skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scraping itself isn't a problem. Scraping content where people are actively trying to stop it from being scraped is where things get questionable.

both OpenAI and Google rely on scraping as their foundation for…everything.

OpenAI and Google also (claim to) respect the most basic bot deterrent, robots.txt, with their crawlers. If someone doesn't want their content scraped to be included by search indexes or LLMs/models, then that certainly includes "smaller indie hackers."
Hrmm. Can you explain further? What sort of inaction would make them legally liable?
I use it to play my switch games at better than 640p 20-30 fps. Tranformative experience for games like Xenoblade.
> font rendering

Apple’s strong suit is this kind of attention to detail. You may not like their UI but they know how to make it look beautiful. The attention to detail on fonts etc is amazing.
That's correct, Yuzu doesn't include the keys, but is there any precedent that "bring your own keys" actually works as a loophole around the DMCA circumvention rules? I'm not aware of it ever being tested, so it's unclear whether it would actually hold up in a case where the softwares express purpose is to consume keys for the purpose of circumventing DRM.

Back when the movie industry was going after DVD ripping tools I don't recall anyone trying to dodge legal trouble by making the end-user supply the keys instead, so unfortunately we didn't get a decision either way back then.
They make it extra painful sometimes when it's time to refill, requiring re-authorization every year. My doctor has a woman working for his practice who spends almost full time battling insurance companies so that patients can get their meds, and she's been my ally at managing these fights.
Thanks I updated my comment. Also, damn that's cool.
Of course! They just link in that library. Thanks!
Not all bad, then! ;)
Yes, better than on the Switch.

(now I'm awaiting legal action from Nintendo)
Sure, it’s a very subjective term. But if you read even the oldest laws which we take for granted, those concepts (such as “reasonableness”) are designed to be open to interpretation. If someone were to stand trial for this, it would be up to the Court to determine whether what they said satisfies the definition provided by the legislation, and that in and of itself is a lengthy process that is designed to be as just as possible, which I can say with some certainty because Canada’s rule of law is relatively good. There are absolutely merits to the policy considerations of this term but what statutory interpretation guidelines haven’t covered, the case law will eventually iron out. In any case, this is not the type of vague wording which triggers an Orwellian collapse.
Lots of people have showdead off by default and don't know it's there/what it does.
There are a couple of "d bags we all know" on the tech/hacker side that would make for a very satisfying answer to this question.
Seems a bit silly. Could you sue Microsoft because they did nothing to prevent death threats from being written in Word or sent over Outlook?
> you need to cut them loose. This isn't a management problem.

That is 100% a management problem.

> Sometimes people end up in positions

I wonder how they got in those positions? That sounds like a management problem too.
I think this is the crux of it, if something works for awhile then actually that's fine, as an industry we over index and scare new developers towards complexity. The counter is true too, what works at scale doesn't at non scale - not because of tech, but because holistically your asking for a lot, a lot of knowledge, a lot of complex tech to be deployed by a small team.
It was about creating a land bridge connecting Russia to Crimea and securing Crimea's access to water from the Dnipro river.

One of Ukraine's goals with last year's offensive was to sever the land bridge. That objective failed. Ironically, Russia (likely) blew up the Kakhovka dam to slow down that Ukrainian offensive and thus severely restrained water access to Crimea (which they had fully reestablished in the early days of the war).
I don't see using the proper process as any slower. It reduces the activation energy needed to make changes when you know you can revert them no matter how messed up, as well as deploy it live by simply pushing master to origin.

The main threat after not building something useful is having the code and design go off the rails, a standard git process prevents it. You can handle almost any complexity without getting confused about the state of things.
arm = acorn RISC machines -> advanced RISC machines
Zookeeper in production can be really a pain to maintain…
I think it's more than just the coders, it's just like... you know there's going to be a news story about an Apple Car running over a toddler and then right next to it there's a banner ad for the newest iPhone. Bad vibes.
Maybe he didn’t “change”. Maybe you just see more of him now, and see how he actually is, foot in mouth and all. People who got very rich very early often lack the “filter” - they don’t have to consider your opinion of them. In fact, considering it would probably be strongly counterproductive if they’re ambitious. Popular opinion is akin to a lawn mower - stick your head out too far above others and you’ll lose it. But that’s for you and I, that logic doesn’t really apply to centibillionaires.
Marines pass full financial audit, a first for any US Military branch
Because Im an engineer in a quality controlled field (Medicine), and my personal experience is that firms place too much faith in quality systems and not enough emphasis on quality employees.

I see lots of engineers and QA following a elaborate procedures with hundreds of checks, but not bothering to even read what they sign off on, so they can go golf all day.

People seem to think that you can engineer some process flow to prevent every error, but every process is garbage if the humans dont care or know what they are doing.

