skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for pointing this out. I had only heard about this in passing and assumed there had to be more to it. It's always good to do your own research on these things, because sometimes you realize its not as bad as an out-of-context clip makes it sound. But then on the flip side, sometimes its Unity's Runtime Fee and it is as bad as it sounds.
So what happens if it's teenagers under the age of 18? Are they now in possession of CP?
Quite smart idea, it does completely fill the huge gaps in the Spotify catalogue and trying it out it seems to get the right tracks even with insanely niche stuff.
Add "reddit" to the search query.
You don’t even need to buy a license. Alternate activation servers exist.
"Fun" fact: cars having the capability to relay your conversations and location are increasingly becoming mandatory.

In Europe "eCall" functionality has been mandatory since 2018. This means your car will automatically call 112 (911) when it detects it has been in an accident, relaying realtime audio and location data. You're only a software update away from it also being sent to The Cloud for "theft prevention" or some other bullshit.
It's not an "obvious loophole". They are quite specific about this. New features, new capabilities: R&D, must be amortized. Bug fixes for existing features: expensable.

The gray zone comes when a bug fix actually provides a new feature (e.g. something that wasn't actually usable before).
If buying a download isn't owning, pirating a download isn't stealing.
Your consultants were helping you get a tax credit for R&D under section 163. That has not changed - not all software development is R&D for section 163 purposes, and you still need to justify why you're classifying software development as R&D for section 163.

What has changed is section 174 - previously all software development could be expensed (without any justification needed) and now it must be capitalized.
"losing". I mean, are they even fighting back at this point?
How are you defining groceries here? I suspect that some people are being fairly expansive and including everything that they'd buy at a grocery store, while others are being much more restrictive. Using a more expansive definition (mostly because I've literally broken things down by items), we're close to $500 per person, the few times I've spot-checked our spending. I think it's difficult to be well-below $200 per person without being highly budget-conscious, avoiding expensive categories altogether and/or eating out all the time.
Piracy is only immoral if you consider the state should prevent people from reusing everyone’s copyable work, and protect the companies for it. It’s a ridiculously difficult task which is ridiculously costly to maintain, at the expense of taxpayers.

If you consider that the state shouldn’t intervene, or shouldn’t intervene in this way, then it’s not immoral. For example, the state could say “DRM and if anyone can break the DRM, they’re free to use the game” or it could say “Any software becomes open-source after 20 years” (which, at least, would have the benefit of being useful). Same goes for songs or other artistic work, it will be much less monetizable but maybe it will restore the “art” part in “art”.
Feel free to pay for my Spotify subscription if you feel so strongly.
> You do realize Putin has a significantly higher approval rating among Russians than Biden, Trump, or Congress has among Americans, yes?

I'm not going to waste time arguing about fantasy. If you want to have a discussion grounded in reality, I'm up for it. With that said, that statement you made you have in no way shape or form to support it - not about Biden, Trump or Congress, but about Putin.

You have no idea how a country feels under the foot of a dictator that has been murdering, arresting, or crippling any voice that is against Putin.

Not to mention the millions of Russians that left the country, and are now not even allowed to vote in their embassies!

> This is with independent polling as well

How can you have independent polling in a country that has political prosecution? How can you have any semblance of independence when Moscow actively makes an effort to wipe out cultural landmarks, including the language, of the different people who live in Russia?

Moscow has used genocide as a tool to control people, they used it in the past and are currently using it in Ukraine.

Did you know that you have thousands protesting in Russia as we speak, and people are being arrested for it: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-police-make-arr...
Wow this is really well made and polished, congrats for the creators for this acheivement.

One thing I notice, and that's not an issue of the app but rather that of the youtube sources is that the sound quality between songs is not consistent and overall worse than Spotify
Engaging with the democratic process means changing laws, which requires the consent of lawmakers, so either deep pockets or an extremely broad consensus of citizens who care enough about the issue to vote on it. Those laws might also have negative side effects that we didn't anticipate, and changing the law once it's enacted is very difficult. This makes this strategy very high cost and unlikely to have the desired effects.

Market solutions require no coordinated action, no new laws that could have unintended side effects, and is much more likely to succeed. Products and companies fail all the time because they don't offer something people want to buy! This has a much higher success rate as a strategy and is also easier: don't like the product? Don't buy it.

Obviously this isn't universally true: there are things we have to buy, like food and shelter, and so those industries ought to be more carefully regulated (and they are!), but we're talking about video games, which are a luxury leisure purchase.
i feel like maybe this is messier if the parser you're trying to escape from is lalr or something else bottom-up?
Hey, cool! Would love to stay connected. Feel free to hit me up on LinkedIn (but no worries if not!): https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuamcginnis/
Sorry, which book is this?
People say this but don’t understand the reason artists don’t make much per-listener on Spotify etc. is because of their record deals, it’s nothing to do with Spotify. If you’re an independent artist you can live comfortably off of a small Spotify audience!

