skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You give control of your ad blocker to Google completely. Basically the same scourge that is making mobile devices almost useless, despite their powerful hardware and overall capabilities.
I agree that Google has an inordinate amount of power in the market and that it has to be restrained. That said, I do not like the 'better' qualifier here. It depends too much on who is reading it. Hell, it is not impossible average user will dislike the change ( but they always do).
Perhaps the meta-message here is that you absolutely have to design for cryptographic agility.

You may not need to jump to the next best thing every 3 years, but as certain constructs are proven weak, you’ll need to start migrating systems and data off of them to modern equivalents.
I think Google can win this easily by using the public opinion against the regulators.

They just need to say that they are gonna start charging for all their services because without the level of integration they have it doesn't make sense to keep running businesses that otherwise would lose money.
Show HN: Firefox add-on that helps you revisit your bookmarks effortlessly
Over the weekend, I created a Firefox add-on called Bookmark of the Day. It’s a simple tool that highlights a different bookmark each day, making it easier to rediscover and visit your saved pages.
Our shop (a bank) still develops in COBOL on a daily basis (IBM mainframe) and has a stock of tenth of millions of code lines.
Given the reasoning for refusal is that the vehicles don't meet safety standards, I wonder if they will stop registering older American vehicles as well for lack of safety standards but also for emissions?
Maybe I don't know the full story, but as far as I understand, it seems like they (Megaupload) were ignoring DMCA takedown requests for a long time, was aware there was a ton of piracy on the site and didn't give any indication whatsoever that they were even trying to react to it by banning accounts that were uploading infringing content.

I don't necessarily agree you should be taken away from your home-country because of that, seems relatively minor in the grand scale of things, but he was hardly "just sharing songs on the internet".
As an Aussie observer, I'm seeing more US influence in our region.

With some 'diplomacy', Julian Assange was brought home after near 15 years fighting for BS extradition charges.

The news and politicians in Australia follow almost lock step with whatever our US overlords allow us to say.

It's been more of a thing lately with them trying to secure the pacific away from China's sphere of influence and the biggest 'dumb' thing from our government is that silly submarine deal (under something called AUKUS) which is about as good as our F-35 jets purchased (totally useless IMO).

There's probably some bootlickers in NZ trying to gain political favour / power by brown-nosing with the US of A.
You can lease or even rent the servers without paying cloud prices, and there's a wide range of companies providing devops services on contract. So really, the main reason is your last clause - AWS is "safe" even though you might as well set cash on fire.
Sign the random with a hash of itself and a secret, all before the @ sign, then you can tell them apart.
How is Google more of a Monopoly than Microsoft?
Two bad (and sad) things can be true at the same time.
I see your point now. Yeah, I agree.

But the only question that really matters in the end is: is that profitable?

If we really cared about safety many people would not be allowed to drive in the first place. Tests would be much more strict and rightly so. But it's way more profitable to let those people spend money on cars (and eventually kill people) than it is to provide good public transportation.

Especially with the auto industry, they have basically won the lobbying game. Most people can't even imagine a world where cars aren't in the center of it, so we keep moving the goalpost...
You mean intel? Then they’d be moving into an even lower margin business.

If you mean ARM… then they’d be helping the competition
I really don't get the NA car market. There is a demand for small kei car/trucks as is natural with cities growing and parking dwindling.

Yet even compacts are disappearing. My kingdom for an EV compact that is compact. Even the Fiat 500s and Mini Coops feel like they get bigger each year.
He fought it all the way and ran out of options, we have a more right leaning government now who want to suck up to the US
As long as the planning, permitting, and logistics dwarf the unit costs it doesn't really matter how much one can theoretically save on linking up projects. :/
So what's different about writing a compiler in 2024 than say 10, 20, or 30 years ago? When I started writing compilers in the 80's and 90's lex/flex and yacc/bison were popular. ANTLR came out but I never had a chance to use it. Everything after lexing and parsing was always hand rolled.
> Pension plans are nearly gone

Pensions are a large part of public sector compensation.
> if given the mandate and the money?

