skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the implications are a bit different. It takes a lot of time to learn to make music. If you can’t make it as a famous artists (the odds of which are about as high as becoming a football star), you previously still had the option to use your music skills to make money with boring work: music for ads for example.

That’s going away. Now it’s becoming a lot more like professional sports: either you make it, or your hard earned skills are useless on the job market. It increases the risk significantly and will lead to less people pursuing a musician career.

I hope that my explanation is not perceived as judging in any way, but purely as an explanation.
> HN users are not representative. Kei car enthusiasts are not representative. Americans love F-150s, Tacomas, Highlanders, 4runners, RAV4s, CRVs, etc. They by-and-large buy the largest car/truck they can afford. You look up the sales numbers for this stuff and there's just no contest; e.g., CRVs outsold Fits by almost a factor of 10.

This is true, but even outside the US in a lot of Asian places with no apparent space for big cars everything is getting bigger, why is that?
Or because AdWords was designed and specifically optimized for search and then only later released (in a modified form) as a separate product.
>The opportunity for individual financial and ego success is a huge driver for modern popular art culture (for better and for worse). If we take that away, guess what happens? No one wants to do it, anymore.

I don't know about financial success but I think losing ego building as artist incentives might not be a bad thing. Maybe it's an unhealthy focus and probably shouldn't be supported.

Intuitively, I think those kind of drives will not go away no matter what support you give it. However, I can't believe that feeding that beast is not having an effect.
The question then becomes: Are users going to be willing to pay google (or whatever search) now instead?

I don't think the vast majority of the internet understands how the business model of the internet works.
I know what you mean and I work with some smart people that also cannot be convinced with arguments unless they come from someone with a high social status. They have to fail to learn anything if they don't have someone around with a high social status to guide them.
Compiling today might be done at run time, exploiting dynamic information. The line between a compiler and an interpreter is blurred.
Ever watched that show Monk with that villain Dale the Whale who had to go to prison? That's pretty much how I see Kim Schmitz rotting in jail: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DMb6zUTVwAAQwPn.jpg
Wonder how much of this is to blame on copilot generated code lol
I’m skeptical that Google search contains any search results. So maybe that part of their business is already dead and they just need an honest rebranding to ad search.
I am not saying that's wrong. What's wrong is the way it's done. Especially the part where another country raids his residence, and has him shipped to said another country he's not even a citizen of, to be judged based on their law.
Then there's the hosted service at write.as.
I have no sympathy for Kim Dotcom, but he is not proven to be some drug cartel boss or criminal overlord. Reason he had so much cash is obvious - because back in 2012 crypto wasn't yet so successful. And the guy was US government target for a long time before arrest so he had good reason not to keep money in banks where it's easy to arrest them.

Like it or not, but if he would do anything illegal other than "copyright violation" of US companies he'll surely be in prison in New Zealand a long time ago.
To be fair the Alacritty author is also really abrasive and unsympathetic to users.
I wish more manufacturers made models like the i3. It's such a clever design.
One of the things worse than a bad law is an inconsistently applied bad law, as that allows for it to be tolerated for longer and effectively enshrines the basis for the inconsistency as the true law of the land.
I think the bigger problem is that apps that don't need/shouldn't use markdown reach for it as a default and build upon it when they would have been served better investing in richer markup.

Take ulysses (mentioned in the article) for example. It has grown into a full-fledged writing and word processing application, but its being based on markdown originally has only hampered that. They've had to implement all of these clunky extensions and features in terms of markdown, and as the post states, try to hide the fact that it's all markdown to make it feel more like a classic word processor. At this point it just makes the whole experience clunky. People that just want to write markdown deal with weird extensions and frustrating syntax hiding, people that don't need to learn some minimal markdown just to use a word processor...

It's 2024. I hope companies start to realize that markdown is a fantastic solution for certain cases but it is not the only solution. Some applications really are better served by more complex, but much more expressive markup languages, especially if they are going to shield the user from it all anyways.
I give him the benefit of the doubt since I'm not immune to propaganda and he was an obvious target for character assassination.
Some government required standardisation seems in order.
That's a bit an unconventional take on what free and selling mean, but regardless that wasn't my main point.
From a business perspective, I think given the choice to lie a little bit or be brutally honest with your customers, lying a bit is almost always the correct choice.
“L’encyclopédie tout-connaitre” Looks absolutely brilliant. I would have loved that as a kid.
Wait until you hear how Crunchyroll got to where they did! Plex is on much the same trajectory. Heck, even Google Play Music used the strategy by letting people upload their pirated music libraries to get users. It's a tried and true strategy.
Day by day, Disney is becoming closer to its fictional counterpart, Vought Corp in the show The Boys.
Second channel in and someone is saying "plandemic" maybe channels on youtube just highlights how close you are to some of the weirder views on there.
What's the conceptual difference between Apple charging 30% for Patreon subcribers vs. charging 30% for purchases on Temu or the Amazon app? This distinction seems completely arbitrary to me. I suspect the only reason it exists is that adding a 30% Apple surcharge to every Amazon purchase would cause too much outrage.

