skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Movie piracy is not, and seems to be increasing (hard to say though), because of people getting frustrated with the fragmentation of streaming

I feel that proves the point. When everything is all together for $20 people don't mind. when it's spread out, people are too lazy to sub/unsub to other $20 services as needed to watch content on demand. Someone that's a heavy enough power user to watch that much TV shouldn't mind paying $100+ to keep up. Premium cable was way more expensive and restrictive back in the day.

Meanwhile, all that conversation and none of these streaming services are even profitable. Because giving all your content away for rent isn't financially viable. But it's still too much for lazy consumers. So the entire thing collapses.

>No, most people want convenience. That's why music piracy is basically dead.

It's also why people completely raged when Netflix and GamePass increased prices. There definitely is a breaking point for many (past the ones who complain about every price hike on the internet but stay subscribed).

>Piracy is usually a service problem

Everytime I hear this, I simply need to point to the mobile industry to prove it wrong (or maybe right? Just not the way people think is "fair"). They fixed piracy by doing the classic Web dev action: Keep everything valuable on your server. The APK you pirate is worthless, as it is simply a thin client into their actual value.

We know how the rest ends from there.
I really dont understand how that channel can have so many fans. Makes me humble in realizing I really dont know how people work.
When was the last time Apple released a totally new product vertical in the same vein as vision pro? 10 years ago? 15?
Soon it’ll run on a pregnancy test too.
I think we're maybe talking past each other with definitions.

I think something is a lie when somebody intentionally tries to mislead (even when communicating "facts" if the intent is to maliciously shape the recipient mind). I think when they intentionally try to convey the "right" ideas (as I think this author is doing -- again, using words the way you think most of your peers use them is usually a good thing), that's not a lie. There are gray areas in between. I don't think this is a gray area, except insofar as I don't know all the facts perfectly.

You still seem to disagree with me though. I'd really like to understand why. I have a couple theories, which I'll list, but I'm interested in any insights you have:

1. You disagree with my description of what "lying" is.

2. You think the author is less deserving of trust than I do (since they seem to be profiting almost nothing other than a tiny bit of publicity, since they did outline in their README exactly what they meant, with photos, and since the title didn't stoop to clickbait, my default position is that they likely weren't too malicious, but you might have different priors and might also disagree with my opinions of those conflicts of interest).

> the whole point of overhead ...

That's perhaps the last pertinent thing we disagree about. I'll throw out my opinion, and I sincerely want to know your thoughts on the matter:

An extremely commonplace occurrence is that something is slow and you want to speed it up (measuring perceived latency). If you can magically do that by adding parallelism then it's a good day at work. Unfortunately, parallelism can easily add "overhead" -- parallelizing small or finely grained problems usually increases wall-clock timing, usually substantially.

In that mode of operation, the whole problem you're trying to solve is reducing a certain latency measurement, making it clear from context what "overhead" means. Other definitions don't even enter into the equation.

Zooming out a bit, I've heard that phrasing a ton of times in many different companies. Sure, it's better if people know to speak more precisely (and I think we're in agreement that a few more performance characteristics would be nice to know here), but it's hard for me to imagine a world were my default perception of somebody is that they're lying when they're using the exact same words and meanings as scores of other good engineers. _Maybe_ they are, but that's by no means my default assumption.
Listen, I went to magic 8 ball online and that is what it said. Don't blame me.
From the original paper:

> However, it must be
emphasised that this does not include other dangers
posed through the misuse of these models, such as
the use of LLMs to generate fake news. Similarly,
we do not contend that future AI systems could
never pose an existential threat. Instead, we clarify
that, contrary to prevailing narratives, the evidence
from LLM abilities does not support this concern.

I find myself unconvinced that LLMs are "inherently controllable, predictable and safe."
Has the installation gotten easier? Last time I checked I needed to find a speccific version apk of youtube app itself that revanced patcher patches before installing. Too many steps to make way too often.
To get it you really need to learn enough lisp (not a lot) and try implementing a non-trivial macro.
Elad X Arthur (CEO of Mistral)
wonder if this happens with Mounjaro, too
These guys have no idea what they're talking about. I've seen them talk about things I know about and they weren't even remotely in the ball park. They have cheap reaction videos where they criticize stuff they know nothing about since they haven't ever actually worked in vfx.
> Previously, Chevron deference required the courts to defer to the agency's interpretation of the statute, regardless of how unreasonable that interpretation was.

