a fall from 76,660 in 2020 to 74,580 today.

Even though I find it hard to take the reported inflation numbers seriously because they aren't calculated off a fixed basket of goods any more [1], those graphs don't seem to say we have more "real" wages now compared to 2020. I am confused as to why you seem to be arguing for the opposite. Am I reading them wrong or something?

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[1] From https://www.investopedia.com/articles/07/consumerpriceindex.... — "The new methodology takes into account changes in the quality of goods and the effects of substitution. Substitution, the changes consumers make in response to price increases, also changes the relative weighting of the goods in the basket. The overall result tends to be a lower CPI."
Because the crash was a business issue. Players never saw anything bad happen; quite the contrary. The price of games went to the floor. Literally, most Atari games ended up in clearance bins for pennies on the dollar.
The simplest explanation is that reviewer A was responsible for Home Assistant Companion's request and reviewer B was responsible for Firefox's request, and they judged the request differently. Or that implementation details made the two cases different. Or that the company policy changed over time between the two requests. "Apple can break Firefox's encryption so they happily allowed it" is certainly not the simplest explanation.
On modern "language package managers": it's better to think of them in terms of what they are—orthogonal version control systems. You start with your main, base-level VCS (most commonly Git these days, and therefore not just a VCS, but a DVCS), and then you have this secondary hack of a version control system layered on top—or rather, interwoven directly into the source tree itself. With these secondary SCMs, you're manually writing the VCS metadata (version strings) using your text editor into a file or files that live right beside your source code (instead of a hidden directory that your project is completely agnostic to, like .git). This only exists because people don't really want to completely buy in to distributed version control after all (they still prefer to defer to the network for things they think "shouldn't be in version control[sic]") and in some instances they also don't think the base-level VCS has a rich enough (i.e. semantic) understanding of the objects it's managing.

One of the interesting and unfortunate effects of this is that people don't notice it; because they think of these as package managers first (and as version control systems not at all), it means they're not graded against the standards that a version control system ought to be.

(Additionally, if you start talking about disregarding conventional wisdom and checking your dependencies into version control[1][2], people become totally irrational and respond as if you're insisting they stop using package managers. You can keep using your current package manager and still check the dependencies in. The only thing you're changing is that when you run `npm update` or whatever, there's no entry in .gitignore that stops Git from picking up the changes. Again, people begin responding totally irrationally if you suggest that they should just let their primary VCS track the changes, as if you've instead just told them to untether themselves from the ISS and go out on their own. Nothing about "check your dependencies into version control" requires you stop tracking upstream, or anything else—it just means to check your dependencies into version control!)

1. <https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/dependencies-belong-in-...>

2. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38425042>
In theory they can force apple to serve a backdoored version to a particular region/person, which means one confirmation from a random security researcher isn't enough.
Being Rusty: Discovering Rust's design axioms
Really? Or is it that you've never looked, and take the poor imitation instead?

Funny, btw. But, not all truth has to be found in a book.. Arguably, no truth is.
Thank you! Beta book period is nearly wrappped up!
The lack of links to sources in that article is disturbing. Requiring users find each of their sources is evil, and I suspect intentional.

I believe this might be their source:

https://www.creativefuture.org/new-study-the-size-and-scope-...

Which links to a Los Angeles Times article [1] from 2013, but not the study. The Los Angeles Times article also lacks a link to the study quoted. According to Creative Future, the study came from NetNames [2].

I did find some other interesting [3] articles [4] published on the Creative Future site.

[1]: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-fi-...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetNames

[3]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Acreativefuture.org%2F+bandw...

[4]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Acreativefuture.org%2F+pirac...

The NetNames site is no longer active however it was archived [5], the full report is missing. This is infuriating. If the study cannot be read, it might as well not exist.

I found a Torrent Freak article from 2013 [6] with more details.

[5]: https://web.archive.org/web/20131005143240/http://www.netnam...

[6]: https://torrentfreak.com/432-million-pirates-share-9567-peta...
I wish Valve used their weight to cut down on the DRM, online activation and micro-transaction bullshit.
I do hardware design in the midwest US and my experience tracks yours. I've done maybe 10 technical interviews over the last 10 years. They typically want to talk about problems I've had and how I've handled them, some basic level of technical understanding (i.e. explain this circuit, or show how you would change X parameter of this design), and in the better interviews they ask questions to see how I communicate with people.
I honestly don’t mean to condescend, but I find it so interesting that smart people can convince themselves that such an outlandish scenario is somehow likely or even perhaps inevitable.

