skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is piracy easier? Legality aside you need a seed box, membership to specific sites, and VPN. Which can add up to more than $30/month just to download pirated content. Not to mention the time investment in figuring out how to get the movies and tv shows to your family members on all of their devices.

This part is trivial nowadays: sonarr/radarr and related handle discovery and library management, and jellyfin does the playback.

Reasons I got back into piracy included trying to watch a series with my wife, and finding it gone. Seasons missing while streaming, UI becoming worse (for the last few years of Netflix I fully relied on an external paid service to discover new things on Netflix because of that). More and more content I cared about being removed, with lots of content I don't care about getting added - while price kept going up _and_ account sharing policies being put in that'd match my non-account sharing use case.

I'm still paying for Disney+ - though based on the Netflix experience I'm adding everything I'm interested in to my local library.

Amazon Prime got kicked out after they got too expensive - and even while I had prime I never actually used the video player as the UI is so horrible, but already back then pirated all the stuff I was paying for.
Now they have another thing in common with furry conventions! (tech people, furries, nonprofit, hotels randomly cancelling contracts)
Is the 900 MHz band open for public use? I don’t think that’s the case, at least in Europe. So this does not seem to be consumer electronics.
> Philosophy at the end of the day is about arguing a point; it isn't about producing an aesthetic experience.

I'd argue that point. Nietzsche's "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Thus Spoke Zarathustra) comes to my mind first. Art contains and conveys truth.

Nietzsche's work is also a good example about why it's foolish to argue too much about what an author meant. He wasn't always clear in his thoughts - just like us all - and his thinking changed considerably anyway.
Oh interesting, thanks. I missed Oppenheimer in IMAX the first time around but saw it finally a month or two ago when it was re-released.

I had originally been reading Rhodes's "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" leading up to the release - I timed it to where I stopped reading right at the part Trinity went off at, saw the movie, and just recently finished. So thanks for the rec.
> The results are solidly in: They're an utter disaster for most people, and for society at large. In no particular order, they ruin social interactions in public situations (think "talking to people in the grocery line" - though I've seen fewer people on their phones lately and can get some conversations going),

I’m in the age group that is just old enough to remember adult life before everyone had smartphones.

Honestly, it’s getting weird to read people’s unrealistically idealistic descriptions of life before smartphones. I don’t recall people striking up conversations in grocery lines before smart phones, nor would I have been interested in it.

I think people also downplay how much smartphones just replaced rampant TV consumption for people who like to be entertained constantly. The same people who can’t entertain themselves without their smartphone and who consume toxic content would probably be sitting in front of TVs and watching Jerry Springer type shows instead of scrolling /r/relationships or watching Fox News talking heads instead of whatever weird political thing they’re consuming.

Smartphones changed many things, but the idyllic offline-first fantasies I keep reading about weren’t reality before smartphones either.

If you find yourself unable to moderate consumption, then ditching the smartphone is a good idea for you. However, I reject the idea that all techies need to reject technology and smartphones and embrace an extremist anti-position on the matter. Personally, I handle smartphone usage just fine as do most of the adults around me.

People should recognize when they have a problem, but projecting their own solution on to everyone else is about as appealing as the person who had a problem with drinking too much trying to insist that nobody else should drink any alcohol at all either.

I also use my smartphone for important things like maps, taking photos, keeping lists, and even paying for groceries if I forget my wallet. The way some people talk about smartphones as if they were just social media scrolling devices and nothing more is entirely foreign to how I use my phone.
The New Work-Life Balance: Don't Have Kids
Sea Ice Index
I feel like some elements in the WebAssembly committee try to actively hinder sane JS integration. Once we can use wasm gc objects in js and js objects including strings in wasm (without gluecode hell) adoptation might skyrocket.

