skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And what about the fact that, on the whole, most people are apparently fine with having access to things rather than ownership of them? How do you make the distinction when it matters, but allow both types of transactions?

We could engorge the commons. If people are okay with mere access, then (for easy-to-distribute things, like books and videogames) free culture should naturally outcompete comparable proprietary works.

Promote DRM-free cultural artefacts. If you'd drop $70 on a AAA title, drop $70 on a DRM-free game you like, and then tell your friends about it. (Try-before-you-buy is a feature, not a bug, though don't be stingy about this if you can afford not to.)

This isn't generally-applicable, of course, but deconstructing the "everything is property" schema might make it easier to get another angle on it.
Guided by Vices
here is where you are wrong about AI lacking creativitivy:

AI Music is bland and boring. UNLESS IF YOU KNOW MUSIC REALLY WELL. As a matter of fact, it can SPAWN poorly done but really interesting ideas with almost no effort

"What if curt cobain wrote a song that was then sung by johnny cash about waterfalls in the west" etc.

That idea is awful, but when you generate it, you might get snippets that could turn into a wholey new HUMAN made song.

The same process is how I forsee AI helping engineering. its not replacing us, its inspring us.
The language of the article is as low as it is loaded. This is just Derek Lowe covering for the fact that “Science” magazine and the like have let this scoundrel (and many more like him) carry on, without hindrance, for an entire career; pointing the finger anywhere and everywhere but at the journals themselves. None of this is an isolated incident. It is widespread! There is a new scapegoat every month.
Familiarity breeds contempt. They've been pushing the Google==Superhuman thing since the Internet Boom with declining efficacy.
Do you think the $3 price is sustainable or optimistic? My dream would be to make enough dough to start a restaurant affordable and friendly enough to become a community hub. Best of luck on your venture!
https://web.archive.org/web/20240927144204/https://new.mta.i...

I can access it just fine from Sweden :shrug:
>But people expect updates and changes. Let's not talk about "incomplete games being finished through updates", games get updated all the time now. Even for physical copies. Games now often install on the hardware and check for updates on first run.

How so, I do not expect that a developer will add more content to a finished game for free. And AFAIK in the games I own the content updates are paid DLCs, I can only think at No Man sky as an exception that added more free content, in fact the thrend is to have like 50+ paid DLCs and milk the players for at least a decade.
Revocable license, temporary use, indefinite borrow?

There’s no good word because it’s not a reasonable position.
I believe they are doing this mostly to get attention, with the hope that some of the people who hear about the action will also take a little time to learn about the issue.

There are climate-change protests every day worldwide that get no attention from media at all.
It would make a poor machine for marinating food. Most of the foods you'd marinate should be refrigerated during the process. A much better way to marinate is throw everything into a ziploc with as much air removed as you can to maximize contact. Flop it around every now and then if you like.
Can't believe there's a market for this
what a tragedy, this person never learned how to read.
I wonder if this trend will expand to other goods, like when you "purchase" a car.

You might be licensed to operate the vehicle but restricted in specific interactions with it.

It seems the industry is moving in this direction, which is concerning due to the cost structure. It shifts control away from consumers and toward the IP owners of these products.

Tesla may be a notable example, where you're unable to make modifications or repairs to the car without a proper license.
Indeed! You would also been more "successful" selling drugs to teens, or trafficking with human organs. But you did not and that's a good thing.
1) Funny how you didn't address my first point which completely disproves your lie about Intel sending CHIPS money to TSMC.

2) It does get more recent than that: Granite Rapids (Xeon 6 built fully on Intel processes) and Gaudi 3 (TSMC built) were announced on the 24th and will be released later this year.

Maybe you shouldn't get so sassy when discussing things you know very little about.
A true scientist never says, "trust me" or even worse, "trust the science."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnPFL0Dr34c
> My kids light up the most when I am fully engaged with them, fully present, entertaining their ideas, and asking questions.

Exactly. The author didn't mention it but it's not just the bus ride, it's how they engaged with their daughter during that ride.

Remember the mania over the total eclipse in April in the US? I took my daughter on 250-mile roadtrip to see it. The drive took a few hours there, then 9 (!!) hours back because of horrendous traffic. It could've been a tantrum-filled disaster, but I committed to staying upbeat and fully engaged the entire time, and as a result it was a fun and memorable trip we still talk about today.

Oh and we didn't even get to see the eclipse ... 95% cloud coverage.

