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Yes, they may say that NOW, because the case is related to a silly copyright duration dispute between Belgium and the Netherlands. I wouldn't be surprised if they go against this in future cases where a VPN is used to download FIFA matches in 8k or something.

Are you thinking of some other malware? There's nothing in the article that mentions ANY of those things. And considering you made your account 2 days ago, I wonder if you hallucinated it. :)

VCs are just pass-through investors, the money comes from billionaires. And when billionaires face losing money, the whole system re-arranges itself to stop that from happening.

Technical folks get a bit enthusiastic about their jobs and hobbies. Surely you've noticed how many people seem overjoyed that RISC-V is overtaking ARM. They aren't all engineers who have to do embedded programming, many are just fans. Like there are fans of Sonic the Hedgehog or Darth Vader. It's therefore considered kind of nasty to diminish someone's enthusiastic nerdy pursuit. I don't agree with that, but that's how it's perceived. This social faux pas has been enshrined de facto in the rules of various sites, and HN is no exception. If you're going to rock the boat, it's best to use a lot of words so people who are just trying to satisfy their nerdy special interest don't read it and get inflamed.

"Inevitable" is in keeping with the brash, larger-than-life marketing angle the whole RISC-V space has adopted. Everything is superlative-themed. "World's first", "world's best", "highest performance", "unmatched", "unleashed", "industry-leading", "gold standard", "world leader", "disruption", "revolution". I don't think it's something that should be taken literally.

Really interesting that there's seems to be an optimal amount of words, and some of the most popular such as Eminem and Tyler the Creator are right in the sweet spot. Those that use a smaller vocab like Wiz Khalifa and A Boogie wit da Hoodie are more about emotional content, while those who use huge vocabs like Jedi Mind Tricks and Del the Funky Homosapien are more about getting a message accross. And Aesop Rock and Busdriver are just freaks of nature.

Also, I'm really curious where Pharoahe Monch would fall on this list.

This article is about "how early a child is born or a child’s weight at birth". I don't know why we're talking about other possible negatives of Acetaminophen. Seems off-topic to me.

AI didn't kill SO, SO was already declining due to toxic users and lack of organization. The toxic users were dunning-krugerian anal-retentive mini-Napoleons who delighted in locking anything slightly off-topic and merging slightly-related questions, and the lack of organization was a tendency for people to give incorrect answers but still get upvoted (due to Google search surfacing the page in the wrong context).

Very cool. Are you compiling the maps with q3map2?

Apple has an excellent mobile OS, which is enough of a loyal userbase that they can make a hardware mistake once in a while and still retain customers. They're less hardware-dependent than most device manufacturers. This also enables them to lag behind the state of the art if it means more reliable/consistent performance. Which is why you don't see a folding Apple phone yet, and why Samsung was able to score points against Apple by having longer battery life and a better camera. This also allows them to demand high quality from their factories.

I'm tired of everything being classified as "malware". The word has no meaning anymore. Malware can mean "zero-day state-sponsored ransomware attack" or it can mean "software was automatically installed by a trusted consumer-beloved company because they forgot to make an opt-out window" (which is what I'm guessing happened here).

All gaming brands try to install software with every driver update. AMD, Nvidia, Razer, Corsair, etc. The difference is LG made it silent, which is a big no-no. Pushback should be on LG, a respected consumer brand that should know better.

This is huge! I hope hobbyist boards start to adopt this as a standard firmware. Being able to buy a board and immediately boot from a USB flash drive (rather than having to chain-boot from notoriously-flaky SD cards) would be a big improvement.

I'd also like to get some analog of UEFI+ACPI+PCIE+XHCI on RISC-V at some point. We can probably pick bits and pieces from the RISC-V Server Platform.

Claude is the computer from the Paul Rudd Celery Man Tim & Eric skit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maAFcEU6atk

I just looked up who runs the Thunderbolt specification, and was surprised to see that it's owned by Intel. But Thunderbolt 4 was donated to the USB Implementers Forum so maybe that's why things are improving.

