skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The success of p2p file sharing platforms rested on the fact that people like piracy and free stuff, it didn't compete on service quality. Which became evident when most content became cheap and people switched.

Nah, it was absolutely about service quality. Absodefinitelutely.

Back in the day it was either buying things on physical media and adjusting your living situation accordingly (having meters of shelves just to store it and media player(s) set up to play the media), OR sail the seas and have "your" entire media library stored away on a media server in the closet, easily accessible from the media center PC connected to your TV. Netflix before Netflix was a thing, essentially.

Now, finally, they caught on and do provide a similar (in some ways higher) level of service as the "homebrew Netflix" solution from "þe aulde" days, and people are prepared to pay for it. I gladly pay the price for the different streaming services because of the convenience of having everything easily accessible in a format that doesn't take up all the space at my home. If that disappears though, I'll grumpily re-build the server in the closet and expand the sails again.
But are you really a victim ?

While the smartphone market is not exactly a broad selection of competing standards, you can chose between Android and iPhone, and over time they've more or less come to represent opposing poles, where Android initially embraced openness and iPhone was the walled garden.

People picked based on preferences, but it's not like any of the platforms lock you in. They even have tools to facilitate easy switching between platforms.

Many companies, especially in highly regulated industries, specifically pick iPhone over Android for the ability to lock down the device. In my industry, our IT department has essentially given up getting Android "certified" to comply with regulations.

Apple recently opened up the App Store in the EU, in theory allowing 3rd party stores, but despite almost everybody i know using iPhones, i have yet to see anything 3rd party installed.
What market? Too vague.

Generally you either need deep expertise in some business domain, or you have an idea that you think other people will benefit from.
Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79
As I understand the proposal, everything about visited link colors, for instance. Lots of cross-origin leaks. New forms of image leaks.
Interesting analysis showing that the supposed emergent abilities with sharp changes in metrics when scaling LLMs are actually rather metric dependent and when you change to an actual linear metric, you also see linear progress.
> Some copypasta probably needs more sophisticated filtering.

I did eventually have to build a process to function as an 'allowlist' for legitimate strings that would otherwise have all the characteristics of spam.
Ex post facto. Takedown happens first, then you can appeal - but generally hosts err on the side of caution.

It’s a blunt force instrument. Always was.

Fun side effect is that you can use it as a blunt force instrument, too - don’t like what someone is saying online? DMCA. Competitor champing at your heels? DMCA.

I still think the best way to kill it is mass abuse of the process.
> Many U.S. hotels changed that after the Mandalay Bay hotel incident in October 2017. A guest can no longer assume that their deadbolted hotel room door will only be opened in an emergency.

I don't see the connection. The Mandalay Bay incident was an emergency, and the door was forced. What needed to change?
I have personally pirated $500+ worth of Switch games plus the $300 console I would have otherwise bought since I own a Steam Deck. This is a very common use-case.
Read the small print. Your messages are encrypted, but you are syncing your entire contacts list (phone book) to FB/Meta.
Too little too late indeed.

There is a footnote about Amiga offering preemptive multitasking 7 years earlier. Considering Apple users had to wait even longer (and less popular Acorn Archimedes / RiscOS is still struggling with "cooperative" MT, today), I think Commodore — or more accurately: the Amiga team — was way ahead of its time (also in terms of hardware) launching Amiga in 1985.
But what about ism isn't a solution, the problems above still exist, they exist for 65% of Americans, who thought they were buying a general purpose phone, but actually are buying a device for running apple software.
The third- and second-from-last paragraphs reference a book found beside Lowell’s bunk: a copy of the “Conservation Pledge” from 1946 "when the magazine Outdoor Life held a contest to encourage outdoors enthusiasts to dedicate themselves to the preservation of the America’s natural resources. The winning entry, the one that adorns Lowell’s wall aboard Valley Forge, was submitted by L.L. Foreman, a former ranch hand turned author of pulpy adventure Westerns.

"The second-place winner of that 1946 contest? Rachel Carson."

So there's a hint that the protagonist of Silent Running had actually read Carson's Silent Spring!
Every license has strings attached, including Public Domain [0] (that's why SQLite is not open-contribution).

ps. yes, I am aware of license vs copyright distinction and relation they create.

