skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How pirate video hosts circumvent Cloudflare's TOS
I got some odd reason why i need tmux: I can't use most "modern" terminal emulators because their input latency is awful and playing RTS games for a decade made me too sensitive to input latency. So i'm using xterm which provides no tabbing but with tmux.
I'm virtually self employed, started about one year ago. Taxes are HIGH where I live, it's a little cheaper for employer to subcontract, so he pays the same overall, I got a raise. I currently have probably one of highest pays for my region, so would have to move to other city to earn more. Plus I do some freelancing in free hours, to bring some more money. Bought a little too big home for my means (it was just before everything suddenly went 2x, "finished" it just before pandemic), so I'm spending everything I get. I earn twice what some of my friends get, but they have more for "life".
> yandex censorship is different than google censorship

That's exactly it

We shouldn't have so few search providers in any case
Those high school teachers are, just like everyone else, primarily individuals responding to the incentives and costs with which they are presented. Infantilization might be a long-term symptom, but don't make it sound like creeping moral degradation is an underlying cause.
Instagram is the only point I’ll disagree on - it’s mostly become promoted content with friends content representing a fraction of what you’re being exposed to

Best is to not have the app and use it through the browser to avoid mindlock
>; are there any obvious examples of freed cognitive surplus changing the world in the interim?

I think Wikipedia is an obvious example. The vast majority of its content and edits comes from enthusiastic amateurs who have other fulltime jobs unrelated to writing encyclopedias. A bunch of humans' "surplus free time" continuously adds/improves Wikipedia. (E.g. even the most prolific Wikipedia editor has a day job at US Customs & Border Protection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Pruitt)

Another example that's underappreciated is the massive amount of amateur Youtube videos spreading knowledge (especially the DIY tutorials, building projects, repairing cars/homes/appliances, testing products, etc). I compare that social dissemination phenomenon to the famous "monkeys learning from other monkeys on how to wash potatos" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundredth_monkey_effect

Most of those Youtube videos are also created by people who have fulltime jobs so they expend their cognitive surplus recording content that can be valuable.

This HN website of user comments and and Stack Overflow answers are also the product of cognitive surplus enabled by the so-called read+write Web 2.0.

The early Linux development in 1990s could be argued as cognitive surplus because it was a collaboration of unpaid volunteer effort. That may have changed because I think I saw statistics saying most contributions now come from paid employees of corporations.

Linux is just a major example but you could argue than any popular open source project that's mostly unpaid volunteers has the potential to change the world. E.g. OpenStreetMap.
> it will limit what you can do in all sorts of ways

You are literally adding N + 1 complexity to the universe. There is a whole world of possibility opened through having children.

What you see as reduced options is actually a series of choices you decided you’d want to have to make. And good parents choose the options that payoff in the long term.
No, it is not the other way around, how could it? Had your parents not had you you would not have been able to voice your opinion on this subject. Were your parents selfish when they did so?

If is not a 'lifestyle' thing to have children, rather the opposite: not having children is a 'lack of life' style. If enough people take up this 'lack of life' style your culture will die out and be replaced with one where having children is the norm. This is not a value proposition but simple math - every couple needs to have ~2.1 children to keep the population at a steady level [1].

Also, 'they' do not see you having all this free time and get jealous, they notice that you're spending time on hedonistic pursuits while time is running out - there is a set time frame within which having children is a viable proposition. They are not jealous of your free time at all because from their perspective it is wasted time - time which could be spent with your family instead of just by yourself or with your partner.

Does this mean you are a horrible person for not wanting to have children? No, of course it does not. Not everybody is brought into this world to raise children. It does mean you are missing out on one of the most formational experiences life has to offer, all that free time you gain does come at a certain cost. The choice is yours to make due to the advent of birth control - choose wisely.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fer...
I think fragmentation is a legitimate problem for end-users but I don’t know how to solve it exactly, because the most obvious alternative is a monopoly where everything is on just one service (and we all know about the bad effects a monopoly can have).

Maybe a system where multiple different services offer the exact same content library or something similar, but a good solution will require some thought I think.
Yeah, same issue. Though I use Raspberry Pi as a backup when the playback doesn't work (it's not just H265, though others formats failing to work on the TV happens much more rarely).
I think there's a lot of people here making the wrong assumption about how their CFO would react to being told no.

