skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That race to the bottom is a feature, not a bug. It allows poor people to engage with culture. That's the tradeoff here. At some point copyright is protecting a tiny amount of profits for the author in exchange for locking people out of access.

Copyright is supposed to be a societal benefit, or there's little reason for society to spend money on enforcing it. That's where we currently are, and I think why there's such a strong reaction to copyright currently. We pay to protect the works and then we pay again to buy them. They become free when they're so culturally irrelevant that nobody wants them even for free. The costs of enforcement are socialized and the benefits are privatized.

At some point, copyright is going to have to provide more back to society or society will get tired of paying to enforce it.
I don't know where your ideas are coming from - Apple easily folded and gave all data to Chinese government when commanded to do so under leadership of Tim Cook.

Where does your thinking that they'll suddenly forget about revenue from UK over this come from?
> Unfortunately, it precludes types from taking dependencies on their own address,

It does not! You just have to make it non-copyable and non-moveable. std::mutex and std::atomic do exactly this.

> As far as I know, there is no way to actually force a C++ class to be heap allocated. I’ve tried.

As others have already pointed out: private constructor + factory method. However, this pattern is typically used for different reasons (implementation hiding or runtime polymorphism) and heap allocation is only a side effect.

> This decays to heap allocation.

No! The object might just as well live on the stack or have static storage duration.
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On the converse, human nature languages do not necessarily follow Zipf's Law. Many asian languages including Chinese and Japanese are exceptions.
Unfortunately, the pleasure or displeasure of doing math compounds quickly. A kid who doesn't enjoy it is going to do the minimum required, and if that isn't enough, it will become ever harder and less enjoyable in the future. You need practice, and practice is a dirty word in pedagogy.

Someday education is going to catch up with music and sport in its attitude towards practice. As adults we all understand that in music or sports, the most elite of the elite, the top 0.01% of human beings in attainment, are never too good to need more practice and polish of basic skills. But when we look at children learning math, repetition becomes anathema. My question is, how could anybody ever enjoy math without repetition? You need to make the boring stuff easy and then keep it easy. How does that happen without repetition? If you don't practice, the boring stuff becomes hard again, and you don't have brains to spare for the interesting stuff.
think again
It's nonsense because if his C code breaks the Rust binding or drivers, that is not his problem. It adds zero maintenance for him.
Why are toasters better at 240V? Can’t you just pull more current if you’re only at 120V (or whatever it is in the US) and get the same power?

I guess there’s some internal resistance or something, but…
Russia is no more terrorist state, than USA is.

That was USA scorched Vietnam.
That was USA killing civilians in Iraq and Afganistan.
That was USA overthrowing foreign goverments, including Ukrainian...
And then it preached to Russia on what to do with neighboring states...
That is the usual cargo cult story of C, systems programming languages go back to JOVIAL in 1958, NEWP in 1961, one of the first systems programming languages with intrinsics and unsafe code blocks.

You surely aren't advocating that hardware predating PDP-11 for a decade are more powerful.

There is enough material that show had UNIX been a commercial product instead of free beer source code, most likely C would have been just another systems language in the mysts of time.
You can view a full list of registrations by searching "MD:6" (case sensitive) at https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/search/search-information. When you open a listing, the sounds themselves are in the Documents tab, usually listed as "Mark" and in the MPEG format.
> “prioritize the constitutional order […] try to drive a wedge between Musk and Trump”

How does one follow from the other? This sounds like looking for the “one weird trick that will drive them crazy!” It does nothing. The moneyed interests don’t get confused so easily, much as Elon Musk puts up the madman front.

I’m imagining 1933 Germany and someone sitting in a bar in Berlin going: “Guys I know, we should drive a wedge between Hitler and I.G. Farben Corporation.” — Didn’t work then, doesn’t work now.
> Linus could make some of this go away by committing to let the Rust builds break.

Linus already did that. This is the state of things today. C code is allowed to break the Rust, and it's the Rust for Linux people's responsibility to get it working again, not the C folks.
R1 got it correct in one shot, I just pasted the statement.
What about if they flickered at 10^-15Hz?
> the concern it means a developer now has to wait for that, holding up their work for release/submission.

They do not have to wait.
I bang this drum all the time, but you are the first other person I've seen state it online.

If we stop subsidizing the foothills by creating urban utility districts it would solve the PG&E problem.

We would have a new problem of causing a ton of people to be unable to continue living in those areas without some kind of off-grid program.

Long term I think this is the only sane way forward though.
I genuinely wish there was a map where you could see how many kids and their age groups are in a given neighborhood.

Our current house is great, but there aren't many kids in the neighborhood.

I understand this is sensitive information, so it probably doesn't exist.

But choosing a neighborhood with other families that are in a similar life experience is kind of hard..