So yeah step 1 is creating time + space for things like this -- like taking a long bus ride -- but a crucial step 2 is leaning into it with presence and attention to your child.
>TMS is magnetic, not EM (the coil generates a magnetic field, which induces localized currents in the body

ME? the coil generates an M which induces localized E in the body as shown by localized currents? (which produce some more M, but only just enough)
I think physics at some point will get in the way, well at least for a while. An H100 costs like $20k-$30k and there's only so much compression/efficiency they can gain without beginning to lose intelligence, purely because you can't compute out of thin air.
I like the dig at "first generation" clouds.

There really is a wide gulf between the services provided by the older cloud providers (AWS, Azure) and the newer ones (fly.io, CloudFlare etc).

AWS/Azure provide very leaky abstractions (VMs, VPCs) on top of very old and badly designed protocols/systems (IP, Windows, Linux) . That's fine for people who want to spend all their time janitoring VMs, operating systems, and networks but for developers who just want to write code that provides a service it's much better to be able to say to the cloud provider "Here's my code, you make sure it's running somewhere" and let the cloud provider deal with the headaches. Even the older providers' PaaS services have too many knobs to deal with (I don't want to think about putting a load balancer in front of ECS or whatever)
Not sure of the cost of MMORPG, but at one stage they were like $12-$14, and Everquest even had a server that was lived for a couple of years, legend, where it was like $40/month, a bit pay-to-win server...I mean with a better CS support.
It may be overkill, but it's an archive. Overkill is permissible.

Remember, there's no going back to do it again -- once the video is digitized, the tapes will go away forever.

That said, I think a bitrate of about 0.78GB/hr may be better. It may still be overkill, but will let a T120 tape recorded in SLP mode (6 hours) to fit into one single-layer M-Disc DVD-R, which may make sense for some media.

But whatever the case, bits are cheap these days. Data storage is definitely the least expensive part of any operation like this and it tends to get cheaper over time.

The most expensive part of things like this is the time it takes to make it happen, and bitrate (whether high or low) doesn't have a substantial impact on that time.
So you're saying I should engage in alcoholism and gambling if I want to maximize fun?
The argument I'll put forth is that having some friction for the masses to engage in behavior that can impact their life is probably good.

Gambling is one of the worst addictions one can acquire (no health drawbacks) and unfortunately young men seem more predisposed to such dopamine hits. I think it is one of the more less seen issues that is growing today. At least going to a casino is a friction point and optimizing for a one click app is probably not good. Perhaps we should cut it off before yet another insanely powerful lobby that feeds on addiction grows and can't be stopped. It seems the boulder is already rolling down the hill though.

Look at what happened with Robinhood when they made trading feel like a game and removed fees. That $10 commission used to make people stop and think, even for just a second. Now, there are tons of young guys who’ve lost a lot, if not everything, but we don't hear about them. My younger brother and his high school friends are literally counting down the days until they turn 18 so they can get on Robinhood, hoping to get rich like people did with Gamestop. Maybe we could have a higher age limit like 24 or something because the real issue is the youth who are prone to sabotaging themselves.

While it might seem like a weird place to draw a protective line, but I don't know, I'm sure many people today would want protections for half the stuff you mentioned if our congress was actually functional. I'd say we have to start somewhere and online gambling is definitely a behavior that is not worth optimizing our access to. If we know people are vulnerable to this stuff psychologically, why put more potholes that people can fall into? Are we really doing this just to build another multi-billion dollar industry that leeches off regular people? Let them go to a casino when they’ve saved up a couple hundred bucks for a fun night, not blow $100 in their car during a 10-minute shift break.

Anyway just my thoughts happy to hear counters, we could just allow people to make their own decisions but can anyone make the argument that overall society has the discipline to turn easy sports betting into a net positive? Perhaps but hey we can bet on it. :)
Agree, Raft is less modular and therefore harder to understand than MultiPaxos:

https://maheshba.bitbucket.io/blog/2021/12/14/Modularity.htm...
> That would be the US vs the globe's industrial superpower with an arguably larger real economy

Wouldn't it be sad if this were true? Since when US was no longer a "industrial superpower"? Just 25 years ago, Chinese government officials were astound by how wealthy and advanced the US was when they visited the US. They wrote articles after articles to reflect why China was so behind, yet now China is the "globe's industrial superpower". In Oliver Stone's movie Heaven & Earth, Joan Chen's character went to the US and was totally mesmerized by the abundance in a supermarket. That was how Chinese people was amazed by the US too. And now? It's definitely great for China, but isn't it sad for the US to be behind?
> * Junk food

Regulated in many places. Some Energy drinks are frequently banned from sale to minors. Nutrition labeling is required. Taxed at different rates than other foods in some places.

