skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If someone found a small, legal "act committed = no fine" way to victimize someone to the point of suicide, do you think it should be left unpunished ?

Absolutely not. It should be punished. But if two people do the same thing to someone else, that must result in same damages.

>Justice MUST be subjective.

This is abhorrent.
I feel that Google was never upfront with me about their business model and their intentions from the beginning. The fact that I was realistically the product for a long time has just made me too jaded to give them money. They moved the goalposts too. It was free, then got ads and more ads and what's next? Will it just be like Amazon Prime where I now have ads even though I pay for a subscription?

Occasionally I think about buying YT premium but then I just think about how scummy the company is how their attention grabbing model is just ruining my friends relationships with their kids (they're all addicted to YouTube, try blame the parents, but I don't think it's their fault) and I just can't bring myself to give them money at this stage.

I'd go as far to say that I'd probably boycott the service altogether if I was forced between giving them money or watching a high volume of ads.

I've already boycotted them for search, years of tracking and selling my info without any real opt out option or clear warnings about it, fuck them, I don't forget.
I stand corrected. For some reason I hadn't figured this out earlier even though I tried to find it.
> What happened here is that due to some administrative lapses, the victims (Sourcehut) of the attack got disabled by the network provider. That was the initial outage.

That's not what happened based on my understanding. The provider nullrouted their traffic (which is common if a customer is under attack), but Sourcehut couldn't talk to the customer support as their support panel wasn't working for them.
I'm not sure what any of that has to do with "You need a special app to send money to your friends, and therefore might use an everything app".
I generally oppose declawing cats but it may help in this situation. Free roaming and outdoor cats decimate local bird populations, that's the primary reason I kept my cat totally indoors.
Google makes billions in profit every year, yet here you are talking about them as if they're a small company struggling to get by.

I'd gladly pay for premium if I knew that money would be invested in making the website better for its users, but that's just not how they operate. The only reason I still use Youtube is because there's no alternative.
https://archive.is/AT6JK
do you need to stop the db for the backup in order to ensure consistency of the snapshot?
I think it’s an imagined problem and in practice no one has it. Just stop worrying and start deploying :)
15 scala
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not sure if it's different from what you are saying, but the elemental specifier[0] makes functions broadcastable, such functions operate on each element of its input separately.

[0] https://fortranwiki.org/fortran/show/elemental
Hey there, just saw your comment. Obsidian isn't a block editor (see below what it means in practice) so it's not being compared.

- Obsidian is using the resource-hag framework Electron. So it uses much more resources. Plume is built using Qt C++ and QML, and it's actually faster than comparable native apps.

- Obsidian editor is not a block editor (i.e., like Notion), so you can't put advanced blocks like a Kanban (tasks board) within the same page.

- Since it's not a block editor, you can't drag & drop different components.

Unlike Notion (which is also a web app wrapped with Electron), Plume is:

- Fast (Qt C++ vs Electron)

- Easier to use (opinionated design vs. Notion's complex databases)

- Portable (Underlying data is plaintext* vs. proprietary database)

*Currently all the notes' plaintext is stored in a database, but soon we'll change that to support arbitrary folder.
I think that tech companies know they can get away with this now and are not scared to do it again (see Google, Amazon, etc).

Previously employees at tech companies were put on a pedestal with unbelievable perks and treatment. Now companies like Google can start to become more like conventional companies when all the other companies around them are becoming like that too.
It probably depends on how you use it. I mainly use it for entertainment, so Netflix and YouTube are closer comparisons. In Europe, the YouTube family plan is €23.99 (my wife would not be happy if only I got Premium). In contrast, Netflix is €12.99 for 2 devices (people).

I know the economics are complex (storage, tooling, etc.), but from a simple consumer perspective, YouTube doesn't really pay for the content creation, so why is it almost double the price?
Peter Thiel might have been a libertarian in 2009, but he's not a libertarian anymore. He's jumped fully onto the nationalist conservative train. https://reason.com/2020/08/02/wait-wasnt-peter-thiel-a-liber...
"Charity" made me chuckle. YouTube by itself had an exponentially growing revenue since first introducing ads. In 2022 the revenue was at almost $30 billion (maybe this will better show that amount: $30,000,000,000) [1]. So yeah, go ahead and defend a monopolistic corporation that came to that position by basically doing bait and switch, and ridicule a small minority of people who just want to decide what they run and don't on their own devices.

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[1] https://www.usesignhouse.com/blog/youtube-stats#youtube-reve...
In the Netherlands we use Erbij, (https://erbij.app), which is now going international.
full disclosure, I'm one of the founders
Don't remember the size, but the disk we were using had the highest IOPS available on Google Cloud. That was one of the reason why we had restore from GCS since these disks wouldn't persist if the VM shut down. I think it's called Local SSDs [0]. We were aware of this limitation and had 2 standbys in place, but we didn't ever consider the situation when Google Cloud would lock us out of our account, without any warning.