[0] https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html
Here is a very useful collection of 3D APIs: https://products.fileformat.com/3d/
It allows developers to Read, Write, Convert & Manipulate 3D Documents via .NET, Java, JavaScript & C++ and more. Most of them are free and can be used with ease.
Might be semantics as the changes I describe are fairly substantial compared to how many companies implement them. I did think of not calling it OKRs anymore at the time but the effort to rebrand it internally didn't seem worth the payoff. I like your suggestions - anything that increases clarity, alignment and debate. If a team wanted to align based on a memo or other doc we could debate I'd go for that as an alternative to OKRs. Documenting what you tried, what worked and why and what you intend to do makes sense to me!
Really, it's very subreddit dependent. I process a 'spam score' for each subreddit daily and there exists quite a bit of variance. Most of the larger subreddits are pretty well moderated.
The biggest threat to the open web is Chrome’s dominance. Firefox is dwindling away and even Mozilla doesn’t seem to care about it, leaving Safari the only thing stopping Chrome from completely taking over. Google are already executing the Embrace & Extend playbook with non-standard functionality.

Everybody who says “Safari is the new IE” seems to be too young to know what IE and front-end web development were really like during the 00s. I’d take WebKit on iOS over a Blink monoculture any day, and so should any web developer.
I've experienced several variations of this at different companies. It's never mattered as far as I can tell.

Managers get required to look at it as part of a some process, and inevitably find a set of goals that make no sense, as priorities have completely shifted. They then ignore it.
Exporting in real time is the expectation, anything else is subpar.
How to change the volume on a Mac in small increments
I’m posting this as it’s been common knowledge for me for years but I’m not sure everybody knows about this.
I am not aware of any tools like that, but eventually, I plan to add support for gRPC fuzzing to Schemathesis. There were already some discussions and it is more or less clear how to move forward. See https://github.com/schemathesis/schemathesis/discussions/190...
There are efforts to port pico8 to microcontrollers, but the real problem with lua is memory (easily requires 4MB of memory which is only available on high-end microcontrollers).

https://github.com/DavidVentura/PicoPico
I find myself wanting a result type so often in python. This looks great. Thanks!
Immich warning from the home page :

"The project is under very active development. Expect bugs and changes. Do not use it as the only way to store your photos and videos!"
It was one thing when enthusiasts were emulating systems near or past EOL, but at this point a Nintendo system is often not the best way to enjoy a Nintendo game.
They really don't have much choice. It's likely one of the most effective ways to minimize spam from 5 min old accounts.
> ie I don't get why half times are a good way to model plastic degradation, when all of the plastic is exposed to 'scissor hits' all of the times.

They are all exposed to scissor hits all the time, but it's a stochastic scissor. You can think of every connection rolling many dices every second, and whenever they all land on 1 the molecule breaks. This kind of behavior leads to exponential decay, which is subject to half life.

> Assuming it is like you say, if a plastic bag is brittle, going to dust after just 10 years after being in the ground, (I'm using supermarket bag design as a means to figure out the age of the bag,) that is far from 50 years to break down half the connections.

Why? You don't need to break all connections to break to dust. They are trillions of connections to break if you want to degrade the compound to its primitive molecule, but only thousands if you want to shred it to pieces. Keep in mind that if the monomer measures 1nm, a piece of plastic of 10um still has 10,000 connections. And if at the beginning you have a piece of plastic that's 10cm long (all reasoning are 1D here for simplicity), you just need to cut it 1000 times to get to 10um (so at 10um you're still much closer to the beginning than to the end, even though the plastic is now invisible).

> Or perhaps the metric is the case in artificial, sterile conditions, which the ground is not.

As I said before, it's a model and you're right it's not entirely accurate. Yet plastic doesn't have much enemies living in the ground, so it's pretty close to being sterile from the perspective of the plastic. And that's actually the problem we're facing right now.
Freeciv 3D: https://github.com/fciv-net/fciv-net/
> All of these companies trying to sell OSS are unhappy that AWS is competing with them on maintenance. AWS is more or less fully living up to the ideals of OSS - they share the code, they contribute to the core, they share processes and so on (to a greater or lesser extent).

Can you point me to the code describing some of the secret sauce used by AWS? If AWS was a real good OSS citizen, they would use FLOSS software and create FLOSS automation to operate it at scale, no? We have hundreds of such tools out there: Linux kernel, IPVS, keepealived, HAProxy, Kubernetes etc etc etc. These are all plumbing that are FLOSS. Why isn't AWS publishing their own plumbing as FLOSS so I can potentially run a mini-AWS in my datacenter?
I am in the process of trying to understand how businesses work and I have been comparing the realities of starting and running companies in various european countries. Most of the information that I can find is very surface level so thanks for sharing anything that people should be aware of.

A community/forum/subreddit focused on this does not seem to exist. I guess professionals are too busy.

I was also surprised to not see much discourse over Section 174 recently.

But getting back to the point, europe needs to decide if it wants to be relevant or not in the future. As an italian currently living in my country, I can say that doing business here looks like insanity, it's not hyperbole, the environment is as anti-business and innovation as it can be.
I am sure Nintendo doesn’t mind if people who pirate their stuff start to “boycott” them.
Ah. You are saying they would encrypt on top. Sounds inefficient but I guess reasonable if you think about people like Kazakh government or Korean institutions requiring everyone to add a CA just to live a life. So without extra encryption they could snoop on that too. We can't have nice things...