Especially considering it seems that kids play outside much less, so that's less of a signal.
I walk to the grocery store, which is about a 25 min walk one way, once a week. I get about 90% of my groceries for the week in that trip and they fit in my backpack + one shoulder bag for crushable vegetables.

Do it from +40C to -20C through the year. I am in my late 30s, and do not find this difficult at all.
You have a 240v toaster?
He's not subject to any law that I can see. Hence my question, what will EU courts do here? Elon does not care what any courts or governments have told him so far. In the end I think he will threaten something with his German factories and everyone will back down. He's not going to get arrested or anything.
Bengaluru doctors pioneer device that can diagnose cancer in 2 minutes
Maybe there’s a danger in 100% of the time discussing this drug’s benefits with no discussion of the risks.
Yes. US and places where people can elect a democracy have a higher chance of some change than European countries with parliamentary systems where a sudden populist candidate won't make it through that system.

I'd argue that, even if some change does happen in the US. Most change (see healthcare, military spending, etc) won't happen because big money will beat the majority of the populace every time.
There is another website that I've been using that provides similar functionality in terms of the heatmap: http://close.city

What I like about this one is that it can show travel times from a specific address. What would be even more useful is if it could show mixed-mode transportation times.
Most commercial AC fan and pump motors are already powered by variable frequency drives, and a lot of newer residential appliances have EC motors to allow for speed control.

I’m seeing more and more EC motors in commercial applications, for things like 2-3 HP fam motors and pumps.
> Regarding Russia, nobody really cared at all till it was absolutely impossible to ignore.

Regarding Russia, people have cared since the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. The fear of communism and concerns about Russia grew until the red scare in the 1920s, through the cold war, and continues to do this day. There has never been a single point in your life when "nobody really cared at all" about Russia.

America's concerns over Russia died down a lot from what it was after the collapse of the USSR but never really went away. That said, if Putin hadn't been doing his best to fan the flames America would probably still be focused on the middle east as their new favorite boogeyman.
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I wrote a tldr here: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=42976187
How do you mean? Who upholds those codified freedoms? Many democratic countries have similar fundamental laws that are explicitly hard to change or bypass. In the end though all rules are either enforced by some authority or they are mere suggestions. The USA doesn’t seem like a special case to me?
I don't know how you went from "don't pay for overpriced digital goods, just pirate them instead" to "hurr durr start using blurays and vinyls".

Reading comprehension is a lost art nowadays.
Right, but the point is they went through the motions to attempt to follow the law. They weren't simply saying someone else was doing the work and then doing it themselves. They at least attempt to follow the law internally. Which is not something we knew for certain or not in the public.
What Kind of Math Should Game Developers Know?
Call it an "impact statement" then, "diversity" was just the buzzword of the day. But the requirement to articulate how your research will impact the broader community is necessary.
That's the cost of the lawyers. If they did cost only 6.000 euros, that's actually a victory for the little man.
Totally agreed on this general pattern, even you're not using Bazel or Buck2.

In my experience working in large organizations - if a developer can't easily reproduce what the CI/CD pipeline is doing, then many won't try. That leads to a lot of "push-and-pray" magical thinking, minimal local testing, and a lack of understanding about what the pipeline does and doesn't do. Across a large organization, this can also get expensive if you're using cloud-hosted build runners.

Instead of putting a bunch of build logic in your pipeline, try to put it in a local script instead. Or better yet, wrap your actual build steps with a top-level Makefile (which can then call bazel, or cmake, or whatever). Design your pipeline to run this target, and keep the pipeline logic to an absolute minimum.

Your pipelines will become small, and easy to reason about. Your CI/CD setup will be more portable between different products (Jenkins, Azure Pipelines, Buildkite, etc). And your developers will be able to use the same workflow as the pipeline, leading to fewer "but it works on my machine!"-type problems.
Elon and JD Vance are currently campaigning on Twitter to bring him back.

Amazing since Vance has an Indian wife and children that he's throwing under the bus for someone who made a public call to normalize hating Indians.
You're roughly correct but you're missing some important context.

Hector wasn't the developer of this patch. However, he is a user of it. He has had some rough interactions over the last few years. And so seeing this happen (even though it's happening to someone else) is a "the straw that breaks the camel's back" kind of deal.
I'm most concerned about websites and databases that are not easily accessible, but that will be deleted nevertheless, by someone in power who's eager to please their superiors.
Their Irish tax haven is rather specifically _not_ in the UK.
I've written my own torrent clients. Have you?
Except when you're buying local, you're buying mostly imported products. I'm no fan of Amazon but you're swapping one middleman for another.
There must be a publisher out there that forbids you from training an AI on the copy you buy from them by now.
In Seattle you can take a tour of the Georgetown Steam Plant, which was an early power station. At one point they mention that the plant had two totally separate generators at different frequencies: one for household mains power and one for the electric streetcars.
Well, closer to 230.
“There is no ethical consumption under capitalism”
Can we abandon twitter links please.
> Like you've said, companies have lawers, so I don't think there's an EULA that's illegal.