Well, those are the difficult bits. If you also add in "control over staff pay scales", which is the other thing needed to make it work, it becomes a relatively simple job. Five to six years for planning permission and we could get started quickly after that.

https://www.itpro.com/infrastructure/data-centres/permission...
I appreciate Kim Dotcom for running MegaUpload and later Mega, in a time when the internet was younger and wilder. Also for his pirate spirit and "stick it to the man" attitude. But everything has a limit, specifically his resistance against the law, even if he hid it behind virtues. I think it's clear for everybody that one cannot get away with this kind of stuff, once governments get involved. Isn't it wiser to stop at some point, and find other stuff to do, even if all your nerves say otherwise? But people are superficial and tend to develop an "i'm the main character" personality, pushing them into recklessness, like persisting doing certain things or publicly talking shit. Hope he and his family will be ok.
sad to see that kind of comments in HN. I feel that 10 years ago there was more room for accepting that a political opponent should be free to speak up. now our educated masses are pushing for prison and extradition because they don't belong to the axis of good.... you def cannot be for opensource and its values and say things like that
If the media industry is successful in using DMCA against foreign residents to put them in US jail, it'll be a huge deterrent against any other similar people hosting similar platforms in countries with US extradition treaties.
2 is not how the US breaks up monopolies
I forgot this wasn't a native feature.

Samsung/OneUI has a good few addons like this. Ability for multiple apps to play sound is good too (same addon) and the ability to output different apps from different sound devices at the same time (built in)
I know little about this case but remember the wild show Kim put on before his arrest. The way I saw it then was his colleagues pleaded guilty and where never extradited so my assumption was new Zealand would bend to his favour but I guess interpretation of rule of law is above precedence... I wish I could say I know what Im talking about.
I don't understand? Are you the author or not?

1) Are you the author?

2) Just a fan of the project? A family member? A friend of the author? (I don't care about the details, so if you want to keep it secret it's fine for me. Just reply "2".)

3) You just found it and think it's good?

There are some initial recommendations in https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html and there are also the guidelines and FAQ linked at the bottom.

Also, there are additional recommendations written for YC companies, but the advice is good for everyone. Just avoid the specific parts, for example do NOT use "Launch HN".) https://news.ycombinator.com/yli.html

Just remember: avoid hype, avoid automatically generated text, avoid very short comments and avoid jokes.

Wellcome!
He shared a lot of them. Still absolutely not something that should lead to this multiple-state sanctioned response.
Use grep with some optimizations:

LC_ALL=C fgrep 'ssn' file.txt

https://stackoverflow.com/a/13913220
"No metal in the microwave" is good general-purpose advice but a reasonable person might notice that the microwave interior is basically all metal so there must be more to that advice than meets the eye.[0]

[0] Microwaves also contain transformers.
Then do the same for Microsoft with Windows?
Um, I agree with your first sentence, but I don't think I follow the rationale. What are you trying to say?
Part of the problem is that tech products tend to be natural monopolies. If you split android off Google, it will probably just lose out against iOS in the West and some Chinese Android version elsewhere. As the article says, that's not necessarily better.
It's almost like monied interests own the papers and want to protect their investments
Insurance spreads risk over outcomes. The social function of spreading risk over people (subsidizing risky behavior) is both incidental, accidental, and a clear moral hazard. Insurance would still be extremely useful even if we knew with perfect certainty the probability that you would have a car accident in the next 5 years.
This game was played for hundred years in real time. The referee stopped the game in real time when he saw an action violating the rules. Now with VAR decisions are no longer made in real time in the pitch. Some guys looking at screens miles away from the stadium make a decision by debating the position. This is a game. If the referee always whistled what he saw and nothing else that’s the reality of the game. Slow motion is a different reality. It is ridiculous to measure offside to centimeters in a game where the referee measures 10 yards by his steps! And in throw-ins players usually take several steps away from where the ball went out. And you measure offside with 15 cameras
how old are you? did you live through the megaupload era? for a few years it was ubiquitous and def a cashcow machine
"What if we broke up Google and Meta started operating bits of it?"

