skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My opinion on the whole subject of piracy has changed really radically since I was younger. I'm not really a fan of it at all, even without making money, and with making money I think it's definitely not a good thing.

The thing that really changed my mind was realizing that the phrase "information wants to be free" just means "intellectual labor will be free." In other words a world where there is no copyright and piracy is standard would be one in which no form of intellectual labor can be compensated.

In an economy that is increasingly dematerialized, this is a recipe for extreme wealth disparity and a return to feudalism. Only the owners of physical property would have any ability to earn anything outside service labor. You'd have landlords, large capital-owning corporations, banks, and low-paid no-upward-mobility service jobs.

In other words I started to see piracy as an assault on the middle class, almost a tool to bust wages and disempower labor.

It also incentivizes locking everything up in the cloud. You can't pirate things if you never have them. Some of this may happen without piracy, but piracy makes it virtually impossible to run a business in any other way. It makes businesses that give you access to data or empower you to run your own software impossible.

P.S. The worst form of piracy is the kind that is perpetuated by gigantic corporations. IMHO a lot of the AI revolution is being powered by huge scale piracy. AI is cool but the people providing the training data need to be compensated, especially if their stuff is used to train models that are paywalled and never released. Don't misinterpret my defense of copyright and payment for intellectual labor as a blanket defense of the status quo. A big problem we have is that copyright law effectively no longer binds the largest players.
The keyword here is "use".

Homomorphic Encryption reduces the breadth of computations that can be ran on the gathered data, by making it inaccessible outside of the specific homomorphic scheme that was chosen. So yes, in that sense it cannot be used arbitrarily.

However, the results, i.e. knowledge derived, from the chosen computations can still be shared arbitrarily, which IMO is a much greater issue, as the need of the result sharing will inform the computations that can be done within the scheme.

Who defines the computations? Surely not the users, and lacking regulations, also surely not regulatory bodies.
They're pushing heatpumps out of some misplaced effort to reduce emissions, not to improve climate control in homes. Nobody I know in Germany has AC except commercial buildings and rich people. They couldn't afford to run it anyway with the highest electricity prices in the world.
Free-fall isn't zero-gravity, and anyone who observes the five-second rule has had a similar experience.
You require citations, and start your assertions with "I think". Seems unfair. In fact, we have some vaccines for some "common colds" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiratory_syncytial_virus_va...), but none for coronavirus common colds.

I refered to veterinary as a source of pesimism. There are a number of veterinary serious problems related to coronavirus. I'm going to just refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus#Infection_in_anima.... Labs are trying to get vaccinations for those infections for years if not decades, to no avail. We are talking of millions, if not billions, in farm loses, so not a minor issue.

When all the SARS-CoV-2 event was raging, people from veterinary were very pesimistic, because they knew coronaviruses change so rapidly that no (traditional) vaccine holds for long enough. Luckily, mRNA vaccines shorten the window between variant detection and roll-out. They are trying genetically altered viruses that include multiple versions of the S protein, to induce the immunity, so it's not like they are working with ancient technology or no resources.

You also recognize that "dengue was thought to be a difficult target", and indeed it was. You don't need [citation] to assert that. The fact that we were trying to vaccinate against Dengue for almost a century is [citation] enough. The same holds true for coronavirus, specially in veterinary.
No

The half-life of Tiktok trends is about a few days. I assure you this diabetes hazard nothingburger is not being talked about in Paris; and is going to join the countless other 'croissant hamburgers' 'inventions' shortly. Why is this on HN?
The situations are almost entirely unrelated. COVID is a virus that unintentionally spread and in rare cases causes an ongoing reduction in capacity from one's baseline. FfA has a surgical technique which is applied to single person to raise them above their baseline, and then gradually they fall back to their pre-exisitng baseline. Seems like OP was using a tenuous parallel to score some cheap political or perhaps conspiratorial point.
Good thing the problem is as easily solved by going 6 ft underground, or getting in a cold bath.

Patna India typically has weather like this for two months a year and probably a million people live there without A/C (just fine): https://weatherspark.com/y/111069/Average-Weather-in-Patna-I...
I can only reply with my experience, if you had access to water to put on your body in a hot area with a fan, you would get some evaporation. If there's no easy access to water, then shade, IMO, is the best option. Hot, blown air on a very hot day is almost painful.
As someone who enjoys writing ragebait posts, I can confirm that in recent months it's been easier than ever to get thousands of people raging over some nonsense. The relative lack of moderation has been very useful in this regard.