Saw a post on X that showed that AI images and videos have uniform entropy across the entire image, making them easy to detect. I've been unable to "unsee" this across all AI generated things, not just images and videos: It shows up in audio and AI voice (which is why AI has such a weird "compressed" speaking cadence), writing (AI is bad at writing "slow" sections in books, it's non-stop things happening at exactly the same intervals), and I'm sure it applies to coding also somehow.

In the AI version, which I think is inferior to the original human version here, the AI has "filled in all the gaps" and it feels like an endless plateau with no end (AI is also bad at wrapping up songs, lol)

Same with cigarettes and asbestos. Everyone knew smokers had shorter lives, but the facts were suppressed because it was inconvenient. Everyone knew asbestos was dangerous, but they put it in every single house for decades because "fire was worse".

And don't even get me started on DDT and teflon.

That's why you make sure the poll is two models sold by the same company.

Ever since bots became a problem on the internet 10-20 years ago, it has seemed like the common-sense solution is some kind of micropayment. Pay $0.01 to view the page. When money is on the line, scrapers are likely to be more well-behaved, even if they do pay. The problem is, and has always been, the friction of payment. How do you pay $0.01? The credit card processors will tack on a $6 surcharge. We need a trusted third-party that turn money into "internet article credits" that you can spend in small increments, like a video game. But I suspect that thousands of people have already though of this system, and tried it, but ran into some roadblock. I'm guessing there's some egregious regulation that makes micropayments impossible.

Looks done to me, no need to lose more time. Just needs a business model.

Best business model for you is "managed content", allow companies to disguise their own ads as ads for your site. I.E. car company pays you to generate a "which is better" between two of their car models and embed it into an ad.

I think we're actually arguing for the same goal here, and I was a bit too harsh, but really, there's a big danger in settling on a technicality while thinking you're "fighting the good fight". The powers that be will throw all kinds of technicality wins in front of you, the key is knowing when it's a false victory.

I'm more surprised that one of the top Playstation-related sites only got 6k votes on a poll. Times sure have changed.

There will surely be some people who applaud your post for pointing this out. But the vast majority of people don't see "government spies on me" vs "private industry spies on me" as a meaningful distinction and there are MANY MANY recent examples of this: the discourse around Flock, the discourse around ICE using personal information to trace dissenters, the discourse around DOGE and Palantir.

But I suppose the OP said all that needs to be said, and so this spot was left empty for whatever nonsense comment dared to fill the void, and you won.

That isn't commoditizing their compliment. Commoditizing their compliment is what Unity and Unreal do, they give you the game engine for free (unless you're very, very successful) and they sell you the assets.

I'm a big believer in the philosophy "Make the thing you want, and chances are it's what others want also". I'm also a big believer in whole-hog vibe-coding. So none of these cons resonate with me. The code is slop, hell yeah it is! And it works GREAT. The users? It's me, and anyone who sees me using it and gets jealous.

Ehhh, maybe? I haven't heard many people wishing for devices that were within the realm of practicality (I.E. not a flying car). If someone has an actual good idea, then the cost of the components and tools and rework is the next major hurdle (soldering by hand is where cool ideas go to die). Meanwhile a commercial off-the-shelf device probably works good enough.

Physical media was always one of the selling points for consoles. While PC has essentially been digital-only for a long time (with NONE of the wish list the author here wants, mind you - you can't sell or lend games to random people on Steam, besides a limited "family sharing" feature), consoles were where you go when you want to play a game and then sell it quickly if you don't like it. Physical media accounts for 50% of Switch game sales. I feel that Sony is in panic mode because they released a bunch of stinker first-party games and now they think that removing the disc drive from the PS6 will save them some money. It'll probably lose them a lot of customers.

Flashbacks to when I uploaded a private video, and on a first date a person googled me and said "Oh is this you, <name of video>". Apparently at some point private videos were indexed in google.

I agree, indiscriminate archival is doomed to fail. Spending all of your resources backing things up leaves you with no resources to curate. This is where archive.org goes wrong I think. I think identifying information that is valuable and distilling, reformatting, and republishing it is much more important.

I see what you're doing and it's brilliant. 99% of people probably understand tpoacher's point perfectly, but you're pretending not to in order to be the 1%, and daring him to counteract his own point by ignoring you. Bravo.