GC strings worked for a while in Chrome, but the "test has ended"

This matters not just because of aesthetics but glue code removes the potential speed advantages of wasm.
Nice, if you are finding the whole Euclidean space thing a bit pedestrian though try https://cdn.warpedmines.com/
And card counters.
Small talk isn't one of these, however.
"Third spaces" (guided meeting place that's relatively loose and not work or home) are sorely missing because running one is not very profitable.

By the way, pubs aren't one of those really, as they're too unstructured.
to be fair, in French nowadays it's still used to mean a pant's fly
You're young, which also means that you're cheap. Your cheapness means that you're more employable than someone with 10y+ experience who'll expect 150k+ salaries. So your chances to be let go are low because you're not that costly. So I wouldn't worry too much about that.

If you're still very worried about lay offs, you should talk to your manager about it. Like you go to him and tell him "I'm scared shitless about being let go, I can't sleep". Maybe he'll tell you that the company is doing great, and the division is growing and there is zero chance you're going to be fired. If he tells you that you should be worried, it's time to take the bull by the horns and dust off your resume.

Regardless you can start looking for other jobs right now, just to see if your resume works and to tweak it if necessary. It can also help you get better at interviewing. And you know, if you land a job somewhere else, it might even make you more money... A decent share of developers jump ship all the time, it's the best way to make your salary go up.

Regarding the degree: A shit CS degree is probably worse than no degree at all. You learn very little of practical value in CS (even in good schools). A good CS degree is just a stamp of approval that you were good in school. A bad CS degree tells the recruiters that you tried and failed to get a good CS degree, so it's like a stamp of disapproval. A degree in something different means you tried different things, and that you're motivated enough to learn things yourself, it's a much better story.

Anyways, good luck, and take it easy, there's plenty of jobs out there, and you don't compete with the people being laid off that much.
> Spilhaus

Which itself is a combination of Hammer & Spielmann, centered on Antarctica.

https://www.geographyrealm.com/the-spilhaus-endless-ocean-ma...
Previous status updates. Note new support by Wix in addition to the Thermomix/Vorwerk company:

- early 2023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34439500

- 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29067036
A seed box and a VPN is maybe $15 a month, and there are private torrent sites that don't charge monthly membership fees. If you've got a expansive family with lots of kids and want to fully replace Netflix with Jellyfin on a libel server it's a bunch more work, but torrenting shows onto your laptop to watch is fairly easy.

At the end of the day, for someone that's motivated to not give companies money because they see them as greedy rather than a way to compensate the creators, it becomes a labor of spite. That $500 budget NAS, downloading content in native resolution so there's no transcode box needed, spread across all the families and cousins, is easily paid for in car repair favors or what else the family has to offer the uncle or aunt running the pirate video service. $500 vs $60/month? that's just 9 months. 3 if you figure there are three households where you're saving them $60/month.

Personally, I rotate membership between one service and just limit my own tv time, but piracy really is too easy if you know what you're doing and are morally flexible.
I'm pretty sure you have the mental capacity, you just don't have a concrete need for doing it that way. It's like having the capacity to walk from here to Paris (wherever you are, pick a large city a few hundred km away). You can do it. But you never will and so you won't know that you actually have that capacity.

But if the real need arose and you had no other alternatives suddenly the impossible would be possible.
That was hard to discover, thanks for your explanation.

I was looking in "Firefox Settings -> Search -> Search Shortcuts" for a way to add it. I guess the functionality is not used very often, but it would be nice to have a hint on how to add new Search Engines there.
They cannot help themselves. Just like buying and watching a DVD/bluray was much worse than a pirated copy, as the DVD/bluray made you sit through an increasing amount of unskippable content. From "do not steal this" to "not for kids" or, worst of all, "did you see this other content?".

Btw. Ads in front of streaming content I just selected, to tell me about other streaming content on the same service I did NOT select should also be on the NO list.
Competition is good, but this isn't competition, almost all of these platforms catalogs are mutually exclusive, so instead of competing to be the platform with the lowest cost/best UX/ network effect, they're just competing to get shows off of another platform and onto theirs, to the detriment of the consumer.
No. The notion that it must be IPv6 or extra octets is naive. IPv6 is not worth a complete departure, and it won't happen for that reason.
> What I am puzzled about is companies that are sending mixed messages.

