skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe check out how it's done here: https://archive.org/details/the-fanimatrix-div-x-5.1-hq. They don't seem to provide magnet links, but basically you create a torrent from your music. Host it somewhere (Cloudflare R2 would be good for free egress) in the right structure. Add the webseed endpoint to your torrent file and create a magnet link. Put all this stuff on a website in the download section. Let your users download it however they want.
I suspect there's also the language barrier... If an institution in China invites a western scholar to teach the Iliad for example, they wouldn't insist the person teach it in Chinese.

But I presume, when you said you wanted to take a class from a top Chinese professor on leading Chinese texts, that you would want English instruction, and that you'd prefer the material be translated from Classical Chinese to English? (Just knowing Mandarin isn't quite enough)

But then, it's really hard to translate Classical Chinese to English. Even the longer important texts haven't been fully translated, eg. 史記 ("Records of the Grand Historian", which has kind of a similar standing as the Iliad in the West) is only partially translated AFAICT.

Written Chinese is admittedly quite hard to learn given that you have to recognize the characters etc. Classical Chinese is even harder since there's nobody you can converse with.

But if you know Mandarin, there's probably a huge amount of high quality stuff you can find online that satisfies what you want.
GNU/Linux is a propaganda/marketing term of the Free Software Foundation to assert their relevance in what is frequently as described a Linux distribution.

If you look back far enough (1993/4) you’ll find the era where even the FSF happily used Linux as a term and “Debian Linux” as it was known at the time was made by an FSF employee at the time.
Films from India, China, Japan, and Korea have almost nothing to do with "Asian AMERICANS". We don't generally consider films from Germany, Italy, France, Sweden, etc to have anything to do with "white Americans".

That said, movies are made by (a) people with the chutzpah to make them and (b) funding. You'd think if Asian American's want more movies about Asian American issues and/or staring Asian Americans, they have enough connections to get the funding to do it. No need to wait for permission from any other groups. Just do it!
Offshoring / visas do not account for remote work. U.S. trade restrictions are usually light and can be bypassed easily.

The argument for it is one of vertical integration. A nation should control the items it creates, from banking to military end to end as much as possible. That also maximizes security. Look at the Boeing documents from the engineer over 10 years ago questioning outsourcing. All of your pii and banking data is probably managed by dbas in Asia. That does not sound secure or safe to me.

We are heading towards a time and place where we will not produce anything as a country. Many areas that were once prosperous now are destitute. People live by dealing drugs and by taking as much from the government as possible where their parents worked in factories. People’s respect and dignity have been offshored and outsourced.

Trying to do what’s best for a country and its people is not xenophobic. It’s common sense. It’s very sad and disconcerting to see us citizens wanting the most from their country having their ideas labeled as xenophobic.

I acknowledge U.S. trade has benefited but we are seeing signs of cracks and the side effects of it now. I also don’t think the average American has benefited from it. Living in Bangalore (nicer areas)felt like America in the 90s to me — the same places I used to enjoy in America that are now infested with crime .
> Grocery store carts are more likely to have carts with wonky wheels than ... drugstores

Do countries other than the US have shopping carts in their "drug stores"?
Horrible people is certainly one way of describing the population of an area with extreme income inequality.
Around 100k. It was in Russia though and owning a car wasn't as common as say in US. Public transport wasn't very pleasant to use either.

It was an interesting case, a sort of a breakthrough in transportation habits achieved by loads of 15-years old right-hand-drive Toyotas converted into taxis. The cheapest ride was around $1 and people literally started riding taxis to the next building on the same street.
TLDR: They haven't explicitly added a license, on purpose.

https://choosealicense.com/no-permission/

Sad optimism of the commentor to get a PR going if that was all it needed.
At least in the case of https://coveapp.info, the metadata you fetch from users while scraping is disassembled into a form for efficient searching only. The only part remaining in an identifiable form is the infohash.
There is a story/myth whose earliest retelling is from Petronius about that a gold or metal worker who devised a wondrous new metal and after confirming he was the only one who knew its secret was put to death to avoid upsetting the economy. It has been thought this may have been an aluminium alloy.
Has Facebook perhaps shifted towards a federation of communities?

My Facebook feed as it used to be, general life updates by various friends, is pretty much dead. Nobody posts these things anymore. However, neighbourhood groups, Buy Nothing groups, and other local special interest groups thrive, I see several daily posts in each. Plus Facebook constantly recommends me more groups. This is a n=1 experience but I wonder whether Facebook is 'falling apart' into these groups.
I believe their engine is freeware, not OSS.
Fun as chatbots are they still lack any sort of substance. They can’t have a bad day. Or a good day. Or any real thoughts concerns or interest.

I don’t get how people can build a connection to that. Even parasocial connections with streamers seem more real
I’ve used plenty of small-town taxi services, yes.

