skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not though:

* It’s definitely not stealing in the legal sense of the term, which requires a party to be deprived of physical property that they own.

* It’s also not in the colloquial sense of the term, because if you call this stealing you’d also have apply the stealing label to blocking ads/trackers on the web, taking advantage of free trials for services without any intent of becoming a subscriber, or countless other activities that could be considered “depriving someone of revenue.”

In the US, we do in fact have a legal term for the crime at play here — but the term is copyright infringement, not “stealing” or “IP theft” or whatever other stupid label the content cartels want to apply to it.
Teach someone something, then reflect on the experience. Youll find you put additional effort into formalizing your own understanding, I always try to teach 2-3 people something when I learn it straight out of the gate.
No one will cure aging in your lifetime. If we were actually making progress towards this goal then we would see incremental improvements in maximum lifespan but so far no one has exceed the record of 122 years set in 1997. You will die in a few decades just like everyone else.
>What are non-tech-savvy people actually using for piracy these days?

Where I live, they search for "watch blabla online 1080p free". Way less time consuming than actually using streaming services or torrenting.

Also, you can easily torrent on Android.
Sir, teslas have batteroes, those are DC.
> if you like pop sci

That's the "problem" right there. It wasn't a pop sci book. TBH while Gödel's incompleteness theorem might be seen as "science" subject, it is actually squarely in the realm of meta-mathematics, a branch of philosophy.

The "writing style" is what most would call "literature", which includes prose, poetry, stories, etc. It's not for everyone, for sure, but some people do enjoy it (I occasionally do, but I lose patience.) Calling it "pretentious fluff" sounds a bit extreme.
Non tech savvy people aren't messing around with torrents. They get android TV boxes from someone and pay them a small monthly fee to have a cable like interface to watch anything you could possibly pirate.
You are smart for putting it down.
Meanwhile I just installed three Ubiquiti APs in a ~64sqm (~700 sqft) apartment because fuck if reinforced concrete walls and thick doors are going to stand in the way of us having good WiFi coverage at home.
These platforms just became inconvinient. A lot shows is geo-locked and spread on multiple services but yeah of course root of the problem is piracy. As always. It is just easier to download it.
As HN: RustDesk Installs Chinese Root Certificates
I'm not an expert in security, but I noticed that the Windows version of RustDesk (https://rustdesk.com/), an open-source remote desktop software, installs a Chinese root certificate to the Windows `Trusted Root Certification Authorities` with all purposes enabled. There's a discussion on GitHub (https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/discussions/6444) where one of the maintainers states the certificates are for driver code signing, but doesn't explain why they need to be placed in `Trusted Root Certification Authorities` with all purposes permissions instead of just for code signing. Does anyone more experienced in security have a take on this?
Football players typically don’t wear cups.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/sports/football/helmet-ch...
Yeah, still, it's easier, but not as easy nor convenient or widely available (e.g there's no Popcorn app in that TV you just bought. Defaults matter a lot.
Like native from ISP will be preferred over ULA.
We wire the solar cells in parallel to the MPPT nano-inverter chip (0.625 square milimeter). The 6V output of the inverters we can wire in series (we aggregate the voltage and current). 60 cells per panel gives 360V DC and 1.68 A output per panel. Normal panels where the cells are wired in series have around 36V DC and 15A per panel. So the thick 4mm² copper wires of a standard panel must be 8-10 times the wire thinkness of our panels.

You can program the MPPT nano-inverter to output 6V AC and then aggregate to 360V AC. In this situation its better to output 110-120V AC in the US or 240V AC in most other parts of the world and feed this directly into the grid.

The tricky part is the aggregation of the inverter outputs. The inverters each have different input voltage and current but must all output the exact same voltage to be agregated. The microcontroller have a network between all 60 inverters (122 in larger panels) so they can coordinate/balance their outputs. This is done at 100Kbps to 10 Mbps.
The mosfet power transisters in the chip will switch at 100KHz to 1 Mhz to achieve the same ouput voltage.
Kudos for pluggimg shannomçs masterpiece
One minor point I've recently come across: GCC's old ## trick only works if preceded by a comma. This sometimes requires creating dummy macro arguments, if the optional argument pack needs to go at the front. The C23 way is more useful here.