Disclaimer:

I've never used Temu or the Amazon app, but I'm assuming they don't apply a 30% surcharge on physical goods on iOS.
> Trust me, it’s meant to be shown.

Maybe it's time to accept that this thing you created is bigger than yourself and it's future is not in your hands.
You never know but hopefully
In these types of discussions, people love bringing out the "But what about $OTHER_OBVIOUS_MONOPOLY?".

The solution is simple (the word simple here is doing a lot of work, I know); Meta, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple and any other similarly sized behemoth should be nuked, and not just in the tech world. Microsoft should've been properly nuked 30 years ago with the original anti-trust, yet alone now, same goes for the others.
“This article argues that PMF doesn't exist. Oh and if it does exist, it's not clear when it is achieved. And if you have it, you can lose it. Oh and even if you don't lose it, it doesn't guarantee success.”

I would argue that these claims are all accurate, but with the clarification that PMF does exist, but on a spectrum, not as a binary state”

See my comment further downthread where I lay out a framework for determining your degree of PMF ideally BEFORE building anything, so you don’t waste time/money/effort on building the wrong thing because you think you ‘know what the market needs.’

If the only way you can validate PMF is by building something and then realizing no one is using it, you have wasted time and effort that would have been better spent validating PMF before building.
Not just copyright, normal law works like this too.

E.G. if you're a company, you can rent a printer and pay per page. THe printer is physically in your own office, it's for your own exclusive use, but you can still get a per-page contract if you wish.
Yourls: The de facto standard self-hosted URL shortener
Are the actions of these individuals really the equivalent of financial fraud?

Assange and Snowden especially, who revealed to the public crimes perpetrated by agents of the US federal govt.
That is a made up threat with a lot of hypotheticals. A more straight forward consideration is not to have an ad company responsible to determine the capabilities of an ad blocker. Also because ad blockers are recommended to increase overall security.
> ... cost film studios and record companies more than $500 million ...

This bit is standard, trope-style make-believe.

However:

> ... paying users [...], which generated more than $175 million in revenue for the [Kim Dotcom's Megaupload] website.

.. if they can prove that bit, it's a much more damning case.

Not the usual hand-wavey 'We were banking on several thousand dollars of revenue from each of the 12yo's we're going after' claims, but actual, demonstrable, revenue that was misdirected.
Only if you loose.
Credit card companies do one thing - process payments. What cut do VOD or music hosting sites take? Bandcamp takes 15%. eBay takes 15% on things they never physically touch. It’s hard finding hard data, but it seems like YouTube, on average charges $15CPM and pays $5CPM to the highest paid YouTubers. What is the value of download hosting and store platform?
From the way I read the article, it appears to me that the vehicle registration must be renewed:

>But Massachusetts is now pointing out that kei trucks and vans don’t meet federal safety standards and recently included them on a list of vehicles that can’t be registered in the state. The state is now reconsidering that decision, leaving kei truck owners wondering whether they’ll be able to keep driving these vehicles.

>All existing unexpired registrations for Kei trucks and vans will remain active as the RMV works to review and assess industry standards related to Kei mini trucks and develop an updated policy addressing the registration of these vehicles. From: https://www.mass.gov/info-details/vehicles-that-cannot-be-re....

So depending on how registrations in MA work and if they expire, they will be pulling the rug out from under the owners.

Related, if we are worried about crash safety(ostentatiously of the operator and passengers) why does MA still allow motorcycles?
s/OpenAI/automated imperfect subject matter expert/g
He's not one of "them" (bankers, politicians, lobbyists).

Street dealers as well: not belong to "them".

See how Epstein was punished in 2008:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein#Legal_proceedi...

"On June 30, 2008, after Epstein pleaded guilty to a state charge of procuring for prostitution a girl below age 18, he was sentenced to eighteen months in prison. While most convicted sex offenders in Florida are sent to state prison, Epstein was instead housed in a private wing of the Palm Beach County Stockade and [...] allowed to leave the jail on "work release" for up to twelve hours a day, six days a week."

That's for a horrible crime. Not for allowing people to copy some audio and video files for entertainment purpose.

He was one of "them".
This article reads like an uneducated rant in so, so many ways. Apple rolling over its sleep and squashing Patreon isn't 'enshittification', it's just textbook monopoly abuse. And if you want to rail about the nuance of Apple's business practices you can at least not typo the name of two of their flagship products ("Iphone and Ipad").