These people aren't stupid. I'd expect them to understand risk better than your average senior software engineer and if you tell them "Sorry boss, too risky to do that right now. I can't be 100% sure this message is genuine. Let's sync on this after your meeting", your chances of promotion at this company would likely rise, not fall.
> only affects the non-residents

The status-quo (all you can eat SUV use in cities) has a big impact on everyone using the city. Yet no one voted for that...
What would the bill be for? "Changing stuff you own"? When did we wholly give ourselves up to the idea that the manufacturer owns the stuff we bought, and they can penalize us for messing with their things?
So what I do now is, I pay for all these services, use absolutely nothing, and then I pirate all my content anyway. People (presumably) get their money, and I get to watch without bullshit from the convenience of my own home.
an good example from an us gov standard contract is here https://www.acquisition.gov/far/52.249-2

It's basically "a no harm, no faul" termination of an existing contract, and is fairly common in competitive markets where there is no long term strategic partnership to develop an unique product.

If it's the buyer terminating it's either because the product is either no longer needed or an cheaper supplier was found, and if it's the seller it's caused by all sorts of resource optimization reasons(aka someone being willing to pay more for the same limited resources, or an increase in cost making unprofitable).
> We did? Where?

The Geneva Conventions were updated partly in response to the Japan bombings.
You can quibble how exactly the criteria my casual summary of "mass kill civilians to save military casualties" but broadly the Japan style bombing of cities full of civilians was made illegal.

See eg:
https://fsi.stanford.edu/news/why-atomic-bombing-hiroshima-w...
You hope they go out of business because they bought the rights to some podcasts?
No. It doesn't matter. You can hack something you own as much as you want, and you're paying the manufacturer to do maintenance on it. If you want then to change the brakes, whether your infotainment system is hacked or not is exactly none of their business.
if I look around to people who did pirate videos or games in the past it always was because of one of following reasons:

- unavailability of the product in the right form in the market they live in (e.g. no OV and terrible translation, no good quality video/audio, not available at all, etc.)

- moon prices (e.g. Anime DVDs at least 10+ years ago where I lived), or being thigh on money (e.g. as a 16 year old)

- it being easier to pirate then to buy ...

- buying the product (in a reasonable convenient way) forces other unwanted things onto you, like automatic self-extending subscriptions or tracking to a point where I can't understand anymore how it's not classified as espionage

All of this except being tight on money hint to a mismatch between products provided and what consumers want/find acceptable. If the movie industry I think it would auto self correct, but it isn't and you could say piracy (on larger scale) is natural marked effect caused by the absence of a proper free market.

But what is I think most important to realize is that outside of the situation of piracy being more convenient then buying in all other cases the actual losses piracy creates is quite limited to a point where it's quite questionable how reasonable the drawbacks users have to suffer because of piracy prevention mechanism/laws are.

Natural if piracy would be fully unconstrained it likely would then cause huge monetary losses. A free market is still a marked so a product produced with some investment (e.g. creating the movie) still should be sold for some value.
I get this one.

Have you tried Konsole? I've read it's actually one of the fastest, probably not more than xterm though and you'd need to be willing to use KDE software.
This is super cool! I was/am a startup founder too, bootstrapped an open source project, raised VC money, but ultimately it didn't work out. Now thinking about a solo business again and the studio model was exactly what I was looking at. How did you decide what to build?
I did long train journeys weekly between 25 and 15 years ago, approximately. I've chatted with a lot of people, and had quite some interesting discussions.

Of course people were reading, and/or wearing headphones (mostly younger people), but not all of them. And many were open to conversation even though. Sometimes you read a book to pass the time, but you can be as well interested to a random exchange with a stranger. I was also reading in the train and often wearing headphones, but that didn't prevent conversations from happening. I think that people were less taking book-or-headphones as a signal that you don't want to be disturbed. The experience could also be relatively different depending on what the train population is (e.g. whether the train is filled with tired commuting people or with people coming back from a week-end break).

I'm not taking the train as much recently, but people are clearly more isolated into their smartphones now. And have to say, sometimes discussions still do happen.
http://archive.today/BQArA
It's fair only to young people without kids. The Model 3 barely manages to be below that limit and it might work with kids (although no doubt the Y is better for that). But it is difficult to use for old people because it is so low that getting in and out is not easy and making it less low will make it less efficient and require adding a larger battery - making it heavier.
What happened that made it insecure?

I've heard of stir shaken but I recall FCC ordered it mandatory multiples years ago. Did that not happen?
I run this free community for fractional tech workers - come check it out:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37419830

The reality is that being self-employed requires building business skills and being able to sell your skills. I previously founded a VC-funded developer marketplace, and the people that won all the jobs were the great communicators - not the most experienced (or inexpensive) developers.

Fractional work is a nice in-between where you ideally have a retained part-time contract, paid weekly or monthly, so that you aren't constantly looking for new projects.
Interesting. Tmux also has pane zooming feature (where it will take the entire window until you switch it off) & window/pane browser (prefix + B, I think). They seem to achieve something similar, though I rarely see a need for it.

