skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are just rephrasing what I said: "I don't agree that they write good or intuitive (easiest to use) software, but that's just me." is saying the same thing as "I don't find their software good or intuitive". Maybe I should work on my online communication skills.

Yeah I'm probably being too pedantic here, but to me "they don't write good or unintuitive software" means they should design their software differently (presuming you assume Apple values these things which I think they do), whereas "I don't find their software good or intuitive" means that you personally found their software difficult to use.

For example, I have over 10000 commits in my dotfiles, like I'm not a typical user, so for me whether I personally find their software good or intuitive isn't something I'd factor in to whether the software is good or intuitive for most users, because I personally am such an outlier from a typical user (which I also assume you, and most HN readers really, also are).
One demographic this appeals to is the shareholders.
I doubt their user/market research said anything about people willing to pay for this.
Thanks! It’s a side hustle.

Haven’t looked into scaling up.
From my laptop, in the UK.

Did you use Bing search? Do you have an ad-blocker?
> As it turns out, a lot of student code can look this way anyway. Something crazy like 70% of authentic student code can have dead code in assignment submissions.

Having assessed student code this does not surprise me. Source code control late at night for students, especially non-CS majors, tends to be variations of "append a number to the end of the function name" eg. sum1(x, y) sum2(x, y) ... sumTHISREALLYWORKS(x, y).

That said, if dead code was being used to hide plagiarism, which is something I had not considered before, then telling students they would be marked down for dead code would probably be enough to stop it.
I agree with the sentiment but the purpose of WebAssembly is to be a compiler target for other languages, so we're not stuck with Javascript until the end of time, right? Will this always necessarily be substantially slower than Javascript?
We're not at the AGI stage yet. Whether the AI is "inspired" is a poor direction to argue in.

A better question is whether a person who can legally do X without using a tool is legally allowed to do X using a tool. Can a musician who learns Taylor Swift songs make music similar to Taylor Swift songs? If so, then a non-musician should be able to use a tool trained on a body of songs including but not limited to Taylor Swift songs to generate "music" similar to Taylor Swift songs.
If this goes through, either all companies would have to rewrite their eulas, or no-one would dare to use an online service. Either which is actually quite good.
> Google losing to OpenAI on GenAI

I don't know why we keep thinking about "GenAI" as a product. It's an enabling technology that may (or may not) be appropriate for building actual products.

We should be asking "Is our company winning in Search, or in Shopping, or in Chat, or in Developer Tools?" Not "Is our company winning in GenAI?" This is like saying "Is our company winning in Python use?" It makes no sense.
I don't criticize people who pirate, but I don't do it personally. I buy my video and music, usually on physical media. I also buy music from Bandcamp, where I can download the unencumbered files rather than stream.
The ability to amend a contract is not a requirement for a valid contract (but agreement is). Contracts like this, on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, are called "contracts of adhesion".

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/adhesion_contract_%28contrac...

They are generally valid but courts may limit what may be enforced to a standard of reasonableness.
> I thought he was on the payroll for FSF, but his reportable compensation has been zero from 2002 to 2022 according to:

He resigned in 2019 following allegations of inappropriate behavior towards women (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20990583).
> there is still a question of how one would support quality investigative journalism and someone to hold the powers that be accountable

I don't think there is: You pay for it, since it's in your best interests to. I'd pay for that. Unfortunately, in my country, there aren't any outlets like that that I know of, everything is government propaganda.
I will remind our CEO to shut down our 100% European company, because apparently he didn't received the message yet.

Total impact up to this point was maybe man-month to make sure we're GDPR compliant, while Apple opening up NFC may bring at least a few nice contracts (from local players no less).

I think we'll be fine.
Louis Rossmann is with you on that!

“Disney creates best argument for piracy in a century”

https://youtu.be/ikA9KkiTH-c

It’s a video he posted ~1 hour ago, about this case with Disney and the food poisoning that killed customer in their supposedly allergy-friendly restaurant.
Programming the system to deny any modified ToS is pretty zero cost.
Android's 'Clobbering' Dilemma
The choice of instrument is not entirely innocent. Harpsichords are rich in harmonics, and those harmonics are almost exactly multiples of the fundamental. This is perfect for revealing natural ratios in chords. Pianos have "bent" harmonics which would slightly obscure this. This is inharmonicity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inharmonicity
I thought the comment was talking about both sides of the USB cable exposing devices to the other, when they said:

> Is it theoretically possible to have 2-way HID
Agreed. I really like the concept of the now page as a succinct quarterly update. I want it to only change once per quarter.

I also really like consolidated news feeds of one persons activity across all platforms (which seems more like what these "auto now" page attempts are going for).

I think we need a new term. I would like to call it /feed. It could even be implemented as an rss/atom/activitypub aggregate feed of all a user's activity across publishing platforms.