The stories you hear about an artist getting pennies on millions of listens are because of their record deals and the credits on their work. You can’t solve this with software: artists enter these deals long before software is involved.

I’d argue that Spotify (and YouTube and TikTok etc) have done more for musicians because they’ve made it very easy to make a living when you have a core listener base. Software has not rescued major label artists from major label contracts because… how can it?
Oh sure. It even gets more nuanced than that, which can make figuring out how to support them a bit of a challenge. Some artists will release music streaming-only and then tour and make their cash that way, others (looking at you, Bibio) never tour and rely on sales of their music.
Started downloading FLAC music after discovering how bad Spotify compression is even at the highest quality. I still subscribe to Spotify for discovery and convenience, but almost never use it.
met someone who worked at Ubisoft once at a party....I realised why their games suck and they are more interested in taking all the money they can get....dude had a coke problem and was bragging about being a senior dev working on their latest title whilst throwing a 'bruh' out in every other sentence and stumbling around the party like he was king of the world because of Ubisoft.....bad culture. bad incentives, and when asked about development couldn't even explain anything other than buzz words and was more interested in how much money their micro payments would get them
That's a very polite way of saying that may AAA developers/publishers can't put together a quality game for shit these days even if they tried, especially since the AAA industry has pivoted towards "monetization" and "engagement" and not actually producing anything of value. That a game is produced is more of a tangential side effect of their business at this point.
There's three parties at fault here:

1. Your ISP, for blocking access to a game server
2. Ubisoft, for requiring a cloud connection to play a game
3. Nintendo, for not allowing refunds for digital goods.

Seems odd to focus your blame on just one of the three.

(Instead of blaming anyone, you should get your Switch to talk to a VPN and then enjoy your game.)
For me, it's not that I don't want artists to have money. (I just found an artist I liked who uploads all their live music--quality recordings!--to Internet Archive under a CC license. I went to their website and bought all their albums on the spot. They should arrive in a couple days, and then I'll rip them to FLAC and put them on my jellyfin server.)

But questionably-ethical companies I try not to give money to, e.g. companies that only pay artists pennies, or might suddenly disappear music that I "bought". And that's on top of the fact that Spotify in particular actually kinda sucks at suggesting good music. I quit them in the middle of my free trial because I got tired of hitting "next". My friends are much, much better suggestion engines.
I too can vouch for Phind for programming questions.
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39031101
Russia produces more container ships by tonnage than the US with a fraction of the population, to pick just one example of many. Before SpaceX, the US was dependent on them for rides to the ISS. They produce some of the most formidable and battle-tested military-technical systems in the world. How exactly is that a failed state? Seems like you want other people to make the same decision you did since maybe you’re unsure that it was the correct choice.
I am not of Maltese origin but I am a resident now.

How much Malta fucked up transit and transportation is really interesting. It's as bad as the United States despite unlike the US the distances are short and the population density is high (the whole thing is 17 mi x 9 mi, the density of the entire country compares to Bellevue, WA and the towns themselves are ten times more dense). Malta is #10 country in the world in cars owned per people leading to constant congestion https://i.redd.it/fnrrri2k1n8b1.png, some sections of the roads are impossible to walk, some transit connections are near impossible to make because of the lack of crossings and sidewalks. Buses are infrequent and notoriously unreliable. And buses are all there are, not even a trolley bus much less a tram or something.

And they are not fixing this, I tried to do public transit to the nearest Lidl and the road was freshly rebuilt (not even fully complete yet) and they didn't add a sidewalk. The public transit mobile app is useless. This is not just me grumbling check https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/people-use-bus-reliab... for more.
Feeding results back into the algorithm was indeed the reason it was abused.
'They don't have to do that' is correct though, I don't know the reason for that.
The First Church of Pirate Bay (2012)
The extension uBlacklist allows you to do that (https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/docs).
Ignoring the DRM thing, Steam didn't really add a middleman. Instead, they replaced the old middleman.

Microsoft used games to prop up their windows monopoly, but provided a terrible user experience.

Steam provides an excellent, OS-agnostic user experience. Instead of using it to prop up an unrelated monopoly, they take a cut of sales.

It's not great (middlemen rarely are), but it is an improvement.
I disagree with your comment. When I read the GP I thought "oh that's cool", without thinking. Then parent's reply brought the reality of the situation back to me (that it's more complicated).
Streaming does let you discover lots of new music which I like.