If you’re only remembering the gold standard small-town service that did everything perfectly, you’re looking back with rose colored glasses. The typical experience back then was not good.
How much of a subsidy does Tesla receive by selling its green credits?
We're essentially opining about the difference between governance systems.

Facebook (like most corporations) operates an autocracy. However, unlike most corporations Facebook generates 100B+ in revenue per year (more than most countries), is worth $1T+ (again, more than most countries), and home to 3B+ users daily lives (trifecta, more than all countries). It's time to acknowledge the company that walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, is a duck.

If Facebook was so inclined to change their governance model, a plethora of prior art exists, in public sector government implementations, for them to build from. An endeavor of this magnitude is neither easy nor simple nor palatable to more engineering-inclined minds, but it's perhaps generational opportunity for a person/company to truly lead and innovate on such a ubiquitous digital platform.
It’s available on Archive.org https://archive.org/details/MinboOrTheGentleArtOfJapaneseExt...
It doesn’t have to be, you can consider it atypical bribery if you wish
To take your question seriously – one of the primary surface areas for fraud is exploiting the customer service function.

Just to work one (real) example:

1. Buy expensive face cream from Amazon

2. Take out the expensive stuff and replace it with junk

3. Complain to Amazon that you got junk and need a refund.

The challenge here becomes obvious. Even in claims where the customers was allegedly a victim, some portion of those customers are fraudsters. So any policy that results in a large, profitable company will likely result in something less than 100% of legitimate fraud cases from being satisfactorily resolved.

In the case of the small business, they are very unlikely to be targeted by industrial scale fraud and will probably just be able to solve this with personal relationships and human judgment.

That said, the price you pay the small operator is very likely to be meaningfully higher than the price of the scaled operator.

If you care more about having near 100% probability of having fraud/abuse cases addressed than you care about benefiting from the economies of scale, then yeah, go with the small operator.

In things like communities, my general sense is that there is almost no beneficial economies of scale. So I like to hang out in smaller places. But in things like information retrieval (ie. Google), the benefits are usually worth it for me to use that.
Yes, you are right, I got it wrong by about a-third.
> If you call a truck a car, there are people that will look at you funny.

Damn right, and SUV's, Cyber"Truck"'s, Pickup's, Toorak Tractors, etc. aren't trucks save for north america.

George Miller famously made a serious of documentaries about car drivers that chase trucks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt7trqrPYX4
I worked in several grocery stores when I was young, I was never aware of any procedures for wonky carts. If there aren’t systems in place to identify and fix problems, it’s no wonder the situation is what it is.

I had never heard of the conspiracy theory that it was done on purpose to slow people down. That doesn’t really pass the smell test. When I have a bad cart I want to leave as soon as possible to minimize my time with it. It also makes me view the store in a negative light. These are both bad things, and it seems pretty obvious that they would get damaged over time from abuse.
It should be part of their pricing model. If USPS gave minimal service, and you were informally expected to pay the delivery driver(s) more (some unspecified amount) to get better/faster service, I would also call that bribery.
documentation, at least python, has nothing to do with the package manager. It's a feature of the language itself.
Becoming underwater on repair costs.
You can just add one to games. Hit the + button on the page and type FOSS.
I very rarely encounter broken shopping carts. Maybe once in like 20-30 visits I encounter one with a wobbly front wheel that pulls.
I don't want to hijack this thread, but what does Django do?

I ask, cause I have a service that is a Rust backend (kind of specialized in what it does) + a SolidJS frontend... But I've seen a potential area for growth, I didn't imagine at first, and that would be stuff like user profiles, authentication, and managing stuff. And I really don't want to cut all this more "CRUD" like stuff in Rust and an SPA. I don't know Ruby, but have done some rather large Python projects in the past, just never ventured into Django land.
Some work I supervised sampling Amazon and Ebay products for vendor
malware showed an absolutely shocking prevalence of dodgy goods.

I don't think they can stem the tide.
Try https://www.coveapp.info/, I mentioned it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39425381. I wrote a custom search implementation for torrents that uses keyword matching and boosts search scores based on popularity of torrents on the DHT. It feels very much like TPB search but not so aggressively focused on seeder counts (i.e. better matching on file names can outrank a higher seeder count).
> It's time to acknowledge the company that walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, is a duck.

Are you trying to imply that Facebook is a country? Because this doesn’t make any sense. Countries have an entirely different set of obligations, duties, and jobs to be done than a website dedicated to light communication and entertainment.
What’s income have to do with how you treat a shopping cart? I’ve been to in places in Asia with very poor (poor compared to the poor people in the US) people and they treated their shopping carts better than wealthy people in the US.