There's a difference between mixed messages and incompatible
desires.

My 8 yo wants to go on the roller-coaster and to eat a giant
tipple-scoop ice-cream at the same time. I am stuck explaining why this
isn't going to work out well, but she's insistent that both things can
happen together.

A mature mind is able to join-up the dots and see the need to
prioritise or prune. Modern corporations are not like that. They're a
collection of colonial homologous zooids (departments) like
Physalia-Physalis (Portuguese man o' war) that from the outside give
the appearance of cohesion because they have a PR department, a logo,
a company number and so on.

That's why it's meaningless when we read "Google says..." or "Facebook
thinks..", because a bunch of sub-organisms that happen to occupy the
same offices do not constitute an "entity". When dealing with them,
like a patient with DID, you need to know which bit you're talking to.
Most people know a camera when they see it. Most won't recognize a small radio collection device on the side of the road.
> I am vegan because not being a vegan is a murder, and I would be a murderer and pariah. I am tired of being yelled at.

So, you lie about your own identity because you want to fit in with people who you fundamentally disagree with.

And this is okay because transgender people exist? Or because the version of abortion Catholics adopted in 1869 is being challenged?

Sorry bud, none of this makes sense. I suspect you've fallen in with a bad crowd, if any of this sounds reasonable to you.
Apple Music and Youtube Music both suffer from the issue of vanishing content.

I have playlist where a growing percentage of songs are grayed out, not available, while they do exist in the store, just as part of a different album now.

Very frustrating. Does Spotify do that ?
Google Bard to Become 'Gemini'
That's where formal verification comes in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_verification
Yeah, I agree it's not slow as such - but I find it a bit distracting remembering to do it, and if I don't concentrate then I forget and then I risk confusing myself momentarily (not hard to do).
For Django projects, I made a gist as a template of what I use: https://gist.github.com/linkdd/4aac2c2efc4a51af6ca4b05f395de...

In there, you'll find the settings.py split by environment (like you would have in the Elixir world), and a multistage Docker image designed to be cache-friendly (for faster Docker builds). Some stages even run the test suite, so it could be compared to a CI pipeline.

Not having build dependencies in the production image is definitely a good approach.
Their software counterpart seems nice. I have only had experienced with Yandex browser though, at the time I liked to try out different browser to find what work best.

Yandex was minimal looking on both mobile and desktop and had nice features such as its equivalent of Opera Turbo, automatically use of a separate container for banking apps etc. They also have a Russian dubbing feature for Youtube but I don't know how well it work or any risk of censoring, not speaking the language.
It's easy to compete against Netflix. Sit down with the other providers in your space and find a way to make it clear to them that people want one streaming provider for everything and they want an ad-free option at an acceptable price point. Piracy was done for when you were at your top. You (meaning the industry) fucked this up yourselves.
I think there is little hope of normalizing relations with Russia, so unfortunately these "Western assets" need to be written off anyway. A large part of them ($98bn) came from Cyprus which might just be round-tripping Russian money.
> The needs of people writing and deploying HTTP/REST servers is just so different from the people writing PyTorch models and numerical simulations that no tool will ever satisfy the very different needs of both camps.

Is this true though? At the end of it they both need python packages and some system dependencies installed (let's ignore models and data for now).

Why is there umpteen tools for doing this in python when there isn't in other languages? I have to deploy both web apps and ML models, the first thing I do is convert any project to use pyproject and poetry.

Whilst Poetry comes with it's own issues I've not had a project yet that this doesn't work for and wish the wider community would just settle on one method. Instead we have stuff coming in with various conda incantations, pip, pipx, poetry, setuptools, setup.py!