Every process is garbage is you dont hire workers with the right skills demanded by that process. In an effort to drive down costs, lots of companies try to make up for talent with process, with poor results, for both the companies and patients. you cant replace a brain surgeon with 2 plumbers and twice the instructions.
Anyone can sue anyone for any reason at any time. Unless the lawsuit is in bad faith and meritless (only a court can make that determination), there is no argument to be had about "lawfare". The only difference here and in other companies is that Nintendo actually follows through with their legal threats instead of just filing complaints they don't intend to take to court.
> Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Nintendo caught using an open source emulator for the switch, without any sort of credit to the authors after suing?

Majesco Entertainment published some switch games made by Mistic Software, which used an open source emulator without credit and in violation of its license (and therefore were infringing copyright). Atari was somehow involved as well. Nintendo had no involvement, unless you consider them responsible for not doing a thorough enough license audit of every company that publishes Switch games or something.
They (publicly) blocked discussion of TOTK fixes until the game's release day, but that's still 0th hour and any build to include the fix would have been early access for whatever the ea period is: https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/issues/10226#issuecomment-1...

Prescient comment marked as off-topic: https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/pull/10234#issuecomment-154...
Somebody in the answers already figured out that the code belonged to MS-DOS 3.30 COMMAND.COM as previously attested by Al Lowe. https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/29580/3986
Not necessarily. I don't know the context, but bugs/issues reported from users may have been sufficient to patch their code without touching the ROM themselves.
Yeah, it's a pretty stark illustration of "we have enough money to fuck you up, and are very willing to do so". "Might makes right" in action.

Your monopoly point is an interesting one. Wonder if there's an actual legal case there, as Nintendo have done a lot of this bullying over the years.
AFAIK Doom Emacs is either already switched to async compilation or in the process of moving that way. So it shouldn't be pre-compiling the packages anymore or that's the idea. I wasn't closely following the discussions around it, so I don't know the exact specifics.

Async compilation does not slow down the startup time, it's not what I said. My Emacs instance also starts very fast, that is a signature feature of Doom. But do check your buffers, there will be *Async-native-compile-log* there.

What I'm saying is that when you start it, while it's running compilation asynchronously you may feel some slight, almost unnoticeable (or super noticeable - it's subjective) UI performance dip, it's not a big deal.
> Just build a Gestapo this time with proper controls and oversights

Where Poe's and Godwin's laws intersect.
Well, there actually is/was a Supertux 2. I don't remember the specifics, I think they rewrote it from blit 2D into OpenGL? You can see here : https://github.com/SuperTux/supertux/blob/master/supertux2.d... that it's called supertux2

But yeah this has nothing to do with the actual content of the levels, it only refers to the engine.
'Effectively' has a different meaning than y'all are reading. It's not effectively as in 'an effective, well constructed lock', but instead as in 'for all intents and purposes'.

The law doesn't say 'it's illegal to break a lock until it's been broken'.
I'm not sold on them achieving partial reusability in practice in 9 launches (assuming that the 9 launches happen mainly this year as they have requested). I think they'll have achieved it in theory (ie demonstrated a hover landing of the booster over water), but they've only just started to build out the second tower that'll be needed to actually test reusability without risking the entire launch infrastructure.

Between the construction pauses during testing/launch, and things they can't really speed up like concrete hardening times, I don't think they'll be able to both have 9 flights AND operationalize the second tower this year.
The legal system has sort of recognized this as a problem, which is why many states have anti-SLAPP lawsuits. Unfortunately, I don't think this strictly falls under the definition of "public participation", so there is no protection available. (And, big companies just try to sue you in federal court or states with no anti-SLAPP lawsuits. So anti-SLAPP is not the big victory it should have been.)
Nobody is excusing the car companies, because there is nothing to excuse. It’s not Toyota’s fault is someone drives drunk and nobody associates the two.
As someone who has given such interviews, and been taught to give such interviews, the first version works. Your version doesn't.

This is illustrated by my single favorite interview question was someone being interviewed for a senior devops role. The question was, "What was the worst disaster that you've personally caused?" The purpose of the question is, "When the shit hits the fan, will you be in CYA mode?" The only wrong answer was no answer. Anyone who has worked with production for a long time, has made mistakes that cause a disaster. You should have a good example, explain how you screwed up, and what you learned from it.

If you ask people whether they will behave defensively. Everyone will say that they don't. Ask them to come up with a hypothetical where they don't behave defensively, and they'll give you a great answer. But ask them to remember and talk about a situation which it is natural to feel defensive about, and you'll get an honest answer.|

That particular question extreme. If you haven't worked with production systems for a long time, you probably don't have any major disasters. But the same idea applies. And the best tool interviewing I know of to get there is the STAR method. In turn you ask for:

(S)ituation. What was the situation?

(T)ask. What task were you given in this situation

(A)ction. What did you do?

(R)esult. What was the outcome?