There is better social cohesion and respect for other people's property. Now, there are some oddities in that if they find you lying on the street hurt, most will pass you by and kind of look at you quizzically, but they also do have good samaritans, just not as many. The reason is often people will suspect the person who stopped to help stopped out of guilt, not because they were just trying to help.
I wouldn't say we are stuck in a local maxima. The world has developed intensenly over the past decade, and particularly over the past 30 years with the internet and widespread computing moving things along.

You can feel just how fast we are moving monthly.
Automatically Optimizing Databases: Lessons Learned from Using Machine Learning [video]
>By comparison, on lobste.rs, I've never seen a scam like this and Peter Bhat Harkins, the head mod says that they've never had one that he knows of. On Mastodon, I think I might've seen one once in my feed, replies, or mentions.

I self-host Mastodon and my mentions are chock full of this one Japanese Discord cybercrime server[0]'s invites. This only started four days ago, but it's already making Mastodon almost as bad as Musk-era Xitter spam.

The front-line tool for moderating federated spam is to block the instance that sent it. A year ago, most spam were rando servers following everyone they could think of. However, the Japanese Discord guys are almost slightly kinda smart: they started registering accounts on smaller (non-single-user) instances. Because Mastodon doesn't support any kind of account verification[1], any instance with open registration (i.e. "just sign up") is effectively an open relay for spammers.

I don't consider this to be negating the post, but it is relevant context.

[0] They advertise DDoS, hacking, and stolen credit card services, or at least that's what I was able to glean from the Japanese language advert they sent

[1] This is why Google requires you to verify with an SMS code to do anything e-mail or YouTube related, for example - it lets them throttle how many registrations per year you can do with that number.
If the UN climate change panel is not talking about this I assume its probably nonsense. They have been at this for decades before "saving the environment" was even in vogue. Do you have any studies to back this up?
Technically, one of them is going to be the fastest and kitchy nonsense titles like this don't help anyone.
It's still not on GOG. :(

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/starfield
> No disc equals no buy. Own or die.

You seem to imply here that "disk=buy", but that's not even remotely true anymore. I don't know anything about this game, but it seems like this is yet another one that doesn't work offline [1]. So having the disk still doesn't mean you own it.

There are still games where disk=own of course, but using that as your metric of ownership would be incorrect.

1: https://old.reddit.com/r/granturismo/comments/110chtg/can_i_...
Disagree:

A lot of why large corporations fail to make products that people enjoy is tied up in this behavior and that mass is not independently distributed along each distribution — you end up with “continents of taste” your centroid product sucks for equally.
Who is Visa/MC to decide what’s a sketchy business? That’s for the law to decide. That would like if a 3rd party company decided who can use the sidewalk or not.

Before you say payments rails are not a public utility, understand that’s a part of the problem. If they were a public utility, the people would have rights. In the old days, the government would nationalize the payment rails like they did the railroads and private roads. Sadly, that won’t happen in today’s age. I’d be happy with the government having their own payment rails anyone can use. The government can go after people actually doing illegal things instead of blanket banning (and then approving) and handing that power to a 3rd party. Since that won’t happen, crypto will have to do.
It's not fundamentally more disruptive. Because it's built on top of the disruptive technology.

You just proved how amazing the industrial and information eras were that they could extend beyond their timeline and into the future.

AI might be disruptive in a similar vein, but it's comparing giants to small achievements.
Didn’t see it mentioned already? This is from 2022.
I live in the US and haven’t ever seen a shopping cart in a drug store… maybe that’s why they stay so nice :)
I don't use shopping carts because my groceries typically fit in a shopping basket.

What I find frustrating about my local grocery store is when they inexplicably rearrange items. One week, bread is stocked in one aisle. Suddenly, on my next trip to the store, the same brand of bread has moved two aisles over.

Part of the reason why I switched to having groceries delivered.
Amazon is perfectly willing to ban people from reselling their used Apple products. The only reason why they don't apply that treatment to memory devices is because Amazon runs on payola. Apple paid for market exclusivity and Samsung/Sandisk/etc didn't.
For those outside of the US looking to answer, here is some context from the US. “Drug stores” in the US double as convenience stores. There is a pharmacy in the back along with over the counter medications, but they also sell cosmetics, basic prepackaged food, toys, alcohol, magazines, greeting cards, and other such things. It’s not like Americans are buying carts full of drugs. I also think drug stores generally have the small baskets, not the large carts one might find at a grocery store.
It would work for Facebook users, but not for Facebook the company.

This is essentially what Reddit does. It mostly works for communities about headphones, bicycles or water bottles, but not Donald Trump, piracy or child porn. Reddit had to close some subreddits down, not because their users complained, their users were perfectly happy and considered the moderation to be just fine, but the harm to society / the company's PR image / advertisers was too great.
No. I'm excited about something new stirring the water.

It's the disgusting grift and financialisation of anything remotely nice that turns me off. We create these amazing new technologies, and all we do with them is accelerate the enshittification of everything.