/feed

Let's make it a thing.
And let's keep /now as the quarterly update.

(also, your now page link is not resolving)
Jobs can still pay on top of ubi which would be enough incentive to hold them. You may as well ask why any navy cook would strive to be general when peeling potatos is less stress. The answer is also higher pay.
I’m not sure why you’re bringing up Steam, but they do sell software on it
The problem is that Disney is a company that produces media, and consuming media is not a human right. Should entertainment be a human right? I don't think so, and I'm confident most legal professionals don't either.
I think it's more likely to come from attempts to merge their brains with AI. ASI could do the pan-dimensional bit of "hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional creatures whose rodent aspect represents merely a three-dimensional projection of their actual form."
An unusual reason to advocate for privacy, no EULA.
Nice! Can't wait to try it
Whither CockroachDB?
At least in Denmark, we have consumer rights that protect against a company making legal contracts with individual persons, that place the person in a worse situation than the law.
There are TONS.

Personal dashboard builder is like project #2 or #3 right after TODO lists when it comes to new coders it seems like.
> I don't owe artists any royalties just because they say so. If they demand a kiss they won't get it either. I won't be bound by arbitrary restrictions around the physical matter in my possession.

There's a lot of "me me me" in this. If you want to live in a lawless society where morality revolves only around what is physically possible, that might be possible on some remote island; but don't be surprised if nobody on that island bothers to build any million dollar flame-lighting machines for your benefit.
And then the whole class stood and clapped - and that twitter expert’s name?
Reminds me of that one South Park episode about Humanpad … not in a good way though
Netflix's push into mobile gaming goes another way— distribution is still through the Apple app store, and all the individual titles are $0, but at startup they do a handshake with your Netflix app to make sure you're logged into an active account.

Obviously that doesn't break the stranglehold on the distribution side, so you're still subject to Apple's delays, errors, and moralizing through the review process. And I expect Apple would have something to say about it if the "main app" was in fact taking your money in an a la carte way vs just being a gateway to a subscription. Either way, it's not hard to see how Xbox Game Pass could pursue a similar model and point to what Netflix is doing as being basically the same deal.
Should be 0-indexed or 1-indexed, but not mixed.

Probably thought 1-indexed is more understandable to regular people.
Thanks Zie for the message. I'm sorry to hear about your "interpreter" encounter :(

I do think these problems are much, much worse for ISL as you rightly noted.

I think I should have been careful when I said "solve" in my post. But that really came from a place of optimism/excitement.
I'm in Italy and my pixel 8 pro bough from Amazon has it, so yes, seems to be in all of them
I still have a /now page, but it follows the 2007 Web 2.0 trend of basically been a stream from audioscrobbler, Flickr, blog etc (or their modern replacements). Life updates are just blog posts
Why do some people pay for news? I don’t know but we could ask them.
Apple made the change outside of the regulation. It already had USB C on the iPad.

It’s going to end up port less like the Apple Watch one day despite EU regulations. Are we going to force Apple to provide a power port? No that’s stupid
I would add that Christianity was all about "disenchanting" the world (and my interpretation of Die Nibelungen as taken to express this in literary form). The enchanted universe, a world of magic rather than wonder (some may confuse the two, but they are quite different), is rather characteristic of the pagan world and its superstitions and irrationalities, rather than the rational world of the Divine Logos. To disenchant is to "free from enchantment, deliver from the power of charms or spells" [0], that is, to free people from lies and deceit, the fake and unreal, sometimes tyrannical constructions.

You find neopagans today who want to "reenchant the world". It is an expression of hopelessness running into the arms of a demon who promises them relief if only they believe his madness. What they don't understand is that it isn't their rationality that has produced their misery, but they're irrationality.

[0] https://www.etymonline.com/word/disenchant#etymonline_v_1142...
No DALL-E doesn't take flags like this. This looks like the stylize parameter used in midjourney.

https://docs.midjourney.com/docs/stylize
Even with a small self-hosted blog, assuming you have more than a 56k hookup to the internet, a raspberry pi can service up 100s of requests per second.

At the time of writing this, the HN rss feed is 12kb. That'd mean you'd need 10Mbps upload to handle 100s of requests to the rss feed per second.

(Again, not saying you shouldn't optimize this, just questioning how big a problem it is).
Show HN: I built a tool to gamify Twitter growth
Hi HN,

I wanted to share a small tool I built for myself called Followers Games.

It gamifies the process of growing on Twitter, turning what can be a grind into something more engaging.

The idea came from my own experience as I started out on Twitter, I wanted a way to stay motivated, so I created this tool.

It’s simple: you set weekly goals, track your progress with visual charts, and unlock achievements as you hit milestones.