> The fact that it's a felony to get your Iphone apps from anyone except Apple means that whatever policies Apple makes for the app store have the force of law.

The EC and US DOJ would like a word, please.
Apple has had no problems with providing their macOS libraries, tooling, and associated updates for free, even with a drastically smaller user base, and it appears to have been sustainable for decades.

The truth of the matter is Apple would almost certainly continue to do offer their iPhone services, updates, app store, etc; even if they were statutorily prohibited from making any money off of any of it, because in the end it makes for a better user experience and helps them differentiate and sell their phones at a premium.

What is happening, is the more financial-minded types within Apple have realized they have substantial lock-in and market power, and they can leverage it to take a % of profits from other market entities.

If you actually care about Apple products, and want them to continue to deliver great products well into the future, then the best thing that could happen would be for them to get the message and accept a loss in this battle. Otherwise you will see increased financialization continue until they are thoroughly hollowed out of great product/engineering culture, and collapse under their own weight, like so many before them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VBqTViEx4
When Is "Recyclable" Not Recyclable? The Plastics Industry Defines
Iranian banks hit by major cyber attack
Try microsoft.com
Large TVs?

I wonder what the threshold is for assets worth seizing. Anything under about 100” is going to cost more to seize than it’s worth. If the kitchen is full of AllClad do they seize the cookware?
This mainly comes from people who wish to post their business or other commercial page on Facebook and have, for a reason that isn't particularly clear, been prevented from doing so, and no one at Meta can give them an explanation.

I don't have it in front of me right now but there's a Python podcast episode I listened to recently where a person involved with the Pandas project was banned from having some sort of presence on a Meta property. The theory was that the content moderation algorithms had marked his account as being related to the exotic animal trade because of the words "python" and "pandas" being in so many posts. This person had extreme difficulty in getting any sort of answers from Meta.
Apple's product is its users. All of the privacy changes are not to protect the privacy of their users, it's to ensure that there are no ways to access Apple device users without Apple being the middleman.
Against the advice of my superintelligence
> I don't know how Microsoft is not up for discussion when it's a behemoth

Because we think interfering with the free market is necessary when a company misuses market power, not solely when it is a behemoth.
Delicious Library
> referred to in shorthand as "LOX/RP-1" or just "LOX/RP" engines

Did we invent kerolox as a portmanteau in the last 10 years? This article is a total time warp.
Hard to imagine it getting worse. Browsing search engine results these days reminds me of post apocalyptic movie scenery.
Where does it say that K-cars are not allowed on highways? I'm certain that I saw quite a few, and I can find no source that says otherwise.
That's for brave's search product (https://search.brave.com/), not its browser.
Non-invasive and under 30 minutes. A purely mechanical process. Not
thermal

My understanding is that it’s also being tested for pancreatic and kidney cancers.
I think it's purposely meant to be camp.
App Store policy (written or otherwise? It's hard to say.) only levies the 30% on digital goods delivered in the app. Uber, for example, doesn't pay 30% of rider fees to Apple.

Patreon is in this weird gray area because you kinda-sorta are getting digital goods delivered via the Patreon app, depending on how you look at it. And obviously if there's a way that Apple can squint and say it falls under their purview, they will...
> you can at least not typo the name of two of their flagship products ("Iphone and Ipad")

Why not? Are we all beholden to the Apple marketing department style guide?
Which is also he case for any EV starting ~now. Yes batteries have been ~50% of the build cost of an EV, but they are also dropping by 20%/year. The last 5 years or so this was basically absorbed in extending the range, but you really don’t need much more than 100kWh batteries in a car. I don’t think this bet will be working out
The government enforcing IP laws is certainly not a public good, in my book.

I also don't think you can be held responsible for what your users do with your service, especially if you are complying with DMCA requests.

They're shooting the postal service just because it bothered some powerful people.

This is happening because Media is a powerful lobby in the USA and Mega is a nobody.

Just another example of government corruption, move along.
> if a country can't defend itself with diplomacy then it is in a lot of trouble

If you have a strong neighbor that wants to take something you have by force, how do you get them to instead practice diplomacy with you?

The only way I'm aware of is by projecting enough of your own strength that they think it might not be worth it to try and take by force.

Military might is an arm of diplomacy.
I'm sorry, but what is your point with this comment? I don't see a link at all with the topic.
I understand what you are saying, but I wonder if that is the right type of defense here. Each of those individuals could be separated from otherwise sympathetic audience by diving the audience( 'he is x$ and therefore bad' approach ).

Same here. Murder for hire is bad, but his prosecution was about just as bad[1] and one could argue that (edit) by using warrantless spying without any probable cause undermined US constitutional rights. In a grand scheme of things, it is better to have one criminal get away than trample on everyone's rights.

What they do have in common, however, is an inordinate amount of resources expended to punish them by the state..