Closer to me, I don't see how an AI can replace me. It's good at rehashing existing information, but I'm putting new information on the internet. Someone eventually needs to do that sort of leg work.
I’ll take this moment to plug “The War Nerd Iliad”[1] which is my particular favorite adaptation of the Iliad. I took Classics in high school and we covered it, but I never really engaged with it until I read this. It may not be for everyone, but if you’ve found yourself put off by poetic translation of a poem that doesn’t really work in English, you’ll find this more accessible and probably enjoyable.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/34381315
Note that the assembly code is suboptimal, since it wastes 4 bytes for each immediate.

The optimal assembly code is this: "mov al, 42; xchg edi, eax; mov al, 60; syscall". Or just "mov al, 60; syscall" if you want to exit with 0 rather 42.
That is not at all in conflict with the post. The selection effect is one of the sources of the empirical diseconomies of scale the author mentions.
> Doctor/patient privacy is really really strong.

HIPAA already includes exceptions for law enforcement, and the new law itself could certainly mandate some new monitoring and compliance checks. This argument just feels like doubling down on the previous unsupported rationale.

> Depends if you're talking about Down's and related disorders or not.

Since you're defending blanket bans, then it's sufficient to make my point on the most extreme least compatible with life conditions. Like say from a quick look, trisomy 8. "Warkany syndrome (trisomy 8) is a common cause of miscarriage and, for newborns who survive, death usually occurs within the first months". Or trisomy 16. "Full trisomy 16 is incompatible with life. While most fetuses are spontaneously aborted by the 12th week of pregnancy, a few have survived into the second trimester". But in general I don't think knowingly bringing a child with Down's syndrome into the world is kind, compassionate, or worthwhile either.

> Of course not, eviction is a possible outcome of the contract between the two parties.

That only works for tenants over 18 who've signed the lease contract, and not for say their minor children or subletees. But sure, getting the contract out of the picture entirely - would you say that a landlord evicting a squatter violates the non-aggression principle?
Do people in other countries buy paracetamol and aspirin in 10L bottles so they wouldn't need to run their F4999 trucks to a drugstore every week?
Same reason why "dumping" product below cost is generally considered bad in markets with a high barrier to entry -- it tends to destroy the competition, and, once the competition is destroyed, the dumper can then jack up all their prices sky-high.
The Point-of-sale tax credit (effectively what you are describing) for qualifying new EVs is now live in the US too.

Whether you actually qualify or not is matter that is taken up between you and the IRS. I believe that if at the end of the year you don't qualify after taking the POS tax-credit, you owe that amount to the IRS. (or at least can't use that amount as a write-off)

I imagine it would be the same in Spain, ultimately not the responsibility of the EV manufacturer (assuming they provide all of the relevant tax documentation).
>> Logged onto the World Wide Web, I hunt for the date of the Battle of Trafalgar. Hundreds of files show up, and it takes 15 minutes to unravel them—.... None answers my question

>Google is starting to feel like that, especially when looking for more than simple facts.

Honestly, if it weren't for Wikipedia, the web would be almost useless for getting basic facts quickly.
Sega developers say new Sapporo studios lead to better lives
VPP on FreeBSD
And specifically the earliest sequencers were step sequencers that were as simplistic as current prompts are (a 16x16 grid with each of the 256 notes set off or on and that's it). But as people explored the medium the tooling changed, which I also expect will happen with generative AI.
You're absolutely right. That's the answer.

I'm probably too old to learn languages of many of the cultures that
interest me, much to my disadvantage.

So what we get, as the sibling comment said, is an interpreted and
outdated account through "liberal arts".
> In my social circles, many people have read James Scott's Seeing Like a State, which is subtitled How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human World Have Failed. A key concept from the book is "legibility", what a state can see, and how this distorts what states do. One could easily write a highly analogous book, Seeing like a Tech Company about what's illegible to companies that scale up, at least as companies are run today. A simple example of this is that, in many video games, including ones made by game studios that are part of a $3T company, it's easy to get someone suspended or banned by having a bunch of people report the account for bad behavior. What's legible to the game company is the rate of reports and what's not legible is the player's actual behavior (it could be legible, but the company chooses not to have enough people or skilled enough people examine actual behavior); and many people have reported similar bannings with social media companies. When it comes to things like anti-fraud systems, what's legible to the company tends to be fairly illegible to humans, even humans working on the anti-fraud systems themselves.

I think legibility is one aspect of it, but I think another could very well be empathy. If you want to support a user who has a problem, then you have to want to help them and follow through. If you want to make a customer whole after they lost money on your platform, then you want to pay them back and follow through. If you want to stop your platform to be a tool used to disseminate hate, then you want that outcome and move heaven and earth to make it happen. You have to want to see the problems and you have to want to follow through and fix them.
How much time did you spend watching poor asians push carts?