There are some head scratching serious leaps of logic here. Why would Meta start running android if it became an independent business?

It's never explained.

This article is rather clumsy FUD.
I'm surprised Tesla doesn't make them dress up as their Optimus "robot"
Saint Michael's Line
2013, needs date
Sad news. I don't really know if there's more than the file sharing thing behind this, but the US is cracking down too hard on this guy. Seems unfair, tbh.

The raid at his NZ home was already taking it too far, IMO.

I do not think he's a criminal. A big (massive, maybe) fine should have been more than enough.
Real-Time audio to chords, lyrics, beat and melody
Ah, that is why Sony and Microsoft are now eyeing PC versions of console games, because no one ever buys gaming rings any longer, aka desktop computers.

Also what do you think most contributors to LLVM, GCC, CUDA, VFX,.. use as daily driver?
Consumer sales of desktops have been falling for years.

A lot of regular office workplaces moved to laptops+docking stations as well.

People still buy desktops, but it’s a dying breed outside of gamers artists and those with heavy compute requirements
I think the negative number here refers to the amount of days/etc to subtract (eg. add negative days to subtract, not supply a negative date).

However, at the same time it seems to indicate that it stores data using sqlites built in number type, which to my understanding does not support unsigned? Secondly, the docs mention you can store with a range of 290 years and the precision is nanoseconds, which if you calculate it out works out to about 63 bits of information, suggesting a signed implementation.
Not sure how NATO enters into this, but as off last month or so Mark Rutte is the Secretary General of NATO. He is Dutch
In your opinion why is the submarine deal/F-35 program "totally useless" for Australia? Are you saying it's the wrong equipment? Too expensive? Not needed?
Did he get hundreds of millions in cash and dozens of luxury cars by pirating songs on the Internet?
Agree, disproportionate response for sure. Still, flagrantly ignoring the law will get you in trouble.
Fuel economy standards, emissions standards, safety standards, & profit margins.

If you want to sell cars and make money, compacts are not where it is at.
Why are you stressed about what to select, when it is guaranteed that any selection you make will be better than something a network would select for you to watch? Just pick anything.
are you referring to a particular case?
"If you break us up we will start such an epic tantrum that we will end up shooting ourselves in the head"
The compensation has to be just, which generally means Fair Market value. Corporations are owned by people, taking something from a corporation is no different than taking the thing from the corporations owners. Further, the law applies to not only corporate ISPs, but also individuals operating an ISP.
The indictment was a bit under 12 years ago. As the article covers, Dotcom initiated extensive legal proceedings, with one argument going to the (NZ) Supreme Court in 2020, about whether he could legally be extradited. Presumably we’ve reached the end of those proceedings.
I felt the same way about car engines
> I recently looked into using Git in a decentralized way. It's actually pretty easy!

Well, that's how it was designed to work! The whole point of Git is that it's a distributed version control system, and doesn't need to rely on a centralized source of truth.
Regarding transmission:

> Until recently, it spread mainly through consumption of contaminated meat or close contact with infected animals and people. Most of the deaths have been in children, who in this region of Africa are already beset by malnutrition and infectious diseases like cholera, measles and polio.

> Should the outbreak spread globally, children in developed countries are likely to be less vulnerable to severe illness, experts have said.

> Last year, for the first time, scientists discovered sexual transmission of this version of mpox, with cases split about equally among young men and women. According to genetic analyses, sometime around September, the virus gained mutations that enabled it to spread more readily among people. It has done so partly through heterosexual prostitution.
But then you have to run two competitive tenders, one for the servers and one for the contract devops. How much does that cost and how long does it take?

https://www.fgould.com/uk-europe/articles/cutting-the-cost-o...
"...gonna start charging..."