People have a really hard time faking it. Seriously try it. Interestingly, the converse is also true. If someone asks a question, a STAR response looks good. So much so that interviewees are coached to do it.

If the devops question is off limits, what specific questions can you ask? Well here is a real example. Amazon has a set of leadership principles, you can find them at https://www.amazon.jobs/content/en/our-workplace/leadership-..., by which they judge employees. If you interview with them, the recruiter will tell you to prepare examples for all of them. You'll literally get questions of the form, "Tell me about a time in the last 5 years that you demonstrated (principle X)." That then walk through the STAR method.

I have many complaints about different parts of Amazon. I have no complaints about the effectiveness of their interviewing system.
You don't sound very knowledgeable about the space.

The Switch has a vibrant modding and homebrew scene. People also like modding their consoles to dump their games.

Lots of power users want to dump their games to play the top games on their PC. Tears of the Kingdom runs in 8k, at 60fps, with lots of QOL improvements on PC.
> Because parents didn't want to buy an entire flagship smartphone just for their 6yo to listen to music on the schoolbus. But they were okay with buying them an iPod.

Yep. Well said. The cost of a full phone + expensive plan is a lot.

Plus kids wanted the apps (really games) the iPhone had. Apple wanted to sell them games.

And besides that parents were far more hesitant to give young kids phones than (for better or worse) than today.

The final reason I’ve heard is the number of hand-me-down phones given to kids now that smartphones are ubiquitous means sales slowly fell to ver little compared to when introduced.
Right. I’m wondering if a strong marketing push could make Chinese people love something they don’t already that we have a lot of. Food is definitely a thought, it’s perishable so air travel would be preferred.
Nah, there's no circumvention here, on Yuzu's part. There may be parties involved in circumvention, but the emulator neither aids nor publishes any aid for that. The emulator REQUIRES a user to first have a legitimate copy. If the user illegally obtained that copy, they didn't obtain it via Yuzu, and they didn't use Yuzu to get around the encryption that is in the file. The emulator is just using the key on the file, the same way any application - including the Switch OS - has to. That's not "circumvention", that's "usage". If the key should not be able to be collected, for use on the file, then it's not the Yuzu emulator that collects the key. It's whatever ROM dumping/packaging solution a bad actor is using.

If it ever made it in front a jury, it can be summarized as a big company trying to sue a little company out of existence because the big company doesn't like that the little company is executing the big company's code. But, unfortunately for the big company, executing someone else's code - even without their permission - is not illegal. Nintendo has the resources to sue torrent hosts and take on individuals involved in sharing networks. They have the resources to find the problem and fix it. But they're not using those resources to solve the problem; they're using those resources to scare lawful citizens into inaction because that's a cheaper target. There should never be a legal reward for that kind of scheme.

But, honestly, this should never make it to trial. There are zero merits for argument, here.
I consider the words "creator" and "creator economy" dangerous because it suggests it's a serious and viable job. As the article and many comments explain, it isn't viable for 99.99% of those trying. Which isn't true for pretty much any other job. You can aspire to be a dog psychotherapist and actually have a decent chance of making a living from it, the odds are better than being a "creator".

The digital world is really simple: we all work for Big Tech but without the pay. All revenue flows in that direction.
Right. If these huge insurance companies had to "compete" with a real universal system, there's no way they could even exist. All they do is scrape profit off the top of every healthcare procedure in the US.

The most useless middleman to ever exist, in my opinion.
The Nakba in 48 created the refugees.
That's true. Curious what your experience has been with HITRUST
Apple should buy Rivian and scale it up. They make truly beautiful vehicles, already classic, IMO, but they need money.
People are still very much exploring AI for the first time.

We technically inclined people are ahead of the curve.

One people get a “feel” for what AI content looks like, they’ll be able to filter it out like the do all existing spam.
The people feeling the pain of (and paying for) the expensive data swamp are often not the same people who are yolo'ing the sample rate to 100% in their apps, because why wouldn't you want to store every event?

Put another way, you're in charge of a large telemetry event sink. How do you incentivise the correct sampling behaviour by your users?
The GPUs that Nvidia is selling to Microsoft, Google, Meta and the venture-backed AI bandwagon are arguably the shovels.
I'm sure some aerospace professionals are wondering how it's possible to predict stock behavior on an exchange, but have no problem with educated predictions of launcher performance.
Sure, but now you're talking about sites with completely different service level objectives, and conversely, different budgets for their hosting. The problem here, to play off of your analogy, is that Netlify is treating every customer, many with SLOs likely less strict than HN as if they are the Super Bowl. This is an assumption that, according to the most recent policy discoverable by looking through their forum posts, is a constraint of their platform, and something they tout as a feature, not a bug.