Anyway, I got this working, for hygienic (shadow-proof) single-expansion macros:

#define MIN(a_, b_) \
({ \
/* auto a = (a_), b = (b_); ... except safe if the a_ or b_ expressions contain external a or b variables */ \
CLEANSE_MACRO_VARS((a, a_), (b, b_)); \
a < b ? a : b; \
})

Only the ({}) still requires a GNU extension; a `do-while` approach would require passing the output reference in as well, which is ugly.
With exercise, meal planning, therapy, meditation etc on top of doctors visits, I'm probably spending 3 months a year. Most of it is preventative health care though.
It's clicking on the links in the search results that requires a difficult leap of faith.
Tampermonkey?
good, i prefer the old internet
> GEB is crucial reading in that if you want to appear intellectually superior... This will instantly create palatable tension and a change of topic

Ouch... Why would you assume that the other party's goal is to appear "superior", and not that they are legitimately passionate about something? Do you dislike when people are passionate about topics that don't interest you? Or do you just believe that it is fair to assume that everyone who outwardly likes this book is secretly doing so because they want to seem smart or something? Or something else?
What a waste of time. JAVASCRIPT works fine! This is a solution in search of a problem.
I do enjoy the visuals from the TV series The Expanse, when they use their CIWS equivalent to intercept missiles. Albeit I've always wonders how fast those "bullets" fly, versus the (again I'd assume) hypersonic (is sonic meaningless as a benchmark when talking about space?) missiles.
I'm more pessimistic about how would that drive bad actors to HN polluting the site.
> because if you call this stealing you’d also have apply the stealing label to blocking ads/trackers on the web

Yes that is quite literally also depriving them of revenue, and quite possibly their only source of revenue if they're a free website/app.

>taking advantage of free trials for services without any intent of becoming a subscriber

Yeah no, it's in the name...FREE TRIAL. It's literally given out for free.

>content cartels

Yes how dare companies/people want to get paid for their creative works, must be a cartel.
My comment was explicitly replying to an argument about how streaming services would "suffer" because of how piracy is much easier today. There's no signs of that. Just because Netflix mentions that risk in their SEC filings. The article admits as much, it's their responsibility and of course if there were no other alternatives it'd be better for Netflix, but is hardly something that has changed significantly to make a dent in their business. As I said, subscriptions and revenue keeps growing, there's no evidence of them "suffering" because of the alternative (viable to many) that piracy provides.
I’ve always liked Apple ITunes store model. (So did Steve Jobs that’s why they were so late to music subscriptions)

Just give me a giant catalogue of every show, movie, and album known to man and let me buy or rent a-la-carte for a fair price.

At the moment I’ve dropped all streaming platforms and am back to Apple. If I want to watch something I just buy it and don’t have to worry about subscribing to yet another service.
So last month, I spent probably 1-2 hours on a medication issue. But if you were talking to me last month, you would have the impression that I was working on it for a full week. I needed to coordinate with the pharmacist, and then the doctor, and then another 3 pharmacies because < ... long and redacted rant about the DEA, pharmaceutical law, the cowards at the FDA, the cowards at modern big pharmacy corporations, and the lack of actual initiative and care provided by pharmacies ... >, then the doctor again, then the pharmacy again and then finally after all of that, I had to actually go and pick up my medication.

Each one of those steps might have only been 5-10 minutes out of my day at the time, but each of those steps played out over the course of a week. Additionally, each one of those steps doesn't account for having to block out that time of my day during a time when I would be most likely to reach the people I needed to without sitting on hold for an hour. It doesn't reflect the time I spent worrying about actually being able to get the medication I needed at all. It doesn't reflect the time I spent angry and frustrated at everyone involved in the process. And it doesn't reflect just how much of an energy suck the entire thing was in the first place. Nor the depression that comes from knowing I'm about to do it all over again next week. Or the fact that the month after that, I'll probably be doing it again and dealing with the insurance company on top of it. All of it looms over me like a storm cloud you can see coming for miles.

I also spent another ~30 hours on an unrelated medical thing, but that's only the time I spent actually doing it. Not the hour+ travel time every day, the extra hours put in at the office to make up for the lost time, the changes to routines and rescheduling of other items around it and so on and so forth.

Your health is the baseline from which everything else in your life is derived. Take care of it, because when it's gone, it takes so much more from you than just the time you spend at the doctor's office.
Where is the noscript/basic (x)html portal?
> I wouldn’t have bought that chocolate bar anyway

> Please take a logic class before you commit a really basic fallacy.

Agreed.

Work on the chocolate bar analogy some more, especially the part about how it's still there after digital video pirates steal it.
> the topics in the parent post should not be a major surprise to anyone who has read https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shanno... !

> which clearly explains it (and said emergent phenomena)

Very smart information theory people have looked at neural networks through the lens of information theory and published famous papers about it years ago. It couldn't explain many things about neural networks, but it was interesting nonetheless.

FWIW it's not uncommon for smart people to say "this mathematical structure looks like this other idea with [+/- some structure]!!" and that it totally explains everything... (kind of with so and so exceptions, well and also this and that and..). Truthfully, we just don't know. And I've never seen theorists in this field actually take the theory and produce something novel or make useful predictions with it. It's all try stuff and see what works, and then retroactively make up some crud on why it worked, if it did work (otherwise brush it under the rug).