0 - https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/local-ssd
PEP 738: Adding Android as a supported platform
ICE cars had an advantage though: if you ran out of petrol, you could hitch to the closest garage, fill up a tank, and you were back in business.

With EVs it's always going to require a tow, which is a nightmare experience I don't recommend to anyone.
I don't think youtube has ever been ad free? Yet an awful lot of people feel entitled to it being so.
I don’t see the added value of much of the smart home things. I’m used to turning the lights on with a light switch and never thought “this is too much effort, I wish there was a way to not have to press this switch”. The only smart thing I have in my house is one of those light switches with a built in timer, for the lights outside the house, because I want to make sure I don’t forget to turn them off at night, which could disturb my neighbours. I have quite a few switches for all the other lights in the house, and I feel that turning the lights off before bed is like a ritual that puts me (and the family) in sleep mode.
Yeah. And? They want to milk the last drops of $$$ out of their customers, as usual. If they want to block ad-blockers on their service then so be it.

i don't like the venture capital culture, enshittification pisses me off, the constant race for more revenue, growth and profits while cutting jobs and wages annoys me as well. but for me there's no moral argument against them blocking ad-blockers without criticizing the whole system around it.

do i think that services should be federated, open-source and non-profit oriented? Yes, of course. but YouTube is not that, at all, so being angry about them blocking this is just so unnecessary to me.

it seems to me that people are just veeeery pissed of that they either have to pay for it or stop using it. they don't know where to aim their anger at so they're just angry at Google.
This may be down to how people interpret number 1 in a queue. Think of the floor numbers: some countries use 1 as a ground floor, some use 0. So being number 1 in line may mean something else in different cultures, and considering how cultures mingle nowadays, it's not hard to imagine someone just got confused there for a second.
He thinks democracy and freedom are not compatible.

>Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
It depends on the kintic energy of particles. If it's low enough I think the frequency of photons generated might be low enough to be safe.
Yes and they have notoriously quite high standards.

Even though I think that the people that apply there have quite low moral/ethical ones.
Most companies approach this in two ways:

1. Say nothing until day of.
2. Say someone somewhere at some point or by some date.

For the employees, neither solves the problem of uncertainty that causes the most psychological turmoil.

The best for the employee is being told several months in advance exactly who is going to get axed and when.

This is considered risky for the business though. At that point you have an effective outsider with access to your systems for several months.
Or someone is trying to make something being hosted there unavailable.
> You are nitpicking historical events.

In response to the straw man that people who criticize Israel never do so based on principles they apply to everything else as well, which warrants no response at all. It's not even worth taking note of at this point, it's just a square on a bingo card that got real old real quick.
That's a really interesting tidbit about Chinese. Can't think of anything similar in any language I know, though. Does remind me of those primitive languages where the word for "forest" is just the word for "tree" repeated two or three times.
One the one hand, never take rankings and awards like that seriously. On the other hand, people in these comments are irrationally angry about the fact that people are getting fired in this deal without knowing any of the business reasons behind it.
> What is the biggest potential upside?

The upside is an emotional one: not feeling saddened from letting someone easily walk all over you.

In the case of this woman's termination, they have lied to her face about her performance, and would presumably also lie to anyone that asked about the cause of her termination (they would say she was fired, when it was a lay off). They probably expected her to just silently take it. By calling them out on their lies, it makes it clear that she knows where she stands, and it makes them look and feel incompetent as they have no concrete evidence to back up their lies, so they must resort to pathetic equivocation. And, since such people often feel that they are in the right if they are met with zero resistance, this also helps them see that they are actually wrong.

If that doesn't make sense, consider: what would you do if someone walking by shoulder checked you? Would you do absolutely nothing and keep walking?

I would stop them and first ask if that was intentional -- it's possible that was an accident, and we can laugh about it. If it was intentional, I would tell them that I am sorry for their condition: that they feel that the only way to be seen is to bug people in indirect ways (as they are clearly too chickenshit to resort to outright violence) because they are too worthless a person to pay any mind to otherwise. I would wish them luck with that and then go on my way.

The only reason I would be silent is if I felt weaker than the other person, so the downside of just taking their abuse is that some core, subconscious part of me would lose respect for myself. I generally find nonviolent confrontation -- when warranted -- to not only be satisfying, but also crucial for how I perceive myself, though I suppose maybe not everyone is wired that way.
And drop YouTube Music. I imagine that's a decent part of what I'm paying for, and I don't want it.