Perhaps that actually benefits Reddit though? More engagement even if it is mostly dimwits responding in earnest to troll posts.
ZFS should absolutely be able to go faster even with lz4 compression I get writes above 5 GB/s on a older 32-core EPYC CPU. And that is with mostly random and already compressed data. And that write speed is a limitation of the RAIDz2 on top of not the fastest drives (6 PCIe 3.0 intel U.2 ones from 2 years ago).
Yes, of course. There's a reason why people in developing countries are the least concerned about pollution or global warming. It's because economic growth has a much greater positive impact on their lives than an imperceptibly slow warming of the planet.
The thing that’s somewhat ironic here is that the car companies could make cars safe by default. For example, they could make it not possible to accelerate faster than one needs to. They could put in speed limiters that are triggered by the speed limit on the road. They could stop marketing and selling over powered cars.

Instead they market cars as exciting race track like vehicles, things that let you do what you want, when you want. And now they will collect data on the people who actually do that.

Personally I would prefer a car that helps me be a safer driver by following the law. Ensuring there are no pedestrians or cyclists in front of me, etc. But at the end of the day, automated enforcement is a good thing, so maybe this will help some people become safer drivers, though the reality that’s probably more likely is that fewer and fewer people will be able to afford/get insurance, and because our country is so car dependent, they will just drive without.
Does heat increase, decrease, or not affect people’s need for water?

> Everywhere there are people, there is water

LOL. Yeah bud, that’s because people have to leave when they run out of water, otherwise they die. That is the whole problem.
The world's favorite daemon, systemd, is coming to PostmarketOS
Fair enough. I've accepted that everyone knows more about me than myself and moved on haha
I prefer this idea, but instead of a shell-style ending unique to every scoped structure, maybe just a ";" character?:

def IsPalindrome(s) -> bool
for i in range(len(s))
if s[i] != s[len(s)-1-i]
return False;
;
return True;

I'd also be inclined to skip it for 'def' as well, since they tend not be be as nested.
What sort of "reputational risk" do you think they are taking on?

Data sharing with third parties is ubiquitous in almost all industries. Every single company that deals with financial products reports account information to third parties (Experian, Equifax, TransUnion, Early Warning Services, ChexSystems). If you return an item at a retail store it gets reported to fraud alert databases. Most medium to large employers report the contents of the paychecks of their employees to The Work Number. Insurance claims are reported to LexisNexis. Oil change companies report milage to CarFax, which insurance companies use to look up if you're reporting accurate mileage.

Data reporting and sharing is ubiquitous; it's standard operating procedure. Having a few "privacy nerds" complain about it on the Internet is not risking their reputation.
What? ANSI VT100 standard predates IBM's CUA. In fact, so does the VT220 standard. What's missing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_X3.64
Most of the deaths happened in southern Europe, where temperatures above 32 °C are common in July and temperatures reaching 40 °C are not unheard of.
The source for this figure: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1713445/000162828024...

CEO pay for 2023: 341,346 (cash salary) + 98,332,716 (stock) + 93,776,049 (options) + 792,000 (cash bonus)

It's hard to really value the 190M of stock+options, though it seems like it'll be enought to buy some really nice avocado toast.

Anyway though, shouldn't we be celebrating this? Isn't it the hacker news dream, creating a startup that creates zero real physical products, contributes to climate change, drives youths to addiction and worse, all while becoming filthy rich along the way.
B2C vs. B2B vs. B2B2E CIAM
The reason why reddit feels like a better places for product reviews is because of how organic it appears. The moment you make something more 'streamlined' for that, the less organic and useful it feels for users, and the easier it's able to be gamed.
Because they tend to build-in exceptions and only the likes of R Paul and 1990s Sanders would object. At the state level you saw Newsom and co. argue for increased minimum wage --except for restaurants serving bread -ala Panera. They are not, by and large, honest.
Robot Test
Frankly it's not one or the other, it's both at the same time as much as possible because we're extremely late to this party.
That depends on how smart you are. If you are relatively smart for the level you are at then you are fine without homework, otherwise you need it. Lots of people can learn well without homework in middle school, fewer can in high school and very few can at college.

So homework is important at all stages of education, just for different people. For you that happened at college. For someone else it might have been very important in middle school to understand percent, without that work they would have been much worse off in life.
Rethinking How We Evaluate New York Times Subscription Performance
I remember when type 1 was called type 1. And kids discarding zero mana artifacts as useless.
Brexit debacle is a real life comedy skit.
The killer feature from magit which this seems to be missing is the ability to stage only a specific part of a hunk. When I make a bigger change and want to split it into different commits, magit is simply the best way to achieve this quickly. Other than that it looks great.
How is this possible? A website cannot just magically cross-domain get your Google account details...
Do I hear the librarian going "Ook"? Sir Terry must be turning in his grave.