No it didn't. It only required deference to reasonable interpretations by the agency.
Because they would then have to camera track the whole clip to place the bins, and also make sure the bins stay in the correct positions when they reappear and disappear out of frame. In contrast, they only need to camera track the few frames when he does the kick. The quick movement of the ball also makes it harder to spot CGI errors IMO. Whereas if you have to fake the bins, you also have to deal with camera zoom, exposure changes, etc. that happen throughout the clip.
Coding with Cursor: Session 1
I spent some time reading about static linking and dynamic linking. From the FAQ

> "Linking a GPL covered work statically or dynamically with other modules is making a combined work based on the GPL covered work. Thus, the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole combination"

If I had to guess, if you installed each application in your stack separately, and they simply interacted with each other through API calls, you could consider them "System Libraries" and therefore would not dragged into the AGPL. Example, The OS itself, Node, Postgres, and any other 3rd party applications. As long as you are not distributing them, I think they would count as System Libraries.

> "To prevent unscrupulous distributors from trying to use the System Library exception as a loophole, the GPL says that libraries can only qualify as System Libraries as long as they're not distributed with the program itself. If you distribute the DLLs with the program, they won't be eligible for this exception anymore"
Hold for me is pretty good. I've never used the phonetree feature, but I think it's often the case that I don't know which button I need to press: I have to listen to them all first, then decide which one. Commonly I have to listen to the tree twice: once to decide, and once to find out what to click. I'll probably look for the phonetree next time, so I can just read over it and find what I want. I agree it would be much better to preload it, but that might not be plausible due to privacy concerns or legal reasons.
Does this specific detail matter if the customer can just scale up (big number mean faster ug!) and it meets their requirements? Also I'm sure this has changed and will continue to change over time, so it's not exactly easy for the CEO to come on here and tie the infra engineers hands by publishing the exact details of whatever they currently have deployed at the moment just for some hardass to bust their balls about it later. If you really care that much ($$$) I wouldn't be surprised if they'll let you use whatever fancy pants core you have in mind.
If you use a camera with shake reduction system like a Pentax DSLR, it has a function to shake the sensor slightly to avoid Moiré.
Substitute any non-trivial programming idiom for “macros” and that is true for some subset of working programmers.
The courts should not be able to make and apply any standards to government operations that it conveniently sees and defines as ambiguous, especially since a lot of their standards are frequently seen as more than ambiguous. We've seen this with their emergency "posthumous" clarifications of the Roe ruling by conflicting EMTALA, fertility clinics, and decades of health science.
Having written several toy languages, I think that the process is supremely educational in ways that other efforts are not. In particular, it gives you an awareness of how these things can go wrong so that you can see where your day job efforts can go wrong if extended too far in some direction. You always learn about distinctions that were never apparent before you got into the details.

Without the freedom to make a mess of things, you live too cautious a life. It's worth digging in to some of these efforts even if they do wind up a mess. It's not because the mess will be meaningful. It's because you will understand better what was good and bad about what you did and how you got there.
An xkcd Drain the Oceans https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/ is highly entertaining on this vein.
I feel like this is the exact opposite of what they should be doing.

They should start producing ARM chips. They could finally get a piece of the smartphone market, which would not cannibalize their x86 sales (which I assume is the reason why they have refused to use ARM since the sale of xScale).
It's performance optimization - you're well positioned to make decisions about execution times and app responsiveness but too often app devs are gatekept away from the cost data. Tools like this try to fix that. This is net good.
Yes, but improperly venting the hydrogen is "not venting hydrogen" but looks like venting the hydrogen unless closely inspected.
I understood that. As Apache does have a way for me to internally automate all of that, without using an external tool such as certbot, I am surprised that nginx doesn't as well. Either way, you should add Apache to your list of servers, along with caddy and traefik.
The comment I was replying to was talking about companies rather than the Air Force as mentioned in the OP.

That said, company size and influence has plenty to do with dumping chemicals. Most importantly, they are able to buy regulatory cover for said dumping of chemicals. Dupont pulled this off extremely well, lying about what they knew to be damaging impact on ground water while buying off regulators who effectively looked the other way.

It doesn't matter if dumping PFAS, in this case, is legal for me to do just like it is for a company or the Air Force. I am not engaging in activities that lead to a large amount of PFAS that I need to deal with.
Except for the Dutch. https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/
> They don't sell.

This isn't an answer, unless you believe it's impossible to make more than one size of phone at a time.

I specifically asked what might be pushing manufacturers toward such a viewpoint. How does the existence of an iPhone mini reduce total iPhone sales?
Pixel 9 design language is iPhone 4 design language from 2010 -- which was original iPhone design language from 2005, that didn't ship!

Apple calling back to what was considered their most iconic design language for the iPhone (and now iPads) long before others imitated it, doesn't mean Apple is now copying the imitators.

https://www.core77.com/posts/16817/core77-speaks-with-jonath...