When users expressed concerns for a similar scenario that the OP experienced on their community forum, Netlify's staff responded with "how likely is this, really?" Only has to happen once to put someone in significant financial harm.
Unless the EFF or a similar org supports them.
I wouldn’t say a general suit and/or tie are a status item. Maybe if it’s a expensive one.

A beard definitely isn’t a status item. That’s like saying black hair are a status item
To clarify: I think the reason Google control search is that the public likes Google, so there's no political will to enforce the law. It's starting to crack now with the "google search is bad now" narrative, along with the classic "google is spying on me" -- together, they've emboldened Biden's justice department enough to bring multiple suits.

I think Google's attitude of free products (Gmail, Google Maps, Android, and Chrome especially) has won it insane amounts of goodwill, and that's all that's keeping them at the top. Having worked at Google, I find it incredibly hard to believe that they have any sort of fundamental technical advantage when it comes to building a search engine. I didn't work on search and obviously didn't look for the secret sauce, so that assessment is based on company culture and attitude alone.
I know this is slightly off topic, but I have to ask: Why not create a new account rather than use the same self-described throwaway account you used to ask about raising prices (for browserless?)[1]? For what it's worth, I initially assumed you likely weren't legitimate and didn't engage, so if you want to keep contributing to threads as yourself you might want to consider using a new/different username.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21271224
Plus, if something goes wrong, I can guarantee there will be more than enough objection to it… people have a track record of leaping to the opportunity to defend freedom, even at the cost of common sense.
This is a tough question to answer based on these facts.

But my first question is this: you "incorporated the company in late January." Ok, but what did you and she actually sign? That could make this a very easy situation or a very hard situation.
> Which to say that, imo, "restoring the free market" isn't a useful action in this mess. State controlled medicine is essentially the only solution to the already partly collapsed US health care system.

I don't trust the US government is competent enough to run healthcare. If it can do better than the existing system, let it create a new voluntary, unsubsidized insurer, free of the BS rules it has created. Competition is the source of quality and low prices. Any monopoly is an invitation for poor quality and high prices.
I'm generalizing the result of the case. Which is applicable so long as the current lawsuit references it as supporting evidence.
Ave deus mechanicus
Wendy's expects to test dynamic pricing and daypart offers in 2025
It is a toss up what is more shocking between this and one of those "Giant pet alligator kills owner" type stories.
SpaceX Starship explosion investigation identifies fixes
https://modal.com/
Incredible what you can do with infinite money!

For everyone else, more specific data structures, sampling and careful consideration of what to record are essential.
So you played their game on an emulator, and you "would otherwise have really considered" paying for their products (but you didn't). How are they losing out by alienating you?
It tastes like a mix of an apple and a banana.
Threadpools incur high overhead but that should work mostly.

Also, in Litestar Sync is a first class citizen just as much as async is.

You can see in benchmarks (that shouldnt be taken as gospel)
how frameworks drop off in sync perf., where Litestar maintains both well.

https://docs.litestar.dev/latest/benchmarks.html
Fantastic answer. I went through and built the tree and it just shows everything so neatly. There's just a small mistake, when you say:

4. then have the contestant either switch or not switch and cut all your probabilities in half again.

You don't halve probabilities again because the strategy we are evaluating is _to switch_. So we always switch. It is deterministic.

If we switch deterministically we end up with 6 cases (leaves in the tree) with probability 1/9 where we win. 6/9 = 2/3!

If we switch randomly then we do split probabilities again, and end up with 6 cases with probability 1/18. 6/18 = 1/3.
I think Psychopathy is expressed differently in women. I think of a psychopath as someone who will hurt you or kill you without feeling any regret or think of it as a problem ever again. That's not commonly associated with women. But I've known of women who wouldn't think twice about ruining a person's life or doing something that eventually leads to someone getting hurt or causing someone's death, without regret, but they mostly wouldn't do it directly. That's still psychopathic behavior. It wouldn't surprise me if it's a 1-to-1 men-to-women ratio.
I am familiar with both. I think the fact that Nintendo still went ahead and this will likely have repercussions means that the precedent isn't enough of a deterrent.
I’ve seen this sentiment echoed by many.

Seems like it’d be more productive to reduce attrition of this sort by releasing a Switch with less-anemic hardware. There’s clearly a market for a “Switch Pro” or similar that can run TotK, etc at 60FPS without frame drops.
SDV does offer a CTGANSynthesizer, which is a GAN-based generative approach. Could be worth a try, though CTGAN specifically may require customization (tweaking some parameters).

That being said, synthetic data definitely isn't a magic pill for all use cases. I have found it particularly useful for things like QA, performance testing, etc. -- where alternative tools for test data creation aren't sufficient.

For the use case of imbalanced classification: May be worth asking what is it about existing solutions (SMOTE) that doesn't work well?
Could you share some specifics of how it could be approached?
I expect news to say that the project has been restarted, with smaller scope, by the end of the year.