Edit: Note -- I confused Ringworld with Discworld, as pointed out by rowyourboat below.
Absolutely at takeoff, but the emphasis is often missing for the remainder of your time onboard. It's noticeable when crew add extra reminders.

I've never looked for stats on these incidents involving clear air turbulence. The impression I got as a European was that this was a transatlantic and transpacific problem. It's obviously not, but those were the incidents reported on.
So an anecdote from one coffee shop in one city that doesn't get that hot and you apply that to all of Europe
ok - except the real majority of humans are not on these plots, and are not auto-magically supporting those that are on those plots.. Reductive thinking of "us vs them" makes a blank worldview
For the money they Microsoft, they could fund development efforts to improve the OSS ecosystem
Yes, and they are 'leading by example', they start by scrutinising their own practices.
Basic communication with human interaction. Soft kills >> hard kills

AI is assistance not an replacement to a lot extent
Taiwan to Bali is nowhere near New Zealand
I‘m a huge fan of s telemetry insurance. I have I personally and it saves me around 300€/year on my cars insurance because I am a very defensive driver.

However, this being integrated into the vehicle in an absolutely intransparent way is a huge step up and a really unsettling privacy violation.

For this to be ethically viable imho, there need to be a few prerequisites

- it’s transparent what has been transmitted

- you can always easily opt out, but you may loose the discount you earned

- your driving can’t make your premium go up beyond the base premium without the discount (sensors will never paint an entirely accurate picture)
You can also handle optionality when using the value.

function maybeRenderBestFriends() {
const user = maybeGetUser();
if (!user) {
return null
}
const friends = maybeGetFriends(user);
const bestFriends = friends ? filterBestFriends(friends) : null;
return bestFriends ? render(bestFriends) : null;
}
New compact chips can convert light into microwaves
It's remarkable how almost every serious incident due to equipment errors in the past few months involves a Boeing aircraft rather than an Airbus.
Yeah, this is what I moved to after Insomnia started down the same path as Postman. Very portable text files that can work anywhere.
Fixing space-physics mistake enhances satellite safety
Bitcoin rally pushes BlackRock ETF over $10B in record time
Side note: CATO isn’t a particularly credible source. (Like Greenpeace.)

That said, even though I agree with them in this case, that bolsters the case for regulation being effective. If the FDA were ineffective, pharmaceuticals could “play…legal gymnastics and pay rudimentary fines” to get around their power. In other words, the magnitude is undisputed; we’re debating the sign.
What’s weird is that they automatically assume it’s not! I’d assume it’s not part of a trade agreement or something. The brits just think “oh well, it’s probably the government colluding with big food companies to screw us over”. The worst part is that they’re probably right!
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And there's the rub, we humans can be so stubborn about issues we don't understand. Ignorance can be cured, but wisdom must be earned.
It appears to be working for me:

SELECT count(), min(time), max(time) FROM hackernews_history

39838828, 1970-01-01 00:00:00, 2024-03-11 13:04:47
Historically there has been some of both. Even in the west there have been substantial social factors that have delayed adoption and the labor force participation rate for women is much lower than that for men. Doubling is an exaggeration, at least if the long term stable point is nearly all of both genders working it clearly takes a lot longer than 100 years to get there. I'd argue that in more traditional cultures than the west the social factors that push women away from work are even more extreme. So it doesn't take a society outright banning it to prevent a lot of it. It takes social change to make it happen in many cases. I do agree the technological development is a precursor but that technology has been available for a long time now and shouldn't be the bottleneck in many cases.
Probably those that require a combination of some high level cognitive processes, tacit knowledge, and physical actuation in uncontrolled environments. For example, plumbers probably aren't going to be replaced any soon. Surgeons too. But between surgeons and plumbers, the latter will take more time to be replaced, because a construction site is less of a controlled environment than a surgery room.
This assumes we don't need any ecosystem like farming etc in that area.
yes, we should be celebrating this. also, 1) cash comp was $1m and the $190m equity grant vests over 10 years, 2) see the comment posters username - are we surprised by this take? lol

re (1): https://x.com/eshear/status/1761483016936046596?s=20
Never heard of it before and I live in Paris lol
I assume the UK does export some of these products outside the EU, so that would be even worse.
> Breaching regulations is often a "cost of doing business", but some recent regulations (such as GDPR) can actually create very large fines in many countries.