(It's still possible to compare how much a blank device phones home but perhaps we wouldn't know all the details of what it talks about)
No one is supposed to. It goes like this: 1. DMCA request (take them down, they use our copyrighted stuff!), 2. opposition (no, we do not agree! Do not take us down), 3. the process with lawyers and judges starts

An expectation is that “wrongdoers” just do not bother to oppose and everything works faster.

Then there are corporate policies which make this weirder (like YouTube who says: “if people send too many dmca request towards you, we chose not to see you as a customer”. But this has nothing to do with law)
Nintendo is a bit unusual in that their first-party games are a big deal, and there aren't a ton of interesting non-Nintendo games on Switch. Obviously it will vary but plenty of people have one for Zelda and Mario Kart primarily.
this feels so stupid.
That is how you end up never contributing anything or having your first pull request be rejected.

The random driveby contributor strategy has never worked for me. Most of my projects had me as their "long term" contributor or the opposite, I let one of my contributors become one.

Organization is critical to the success of a project and you're basically telling someone to forget about it and waste the maintainers time.
Also make sure to register an Anguilla domain name rather than the .network tld, or god forbid British Indian Ocean Teritory. How early 2010s!
When I logged in on mobile web Glassdoor forced me into a signup flow for something called Communities which included asking for my employment status. I was able to time a stop before the full page load and navigate to the account page.

If you log in first you can navigate directly to this URL without answering any questions: https://www.glassdoor.com/member/profile/accountSettings which will allow you to close your account.

You then need to request they delete your data which can be done at https://help.glassdoor.com/s/privacyrequest?language=en_US
Going that route one needs a prestigious name on one’s resume, though.
You are going to have a hard time arguing that the Switch, one of the most successful console of all times is losing money because of emulation.

There's the people who will never pay a penny to Nintendo anyways and there's the people who just want to run their own games in something better than a choppy 1280x720@30FPS
god damn, just use whatsapp
The risk is not only retaliation by lower rated companies.

It may make users virtually unemployable if HR starts using Glassdoor as a database of publicly critical people. Given the choice between engineer 1 who never posted anything bad against a company, and engineer 2 who posted critical comments, who would you hire?
Sumi would probably have been more appropriate…
Also other candidates could have been
Nosumi
Kamusumi
Kantosumi
Aideayusumi
Toraiandosumi
+1 My kids and I had a lot of fun with Pico-8, building simple games and learning basic geometry.

The community (inherited from Pico-8) is already implementing cat/wget/grep[1] and, of course, Minesweeper[2] in Picotron! Whatever Joseph White/zep is building brings back the early days of Internet and IRC where the everybody builds and shares unashamedly while having a ton of fun!

Thank you zep for making computing fun again for more mere mortals!

[1]: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=140771
[2]: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=140678
Yes, massive corporations who nevertheless don't want to take on the burden of developing a solution of this magnitude alone, or that want network effects so that their suppliers can't sell them bespoke solutions.
will this prevent people from not buying apple phones?
No, they won't because they already charge premium with good margin on it and competition exists.

Microsoft/Azure already agreed to enter new license agreement, others will follow if they haven't done it yet.

Nobody will notice anything, nothing will change for anybody. Some forks will popup and die off for sure though.
This is the Switch, not the GBA or SNES, it's their current product lineup. I really have a hard time understanding why you have a hard time understanding this.

And I also love Nintendo, but I mostly play GBA and SNES games from my childhood.
>a technical person offering advice on a way out of a sticky situation to another (assumed) technical person.

even if that assumption was correct, they mentioned this being done for their wive's iPhone. Which is assumedly a non-technical person given that the best solution was a paid cloud subscription.
From what I see, it has the benefit of offering less functionality, more corpojargon and a more 'intuitive' ui.
I'd say that is the problem of the people that choose to buy such a stupid car, not of the one selling it, or of the people that choose not to buy it.
New vuln in Apple M-series allowing secret keys extraction can't be patched
"I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian Consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 auto-gyro?"
You weren't born in that late 90's era right? :D
If it's seen as chore it's doomed to fail.

Where I have seen it work well are in competitive markets such as SAAS companies battling for market share.

The maturity for using measurement for decision making is higher because to do otherwise means losing marketshare quickly to a competitor. Network effects often mean regaining a leading market position is tough.

The other element is the leadership treating it very seriously. That means investing in regularly communicating the state of the company's market position and engaging in giving feedback on goals and progress and looking for ways to support the teams.