> * Participating in dangerous sports (Football, Boxing, etc)

Professional boxing matches are heavily regulated. Doctors have to be onsite for most bouts. Helmets are extensively tested, and there are rules at all levels about safe and unsafe hits.

> * All forms of gambling

Deeply regulated, down to what games can be played, who can work in a Casino, how they can advertise, what happens if there is a dispute. Etc.

> * Alcohol, cigarettes

Again, deeply regulated. Age restricted. Courts can monitor your alcohol intake if you get in trouble. You have to have a license to serve alcohol in some jurisdictions. Manufacturing alcohol has a licensing process that takes years in most places. You can be held liable for what happens if you overserve someone. Cigarettes can't really be advertised in the US anymore. In Canada, the actual nicotine product is not allowed to be displayed at retail outlets.

> * Pornography

Extensive recordkeeping requirements. Hardly ever advertised. Age and ID restrictions.

You basically listed some of the most restricted and regulated products. Many of them are required to com with warnings about the dangers of using them, and can't be advertised to general audiences.

You won't see former sports stars taking a puff on a nice smooth Lucky Strike and telling you all about the tobacco curing process at half-time on the broadcast. But you will certainly see that same sport star breaking down the odds, and the bonuses that new customers get on that show.
If they can get away with it, some people will do it.
Looks like the "modern era" - post-1983ish, is about half of what it was prior to that. I clicked around on the BEA website and find that this is defined as the percentage of your after-tax money that you dedicate to savings.

I wondered whether that does or does not include things like 401k contributions. I can't find an answer. I think that the early 1980s is when the 401k concept took off, right? Since this is a pre-tax allocation of your income, I wonder if they are not included and the drop since 1983ish is a result of people diverting funds into 401k accounts.

Anyone know more about that?
>Western industrial culture was based on substance - getting real shit done. There was always a lot of scammery around it, but the bedrock goal was to make physical things happen - build things, invent things, deliver things, innovate.

For a very short period between 1945 to 1980 while the generation who remembered the great depression and WWII was in charge. It's been longer since that's not been the case. And it wasn't the case for most of history before then.
This is terribly terribly frustrating. For every one of these cheats there are hundreds of honest, extremely hard-working ETHICAL scientists who toil 60 hours a week doing the thing they love. It is also terribly frustrating that, being human after all, smooth talkers with a confident stride, an easy smile, eager to shake hands can and do quickly climb the academic ladder, especially the administrative latter.
This makes me terribly sad.
What are you referring to with the car? Of course there are traffic laws. Similarly there are lots of physical objects you “buy” yet are restricted from using them to bludgeon someone.
Have we decided when are we deprecating it? I'm already cultivating another team in a remote location to work on a competing product that we will include into Google Cloud a month before deprecating this one.
> If people can get away with it, they will do it.

This is not universally true and individuals and societies don't have to be organized this way.

Why are streets in some countries filled with trash when others are clean? My community does not have anyone policing littering - yet our streets, parks and public areas are litter free.
It doesn't mean she is wrong. Survelliance to AI is what senses are to us. Without the streams of information from our senses our consciousness would turn blank. Similarly, the AI of the future will need connection to the world outside it to create a world inside.
I shared this article with an MD/PhD friend who has done research at two of the three most famous science universities in America ... and she said "this [not this guy, this phenomenon] is why I left science."

Maybe it's like elite running - everyone who stays competitive above a certain level is cheating, and if you want to enjoy watching the sport, you just learn to look the other way. Except that the stakes for humanity are much higher in science than in sport.
OP here. I see where you're coming from and I even agree with you. I seek and like tech posts on HN.

That being said, I enjoy reading (and writing) human stories as well!
Plus, it's nice to read the many stories people are sharing in the comments of this post. It shows that our community isn't as cold/ruthless as some may think :)
One data point but, one among our toy services has been pushing 30TB/mo to 60TB/mo for over a year now, and we haven't got the call: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39521228
We should really do some more honest crusades to export our honest values to the non believers to make the world a better, more honest place.
>100% due to them having no interest
I wouldn't go that far. Nobody willingly has no interest in being fed. There are logistical and other issues with the distribution of food and ensuring it gets to who needs it the most. It's a microcosm of what's happening in the world: there is more than enough food to feed every hungry person on the planet yet people starve (not because they don't have interest in acquiring food).
why incredible? Somebody disrupting the normal activity from a museum is not different than somebody going to Google and unplugging a server.