But musically for my "daily driver" playlist I want to go way down a particular rabbit hole and find new stuff. It is less good for that. I am happy streaming exists.

On PC I am totally digital download. Consoles, I am more of a collector, so I prefer physical games which I actually own. Eventually having a disc will be the only legal way to play those games if you did not download them. (Some not even then like Destiny)
> I never mentioned a failed SpaceX.

Your believes about his “behavior” will make you if it happens. That will be the rationalization. An ad hominem attack.

Musk’s can tell advertisers to go fuck themselves. Lots of other companies do. Valve is probably the most successful example.
I don’t think that’s clear at all. All I’ve seen is many small fabs closing down were close enough to bleeding edge wasn’t sustainable. Intel is only surviving its last (and current?) fumble because of their past lead.

Though maybe I’m just out of the loop? who are the accessible close enough competition that you have in mind?
Can Recraft's foundational model for graphic design swerve the AI controversy?
It is not about the money for me, and also I'm happy to support the artists and regularly do by buying their vinyl when I can.

It is about the fact at any time Spotify, Apple, etc can remove music from my playlist for any reason and at any time. It's about the fact they require me to use their invasive, spyware, data mining BS apps in order to listen to my music. It is about the fact that when I want to listen to music in my car, I have to listen to it using the way they say I can.

I can't believe I have adult friends who really don't care about their personal privacy or freedoms and are ready to give it up at a moments notice for convenience.
I think that rhetorical strategy 'has been nerfed'.

No one really has the idea that a private life is equivalent to a law-breaking life any more. Too much bad press on gov surveillance; and indeed, corp surveillance.
Teachers need graduate degrees to teach K-12?
I think the fundamental premise of this article is wrong, because I don't think the kind of thing chat GPT does is the same kind of thing that knowledge workers do. It isn't just a difference in reliability and talent in knowing what knowledge is relevant and understanding of niche knowledge, although those are also important factors that he doesn't weigh highly enough, it's also that there is a fundamental difference in kind between what's being done, making his comparison essentially a category error. Even if we assume that chat GPT doesn't hallucinate, it is an information retrieval system alone with some simple synthesis capabilities, whereas knowledge work is not just having the knowledge but having a full conceptual understaning of it and solving problems with creative application of thay knowledge and conceptual understanding — it's not just about being able to regurgitate a couple paragraphs of synthesized text or take a couple snippets from Stack Overflow and put them together, it's about actually understanding the meaniny and concepts of things and the principles behind them, and having a good understanding of the methods of reasoning and problem solving that you can self critically apply to your own thought processes in a self-correcting manner (which is something the structure of chatGPT precludes), and being able to creatively apply the knowledge you have, through the semantic lens of the things I just listed, in order to creatively solve a specific problem within a specific context.
As a practical matter, if I had a 30+ year old game still up in my attic, it would probably take more time/knowledge/money in many cases to get it running usefully than most people would reasonably put in.
For context, I’ve been leading the work on this cluster client-side (not the engineer that discovered the IOMMU fix) with Clyso.

There was no significant difference when testing between the latest HWE on Ubuntu 20.04 and kernel 6.2 on Ubuntu 22.04. In both cases we ran into the same IOMMU behaviour. Our tooling is all very much catered around Ubuntu so testing newer kernels with other distros just wasn’t feasible in the timescale we had to get this built. The plan was < 2 months from initial design to completion.

Awesome to see this on HN, we’re a pretty under-the-radar operation so there’s not much more I can say but proud to have worked on this!
> Nobody else came up with something like Kindle Unlimited where you pay a flat fee and read as much as you want instantly

https://www.legimi.pl/
Oh boy you should see Kim Jung Un's approval rating!
Please let me know where this unbiased, monetization-free version of Reddit is.
Personally I'd say DDG is okay. It's not exactly a good search engine (early Google was definitely better), but at least it's not complete crap like 2024 Google.
> Functions don't have variables, named variables, that's Python, not math[0].

No, Python named arguments are a good analogy for Leibnitz notation.
I feel like natural joins simplify writing queries, but not exactly reading them (especially if you are not familiar with the database). IMO a good compromise is the USING clause, which acts like a natural join, but columns have to be named explicitly.
anything related to free for paid content is HN worthy /s
> You think he isn't aware of the policies?

With millions of employees there is no way he is able to say on top of the policies the workers are putting in place, no. Hell, I've spent enough time in small businesses to observe workers creating boneheaded policies behind the stakeholders' backs, only seeing them come to light when the stupidity caused itself to become known. How are you going to know? Nobody is going to tell you until it is too late.

