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by noirscape | 2025-11-24 13:45:55+00:00
> Furthermore, current copyright terms are decades past the death of the creator.

It's important to recognize why this is the case - a lot of the hubbub around posthumous copyright comes from the fact that a large amount of classic literature often went unrecognized during an author's lifetime (a classic example is Moby Dick, which sold and reviewed poorly - Melville only made 1260$ from the book in total and his wife only made ~800$ from it in the remaining 8 years it remained under copyright after Melville died, even though it's hard to not imagine it on a literature list these days). Long copyright terms existed to ensure that the family of an author didn't lose out on any potential sales that would come much later. Even more recent works, like Lord of the Rings also heavily benefitted from posthumous copyright, as it allowed Tolkien's son to actually make the books into the modern classics they are today, through carefully curating the rereleases and additions to the work (the map of Middle Earth for instance was drawn by Tolkien's son.)

It's mostly a historic example though; Copyright pretty blatantly just isn't designed with the internet in mind. Personally I think an unconditional 50 years is the right timeline for copyright to end. No "life+50"; just 50.

50 years of copyright should be more than enough to get as much mileage out of a work as possible, without running into the current insanity where all of the modern worlds cultural touchstones are in the hands of a few megacorporations. For reference, 50 years means that everything before 1975 would no longer be under copyright today, which seems like a much fairer length to me. It also means that if you create something popular, you have roughly the entire duration of a person's working life (starting at 18-23, ending at 65-70) to make money from it.
by theultdev | 2025-11-24 13:45:55+00:00
People can pay a 10-20% premium for African and Dutch gifts if they want to.

Or shop American and help keep manufacturing and jobs alive here.

I think it's a fair compromise. As Americans we are used to having an overwhelming amount of choice, partly due to our previous open trade policies. Something you don't really see in other countries. Go to Japan and you can count the American products sold on your hand.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2025-11-24 13:45:56+00:00
Let me contribute my Europeanist sentiment by pointing out that the harmonious design of the fab is pure tatemae.

The Japanese professional class care fuckall about PFAS and environmental issues have always been low on the list of priorities. Sorry. I love the Hokkaido produce.

https://www.americanchemistry.com/chemistry-in-america/chemi...
by bluGill | 2025-11-24 13:46:27+00:00
Not exactly because as soon as you realize it doesn't solve the most important problems the a side effect of giving to well-off people as well becomes easier to argue against as well. If we need to identify those who cannot handle money then we may as well use that same effort to identify who doesn't need help in the first place. Not that your point doesn't stand, but it isn't as powerful.

Note that I don't know how to identify people who cannot handle money. I know individuals, but how to you fairly do this in a way that doesn't get abused or abuse someone - both have been major problems with every plan to help the poor in the past.
by foldr | 2025-11-24 13:46:42+00:00
Trump, at least, seems to like Putin because he's an authoritarian. Trump wants the same kind of absolute power that he perceives Putin to have.

Many of the SV fascists (and yes, this seems like a fair appellation to me at this point) also have anti-democratic tendencies via Curtis Yarvin and other such loons.

As for Vance, one can also find anti-democratic trends of thought among conservative Catholics in the US, under the euphemism of 'postliberalism' and/or 'integralism':

https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2023/06/postliberalism-econ...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-is-postliberalism...

You have to get through pages and pages of this tedious stuff to find out what they actually want, but the general tendency is towards some kind of Catholic/Christian state.
by cj | 2025-11-24 13:46:43+00:00
Some quick Googling surfaces the number of residency slots as being another limiting factor to medical school admissions. Apparently, federal funding caps the maximum number of residency slots which creates a bottleneck in the system.

It's most likely the case that there are multiple different bottlenecks. It's not just 1 person in a room somewhere saying "we need to make protect the elite!" - it's more likely just a lot of people continuing the status quo and few people fighting the change it.
by ArnoVW | 2025-11-24 13:48:14+00:00
Well the vibe I am getting from testing22321 is more one of "there should be unconditional support from society". See the points about free education and (supposed) unlimited benefits in Autralia. As said, it's not that I am against them, I just don't see how as a matter of practicality that would work on a societal scale.

I know the current situation in the US. So if you want to argue that the US has in general a poor social safety net, find someone who disagrees with you. In my mind, as long as Americans see themselves as "temporarily embarassed millionaires" living in the "greatest country on earth", and keep voting against their own interest, I don't see that changing any time soon.
by a4isms | 2025-11-24 13:48:41+00:00
In the early days of Hacker News, and maybe even before Hacker News when Reddit didn't have subreddits... OG blogger Joel Spolsky posited the "Joel Test," twelve simple yes/no questions that defined a certain reasonable-by-today's-standards local optimum for shipping software:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...

Some seem ridiculously obvious today, but weren't standard 25 years ago. Seriously! At the turn of the century, not everyone used a bug database or ticket tracker. Lots of places had complicated builds to production, with error-prone manual steps.

But question five is still relevant today: Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
by makimilan | 2025-11-24 13:49:10+00:00
Author here.

I spent months trying to break the quadratic O(N^2) bottleneck of Transformers. Today I'm releasing Pulse-Field v3.0 — an event-driven, neuro-symbolic architecture that runs in O(N) time.

Benchmarks vs GPT-2 style baseline (on CPU): - Latency: 5ms (vs 60ms) - Context: Tested up to 100k tokens with <3ms penalty. - Size: Starts at ~20MB (dynamic growth).