This is the issue with so many laws. Stricter fines basically never deter would be offenders from committing the crime. What deters people is a high chance of getting caught.
By using the really, really, really badly designed listener auth flow... which just allows javascript to grab your google creds.

https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/listeners
yup magit is pretty much seamless for workflows involving both squashing commits and splitting them open as well.
How do you reconcile recent extreme weather and weather events with your apparent view that most climate reporting is fake? Or that recent years have all been the hottest in modern human history?

Your comment isn't very useful, and not in the spirit of HN with regard to helpful/thoughtful discussion. It's just complaining without evidence.
He said he passed his classes, getting a degree is a very low bar.
Well that's a double standard if ever I saw one.
Depends what you mean by common.

In the universe, and outer planets, yes. But the hotter (and smaller) inner planets have a hard time of keeping hold of lighter elements, so it's much rarer and only really available when bound to heavier compounds such as water.
> “In a food world where labeling leaves a lot to be desired and has been subject to much politics, for the government to introduce a ‘not for EU’ is frankly stupid,” Tim Lang, a professor emeritus of food policy at City University of London, said.

Then perhaps Tim Lang, professor emeritus should have raised this "stupid" move some years ago, when it was announced.
All the replies to this show me just how little your average HN user understands the difference between "nerds can do it" and "anyone can do it and it's a standard part of the ecosystem."

Obviously I can move files around. I can also program in 10 languages. I am not normal.

But even for me, it's not convenient. I don't "need" a friendly ubiquitous way to do it, but if I had one it'd be really nice and would save me time.
Nice, here's an attempt to compute the HN-index for all users. (Differs from blog post; not sure if because the data from the two sources is different, or there's a mistake somewhere):

WITH Ranking AS (
SELECT
by,
score,
RANK () OVER (PARTITION BY by ORDER BY score DESC) AS rank
FROM hackernews_history
)
SELECT by, MIN(rank - 1) as h_index
FROM Ranking
WHERE rank > score
GROUP BY by
ORDER BY h_index DESC
LIMIT 100
Oh, no I don't mean that arbitrary Go compiles to eBPF. Apologies if I gave that impression. I meant that there are libraries that let you compose eBPF programs in other languages. But you're still putting together an eBPF program, just like you can assemble JSON with Go but you can't compile an arbitrary Go program to JSON.

Cilium's eBPF library is the Go one I had in mind: https://github.com/cilium/ebpf

Here's an example from that repo: https://github.com/cilium/ebpf/tree/main/examples/ringbuffer
There is a claim that the US and the UK have enacted much stricter national security laws, such that the proposed law in Hong Kong is nearly a strict subset of those in the US and UK. Can anyone confirm or refute this?
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For some reason I didn't think it switched laws, it was just on or off. Maybe that was for the 777 instead?
Indeed. I wish I could have been born in a world where I could use my skills for survival in the forests and die younger but have a more fulfilling life. Modern technological society is a disappointment, even if I am more comfortable.
I agree, I'd imagine as a senior you have a good sense of what counts as good enough. Unfortunately, there are too many would-be seniors justifying horrendous amounts of accidental complexity as "good practice".
From the article "AMD Spartan UltraScale+ samples and evaluation kits are expected to be available for sampling and evaluation in the first half of 2025." For hardware products, what is the point of making these announcements a year in advance? Are they available for select partners before 2025?
I think fake users / artificial content is a pretty common "things that don't scale" hack.

But yeah editing user content and the extreme mod control should disqualify Section 230 protection IMO.
Certainly but my point being that Reddit has raised a lot of capital and still has no idea how to be truly profitable.
That's a frog slowly boiled in water speaking. Dialog was far more intelligent and less censored back then. And the UI was not such an overwrought mess.
Best place to cut costs would be to retrench their whole video player team. At this point I am not even sure how it is possible to make a product that so routinely fails to function for so many people.
Say their name.

CHICOMS

Communist Chinese have destroyed that place.
From the thread, looks like the cutoff date is February 14th, 2008: https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/120070351/why-ca...
Your quote is misleading. The "he" is in the next paragraph and refers to someone else who owns a Cadillac, not a Corvette.

The track day thing probably was the funniest thing in the article, though.
Short and easy means more people will finish the homework and build a habit of diligence. Once you get used to skipping homework it is hard to start.