It’s still in the early stages, so I’m really interested in feedback from the community on how to improve it and add cool features.

If you’re curious, I’d love for you to try it out and share your thoughts.

Thanks!
Here in the Netherlands, already a generally densely populated country, there's a teacher shortage everywhere, including cities.

People rather have higher paying jobs, or quit because the job disappoints. I belong to the latter group. I quit teaching at secondary school (ages 15-18). After three different schools in three different areas, and having spoken with many colleagues and their experiences, I sadly had to conclude that broadly the work culture in secondary education (in this country, at least) is dramatically lacking professionalism. To a point where I think if my goal is to teach the next generation well enough, my time and energy is better spent elsewhere.
I always follow the more general adage of “never provide information to people who reach out to you”; call back to a known-good number before handing over info.

I do feel like a PSA would be a good measure; we lose enough to fraud that it may pay for itself. I don’t think we’ll see one, though. That would be a tacit admission that the government has completely lost control of a key communication technology.
Generally, nope. IANAL but fundamentally there are personal rights you just cannot sign away. E.g. even if you sign an employment contract saying explicitly that you have zero vacation (just an example), it just won’t be valid. Another big difference in general is that you cannot just be suing people for whatever reason like in the states.
A more relevant example for this is GDPR: nothing written in an eula can “release” the company from basic GDPR rights and principles.
I was really turning this over in my head. "Okay, the French are generally humane but they completely lose their minds when it comes to certain forms of non-Frenchness, typically those associated with colonialism. And terrorism is a big deal there, most recently the Bataclan. So maybe there was a person who was, like, ethnically Algerian and autistic, but how in the world could a press agency spend that much money doing such an investigation?!?" Makes so much more sense now.
Sounds like a stretch in what would pass the doctrine of reasonable expectations.
"This means that for an e-commerce site with hundreds of thousands of reviews, penalties for fake or manipulated reviews could quickly add up."

I think this is implying the fines go to the site hosting the reviews. It puts the enforcement onto Amazon for example.
AI can already write short stories, just not very good ones. It'll be doing novels once the context windows are big enough.
Growing up, I didn't know a single person personally who owned a Mac. I only knew Macs from schools and the handful of teachers I knew who'd bought the new PowerBooks ca 2002.

I also had experience existing in the 90s. They were extremely niche.

And going into the 2000s, I knew plenty of people with an iPod, but no Mac.
If you're literally "from the Linux world", you're probably younger and less experienced, and likely from a hobby background rather than CS or engineering.

Developers in Unix shops before the Linux era used debuggers.

Obviously, the GNU project developed a debugger for an audience. GNU wouldn't be a complete replacement for proprietary systems like Unix with only compilers, but no debugger.
I'm sure this is common practice, but Disney presumably has copyright on their waiver, so "copy and paste" would have risks
ImGUI generally runs on GLFW and there is even a port to html5: https://github.com/jnmaloney/WebGui

ImRAD appears to be based on GLFW as well so one would only have to follow a tutorial: https://uncovergame.com/2015/01/21/porting-a-complete-c-game...
Aren't you still fighting the fact that the frets themselves are tuned as 12TET?
I think that arbitration is simply a way that companies further increase their leverage over you by removing your right to effective legal redress of grievances.

It's a scam to be avoided when at all possible.
Disney does far more than just produce media. It houses guests, puts them on their rides, and feeds them food, etc.

However, in this specific case, Disney does not even seem to be involved, and they are trying to use the Disney+ terms to get out of being in the lawsuit:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/disney-says-man-cant-su...

> A spokesperson for Disney told NBC News: “We are deeply saddened by the family’s loss and understand their grief. Given that this restaurant is neither owned nor operated by Disney, we are merely defending ourselves against the plaintiff’s attorney’s attempt to include us in their lawsuit against the restaurant.”
Some of the raft failure modes for CockroachDB suck to recover from. In testing I've had better results with Yugabyte. If licensing is such a big deal though, CockroachDB loses over Dgraph and Yugabyte.

I doubt anyone will really do anything worth-while in maintaining CockroachDB when it's latest version eventually does falls into Apache licensing.
>The fact Hacker News of all places is going to bat for the RIAA and US Industrial Complex