I keep different Tmux instances for different projects so I get up to 9 windows per project with no overhead.
Most of it is not a genetic issue. Many of the people who rely on GPS so heavily have the capability to navigate without it, but ate too lazy and inexperienced to do so.
And on cloud hosts, you might end up with the same MAC address on what you thought should be 4 separate "nodes".
A modern farm has almost nothing in common with the farms of pre-modern history. It would've been much closer to indigenous tribes for much of history.
Yes and no. Residents aren't affected if they are parking in their "authorized parking zone" but they are elsewhere, so unless their only Paris parking is in their neighborhood, they'll be affected by the change.
you're appealing to common sense to demonstrate the consistency of peano arithmetic. this has two main problems:

1. it's subjective and culturally dependent. most people intuitively reject peano arithmetic in their childhood; until they have been repeatedly told otherwise, they intuitively believe that there must be some biggest number. often in english-speaking countries they think that number is called 'infinity'

2. common sense is also what tells us that the earth is flat, the sun goes around the earth, it's impossible to create a vacuum, things only keep moving as long as there's some force impelling their continued motion, people can't fly, if a vacuum did exist rockets wouldn't work in it, and so on

it turns out that once people stopped relying on common sense so much and started using formal axiom systems, they were able to learn a lot of things in only a few centuries that not even their smartest ancestors had ever been able to figure out during thousands of centuries
You can make the ads go away by paying more? How? Seeing ads on my paid for service is driving me absolutely crazy.
Independently wealthy after working 10 years in the Bay Area. I live in Amsterdam now, but I still consult on for startups if the project seems fun, good to have some extra money for the nieces and nephews.
I was self employed for about 10 years until one of the startups I did along the way turned into something and now I have to work there.
They do. Somebody had to produce the dubs/subs and it wasn't necessarily the content creator especially if it wasn't the language it was originally created in. Those French subs or dubs could have easily been created by a Canadian firm who got the Canadian rights and wanted to use it in French Canada, then that got licensed off to Netflix. It may have had little involvement with the original creator and they don't necessarily hold all the rights over the translation effort to spread it worldwide.

What's more absurd is when you can't get CC for the same language as the show.
I am. I founded PG Support (https://pgsupport.dk).
We are a small team of experienced PostgreSQL consultants.

I really like having close contact to customers as well having a very high variance in the type of work that I do.

I also run DebianSupport (https://debiansupport.com) from which we provide professional services for Linux. Mostly Debian and Ubuntu but not exclusively so.

Having used Linux extensively since 1997 and PostgreSQL since 2000, I really like working with both pieces of technology. And I love being able to provide value from my skills and experience.
I'm considering this avenue as well, I'd be interested in an answer from your parent.
It's time to admit that genes are not the blueprint for life
Interestingly, Deno and Node were both originally developed by the same person, Ryan Dahl.

Why did he feel the need to build a competitor to his own product? Whatever features are supposed to make Deno "better" than Node...why didn't he just work on integrating them into Node?

I understand that sometimes changes to software can be infeasible, especially if they are large fundamental/foundational changes, but this is still a bit of a head scratcher to me.
Have you ever been mugged? You ever been put in a situation where you feared for your life?

If not, climb out of your comfortable ivory tower armchair and recognize that there are bad people in this society, and you are doing nothing but enabling them for the simple reason that you, like your average teenager, have never been anyone’s victim and therefore think you’re invulnerable.
That didn't really answer my question.

Misanthropic attitudes are not useful or actionable.
I'm interrested in the WebGPU feature.

With Slint [1] we're working on a framework which allow to make a desktop GUI in Javascript/Typescript, without bringing a browser/webview.
Currently, we do it by using binaries through napi-rs so we can bring in a window using the platform native API. And then we do some hack to merge the event loops.

But if Deno supports bringing up a window directly, this means we can just ship wasm instead of native binary for all platform. And also I hope event loop integration will be simplified.

Although we'd also need more API than just showing a window (mouse and keyboard input, accessibility, popup window, system tray, ...)

[1] https://slint.dev

Edit: I got excited a bit too early. The WebGPU feature doesn't include the API to launch a Window. One still need to rely on an extra library binary.
Of course a city's residents are the ones who should vote! Cities are built for us, who live in them, therefore we're the ones who get to decide how they are managed. It's the same reason that municipal elections are only open to residents of a city and national elections are only open to a country's citizens.
Well then I guess I'm reading it wrong. Everything reads TBA: https://i.imgur.com/3hnUneR.png

And the definition of TBA is on the same page:

"TBA: Active work on this feature is not being undertaken at this time"

Suggestion: Add a new status for "Awaiting release".
It's possible since at least 2 years, maybe more. You still need a smartphone to create the account, but apparently you don't need the phone to be online, at least not all the time, not sure if it keeps working if it's offline for months. (note I'm not a Whatsapp user, so maybe it changed again or I didn't fully see something...)
Yeah.. It's become a cliché that web developers, especially in the JavaScript ecosystem, are always chasing after what's "new and shiny". This leads to constant churn, new frameworks and libraries that reinvent the wheel, endless stuff to learn and catch up. It gets tiring after a while.