They include terms in the EULA that are unenforceable, and let the users figure out which those are. Most users don't have teams of lawyers to go over every EULA for every minor purchase, so they are tricked into relinquishing rights even when the law forbids such terms.

> You trying to fuck the company only shows that you're doing the same thing as the company does, only mirrored.

Trying to hold on to my legal rights (in this case not getting spied on by a very expensive product) is not "fucking the company", except in an utterly backwards moral code where trying not to get scammed and exploited is equivalent to scamming, just because the former involves breaking a corporate-written piece of paper that reads "we get to scam, exploit, and spy on you, and you give up your right to sue us for it".

> The only winning move is not to play.

Meanwhile companies lobby for favorable laws (banning users from examining how stuff works, i.e. reverse-engineering, banning circumventing DRM even for use that is otherwise within your rights, allowing mere EULAs to relinquish your right to even hold the company accountable in court, i.e. mandatory arbitration, etc.) - they sure don't think just giving up is "winning". But they're more than happy to let you think that, while they stack the deck even worse. You are their ideal customer, that will just bow his head and take any abuse dished out, and the most they can fear from you is that maybe you'll instead buy from someone else next time.
I’m sorry but Corbyn was a terrible choice as Labour leader, and I vote Labour in that election!

He was unelectable for a variety of reasons.

Here’s three:

Wanting to pull out of NATO and instead appease Putin.

Lying about being forced to sit on the floor of what was later shown to be an empty train.

Basically doing nothing during the Brexit fiasco.

He was just gaff after gaff.
More current needs thicker wires. The average US outlet is wired for 120v15amp. 20 amp circuits are somewhat common, though 20amp receptacles are not. Certainly not enough for commodity appliances to rely on.

Going to more than 20amp requires a multiphase circuit which are much more expensive and the plugs are unwieldy and not designed to be plugged and unplugged frequently.
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Amazon Will Spend Nearly a Year of AWS Revenue on AI Investments
It's not a pet theory when there's proof they have engaged in it through five eyes. We're not saying it respects the constitution or its intent. We're saying it's what happens.

Black CIA sites weren't legal either, nor was torture.
Initially I had put a single color gradient, but I updated the graph because high density areas weren't standing out enough relatively. Updated the text to reflect the updated graph.
I find it very strange the way people sometimes talk about AI in general. It's in a manner usually devoid of criticism, rooted in the firm belief that it's the next "Big Thing", a technological jump akin to when we replaced assembly with higher, more abstract constructs (as the article puts it). Beyond that, those that don't believe this trend are themselves "stubborn", unable to glimpse at an obvious truth that is staring them down in the face, being themselves faded to be left behind while the righteous believers reap the benefits borne out of their superior insights regarding technology. I myself, clearly, find this proposition hard to believe.

While I won't knock the utility of LLMs (they obviously have a wide range of applications), this "ride or die" attitude seems to verge on religious zealotry. You don't need AI to code and, without reasonable proof of a real productivity increase (which the author only hints at, citing some internal studies that show a minimum increase of 30%, but without actually presenting the studies themselves), I will continue to doubt its ability at generating programs, even in the simplified, glue-it-together manner that the authors puts it.

One must remember what these LLMs truly are: statistical machines with no real contextual knowledge. It can't, therefore, be aware of the particulars of each implementation. What it generates needs to be analyzed and likely mangled by developers. So it begs the question, why not just code it directly? Perhaps it could lower the barrier of entry, after all, if I cannot code, at least the AI can give me a head start. But the novice developer won't even be able to discern between good and bad code, being forced to simply trust (and hope) that the generated program is not only correct, but that it fits well in the context of her application.

Further, what the machine can generate is wholly dependent on what is available for consumption (most of it stolen). Novelty, even in small amounts, will inevitably stump it. It already just performs educated guesswork, but, without basis, it's now only guesswork minus the education.

This is not to say that AI is useless, far from that, but is frequent that I see it be given this almost divine-like status. As if it were this inevitable, unstoppable thing, that will forever grow until it achieves perfection, to the woe the skeptics and the joy of the believers.

In my humble view, it remains a useful tool in a variety of situations, a occasionally better alternative to Stack Overflow for one, but I would never trust it to write code, at least good code that is.
I've noticed more and more super/hypermarkets started asking for your zip/postal code sometime during self-checkout. I'm guessing they use these as approximations about where people travel from, so they can evaluate if to open more stores closer to popular areas, or something like that. Pretty sure there is more use cases for postal codes too.
Nobody uses iMessage in Spain. People swear by Zuck's spyware
What if I’m a Kaiju, and I want to disrupt the most electrical cables juice up? What path of destruction is best for me?
> That’s only true if you plan for getting about everybody into and out ...