> Or their effects?

Yes, most likely he is now aware that someone died as a result of another worker doing something idiotic. Now what? He can command to the workers to stop being idiots. I expect he already does that on a daily basis. But do you think that will really work? If you have ever worked with other people in these types of "low rung" jobs you will know that the worker always thinks they know better.

Perhaps that is difficult to fathom from the tech "ivory tower"? Indeed, in tech – and I expect other "high prestige" careers – workers are generally more willing to think things through together and search for the best possible solution.
> some people will look for other ways to listen to the music they want to hear.

Those ways probably should involve some sort of compensation to the artists. Is that happening?
The old soviet joke about Russia: “The future is certain; it is only the past that is unpredictable”
Maybe sit this one out, bud.
This is our experience as well and is an immediate rejection if the person is not honest about it. If they say "i need to check this quickly on a search engine or chatgpt" that's fine. But if they make it sound like it is their own answers, that's dishonesty and you don't want to work with people you can't trust when you are given the choice.
I've called Nintendo support and asked for a refund before. They said they don't allow refunds, but as a one-time exception they would refund my game. Others online have had this happen too. I think this must be an internal script they must have. You can refund a digital game, but only once ever.

You could try doing that for your Ubisoft game and see if it works.

Although, the refund came in the form of store money; my card didn't get anything back.
On the flip side, the reason they're finding emergency teachers just as effective as ones without degrees is because in many places all of the good teachers have quit to find other professions. This is less an indictment on the education of teachers, and more an indictment on society and how poorly teachers are treated in 2023.

>Like other first-year teachers, those granted emergency credentials were disproportionately assigned to work with children with disabilities, English learners and low-income students.

AKA: the jobs with the highest turnover rate of qualified professional teachers.

>The law would have to be carefully crafted -- but we're long past the era when a degree was predictive of anything. It was always a positional good, and if 50% of the next generation have one there's no signal within the noise anymore.

The point of a degree was to get you to think critically as much as it is about teaching you how to do the job the degree will lead to. Teachers need that skill as much as anyone when they're working with impressionable youth.
I wouldn't put it passed them to straight up lie about the vector. How many have worked in these situations where some slick dicky worked up the word salad to make issues sound like non-issues?
I like your perspective. I wish I had friends with your exact same perspective.
Search is already dead, or soon will be. Bard is their only hope, but of course, Bard hides the ads that content providers put on their websites. So, Google is fecked royally, and all of their entitled, dysfunctional employees are in for a rude awakening.
If you're broke at 70k you are simply bad with your finances. There are no excuses, unless you have a super rare medical condition. You can't blame anybody but yourself.
This is really neat! I thought I'd try it out before bed (in Japan) and I was talking to someone from Dallas (hi, if you see this!), but it disconnected us. :(
> Should it be fixed? Obviously.

The system, administered by C[r]apita, does not log a disproved link... so we get:

DfE: "Hello, are you dead or is our wrong data match from last time still wrong?"

The repeated asking of the same question is them covering up a data quality problem!
as there is between the average high school student and those who make it to college?
use TIDAL HIFI
Potato, Potato. Anglos gonna Anglo.
How much money did Nintendo get from this vote?

It's a vote against Ubisoft, but you might as well have pirated the games, it doesn't support the publisher/developer.
You mean honest real ones. I find lots of fake reviews with affiliate links
> for their heating requirement, a normal electric plug is more than sufficient in the land of 230V, this is is a similar issue to kettles basically

US uses a split phase system so you can combine two 120V circuits to get 240V. This is how most heavy appliances are wired.
Immutability “maybe” (and that’s a massive grain a salt, because this is not a specific thing I’ve ever worked on to say any different) having certain use cases where it works well is not the same thing as making literally every single object in your entire application immutable.

I agree that immutability is a tool. My issue with it is when you treat it as a rule.
Setting something like this up would at the very least be a fun little project.
It is mainly due to the Gulf Stream. Northern Europe would be much colder without it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Stream#Localized_effects
This is going to wipe out a lot of small businesses, including innovative software dev startups.

Here’s a simplified example of this works: Let’s say you’re a four person software dev startup. Everybody is making, say, $125K to get by. That’s $500K in salary expense which normally you can write off as expenses against revenue/funding. For this example, let’s say somehow you also generated $500K in revenue/funding, i.e. you just broke even.

Currently, you would (of course) owe zero taxes. Under the new tax rules, you couldn’t write off those R&D salaries as expenses, only amortize them over 5 years. That is, your salary expenses for this year is only ~ $100K, and this you made a $400K ‘profit’ (!!) on which you owe taxes ($100K).