This is basically Premium Lite, which YouTube axed last year: https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/25/23889917/youtube-premium-...
I actually like the act and the ritual of turning all the lights off before sleep. It marks the end of the day and the start of sleepy time.
You are right.

A startup would, instead, never show an ad, allow themselves to run out of money, upload a photo of themselves crying on LinkedIn about letting go all of their staff, and then say that they just couldn't find a way to monetize the app.
What would their revenue be if everyone blocked ads?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13961947
Okay, but this mentions exactly my own field of computational biology. I don't think many computational biologists are using Fortran (except indirectly through libraries like BLAS) in the 21st century.
No idea why the downvotes, this really happened and it will happen again.
No?

The first one asked for them, the second one didn't.

The question is:

If there are people 1 and 2, without any other information (like motive) available to us, who send spiders to a and b respectively without anything else being done wrong, a and b should receive same compensation and 1 and 2 the same punishment.

If courts can prove that say 2 knew that b was allergic to these spiders and sent them anyways, that's no longer about sending spiders but causing potential bodily harm.

This doctrine is used nowadays in many places already, ie trying to do something even if you don't succeed is criminal in many cases.
Purple Text, Orange Highlights: what a value-enabled web looks like
I would guess it’s too big for a local anomaly.
The problem here about fallacies is that these discussions have real world implication and are not a theorem in a chalkboard.

People kill and die based on ideas, power, etc and not following logical rules. That is the main fallacy: applying [only] logic to the human world.
If it were that small of a number on ad blockers, they probably wouldn't be spending the effort to counter the blockers.
Microsoft's Github?
Charging infrastructure in Berlin is fine - I had an EV for over a year and charged on the street no problem. The two major caveats are that you really need a card specifically for paying the charging networks (not a credit card which is a major hassle) and road trips are more difficult than they would be with an ICE car.
Battery storage does not help with seasonal differences.
Well to be fair Evernote is a very thin product

I guess most organizational addicts have moved to Notion at this time
Yeah cool tech, but if it's in a device that pulls a Samsung Note, you become an unwitting dirty bomb.

It seems like the kind of tech for industrial application anyway, one of them things that's just impractical for the consumer world.
> Only problem is I haven't found a way to run a VM in exclusive fullscreen mode (or have GPU acceleration).

Wait what? How is that even possible in 2024?
> The definition of what is a derivative work is IMHO overreaching in GPL based licenses.

GPL doesn’t use the word “derive” and specifies modified work in a way that is consistent with the customary legal definition.

People twist things around because they want to use GPLed code without “paying” for it, but really at the end of the day it’s just an ordinary license agreement but instead of paying cash to use it you agree to give users the freedom to modify and/or redistribute the code.

Just like any other licensed code you can agree to the terms and use the code or disagree with the terms and use something else.
That's like 100% written by themselves or a PR agency.
What Is the Loveliest Language?
IIUC, GPL based licensed do not define what what derivative work it, but leaves it to the law.
I'd like to recommend a website I've been using for a very long time - mynoise.net - which seems to have exactly what you're looking for [0]. There are many different kinds of ambient noises you can play indefinitely, and there are even sliders you can use to compose your own "mix" of ambient sounds of a particular type (e.g. Wind Trees, Distand Stream, Close Stream, Owl, Birds, etc.).

There are many types of ambient sounds (I count 100 at the moment) available for free, and even more if you choose to donate to the site. You can donate any amount you want, and you get lifetime premium access to full site content.

The guy running the site, Stéphane Pigeon, is a signal processing PhD with a passion for sounds, and he travels the world recording ambient sounds for this website.

[0] https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/belgianForestSoundscapeGen...
Im not netcan, but in my case... I am the inner voice, the inner voice is essentially the me in me, it is myself, the most basic and self, mind you, the conversation while 99% verbal can be non verbal, I can talk to myself in images and even concepts and have a dialogue/debate with that, its just kind of weird?

But the inner voice, at least from my POV is essentially the self, if you want to experience, just go to a bathroom with a mirror and try to debate with your reflection, it is essentially the same thing, ofc to debate with yourself you have to be able to debate points you do not believe in, like a lawyer or a politic, there is only you only a single opinion, but you are putting your opinion to the test, so you try to defend and try to attack your opinion and your acts, is like playing devil's advocate against your own opinions while you defend them, there is not two people or two wills is like talking to the mirror, is only you.
It can also be used to essentially praise yourself if you do something good, or console yourself if you are sad or insult yourself drill sargent style to get that extra adrenaline to run the extra meter to not lose the train, you can also sign to yourself with that, which is horrible, s you will distill any song to its most catchy part and repeat it ad infinitum every moment like a very crappy self-sountrack.