In a world where the competition's price for most of those services is "free", charging for used-to-be-free stuff sounds like a sure-fire suicidal business strategy.
Yes, but converting that cashcow to a hundred million dollars in actual bills, is something special.
He's an example to be made of by rights-holders. People smarter than him decided to quit the business or go into becoming IP owners themselves: see Manwin -> MindGeek -> Aylo. It was a calculated risk.
Yes, that is the objective of the parties involved. From a manufacturer's standpoint, the worse thing that ever happened was the secondary market for vehicles.
yeah I guess you just need to fund political campaigns for democrats to be in the good part of "the platform is responsible for what users do on here". seeing what Google and FB got away with its pretty obvious that USA is bending the law to remove political oponnents here with KDotCom and soon with Musk
Do you honestly think that would have any effect beyond Gmail users? (those would really hurt)

But otherwise I don't think an average non-tech person would be likely to notice a difference between Bing and Google. And ms, ddg, Kagi and perplexity would love to see lots of people actually looking for alternatives.

Docs/sheets/pages/whatever wouldn't change since they're supported by the paying users. The rest, Google is going to kill at some point anyway like they did with hundred other projects.

They only one I really don't know how it would be affected is Android.
Ask HN: What's missing from LibSQL for building a SaaS?
Just wanted to know what you think is missing from LibSQL to replace Postgres or MySQL for your next SaaS ?
I wish people wouldn't cheer when criminals evade accountability.
Dragonflies' target-intercept-prediction is amazing [video]
I think you have that the wrong way around, artificially limiting their %cut would be a kludge (who even decides what's fair?) and it wouldn't resolve other issues related to their death grip over app distribution such as arbitrary rules and censorship.

In this case there's a perfectly usable market solution to the problem.

Apple should be allowed to ask for any %cut they want, but others should be allowed to compete on equal footing and without Apple positioning themselves in the middle of every transaction, which is how they're trying to work around the EU DMA using notarization requirements and their "core technology" fee.
That just makes people drive without insurance. And yeah, you can fine them and take their license away. Then they drive without a license.
Compacts, subcompacts, and microcompacts are very popular in Europe. Is this because Europe has fewer and less restrictive standards for fuel economy, emissions, and safety? I am not an automotive policy expert, but I feel like Europe tends to regulate more than the US does.
I have a hard time just convincing people in my company to buy a license for some software we arguably need. I literally can not convince them using any logic or facts, it's downright infuriating and I feel like I'm in a crazy world. You can't bring people to the watering hole, they have to get there on their own. And by that point, I've given up and have moved on. And even then, no amount of "I told you so" will have them listening to you next time around, they always just double-up on their own ideas and cope with the existence of any facts that contradict them. Oh and sometimes they forgot you even told them in the first place, and they make it seem like they thought of it first.

I weep for this world.
The comment you're responding to just speculates that he will escape to Russia based on his (very consistent) views and activism, there's no suggestion that he should go to prison because of them.
regulation in the EU may no longer work independently from regulation in the US thus US laws they need to collaborate and compromise, they are weakening western tech dominance
Weird that this is about building a C compiler[0] in OCaml. I expected the implementation language to also be C both for consistency but also because i'm willing to bet that there are more people who can read C than OCaml.