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht#Murder-for-hire_...
> What's the conceptual difference between Apple charging 30% for Patreon subcribers vs. charging 30% for purchases on Temu or the Amazon app?

I can name more than 1 competitor to Amazon.
Run Diablo in the Browser
You generally cannot have friends as an American under 25 without owning an iPhone. Outside of HN tech heads, regular young Americans use phones that "can send pictures that don't look like garbage!".

I consider Apple by far the most insidious, since they leverage your friends and family against you to put heavy social penalties on not submitting. They then use this dominance to bend devs to their will, and take an egregious cut of their profits while doing it.
> but this vindictive pursuit seems even worse.

It's been profitable for the US agencies that stole millions for KDC

https://www.techdirt.com/2015/03/27/how-us-government-legall...
"either you make it, or your hard earned skills are useless on the job market"

I think uncommon focus, discipline, physical and mental dexterity along with the ability to perform under pressure are being undervalued here.
Here's a crazy idea (and possibly a job opportunity for someone?)

If someone built a tool to translate the AST generated by this into one of these newer theorem-proving dependently-typed languages (examples: Idris/Idris2 come to mind, but also the Coq/Rocq theorem prover, Agda, Lean), would it be theoretically possible to not only translate this code into a newer language but also suss out bugs and literally prove correctness? (Given how important some of this COBOL code seems to be, such as at Medicare)

I know that one of the risks of changing the language that logic and computation is written in is unexpectedly changing the behavior or introducing new bugs; wondering if this might mitigate or almost entirely prevent that
Isn't something like regulation with strong data protection laws a bit late at this point? It seems fair to say that most people alive are already scooped up in 1 large data breach or another.

And that data has been made public likely in some form, and is probably replicated to dark corners of the planet.

Don't get me wrong, regulation on these industries seems like a no-brainer, but it seems unlikely to remediate the damage already done.
Mileage doesn't really make sense as a measure for hybrids. Usually the electro motor handles the speed/power ranges where the fuel engine would perform badly. Rule of thumb: low velocity stuff. If you do a lot of that (and braking), then the hybrid is going to save you fuel. If you do a lot of relatively constant speed driving (such as I expect for light trucks), a fueled engine doesn't really benefit much from e-support, as you see in your numbers.
> MEGA was too early and too tainted (and run by an aggressively weird / antagonistic dude) to become Spotify.

Megaupload was founded in 2005 and Spotify was founded in 2006, so it's unlikely that being too early was a factor.
Highly accurate and precise determination of mouse mass using computer vision
It will pretty soon be possible to turn off top tabs in Firefox without this kind of userChrome jiggery-pokery. The sidebar API has been updated in Firefox Nightly 131, and it provides a side tab bar, and the ability to disable the top tab bar. Existing sidebar tab extensions will be able to update to this API.
As a business owner you can’t tell all of your present and future customers you’re only going to be in Bing results going forward. This isn’t about what an individual chooses to use. Google is effectively the Yellow pages of the internet. In that era you could take out ads in the newspaper, but no one was looking there when they needed to find a resource they needed now.
It's about MegaUpload, not Mega. True, they both offer(ed) cloud-storage and public sharing, but MegaUpload was much more on the shady side. They were stalling and ignoring requests for removing illegal content. Furthermore, they were even actively supporting uploads of popular content. I vaguely remember they were even paying some people. Over all, it was a platform strongly focused on distribution of illegal content. And this is just about commercial content. I wouldn't be surprised if it also was popular for porn and abuse-content.
Lunarsaber for DARPA's Luna-10 Program
Amusing to me that we have a $3.5T company, and the solution is to break up it's only competitor to make it weaker and that company an even bigger monopoly.
OK. But I completely disagree.

The comment in question (1) provided a link bypassing the paywall (which is very valuable and conducive to inclusivisity and enables more people to be a part of the conversation), and (2) provided context as to why the OP thought that it should be posted (since HN does not allow any explanatory text to accompany a link when it is posted).

Both of those things were valuable to me.

If you want to say, "This site belongs to YCombinator, and they can do whatever they want," then fine, I agree with you. But then you can never make any arguments about "community" because evidently the community actually doesn't matter for anything other than free content generation.

If you want to say, "The community feels that this is a low quality comment..." then I strongly disagree because I'm part of the community, and I didn't exactly get a vote. I literally couldn't upvote it or vouch for it. I couldn't even respond to the comment in question, nor did I even know why the censoring took place.

It can't be both ways.

As it is, it Streisanded me into digging deeper because it looks like a cover-up when someone is silenced without explanation. And, regardless of the politics involved (I don't care about politics __AT ALL__), this affects me because I have been a long-time member of this community.
Mad props! So well executed. I would pay for this, especially if it were licensing the output (I think only lyrics would apply).