Inner dialogue ofc can also be used for the obvious... simulate conversations with others if you know them well enough to have counterarguments against them available, is like thinking a comeback later but instead of later, before and instead of one, a lot of them, 99% never used.

Another use is that you can use your inner voice to repeat a thing constantly to nor forget it short term, for example holding into a 4 digit code that you can only read for 1 second and you have to remember a minute later, you can just read it the first second in your head "one two there seven" and just keep repeating it over and over in your head "one two there seven,one two there seven,one two there seven,one two there seven,one two there seven" until you need it, that way you can store a bit of info very short term without memorizing anything, I remember doing exactly this with a multiplication table math test when i was a kiddo, I was not able to memorize the multiplications with 7, so 2 minutes before the test i just started chanting the results of 27 up to 29 and when i received the test i just wrote that on the side(we were allowed to write stuff on the side) and thus i used my inner voice to sneak a cheat sheet into the test, I did similar stuff all trough my school years.
Also I think Japanese companies are super risk-averse in general anyways. Not many of them hyperexpanded and overhired in COVID, so there weren’t many extra employees to layoff anyways.
So YOU use it.

Not saying it’s not a good app, but your selling your book.
It looks to me like an alien smiley :) of course aliens have only one eye.
I'm assuming you are referring to our terms of service change. The short answer is: we are not. We posted an update to the blog post here that gives more context: https://blog.sentry.io/ai-privacy-and-terms-of-service-updat...
This Post Office scandal is currently ongoing in the UK. The Fujitsu developer in question confirmed what the Post Office was denying, that the Horizon software at the center of the scandal, had implemented methods for secretly editing accounts. Approx 700 postmasters (self-employed managers of Post Office branches) were held responsible when large amounts of cash appeared to have vanished from tills, resulting in prosecutions for fraud and theft.
I know someone who was affected by this, who managed a now-closed Post Office branch here in Wakefield, UK and it was a life ruining ordeal for her. She was accused of stealing £1,000's in cash. I'm not sure if it was a bug or someone remotely changed the account records for her branch, but the campaign the Post Office ran to smear any accusations of wrongfulness on the part of the Horizon software is shocking.
I think it's for sensors. With some capacitor and a smart sensor that powers on only after voltage exceeds some threshold and does the measurements and sends out the result in one short burst before energy runs out.
By freezing most new development and limiting the work to maintenance and user data/money milking.
Now if only Amplifi supported Site to Site VPNs, and wireguard road warrior VPNs, then i'd be completely on board.

For now i will stick with UniFi, or possibly pfSense.
Julia (and MATLAB) have large, heavy runtimes making them non-ideal for applications where size and startup speed matter, eg. libraries, edge computing.

Their dynamic nature makes them much better at exploratory programming compared to Fortran though.
That will definitely be the day I stop using YT, which will probably trigger some withdrawal symptoms. I've used YouTube since I was a little kid, it's probably the platform I've used the most in my life, and it's not even close.

unfortunately, things don't last forever :(

but, you know. when netflix got more and more expensive and started blocking my family for using it because they dare to not live in my apartment, i switched to pirating. now i have about 500 movies at home and can watch them remotely. so. i'm actually happy for netflix turning me into a pirate ;D

I wonder what not using YouTube anymore will turn me into...
I wish the EU would do that. Driving in Germany is impossible without one of the charge cards. I really don't get why credit cards aren't mandated to work on all public chargers.
I always point that out too. And someone always points out that with distributions average and median are the same. That still doesn't make it right. What's worse is it's a quote about intelligence, so you would think it would use the correct word. Maybe that's the joke, it's summer
dumbed down and smug in the knowledge that everyone that hears it thinks "thank god I'm above average!"
Dextrous Robotics closes up shop
> If you use any 3P library it’s a derived dependency by law. Is that what you are arguing? It’s settled law at this point.

Is it? So if I, the author of non-copyleft A, want to use copyleft library B, it's illegal if I use `dlopen` but legal if I use a socket or a pipe? That's absurd. Either both are illegal or both are legal, and I've yet to see evidence that it's the former.

IOW, I've yet to see evidence that licenses apply across dlopen bounds. It's a meme in our industry that it does, but does it really? Where's the data?
Meetup needs an alternative anyway. They shove ads in your face, and the app is buggy.
It was quite limited set of entities that did atmospheric nuclear testing. Same cannot be said about LMMs.

Mine post-apocalyptic scenario I half-jokingly predicted some 5-10 years ago was that all general-purpose computing hardware, which is common and relatively cheap now will be abandoned and possibly outlawed in the end. People will use non-rootable thin clients to access Amazon, which will have general-purpose hardware, but it will be heavily audited by government entities.
Wait... you guys don't program using punch cards? How are you supposed to do it then?