> ... rough ideas, typically in science fiction, ...

Vs. in the real world: Fire Codes
Having more current running through a wire means thicker wires. Higher voltage means less current to achieve the same power, so thinner wires for the same power. The tradeoff for higher voltage is it's more dangerous (higher chance of arcing etc).
Houses are wired for 16A per circuit on both sides of the pond, with high-power appliances typically pulling around 10A to avoid tripping the fuse when something else is turned on at the same time. It's just a nice point where wires are easy to handle, plugs are compact, and everything is relatively cheap.

The US could have toasters and hair dryers that work as well as European ones if everything was wired for 32A, but you only do that for porch heaters or electric vehicle chargers.
While tariffs are on everyone's mind, the key reason is:

> Amazon critics are also calling for a boycott following the closure of seven warehouses in Quebec

Amazon warehouses in the provice had started unionizing. Incredible coincidence.
> It's useful if you care about intellectual curiosity and/or arriving at truth.

I disagree.

> For the same reason that high school and college debates happen where people are assigned a position rather than allowed to argue their "real" position.

Haha, I hate debate clubs and think they're largely useless grandstanding. They might be nice to put on your résumé, but other than that, sound and fury, signifying nothing.

By the way, I feel the same way about our "adversarial" legal system. It often feels like truth is actually the last thing it's concerned with.

> The whole point of saying "devil's advocate" is to let the person know "this isn't my personal position

That may be what you think, but from what I've seen on HN and social media broadly, it's often a cover for stating distasteful opinons while attempting to avoid personal criticism for those distasteful opinions.

> Ultimately though, if what you want is a discussion where everybody already agrees and hasn't/doesn't consider actual (non-strawman) arguments against their position

That's not what I said. Here's what I actually said: "there are surely some sincere defenders of Google out there? Why not let them do the arguing? Of course, if nobody is a sincere defender of Google, that seems to prove that Google doesn't actually have good reasons for its actions."

> not being allowed to argue anything other than your real position

Again, that's not what I said. "I think that people should be open and honest about what they believe and what they don't believe; IMO the phrase Devil's advocate is obscurantist at best." But you appear to believe that "Devil's advocate" is a clear statement of disbelief in the stated opinion, whereas I don't agree with that, as a universal generalization.

> Your mind is a tool and tools need to be maintained otherwise they decay. Without "devil's advocate" such sharpening becomes significantly more difficult

But this isn't just an intellectual exercise. Some people, including myself, consider the existence of browser extensions and the utility of browser extension API to be an important social and/or technological issue. We're not here just for "fun". That's something to keep in mind if your aim is merely to sharpen your own mind.

To repeat, though: Devil's advocacy is not the same thing as intellectual curiosity. If one is curious, one usually asks questions rather than making bold statements. "Refute me" is an incurious position.
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I'm curious what glitch you mean, maybe you can find a link describing it? All of my googling just turns up arbitrary problems that often end up being due to poorly authored maps. :)
(ninth RacketCon): Andrew Blinn - Fructure:
A Structured Editing Engine in Racket

https://youtu.be/CnbVCNIh1NA?si=JZxjUdTLbBp6IEaK
I’ve waited an hour for a Lyft while driver after driver accepted then canceled the ride. Ridesharing does not have great reliability either.
> So you agree that your argument has shifted from complaining about inadequate disclosure that coffee contains caffeine, to complaints about lack of decaf offerings.

My argument has never shifted.

But the reason the argument shifted was because someone specifically asked about how you'd do DDoS protection without those downsides.

And you continued asking how it could be done.

> It would also be trivial for google and facebook to turn off all ads and logging of your activity. They would need to do strictly less than they do now. It would benefit all users too!

Isn't cloudflare supposedly not tracking private information in the websites they proxy...? If you think they make money off it, that's pretty bad...

> In CF case they would have to build a completely different infrastructure to detect bots using different technology to what they have now, including different ways around false positives for legitimate users.

I disagree.

> I would be the first in line to your offering of free cheeseless hamburgers. Where do i sign up?

First you need to put me into a situation where my business can compete with cloudflare while doing exactly the same things they do. Then I will be happy to comply with that request.

The hard part of this situation is not the effect of that tiny change on profitability, it's getting into a position where I can make that change.
I assume it varies by platform. Meta has a service that makes data available to vetted academic researchers, for example, so keep in mind that "available to researchers" does not necessarily mean that one can just post a link to it on Hacker News.

If there's a specific platform you're thinking of, there's probably someone in here that can direct you to the right place. What platform are you thinking of?