This remains widely regarded as the most significant design since dropping the keyboard.

The plot on that design thickens, Samsung claimed Apple copied Sony:

https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/26/3189309/apple-sony-iphone...

But those were Apple having fun with Sony fanfiction applied to an earlier Apple design ... turns out the iPhone 4 language was in their design repertoire in 2005, before even the original iphone shipped:

https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/30/3201162/apple-refutes-cla...

I seem to recall they couldn't do the design earlier due to fabrication and materials constraints.
Yes, Congress is deadlocked. There are many bills which have the support of a majority of the House but cannot pass because of the Hastert rule.
You claimed landlords are incentivized to keep spaces empty. Empty means zero income. DSCR with zero income is less than DSCR with some income.
Congress cannot delegate the lawmaking obligation to unelected agencies.

That's... exactly what this ruling correctly determined; that the power must remain with the people and their representatives.
I first became aware of persistence hunting, by seeing this BBC Earth documentary[0], in which three men track and hunt an Kudu for 8 hours.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o
I guess it's important that the negative signal be relatively small compared to the affected system, like antivenom doses, but also it needs to be predictable/differentiable to some degree. If two different doses of venom never had the same molecular patterns then it would be impossible to immunize against it.

A one-time supernova event would destroy a solar system, but the universe itself is antifragile to supernovas, and actually has built emergent spatiotemporal structures which depend on supernovas as part of their lifecycle. New solar systems rise up from old supernovas.

Predictability/differentiability of internal and external states is key for building robust systems, negative signals alone are often just detrimental. You can't learn from chaos.
People who are saying Finance == assembly/COBOL/Java either have never worked in the area or have decided about the elephant by touching a very small part it.

Within a bank, you can have the accounting department using tested and tried approaches and/or vendor products whereas the machine learning group may be using the latest tech. But finance is not all banks - you can have non-banking financial orgs, rating firms, investment consultancies, private equity, hedge funds and on and on. A hedge fund probably uses super cutting edge stuff in one team while the other has been chugging along with stored procedures and Java.

It is too big and varied to generalize.
Meshtastic's Opposition to Proposed Changes on 900 MHz Band
I don't know if I agree that this is "it does" as this isn't really "not out of the box" and kind of "fully external", but what I continue to be surprised by is that Apache DOES come with this functionality, "out of the box" (via a first-party module--and btw everything in Apache is built out of modules, including protocols--that ships with Apache and is configured inside of Apache), while nginx doesn't. I feel like the decision to use Apache has been vindicated throughout the ages, time and time again ;P. (There was a very short period of time when nginx was "faster", but not only did the world move on to ubiquitous CDNs anyway, but Apache quickly responded with mpm_event, which eventually became the default.)
Friction and velocity is what’s important.

For executive teams, in-person interactions cut down friction, and result in an order of magnitude higher velocity. Every bit of friction adds up, scheduling a Zoom meeting or waiting on 5 people to reply to an email is way slower than a 17 second walk down the hall to get a thumbs up from those same 5 people.

But for developers or anyone doing deep work, their friction is interruptions, and if they’re interrupted every 30 minutes, they never reach a high velocity. Or if you have a headache, taking a nap might actually be the fastest path to building something complex.

Then there’s the majority of workers, who aren’t interested in “working like hell”. There’s a limited supply of ambitious, talented people, and you need this group.

I sometimes wonder if that’s the whole reason some startups get acquired, just because you’re getting employees who are ambitious.
The world is not a fair place. Its the political powers at work that decide people's fate no matter who they are.

Over the years I have seen some very critical people, even critical teams fired en masse, and then replaced by not so good people. The world goes on. The products and projects suffer for a while, many times even die out completely. But that is what the powers-that-are want, and are ok to live with.

My experience with these things tells me Tim won't find much respect there(even when he returns) unless the whole leadership is now replaced. And I can tell you other people will be treated with same levels of disrespect and outright insults going on. Once there is toxic management/leadership in place, your only options are to leave and work at some other place that treats people with respect.

Im sure their foundation gets lots of money. And they have to appear in certain way(politically, and popular cultural trends) to keep getting more money. They are not going care who is important or how important they are, when big money is involved and they are likely to make big pay days.

Its the standard evolution arc of most political hierarchies in tech companies. Once the product is successful and profits are flowing in. Management takes over. Decide they don't need engineering anymore, treat people with disrespect. Drive away good talent. Poison the whole culture and continue to milk features for more money. Eventually the set up dies out, and they go the next companies to extract the next pound of flesh.
Basic MetaProgramming in Zig
It can do that with previously-known phone trees.
I think my one of my adult kids that was interested in video production pointed him out to me quite a few years ago. What is amazing is that you can see his comedic schtick was already in his earliest videos from 16 years ago
Apparently your comment is divisive though!
Ah, I see. I read the article, but not the links. I even searched for eigenvalue/eigenvector to see if I was crazy.