Deployment of ML models needs a decent solution too, half the ML code I get goes and fetches stuff from NLTK or Huggingface at runtime. Some of it (like the LLAMA models) needs various API keys set and EULAs agreed to before it'll run, then pings back to Huggingface each time you run it to check the EULA again! This makes life difficult when trying to deploy and adds this massive dependency on 3rd party services.
Apple will capitulate before a product ban, that’s if the EU is ballsy enough to even do it, which even with all that’s gone on is not a given.
Excellent. Thanks for sharing.

But: Fuck daily stand ups <3
This is awesome, and such a good use of framework parts! I hope to see more building DIY machines in custom form factors using framework hardware.
When you do the math, WFH just wins in all aspects like you mentioned.

People need to get in the habit of enforced RTO being a strict pay downgrade. If a company isn't willing to pay you more to force you to spend hours in traffic and thousands in gas to come to work, then it's time to leave.
Thanks for pointing that out, my mistake. Unfortunately, I can only edit the title, not the link
Then we need light to transfer power too, sounds slightly unsafe for eyes, maybe.
Open-Telemetry Donation Proposal: Continuous Profiling Agent
As you said these objects are currently opaque and still need horrible glue code to transform to/from wasm/js.
That sounds interesting, do you have a reference on hand?
I'm glad for you, but at least twice it happened to me that the songs on my phone ended up being unplayable after I enabled Airplane mode. (You just get the exclamation mark next to the supposedly downloaded tracks.)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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The regional licensing and delisting of titles is frustrating too. All the separate walled gardens just making it less likely folks will pay.
There is no 12V input to C64, just 5VDC and 9VAC. You are thinking about 5V supply, which indeed fried many computers when the PSU failed and ramped the voltage up.
It’s likely in Meta’s interests to complain about Apple’s DMA implementation even if it is workable for them. I’m not going to accidentally stop taking everything Zuck says with a mountain of salt just because Apple is the ‘bad guy’ here.
MIT has an atrocious ML department, all the papers I've read from them have been third-rate. Mid-tier colleges in Asia have better researched papers.
Considering that the topic has already been discussed ad nauseum, my best guess is that it's a sort of indirect effect of the never-ending struggle to influence culture. I'd guess it's related to the ongoing layoffs and the larger economic changes. RTO is often speculated as a way to force people to quit to avoid having to fire them (and I completely agree that it is.) This article just happens to be written to appeal more toward the worker, probably as a way to gain wider appeal and promote virality considering that the actual data is so weak. Granted, it does confirm my own biases so it's getting my upvote.

I wonder what it would take to create a society where we could vote on things based on the objective truth rather than needing to vote based on what we would like the narrative to be
Big distributors should just make a place where you can pay, and download an mkv legally (make the last frame a copyright notice so people won't share mkvs with their friends).

That would be a win-win-win situation for everyone.
Most of my time-wasters (games, forums, youtube) are better on the bigger screen, which helps keep it from leaving the house with me (and keeps my smartphone usage down, in turn). The apps are there, but I don't pull out the phone for much except texts, pictures, or when I'm stuck in a quiet waiting room.
Interesting read! I got a Toyota bus and the infotainment system sucks. As someone else wrote here, Bluetooth support is deadly slow and as soon as you stop the car the system will also shut down. It’s like someone created this system without considering real life scenarios, like being on a phone call, listening to a podcast or just listening to music.

But since you can also interact with the car, like turning on and off drive assistant systems, I would not dare to hack my car. How about insurance, when there is an accident?
In my experience, potential gambling addiction has nothing to do with rationality or smartness.
I enjoyed this read. It mirrored my own experiences closely, growing up in the 80s/90s in the UK. My first home computer being the C64, then A500, and later an A1200 with 6MB RAM, HDD, squirrel SCSI with various optical media and a 1084ST (originally bought second hand, stuffed full of lowres porn...). I too chased the ultimate desktop - MagicWB, newicons, MUI (licensed!), heavily configured DOpus, various file format plugins, alt disk formats
etc.