Even if the server is not damaged, the owner can be losing millions each hour that the server is out of service.

After each attack, the museum must close for a while and check if everything is correct in the other rooms also. The picture must be removed, cleaned by paid specialists, somebody must verify that its integrity has not being compromised and that nothing is slowly leaking under the glass. Insurance staff must come and write a report. Policemen must lose hours of work and write reports also.

There is a clear, measurable, and verifiable lose on ticket revenue for the museum. And the museum is not even responsible for the fact that people use cars!.

I don't know how much the Louvre earns each day, but those £5,000 for weeks or months of not having the Monalissa available for display seems a value too low to me.
Meta pays the price for storing passwords in plaintext
Lots of people doing research find this depressing to the point of quitting. Many of my peers left research as they couldn't stomach all this nonsense. In experimental fields, the current academic system rewards dishonesty so much that ugly things have become really common.

In my relatively short career, I have been asked to manipulate results several times. I refused, but this took an immense toll, especially on two occasions. Some people working with me wanted to support me fighting dishonesty. But guess what, they all had families and careers and were ultimately not willing to do anything as this could jeopardize their position.

I've also witnessed first-hand how people that manage to publish well adopt monopolistic strategies, sabotaging interesting grant proposals from other groups or stalling their article submissions while they copy them. This is a problem that seldomly gets discussed. The current review system favors mono-cultures and winner-takes-it-all scenarios.

For these reasons, I think industrial labs will be doing much better. Incentives there are not that perverse.
No commission trading predates Robin Hood.

But making it a flashy app is really what seems to drive meme investing.

I was buying stocks and mutual funds on Schwab for years before RH came along, but it was boring (as investing should be).
Running Mac OS on your Amiga in the 1980s [video]
> you're getting a product for either a fixed period [...] neither of which applies here.

Typically, as a practical matter, the license ends with your death. You can't pass your kindle ebooks and steam games as inheritance like you can with physical books and game discs.
Your points of memory are not counterpoints.
Those are the ones that lived - and are not indicative of the general quality of science during those times. Obvious survivor bias.

The fact that you can recall those reinforces the point that the value is determined by how long it is useful and remembered, not the fact that it was published.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

The CRPG Book Project: Three Years Later - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28496882 - Sept 2021 (10 comments)

CRPG Book Released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16308136 - Feb 2018 (61 comments)

The History of Computer RPGs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14145252 - April 2017 (91 comments)
> The most obvious example would be if they only applied it specific racial groups or something like that - highly illegal.

Right, discrimination based on protected classes is illegal.

Discrimination based on other needs is not illegal, and is in fact how all businesses work. They discriminate based on income, based on how you're dressed, based on how nice you are.

> This would almost certainly be considered a violation of antitrust laws.

Not allowing abuse and DDOS of your free services is just not on this level. Sorry, in my opinion it's not even close to comparable.

If Amazon was your competitor and they also issued hundreds of thousands of requests to one of your FREE APIs would you foot the bill? Fat chance, right? That's what we're talking about here.
Yeah currently the sentiment seems to be "okay fine it works for simple stuff but won't deal with my complex query so it can be dismissed outright." Save yourselves some time and use it for that simple stuff folks.
gccgo supports dynamic linking and foreign functions, and allegedly generates better-optimized code. The default compiler can share OS threads between goroutines, but not other languages (I guess stacks are no longer segmented but they could be copied?)
> When people say "trust the science", they often refer to things like masks, and antibiotics, and vaccines. That science is hundreds of years old and have been replicated thousands of times.

When people say "trust the science" they're usually referring to fairly recent developments. Covid vaccines were in development and testing for just over 18 months before being mandated and were certainly not replicated on a large scale by disinterested 3rd parties before being mandated. The idea that we can have effective scientific policy without trust in scientific institutions is just... not accurate.
Just buy them in China. Super cheap even in small quantity and very high quality. Shipping isn’t too bad either. Beats the heck out of figuring out how to dispose of ferric chloride. They’ll even populate the boards for you for a reasonable fee if your design uses SMD parts
Is that just a board or a full computer with a case, keyboard, etc?

I find the all-in-one kind of retrocomputers more appealing than the DIY projects (knowing nothing of electronics or of sourcing parts, cases, etc, DIY is not for me).