The first linked article is very good. I always enjoy Ian’s work.
Possibly, depending on the stakes of the applications they program.

Front end web dev? Nah, who gives a shit.
Embedded system that's fail deadly? Um, yes.
Gemini messes up first question in interview
Ostensibly this is part of the ‘cancer moonshot’ started during the Obama White House following the death of Beau Biden, as mentioned by another reply, and continued today by the Biden administration.
But after the acquhire gets a bazillion dollars, suddenly their ambitions are directed differently than working for the man...
Where would you use 3D Gaussian splatting? Static environments for video games?
Show HN: I built a better home contractor discovery tool
If handling a user identifier and a hashed password securely, and providing a means to reset said password is more than "trivial" relative to the rest of a business application, the whole scenario is moot anyway because it's going to be shut down before anyone who might attack it is even aware it existed: there isn't really a profitable market for hello-world and "my first todo" apps.
It is when all it does is fund what they've already decided on. Appropriations bills just fund priorities established by existing law. All it does is keep the executive branch doing its job.

Which seems like the bare minimum and even that much is often too much to ask.
Oh wow, I wasn't expecting to see this on Hacker News again!

This remains my most popular post. I'm very glad about the interest in mathematics it continues to generate!

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To that one criticism, yes, there is no real "why" to the animations other than I thought they looked cool.

The post is not meant to be comprehensive, or teach anything more than bare basics meant to enjoy the visualizations.

I disagree that math visualizations must have clear pedagogical goals. Math visualizations can be purely exploratory.

The curves the poles trace out over time, are they significant somehow? Perhaps. Perhaps not. That's the exciting part of exploring new concepts. And part of the reason I chose linear over geometric interpolation.

Exploring those curves and alternate interpolations/animations was going to be part two, but it never happened.

I try to make posts accessible to as many people as possible. There is plenty of rigorous content already out there for learning more.

The focus for my blog is exploration and curiosity.

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Perhaps I'll get around to part 2, and make it interactive with a compute shader.

Apologies for the code, it was never meant to be reused. I'm sure you can improve it!

Thank you for reading :)
outsource core competencies, sell good investments, deliver flawed projects, ride the hype that your CEO once was involved in a historical CPU.

Maybe it's time to buy puts on INTC.
Because the courts merely interpret and reinforce the laws – as written by the people's representatives, not by an unelected official.

The lawmaking body of the land is congress, and they are comprised of a fair representation of the people. That is by design.
Ask HN: How do you find a new book to read?
Not really interested in the book I am reading, don't know what to read instead. So, how do you all find new books to read? Feel free to suggest a book as well!
I think it's easy to argue against it being the right decision simply due to the people involved on each side of the case.

For one, it was a very "partisan" ruling being a 6-3 conservative court ruling.

The fishing companies' legal representation for the case includes organizations with funding linked to Charles Koch, and the side that is condemning the outcome is an environmental protection group.

I'm no bootlicker. I don't side with corporations and billionaires over environmental protection groups unless there's an extremely compelling case for it.

I think that while you may technically be right about the flaws in the status quo, the end result of the ruling will be that companies now have a new mechanism to litigate every bad thing they want to dump into the environment to death whereas previously the administrative regulatory agencies were able to quickly strike down nonsense like that. I think they'll have a better avenue to now claim rules are ambigious that aren't actually ambiguous, appeal appeal appeal, and just keep going at it until they find friendly or uninformed judges.

And let's not forget that administrative agencies don't have a complete lack of enforceable ethics rules like the Supreme Court does. If a company wants to claim a chemical is ambiguously dangerous, they can now litigate the hell out of it all the way up to a surpreme court where a direct bribe to a judge is 100% legal.
I havent used either beyond hobby scale, but I’ve followed both for a while because my day job runs a very large Postgres deployment.

You can run both Neon and Supabase in your cloud account by self hosting. They may also offer on-prem managed deployment, I haven’t looked. I think anyone at large scale interested in using them will “colocate” them.

They have different capabilities over the incumbent cloud provider managed Postgres service.

Neon is very interesting for:

- scale up & scale out. Get more cores for your DB than the max incumbent single instance size.

- fast SSD cache in front of S3. Incumbent DB often uses glacially slow network block storage like EBS.

- branching and schema management wizardry

Supabase is “just” a vanilla Postgres instance plus a suite of extra services and tooling. In their case the collocated version can add the services around an incumbent cloud managed DB.
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