There was this one posted recently on transformers being kernel smoothers:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.11775
People that cannot afford Netflix will go to great lengths to get the content they want. They're also not mutually exclusive. Piracy growing doesn't mean Netflix isn't. People pay for Netflix AND download pirated movies all the time.
I believe you are unfamiliar with the current state of piracy.

I'm not going to name the site, because I don't want to run afoul of any rules here... But this site is an even more streamlined experience than the legit sites. It has a searchable catalog that's just as high quality UX as netflix, and you just start watching instantly.

It literally just works.

That's the norm in the piracy world today, but some people are extra about things and set up automation to auto download local copies of things on a media server. There's a bit of initial setup overhead for this, but once it's done it's as convenient as it gets. You can subscribe to shows and they just show up on your media server as episodes are released.
They could show you, but that's no guarantee of anything.

They rotate their content, and presumable the studios pull their content off. If they have movie X today, there's no assurance that it'll be there next week.

It's a subscription to a service, not to specific content. I don't see how it could be any other way.

Netflix could definitely make it easier to see what is on now, though. Amazon has a much larger catalog and you can browse it before signing up.
> Verbal skills are apparently more predictive of programming career success than math scores.

Curious about the references!
There’s a certain point where “I keep forgetting” is really just “I don’t want to”.
> It’s the fragmentation of the content that makes it hard to use.

I wish somebody could get all the media execs in a room and just deliver a simple message: "You can't compete on price; your competition is free. You must compete on experience if you're to compete at all."

With just a few hours worth of time and effort, it's possible to get a pretty sophisticated and automatic system set up that essentially makes getting a copy of a movie a literal one-click operation. You won't be able to watch it _right then_ as the find, download, process, import ... etc pipe takes time to run but at the end you'll have a high quality copy that will work on any device anywhere in the world.

Other than the immediacy, piracy is cheaper and less burdensome.
Last christmas, I want to watch Home Alone series (1-3). I don't know where they are available. Google search result shows it available in Netflix. I checked Netflix, it didn't available there but in Disney+ (Hotstar) in my country. Shit like this why I decide pirate it instead.
I don’t think that’s what the GP is saying. It’s more like beverages exist but certain ones are worse for you (like alcoholic ones) than others. It’s what’s being consumed that is important not its medium.

I don’t know if I agree with that just that you’re characterization is off. I think the medium is the message.
Thanks for actually contributing instead of being obtusely sarcastic...ah wait.

It's interesting that people devalue a good just because it's digital on a tech focused website named HackerNews lol.
It's called "value-chain climbing."
HomePods are:

AudioAccessory1,1 – First gen HomePod

AudioAccessory5,1 - HomePod mini

AudioAccessory6,1 - Second gen HomePod
YC is the man now dawg.
I'm sure I'm a pollyanna about all this, but every time some new piece of tech or innovation comes out, English majors crank out "What Hast Thou Wrought" pieces like nobody's business.

The truth is nobody knows how this thing will integrate into human society. Personally I think the social media hysteria is overdone, and the human need for connection is probably stronger than technology. Time and time again, what we've seen is that technology amplifies individual characteristics rather than changing them.

Of course the press is obsessed with the goings on of social media. They themselves spend all their time obsessing about their ratios on Twitter. But there are plenty of people out there who don't, and they don't get noticed because the opinion leaders can't get outside their own little bubble of Tik Tok, Twitter, Reddit, etc.

Yes, certain people already predisposed to isolation will use technology as a substitute for human connection. But those people are going to do that anyway.
What kind of software would that be that yields 20M / year per customer?
I started using pirated copies of some music software I actually paid for and own, because it became too problematic and inconvenient. Why do I need a kernel extension for this crap? Fuck iLok sincerely.

Next step is not paying for anything altogether. A middle finger is the only thing those kinds of companies are getting from me in the future, and honestly I'd rather see their demise.

If streaming ever becomes like this, I'm also going back to piracy.
I agree with you in a lot of situations but I think there are situations where the intention you want to communicate is "these 6 situations are the same, except for this variation, because X". If you duplicate, it can be hard to capture in a way that is as robust. And then you risk logical errors in your configuration, which can be very damaging.
What fallacy did I commit? Please, name the fallacy and explain why it's an example of that fallacy, so I can learn from my mistakes.

I simply took your argument, verbatim:

> If the creator of something says “if you want to view my work, you must pay me a dollar”, then yes it is stealing (immoral) if you view it without paying.

And showed how it is a ridiculous argument with a simple example. I created a comment, and said you must pay me $100 to read it. You didn't, so you stole from me, by your own argument.
There is a setting -- in "Edit settings" - "Playback settings", turn off "Autoplay previews while browsing in all devices".