[0] actually from the readme in the github repo[1] it seems to be a C subset, not all of C

[1] https://github.com/nlsandler/nqcc2
Many Japanese vehicles are banned, especially light trucks, because they are too competitive. They are often banned for trumped up reasons, mostly to protect local competition.
I wonder if it can it make it down to the titanic?
Japan tried to curb the Yakuza by enacting laws to specifically punish them. Not only it didn't work as well as they thought, but other criminals also flourished in the underworld by virtue of not being Yakuza.
Whatever they do to go after Google must be really well thought and coordinated otherwise they will just be passing the crown to someone else a little bit smarter.
I did some contracting for a retail bank a good while back and the COBOL source for the term deposit interest calculation routine had been lost a few decades earlier but was still in use. I suggested a rewrite but there was no enthusiasm/support for it - especially as my prototype could not exactly reproduce the rounding. Nobody wanted to have to deal with customer communications to explain why one cent of interest was being paid a month earlier or later than before.
Looks interesting but it won't work on many shared servers on which the only option is PHP/SQL due to it being written in Go.
Parser-generators were always academic projects that had little relevance to making real-world programming languages -- where parsing is very easy to write, and necessarily benefits from doing it (ie., you can get better error handling/etc.).

Today most languages are front-ends for LLVM IR, but LLVM is very slow and takes a long time to optimize. Many new languages target x86/arm directly with their own weakly optimized backends, and output an LLVM IR for "release builds".
Primereact: The Most Comprehensive React UI Component Library
And this is a very interesting idea. It would be possible to customize channels based on interests. For example, a Gaming Channel, Cooking Channel, and so on..
This is their published reason for shutting down their PaaS:

https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2022/07/12/why-weve-decided-to-decom...

> GOV.UK PaaS has not seen the rapid and continued growth that we’ve seen with some of our other platform products, and is now at a point where we either invest heavily in some significant technical architecture changes, or we make the difficult decision to sunset the product. We have decided to do the latter

Not terribly convincing. Not seeing "rapid and continued growth"? Feels like the junk words you say as a ceremony for people who sign-off any crime if justified by "growth".

I think I'd need to see transparency on Amazon lobbying and revolving doors with GDS, let's see... oh, look who "advised" them on this move:

https://www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/article/amazon...

> GDS retained Amazon UK boss Doug Gurr as an adviser.

Which gets worse...

> Gurr would have a hand in choosing the government chief digital officer

Seems beyond satire that the Head of Amazon UK has a role in picking in the civil servant that makes hosting choices.
Startup Ideas Database
Interesting! That article I linked had lingered in my memory for a while, so good to hear a response to it!
Hey, if I give you my SSN can you check to see if it is in there for me?
Rhumb Line
Why does it have to be more of a monopoly than Microsoft to be considered a monopoly?
Identifying and Surviving a Vulnerability Hangover
Interesting. I thought the appeal of piracy-related stories on HN was that there's a lot of piracy going on, as private individuals.

And also because some subset of those consider piracy a hobby, mission, or right, not only a pragmatic way to get the content they want.

But I guess some people could be interested in the platform responsibility angle.

However, when discussing obviously entirely piracy platforms, isn't the interest and dialogue different, than it is for general-purpose platforms with only a fraction of the user contributions being problematic, and good-faith efforts to mitigate those?
I've switched between many countries/layouts and honestly, it never mattered for more than a few minutes.
I've never understood this take because it's possible to make money regardless of the direction that the share price moves.
Taylor Swift lyrics' impact on disordered eating
I think I need it in my life
Looks like Github was down yesterday — perfect timing, haha! Should be good to go if you try again today.
If that logic sounds sketch when the police take $10K from a man going to buy a car, it should also be sketch when you add zeros somewhere else.

In general "That's really unusual behavior" shouldn't be enough to forfeit a fortune.
The hypocrisy is that if safety was the overall concern, then motorcycles would have been banned a long time ago (and I say this as someone who enjoys riding my motorcycle).

I think the actual problem is that when compared to other cars in their category these kei trucks do have abysmal safety standards such as no airbags or crumple zones. Which is because there isn’t a mini truck category in the US. Basically all pick up trucks are the same category.

The point about older cars still on the road is a valid point though, cars made before 1998 didn’t require airbags so if they can still be registered then the kei trucks should too.
The US Department of Justice isn't exactly an EU regulator.