We haven’t invented “AGI” yet (if AGI means a computer system that merges/exterminates/controls humanity). We have no idea even theoretically what such a system might look like, let alone how to create it.

I’d say we’re a lot closer to colonising the solar system and building cities on Jupiter’s moons than we are to building the machines from the Matrix. At least we kind of theoretically know how to do the former.

Meanwhile, we’re really good at building computer and industrial systems that (when combined with economic, social and political incentives) exert strong control over us, exterminate many of us, and may well exterminate a lot more in the near future.

But that doesn’t look like a Hollywood movie, so it’s less fun to think about.

Sorry, this wasn’t meant to be a dig at you personally. Some of the AI doom stuff just sets me off.
You mention ways to accelerate new housing, but we should maybe just take our foot off the break before we look into acceleration.
You wouldn't steal a succulent Chinese meal

https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/You-Wouldn-t-Steal-A-Suc...
Picked one from my recent history: https://www.videogist.co/videos/10-things-you-didn-t-know-ab...

The text summary is very, very good. Kudos!

(As a nitpick, it has 'Wesan' instead of 'Wunderschön', but David himself doesn't pronounce it very clearly, so can't really blame the speech recognition there.)

The frame grabs next to the text appear to be sampled at random times, and not for their content. In the video, David presents screenshots and photos and what not. It happens to work out for Chapter 4, 6 and 7. In 5 of the other chapters it shows just the talking head. If a human had picked them, I think they'd show the most relevant imagery for the particular part of the video, and not the talking head.
When talking about new, great content, parent mentioned only sci-fi and fantasy content: Marvel TV Shows, Wheel of Time, Foundation, House of the Dragon, the Mandalorian, Rings of Power, etc

So, it seemed that if you are into that stuff, you have some amazing content. But what if you are not?
imo it's still true bc of drm and vanishing content. Take AC 2. I'm not sure but afaik they turned off their servers or are about to do so and as result the pirated game will give you all the content, compared to og deluxe version that will not be able to get the content from the server. Games are pirated anyways regardless of drm, but drm will affect fps and the content can be vanished once servers are turned off, so you basically still get an inferior service compared to pirates, maybe less inferior compared to the past, but still inferior.
The winning formula is really simple: offer an unlimited catalog (emphasis on unlimited - including all studios and publishers) and bill monthly subscription by the hour: watch up to 24 hours a month commercial-free post-billed for $29, with additional ten hour blocks for $10. Why 24 hours? Because most TV seasons are ~12 episodes each now and there's 22 working days per month to allow for an hour of TV before bed. I would wager that most people would agree that ~$1/hour for entertainment is a fair price. The pricing model makes it easy to track how to compensate for a show's performance and scales with additional viewing. Unused time can be used to help recoup costs of unpopular productions, in the same way that cable bundling forces you to pay for shows you don't watch. Let people define caps per user on their account, both to protect against a surprise bill at the end of the month and as a parental control to ensure children don't watch too much TV.

It's not that hard! The industry just needs to get its shit together and set standards for opening up distribution.
I subscribe to Apple Music but, honestly, if music streaming services went away tomorrow I'd be pretty happy with my own library which is mostly music I bought on physical media at some point or other. (Yes, some is from Napster but mostly replacing songs on old vinyl albums.)
It's legal because the restriction is explicitly part of the contract -- the insured party is promising that it won't use such equipment. Nobody is trying to deceive anyone here, the insurance company is saying it won't cover properties that are taking this easily avoidable risk.
I had a little wife, the prettiest ever seen,
She washed all the dishes and kept the house clean.
She went to the mill to fetch me some flour,
She brought it home in less than an hour.
She baked me my bread, she brewed me my beer,
She sat by the fire and made good cheer.
This isn’t a court of law, it’s the internet, and there is no “innocent until proven guilty” here.
Ask HN: Is it possible to land a job after getting fired from YC startup
Hey, I've got a question for you. Is it possible to land a job at a YC startup after getting let go from a well-known YC startup?

So here's the scoop: I got the boot from this high-profile YC startup due to issues after a year on the job. Interestingly enough, I initially worked as a consultant for a few months before snagging the full-time gig, and they were pretty impressed with my work, hence the hire.