Unfortunately these are traits missing in many companies.
Don’t you need an Apple developer account to get certificates to sign your stuff? If so that might explain it since that would be… what $300 a year? On top of likely having to go through the whole Apple Store acceptance process.
Would you really have bought both consoles together? I have a hard time to believe that. That's not really the same budget.
More wind and less urban heat island effect would keep the temperatures more reasonable, I think.
Holland and every EU country also has an anti-circumvention provision similar to the DMCA.

Indeed, it's an easier case than in the US in many EU nations IMO, and with criminal rather than civil penalties in some of them.
Can I search for a text in a photo?

Off topic: what’s the best desktop application that allows that? A lot of my pics in my iPhone are still there because of this feature, but if there’s a program that does the same on windows/linux, I will be happy to use instead.
> Lots of them, especially Japanese artists, have expressed that they hate piracy (i.e. repost their paid rewards on interweb) simply because it's (in their opinion) wrong.

That's exactly what I mean. At the end of the day, what they believe is what drives their behavior.

> At the end of the day, in my opinion it's right holder's call, regardless if their decision is based on emotion or rationale.

I'm not disputing that here.

Edit: oh, this isn't a response to the comment I though it was. The comment when I'm saying roughly the same as you are and I though was misinterpreted is this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39788265
This makes sense because you would not have bought a steam deck if you owned a switch
yea, they're usually windier and therefore are (and feel) a few degrees cooler. Fortunately they aren't particularly humid either (usually) which makes them feel quite pleasant imo
copilot would be similar to that
> How do you manage to catalog all the subreddits in existence?

Oh, I don't want to give the wrong impression. I'm not cataloging anywhere near _all_ subreddits. Or all of anything. More or less I started one day with one subreddit and built a system that just churns through what's there. The API is limited and there's only so many creative ways to request the data (while staying within TOS) - as I've wanted to remain able to function I've made sure to stay within the boundaries set forth.

Rather than try to get _everything_ (there's services out there that have databases of a lot of past/current reddit data) that ends up stale data (which may be useful for a content farm) I'm interested instead in a relatively accurate picture.

This project initially grew out of an interest in building an automated moderation bot to help out subreddits being spammed with content from accounts that are so obviously spam when the content was posted that it's astounding it ever makes it live. A few months into developing the initial crawling/database/hashing setup and getting things all tuned up they announced the API changes and I lost all interest in the moderation aspects but had enjoyed using it as a test bed for learning new things. (I came into this having no idea what a hamming distance was)
I guess the primary issue is the chair-->keyboard interface. The fact that browsers can open unlimited number of tabs doesn't mean you don't have to do a little housekeeping.

Plenty of people still use systems with 4GB and lower and it works fine as long as the number of tabs they open is limited.
From a health perspective you have to measure average air quality experienced by a person under typical circumstances. No point measuring air no one breaths.
There seems to be some confusion here. Let me step in as someone who has gone through this.

My repo https://github.com/shawwn/llama-dl was taken down last March by Facebook. They asserted copyright over LLaMA, which is obviously bogus since it was trained on data they do not own the copyright to. I was bummed about this, but after I mentioned on HN that I was willing to fight Meta, an anonymous person named L contacted me and sent $20k of Monero to cover legal fees. I was also contacted by an amazing lawyer who wanted to represent me in this. I was absurdly fortunate on both counts.

He drafted a counternotice, we sent it, and then my repo was restored within a week or so.

GitHub had no choice in the matter. Legally this is a required process. Ditto for GitLab. Both are US companies.

When YouTube-dl was taken down some time ago by a DMCA, Nat went to bat and got it restored, and GitHub made some sort of pledge to cover legal fees associated with bogus takedown requests.

Here’s the shitty part for this particular situation. A case can be made that the emulator is for the purpose of circumventing copyright protection mechanisms. This, sadly, is a solid legal basis for issuing a lawful takedown, as much as we all absolutely despise that idea. It’s pretty clear cut; Nintendo doesn’t want Switch games to be run on non-Nintendo platforms, and the emulator seeks to enable Switch games to be run on any platform. Therefore, the intent of the emulator is to circumvent Nintendo’s protection mechanisms.

So where does this leave us? Well, the team can file a counternotice. GitLab will restore the repo. But that opens up the team to a lawsuit by Nintendo. And as much as I want to stand up to bullies, there’s a difference between standing up to a guy shoving a kid in a locker vs standing up to a Silverback gorilla charging at you. Nintendo’s legal history implies the latter.

Welcome to Nintendo pain. The Smash community has been dealing with Nintendo’s BS for decades now. They shut down tournaments that use emulators for Smash Melee. And no one can do anything, because it’s their legal right to do so.

EDIT: It’s horrible that GitLab disabled the accounts of the developers, though. My GitHub account was fine. This should be the focus of the outrage here.