Hacker News of all places! Never would have expected a website created by a billionaire venture capitalist to lean into intellectual property absolutism. Completely out of character for venture capitalist community to bend the knee to industry associations.
A time capsule for YouTube videos
Based on the temperature of my phone after clicking that link, probably CPU or memory.
Interesting question, and I don't remember. This was 40 years ago. I did find the final exam paper recently and marveled that at one time I was able to ace it. Notable in that there was a typo in one question that rendered it unsolvable. I was able to gain credit nevertheless by showing it to be unsolvable. I think that's the only case I remember where an exam had been printed with a major mistake.
yes it is - https://github.com/radulucut/cleed/releases
Channel relationships were a boat anchor around Novell's neck. The channel helped Novell grow rapidly in the early days then building a file server and installing an office network took some real technical skill. But then Microsoft released Windows NT and a new generation of hardware came out which allowed any idiot to set up a LAN. Microsoft beat Novell in part by distributing their server software more widely instead of forcing customers to go through channel partners. Of course, it also didn't help that Novell failed to innovate on their products and tried to coast on past success.
Even on MacOS, Apple will prompt you to delete applications that were installed outside the app store when you try to run them for the first time. They don't provide any instructions on how to disable this 'feature' , I had to look it up online. Enabling the app requires going several menus deep into System Preferences and setting a security toggle.
I suspect this is wishful thinking. Even people who see news like this probably think: "that could never happen to me". Beyond that, it's very difficult to keep track of all the subsidiaries and "affiliates" a single huge company may have under its umbrella. The article uses the example of DirectTV using AT&T's arbitration clause to claim that lawsuits against DirectTV must go to arbitration:

> In multiple class action cases, DirecTV pointed to arbitration clauses in contracts that the plaintiffs had signed – not with the satellite TV company, but with the phone services provider AT&T Mobility, when the individuals had purchased cell phones. DirecTV argued the arbitration language in the cell phone contracts applied to the telemarketing claims, because, years later, AT&T Mobility’s parent corporation acquired DirecTV, making it an “affiliate,” as referenced in the contract’s arbitration language.

I didn't know that AT&T's parent company owned DirectTV. Did you?
I think he apologized for this.
I tried providing good reasons why changing the license from truly open source to some source-available license has little sense from business perspective. Of course, something may change in the future, which could force us reconsider the decision on sticking with Apache2 license. But currently I don't see any reasons to change the license. And I'm sure there will no be such reasons in the next 10 years.

P.S. IMHO, the main reason to change the license at CocroachDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, TimescaleDB, Grafana and other products is weak revenue growth rate. Shareholders falsely think that the license change may help increasing the revenue growth rate, but I don't understand why...
Yeah, that's why you're a fake hacker.

http://phrack.org/issues/7/3.html
I see your point, but I have been shown time and time again that User experience is basically just practice.

People can and do change all the time. Humans instinctively stick with what they know, but in reality most people could be more efficient by learning things outside of their comfort zone. The few people that do this are rewrded greatly by having multiple strings to their bow, and being adaptive to many environments.

Those that stick with they know are super efficient in their own environment, but take them out of that and they invariably complain that they could be better if they had the tools they know.
Your intuition on what’s legal is miscalibrated. Clickwrap licenses have been found valid and have been upheld by courts in many legal rulings. You maybe could have made that argument 15 years ago, but not now. Some are getting to the point where “your continued use of the service indicates your acceptance of the license” is also fully valid.

See the Wikipedia entry on Clickwrap, and Planet Money episode “Surprise, you just signed a contract!”
Anyone know the size after the 50GB file is un7zipped?

EDIT: answer: 2 files, 176GB and 120GB, total is 298GB.
> could it ever be used for non-gaming applications? Even Enterprise applications?

Applications typically need good text rendering and layout support (multiline, fonts, maybe RTL, etc.), which ImGUI lacks.
It's also supported inside loop, just add a code block and select marmaid as a language
> I have a hard time understanding that point of view.

I guess, this program can be viewed by your dad as a "being able to print - as a service" offering where the value is not only in being able to print, but also in being able to stop caring about ink cartridges. Some folks don't mind to pay for services that take trivialities off their minds.
It's in Go, which should compile and run on various Linux flavours.
You can construct counterexamples too! For example, "on your turn, say a number. First player to say a number that is double a number the other player said, wins." Is a perfect (I think you mean perfect information) game.
Waterproof Android phone would work.
The headline is so funny. It’s their store. It’s like folks think I can go into a supermarket and sell my wares without paying rent and having some sort of agreement …
Or else every chemical manufacturer launches/acquires a streaming service- can't wait to watch new shows on Roundup+ or AsbestosMax
Thank you for dodging my point with a non-sequitur. The contrived example does not diminish the potential real harm that exists in the original use case.
Subway calls 'emergency' meeting with franchisees as sales plummet
It's the best API searcher for APIs which are used a lot. If you want do anything other than the most common thing it can be worse than useless. (I've been running into this in a project where I'm using Svelte 5, and the language models are only interested in telling me about/writing Svelte 4, and transformers.js, where they tend to veer off towards tensorflow.js instead. This despite me explicitly mentioning what version/library I'm using and the existing code being written for said version.)

Anyways, they can definitely be very useful, but they also have a golden path/winning team/wheel rut effect as well which is not always desirable.