Now, I won't spill the beans on the details of my fallout with them even-though I'm using a throwaway account, but let's get to the point. Do I stand a chance at landing a gig with other YC startups, or is the YC network so tight that I'll automatically get the boot when applying through https://www.workatastartup.com? I've applied to a few positions that looked like a good fit, but I haven't received a single response. That's why I'm scratching my head and wondering what's going on.
> They should at least give people the option to choose.

Messenger does. You can have a normal chat and a private, end-to-end encrypted chat at the same time with the same person, both completely separate.
"No credit card needed!" and no pricing page does not bode well.
The petri dishes are for ID and yeah theyll be positive. Real air quality spore measures require a filter disk and vacuum. Then you need to compare counts inside vs outside. There will always be some level, which is why it's important to compare with ambient outdoor levels. Some say you even need multiple samples at varying weather conditions. Then types are important too.
Yeah, about that...

I grew up in Scandinavia, and Europe was usually the last in line to get new games. Sometimes we didn't get Nintendo releases at all.

For example, Super Mario RPG didn't get released here. When I first tried it out in 1999, through some emulator - and it was awesome!

It was years later, I learned, that Nintendo simply didn't release games if they didn't believe that they'd "make it" in Europe, if they didn't make it win USA first.
I frequent both of those states and it's the same as kabanda1's point: no one cares. There are plenty of LGTBQ people in both, particularly in Nashville, Orlando, Palm Beach, Hollywood (FL), Knoxville, and Miami.
You can do that in many (though not all) cases on Amazon and Apple if you pay a la carte.
> We are beginning to upgrade people’s personal conversations on Messenger to use end-to-end encryption (E2EE) by default

The first line of the article suggests that it's an option
The commonly used cheap devboards have everything included on the board, you just plug in USB and that's all you need.

There are also 'premium' devkits with smaller and nicer packaging e.g. I like m5 devkits that are inch-by-inch-by-halfinch blocks at $7.5 for https://docs.m5stack.com/en/core/AtomS3%20Lite or with an integrated screen for $15.5 https://shop.m5stack.com/products/atoms3-dev-kit-w-0-85-inch... is useful for visual feedback.
Google results for LED light health problems
Play Store version could be anything
So, usa was "proven" (well.. data was leaked and believed by many to be true) to be spying on many people, both local to US and foreign... and for china, all you have is "you're naive, if you don't think they doo it too".

So, you don't mind being spied on by someone who was already caught spying on their own citizens, (assuming that you're from USA), has access to you, your finances, can lock you up, can suicide you in jail, etc., but you're afraid of china who has access to none of those powers?
It's inflation adjusted.

On the income graph you shared, the same decline was present (but it stopped in 2022 too, which is the last data we have, so 'cherry-picked'). Also nothing about the gini coefficient.

Also, if wages are a shrinking percentage of income, that mean rent will slowly bring more money home than work, which is terrible news.
Smooth 60 Hz 320x240 256 color "mode-x" scrolling was for free on VGA. Just had to update the start address and panning registers. You could also have a hardware supported stationary portion.

70 Hz 320x200 mode 13 was a different matter. Had to use CPU to update it.
Again, I'm not denying that there's increased costs associated with serving rural populations. I'm just skeptical about the actual scale of such increased costs.
Gerrymandering, campaign finance, first past the post, and the electoral college have all ensured that my votes account for precisely fuck-all.
Sure, you can read the article it’s based on:

https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1996/05/wigand199605

But the film is really, really good and I think the gravity of the situation is more apparent than in the article.
It's true for sports for me.

F1, sure I'll pay for great service every weekend and historical race replays.

NBA, no way am I paying more to get some of the games I want to watch most blacked out (not to mention the insane amount of ads).
there are other apps that are more fair than spotify but less convenient
Can't tell if you're trolling. Surely you've heard of the concept where people look into stuff before realising it's something we can practically use today? Like, before electricity was discovered, nobody could possibly have known the force existed, let alone what they could use it for and this whether/how useful it was going to be

Among the first reasons for getting electricity was light. It took many centuries to go from "huh, this metal behaves odd when I put it in a jar of acid" (around the year 200) to light bulbs being invented to them making it into your day-to-day life around the year 1880 (if you were a rich person in the right country)
Streaming as copyright violation ????

I have not followed up on recent legal developments, but as far as I remember: streaming is no COPYright violation since you do not create a copy.
The worst is the classic social media tactic of using user-submitted data to attract others.

Imagine there came a responsible DNA service tomorrow, which used differential cryptography or something, so that you could share DNA and look for relatives with some semblance of privacy.

