Discussion
palmotea: > At midnight UTC, the entire current month is refetched from the source as a single authoritative Parquet file, and today's individual 5-minute blocks are removed from the today/ directory.Wouldn't that lose deleted/moderated comments?
GeoAtreides: is the legal page a placeholder, do words have no meaning?https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/Mods, enforce your license terms, you're playing fast and loose with the law (GDPR/CPRA)
Retr0id: Which terms are not being enforced? (not disagreeing I just don't feel like reading a large legal document)
gkbrk: My Hacker News items table in ClickHouse has 47,428,860 items, and it's 5.82 GB compressed and 18.18 GB uncompressed. What makes Parquet compression worse here, when both formats are columnar?
0cf8612b2e1e: Under the Known Limitations section deleted and dead are integers. They are stored as 0/1 rather than booleans. Is there a technical reason to do this? You have the type right there.
ryandvm: Eh, fuck that agreement. I'm kind of old school in that I believe if you put it on the internet without an auth-wall, people should be allowed to do whatever they want with it. The AI companies seem to agree.Then again, I'm not the guy that is going to get sued...
alstonite: What happened between 2023 and 2024 to cause the usage dropoff?
Ylpertnodi: > I believe if you put it on the internet without an auth-wall, people should be allowed to do whatever they want with it.I agree. It's the owners of the sites that have to follow rules, not us.
GeoAtreides: > By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companiesThe user content is supposed to be licensed only Y Combinator and (bleah) its affiliated companies (which are many, all the startups they fund, for example).
zamadatix: If you carry on the quote two more words:> ... a nonexclusiveWhich makes sense as just above it is describing this relates to content you share with other users or recipients publicly on the site. I.e. this section is talking to additional rights to the content you post to also go to YC, not a section guaranteeing they are promising to protect information you publicly post from being consumed by others.
bstsb: what’s the license? “do whatever the fuck you want with the data as long as you don’t get caught”? or does that only work for massive corporations
BoredPositron: The universal license.
jmalicki: Curious why it should be on HackerNews to enforce restrictions on content they only license from you?If it's owned by you and only licensed by HN shouldn't you be the one enforcing it?
AndrewKemendo: Seems like they are trying to do that through the stated legal intermediary (YC)