So the old-timers remind us, "Choose boring technology." Reliable and boring is a good thing.

On the other hand, I recently started learning Bun, and oh what a breath of fresh air, it makes things fun again. I love that its codebase is so readable and small still, and everything is freshly designed with the insights of experience and hindsight. It doesn't have the accumulated cruft, years of decisions and compromises.

So, sometimes it's great to shed the old and grow with the new generation.
These numbers imply 4.5% of the entire UK population had an active GitHub account in Q3 2023. Seems very high.

Unless there are people out there with huge numbers of accounts? Can anyone explain this?
Looks great! Also TIL about AVA https://github.com/cztomsik/ava
Yeah, I can see that. Fair enough. Thanks.
If I had to choose between quality years or fighting an illness, I would of course choose quality years.
Spotify can just raise prices by 50% and make money? If they tell me the choice is between Spotify disappearing and me paying more, the choice is extremely easy.
Other MacBooks are Intel and never drop WiFi. USB-C charger is the original 140W Apple one. If I send it back, I'll get a refurb mobo with another set of issues as returned by somebody else and not a new one, and all my data wiped out. I pay yearly AC+. I still hope some future OS release will fix it but I am not so sure.
> The question is if Deno hosting dies, will Deno as a platform still thrive?

that I am unsure about, a large part of the appeal at least for me is the deno deploy.

URL imports are a bit of a hassle when you are trying to get them from say a private github repo.
Ask HN: What two software products should have a kid?
Browsing HN, GitHub and the like we get to see a huge variety of software products and code bases.

I often see products and think - if this product X, got together with Y, it would be pretty cool - kind of like if they had a kid together.

Not too literally, but more on the conceptual level - my level of programming is low.

E.g. Just some....

- pocketbase.io & datasette (+with some more charting) [https://pocketbase.io, https://datasette.io]
- duckdb & datasette
- email & sqlite
- apple wallet & google sheets
- exploratory.io & datasette

Anyone else got some combinations?
Wait there was unskippable content on DVD/Bluray??

What nonsense is that. That makes no sense at all.
I am for a couple years now. I do consulting work [1] around Rust/Embedded Systems/Systems Engineering, usually helping teams that are either kicking off a project (so helping with planning, scoping, and backfilling knowledge gaps), or people who want help building a proof of concept (so: just build it for me asap) for existing companies exploring new ideas or for startups that are working on demos for investors, etc.

I've been active on both the open source and commercial side of embedded Rust since the beginning, so it's been fun to watch it grow both as an ecosystem as well as from a commercial adoption perspective. Doing consulting makes it easier to help do more open source docs + support in the open, and seems to be one of more sustainable ways to do OSS in my opinion, if you can swing it.

[1]: https://onevariable.com/
Free market solutions should perhaps be more of a general direction than an absolute goal.

> without IMMEDIATELY bankrupting people.
Il love the (involuntary ?) irony here !

Indeed, legislation actually bankrupt people. And industries.

The automobile industry is now in bad shape thanks to legislation forcing them to adopt EVs. Even with subventions and taxes/norms for "bad behaving" vehicules, people aren't buying 60K electric vehicules...

Many profesionals now can't afford to go to Paris due to the punitive politics for cars. (think plumber)
People with old cars can't go there anyway. Yes, the poor gets poorer with this.

This would go a bit better with an efficient system of public transportation.
But since what belongs to everybody belongs to nobody and is taken care of by nobody...

And before that they incentived everybody and their dog to buy diesel cars, only to overtax it a few years later...
Example exists in every industry.

This is a never ending story of politicians taxing and legislating what move and incentising what don't. In their own interests, not yours. Repeat and rinse.

Nobody seem to understand that the ones that take decisions (politicians) are often remote from the actual situations, with a set of incentives often misaligned with their targets.

Yet understanding this only takes a game of monopoly with friends or family, or just real life experience that everybody have on how people behave even for very small personal gains.
Game of Thrones was a massive outlier in its cultural impact, especially for a TV show. Many games have as much or more cultural impact than many TV shows or movies, probably more on average - even than major shows. And among children, it's almost entirely the opposite.
I had this exact problem and I found an app called ScreenZen, which is built on top of Screentime in iOS and you can use it to block specific sites and apps pretty effectively. It just minimizes the app and doesn't let you access it.

I am now using it to easy off some sites and I've set a couple of 7 minutes sessions per day and I've limited my time time considerably in the last month