They wouldn't get off the ground, because your relatives? They're on this service, or Ancestry or MyHeritage or FamilyTreeDNA, which are every inch as sleazy, US or Israeli megacorporations which you can trust as far as you can throw them (which isn't an inch).
Well the closed source bit is that you also cannot reproduce the binary yourself (so we don't actually know if there is other code in Chrome), and Chrome presumably adds a load of (non open-source) code around sending your browsing data and history to Google servers.

The open source version also doesn't include any way to do automatic updates, sync with your google account, or have access to the extensions store. None of this is inherent to the open source version, but presumably it benefits Google to push their closed-source version which includes all their secret-tracking-sauce and allows them to avoid people forking the project entirely to remove ads.

Firefox manages to support all different video types while having reproducible builds (see: OpenH264) :)
Range Energy - Accelerating the electrification of commercial transportation
I like the phrase "in a civilized fashion", I wonder what he means by that—no chatbots?
This claim is maliciously false and from prior comments I see that you know it. Particularly since it names me by name I must insist that you withdraw it.
>I never experienced an interview where somebody wanted to do something else than assess my technical skills.

That's such an outlier I struggle to believe it. Nobody has ever asked you about your work history? Never about a time when you needed to work in a team to solve a problem, etc.?
Do you have any examples of this to hand? The opposite is true in the UK in my experience. One of the main arguments proposed for leaving the EU was that the EU is undemocratic.
And even in the US merely downloading is usually only a civil and not a criminal offense
* People who just hoard media.

There are many people who will download anything within a given set of parameters and only ever watch a fraction of it. It's a form of local digital library building.
Very cool! Curious about the technical details of the LLM side. Can't imagine this is cheap to run.

Tiny suggestion: the timestamp in the generated text block could link to the corresponding timestamp in the video.
myself, being larger than average, I find most (all?) office chairs uncomfortable after a day of work. What I have found helpful is seat pad, not cheap, from cushion labs. They have 2 models, one for normal people and one for people who weigh over 220. They seem to have sales often. I have one at work and another at home.
How the first gen iPod was reverse engineered to run Rockbox
No verifiable sources cited, just large amounts of scary percentages.

If everybody is pirating, then everything will go away. We've heard this since cassette tapes, video tapes, decss, torrents, and we'll continue hearing it with new tech.

I say to the streaming companies and the content creators, stop bluffing. Shut it down since pirates are apparently chatting you billions.

Cash in your options, go to your private island retreat and never darken our door again. I have physical books, and walks are usually nice.
You are correct for C++, though I don't know if C makes this commitment.
Careful, the committee may decide to deprecate compound assignment again.
Trace Labs
It's pretty well documented that archive's owner doesn't like the way Cloudflare reports EDNS for 1.1.1.1, and causes problems for people who come via that dns:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28495204
> It's always funny for me how the lost profits they calculate are inflated as hell.

It's also funny they don't account for the free distribution, reach, branding, and market penetration that Piracy gives them.

We've had the release of the GTA VI trailer a few days ago and it reminded me of how me and my friends became truly fans of the series with GTA Vice City.

We were kids and couldn't afford it so we had to play it in some other way - plus with the modding scene bringing Multi Theft Auto (MTA) we could play GTA Vice City online with friends.

If it wasn't for that there are plenty of people who wouldn't have helped make the franchise into what it became. They got fans for free, who wouldn't be able to play the game either way, thanks to mass distribution. Those folks ended up becoming paying customers into the franchise later down the line.
I has different experience during many rounds of interviews, especially for big companies.

Hiring managers want you to be sincere, but would lie to you many times during the process. No one will tell truth like: we are looking for person who likes overtime, will work under psycho manager and with 10-years old legacy application.
Same boat here, also Germany. Wanted to watch the Bourdain show "No Reservations" and it's practically impossible.

There are only 3 ways:

1. Import the DVDs from the US, but pay a high cost for the DVDs, the high cost of shipping, the taxes and customs and eventually, once it arrives, watch it.

2. Be a criminal, get a VPN, fake address and data, prepaid US credit card and subscribe to discovery in the US and watch it.

3. Be a criminal and pirate it easily.

Is piracy really the problem?
Paid streamed content should do something like mobile virtual network operators, so people can pay for what they use.

Currently only piracy provides this service, and paid content services are choosing legislation over competition.

The established players really should be working on this, because it's only a matter of time before some pirate service turns legit and eats all their lunches.