It might not be there when this was first introduced happened, but FYI this is possible today.
It's the lack of content availability that pushed them over the edge. Sports are a special case, notoriously hard that is super stupid and pushing people to piracy. I tried paying many times to watch a game my kid wanted and either the dumb apps or websites would not work on my TV. Make it easy to pay for the content and most people will take the easy route rather than search online for ad-ridded or dubious websites (unless they can't really afford it and then is not a real loss for the company anyway).
viewing an nfl game in a packed stadium is the closest thing a modern human gets to being in the roman colosseum. the brutality of the nfl games creates an atmosphere that’s different from other sporting events, you’re standing up and cheering for other humans attacking each other

it’s a totally different vibe compared to watching it at home
Show HN: A locally hosted smart contract manager for developers
For developers working on smart contracts or Web3 applications, managing a multitude of smart contract addresses is a daily task. This tool simplifies the organization and management of these addresses. Hopefully the dapp developers will like it.
Well that's a handy site you have there. Last time I fiddled with bookmarklets they didn't work on Firefox for Android, but now they do. This is going to be handy combining it with my Node-red instance.

Got any good bookmarklets you want to share?
No overlap in one's profession with an abutting profession determines a lack in skill or time with it. Ex. the chef that can't sharpen a knife, or a chemist that has no knowledge of physics, or the Software Engineer that doesn't know the difference between a file's size and its size on disk.
Flexitarian is a more accurate description of your diet.
HCL has its quirks - bit I'm not entirely sure they are without merit in this case - HCL describes resources - and it's important that when your iteration count goes down, resources are deleted. Some discussion in sections 6, 7 and 8 (linked):

https://blog.boltops.com/2020/10/08/terraform-hcl-for-in-and...
But he's not asking for consistency, but rather transparency.
I have similar fears in a late stage communist society.
Some of the past required training I had to do while in IT for Healthcare mentioned that a high proportion of falls in elderly patients isn't always due to a physical ailment but rather for the social attention it can bring.
Well, maybe start by not thinking that there's a singular "Asian culture".
Which could be rapidly eclipsed, my synology nas is capable of following RSS feeds for new content, torrenting that content, and serving that content through my plex with audio options, subtitles, descriptions, cover art, ratings, age restrictions etc. (All behind a vpn of course)

If I invested a weekend (4 days, maybe 2-3 weekends...) I could probably figure it out, and never ever ever again deal with the BS streaming services. It takes one person pissed off that they missed Ozark and that will be 1 click install, game on, open source tech only ever moves forward, its antifragile, unlike any individual business.
It’s so strange to hear the term “piracy” in so many legal filings, when I would have thought “copyright infringement” would be the term of art. I’m hypothesizing these companies are not concerned with theft on the high seas.
>If you have a company meeting in the US or UK, is it not in the local language ? Why would any other country be different?

It's really simple: English is the international language of business. So a German IT professional can easily get a job in the US or UK, because every college-educated German speaks English fluently. Same goes for every such person in China, India, Russia, France, everywhere really. So US and UK companies routinely hire professionals from outside those countries.

The reverse isn't true: how many Brits or Americans can speak German well enough to relocate to Germany and get an IT/software job there? Almost none. So German companies are limited to candidates from Germany, Austria, and part of Switzerland and maybe a few people from some other nearby countries maybe. American and UK companies, OTOH, have all the best candidates from around the world available to them.

>1) There's no shortage of developers just a shortage of pay.

Sure, offering more money than any other company in Germany would probably get a company their pick of candidates. But it'll also increase their costs a lot and make them less competitive internationally. Don't forget though: German companies aren't just competing with other German companies for candidates: they're competing with companies in other countries, especially English-speaking countries. German candidates aren't stuck in Germany: they can easily move to English countries and work there too. Can German companies really afford FAANG-level salaries?

>2) It's also hard to find doctors, that doesn't mean hospitals should compromise and let everyone practice who doesn't speak the language practice medicine just because there's a shortage.

If you have people dying left and right because there's no medical treatment due to a doctor shortage, then yes. At some point, there really is a such thing as a labor shortage and you have to adapt.
Time is your most valuable and scarce resource. You have a finite amount and you can't get more.
Ask HN: Easiest way to do Fediverse, blogging and podcasting on Linux?
Hi everyone,
I have a VPS Linux slice and I want to know what's the best set of tools to set up a fediverse instance, blog, and podcast feed, in one system?
Thanks in advance!
15+ years ago, my friend made a Yagi from a piece of wood and some nails, to connect to some open WiFi network from a block of flats a couple hundred meters away, in order to use it as a backup connection during semi-regular outages his ISP suffered from.

Ah, the joyful age of high school. No money or power to do things "the right way", but ample free time to skill up and hack your way around.
You don't have a separate left underpant and right underpant?? Wouldn't a one piece get bunched up between your penises?