97 or so was when I had an old 386 handoff, and 98 when I first installed Linux. I triple booted into BeOS for a while. Coming back from Uni in '98-'02 and using the Amiga less and less, until I finally got rid of it after a trace on the keyboard burned out and the HDD gave up.

I have continued to play with emus over the years, CAPS with the IPF for.at was an interesting project for someone who didn't care for 'cracktros' and respected the physical copy protections lf the day. Lately, AmigaVision running on FPGA 'emulation' is my choice. Don't chase the upgrades - the Amiga was a machine of it's eta - when hw tricks got you a long way, and it wasn't pure cpu cycles and blitting.
It looks like you're right, I may try that instead in future.

The userscripts I've made have been mostly for work and I immediately dismissed "Violentmonkey" as unsuitable because of the name, I'm not going to ask my clients or their (less technical) clients to install something that sounds quite nefarious. Unfortunate! ("Tampermonkey" is bad enough, but at least it's widely known.)
IceRPC: RPC framework for the QUIC era
Those have mechanical issues, right? Aren't those a bit similar to iPhone ligthning cables, i.e. it they have no metal "sleeve"?
Yes. That way everyone will be unhappy. Wise.

The people were in their 20s. Way too unsophisticated tastebuds to appreciate the brilliance of the margherita.
I'm worse, I have thought about this many times but never did anything with the idea. My respect for the authors for actually trying to materialize it.
Why would I be running anything else than Linux as as a host system tho? Are there any benefits?
I think the bats do need sonar because they use it for echo ranging. You need an echo to determine range.
I could read the full paper and man they definitely talked about a few different noises the moths make and how effective each one is at deterring preying bats.
only the young are arrogant enough to think they can go years without practicing a skill and never lose any edge.

I don't really care what you claim, it's not true.
Thanks, that's what I wanted to know. Not blaming the user for explaining, I just didn't understand why an explanation is needed on this site of all places. Like others have pointed out, Yandex isn't only used by Russians but around the world. They clearly have the best freely accessible reverse image search since Google has impaired theirs for whatever reason. But I guess I'm in a bit of a bubble assuming that everyone knows the company.
All this enlightenment but apparently you can't be polite.
Yeah, that's my point though -- that's a common belief, and it doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

Consider some common scenarios:

If you have a tech lead who's cooking up some new architecture, some new idea, whatever -- it's valuable to both of you to spend time together on it. The manager can make connections to work going on with other teams/customers, can help pressure-test the business reasoning for particular design choices, and can help line up the right people to work on it alongside the TL. Meanwhile, the TL benefits by having their design strengthened up front and getting connections to the right people, without having to spend tons of time meandering around the business.

By contrast, a junior engineer isn't going to benefit from a doubling or tripling of the manager's time. Their work is straightforward. The manager's only job is to ensure they have good tickets, make sure they have a nearby mentor in a mid-level/senior engineer, and then get out of the way.

Tying back to the article, the top/senior people are exactly the ones who are going to be doing new and creative things, so they -- and therefore the business -- benefit the most from the manager's time.
This is not what he said.

> There are very different programming styles. I tend to see them as Mozart versus Beethoven. When Mozart started to write, the composition was finished. He wrote the manuscript in one go. In beautiful handwriting, too. Beethoven was a doubter and a struggler, who started writing before he finished the composition and then glued corrections onto the page.
Enough routers still have ipv6 firewall disabled by default, in which case, every port on every networked device is exposed. Upnp, I'm less worried about being enabled, and even if it is, Windows won't map SMB to itself.

In the long term with our world of cheap crappy routers, it's also much easier for upnp to die off than for ipv6 firewalls to become ubiquitously strong. Both of those are extra features that take effort to do right. So is NAT, but a broken NAT doesn't expose hosts.