The architecture uses "Event-Driven Routing" instead of dense attention matrices. Tokens travel as impulses through a graph of specialized "crystals" (logic/memory nodes), activating only relevant paths.

This entire core was architected and coded in a 55-minute sprint using a swarm of AI agents (reasoning models) that I orchestrated to overcome the "average output" bias of standard LLMs.

Happy to answer questions about the routing logic!
by IAmBroom | 2025-11-24 13:50:14+00:00
I was there, Gandalf, thirty years ago when they formed their first website...

Which was little more than scans of their catalog pages, and some fields. Really. Instead of getting all excited about the latest web tech, they took their gigantic catalog and more-or-less scanned it in (well, used source files, but still...).

McMaster-Carr has always been an amazing company. I was once in the field, and ordered a $5,000 part from a key supplier and a $30 box of screws from McMaster-Carr. The other supplier charged extra for shipping, and sent it two days later to my company instead of my location as specified. McMaster-Carr overnighted the screws without being asked to do so.
by tialaramex | 2025-11-24 13:51:07+00:00
The identity function. Several C++ implementations choose this too. It is very cheap but has obvious problems which may make you wish you'd paid more up front.

If you want this in Rust you can use: https://crates.io/crates/integer-hasher -- being able to swap out the hasher is something C++ folks have kinda wanted to do for like 15-20 years but they have never got it over the line.

I have some benchmarks I've been noodling with for a while, measuring different ways to do a hashtable. I call the one where we just do this operation but otherwise use the ordinary Rust Swiss tables - IntHashMap in this code. For some operations, and especially at small sizes, IntHashMap is significantly better

But, for other operations, and especially at large sizes, it's worse.

For example suppose we have 10 K->V pairs in our hash table, when we're looking for one of the ten K values, we're much faster in IntHashMap. However, if it's not there, IntHashMap is slightly slower. Further, if we have the first ten thousands numbers instead of ten thousand random numbers, like if we'd made a hash table of serial numbers for something - we're ten times worse in IntHashMap and that's because our hashing function though fast, is very bad at its job.
by exceptione | 2025-11-24 13:51:24+00:00
Respectfully disagree. Python and Go std lib do not even play in the same league. I had to help someone with datetime¹ handling in Python a while back. The stdlib is so poor, you have to reach out for a thirdparty lib for even the most basic of tasks².

Don't take my word for it, take a dive. You wouldn't be the first to have adjust their view.

For example, this section is just about the built-in web framework asp.net: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core

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1. This might be a poor example as .net has NodaTime and the jvm has YodaTime as 3rd-party libs, for if one has really strict needs. Still, the builtin DateTime constructs offer way more than what Python had to offer.

2. Don't get me started on the ORM side of things. I know, you don't have to use one, but if you do, it better does a great job. And I wouldn't bat an eye if the ORM is not in the standard, but boy was I disappointed in Python's ecosystem. EF Core come batteries included and is so much better, it isn't fun anymore.
by SkipperCat | 2025-11-24 13:51:25+00:00
Has anyone had and experience using hearing aids to deal with tinnitus? I've got some small hearing loss in the high frequencies and I'm looking at getting fitted for hearing aids to help boost those frequencies. The hope is to train my brain to stop replacing the deficit of sound with the monotone tinnitus noise.

I've tried some OTC hearing aids (Sony & Sennheiser) but its been hit or miss. I'm going to try whatever the hearing aid tech at my ENT proscribes.
by dns_snek | 2025-11-24 13:51:50+00:00
I'd even argue that it's predominantly a negative experience outside of the social media circles that often glorify it.

In my experience it often creates an unbearable internal conflict where you're acutely aware that you really need (or want) to do something else, but you find it impossible to set your current task aside.

I would end up in situations where I'm not enjoying the hyperfocus activity because I'm simultaneously feeling guilty over not doing the more important thing, and there's would be nothing I can do about it. I could try to switch tasks but my mind would wander back, I would make more mistakes, if I had to talk to someone then I wouldn't be present and alert in the conversation, and would suffer even more negative consequences because of that.

Nobody sees that side of it though.
by throw0101c | 2025-11-24 13:51:54+00:00
See perhaps 2006 movie:

> Who Killed the Electric Car? is a 2006 American documentary film directed by Chris Paine that explores the creation, limited commercialization and subsequent destruction of the battery electric vehicle in the United States, specifically the General Motors EV1 of the mid-1990s. The film explores the roles of automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, the federal government of the United States, the California government, batteries, hydrogen vehicles and consumers in limiting the development and adoption of this technology.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F

And from the same director in 2011:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_of_the_Electric_Car
by willvarfar | 2025-11-24 13:52:00+00:00
taking an example from the article, the USA currently produces 0.2% of coffee it consumes domestically (Hawaii and Puerto Rico).

Could coffee be grown in reasonable quantities inside the USA? I find some mention of very expensive high-end 'boutique' coffee grown in California but it is not generally a crop that grows well in the continental USA.

(until global warming reduces the chances of frost in Florida perhaps?)

Another example from the article was a tea grower. Again, niche growing is limited to just some regions of the USA, with less than 0.1% of consumption domestically produced.

And of course with these products they have distinctive tastes that reflect where they were grown, so tea from California is distinctive tasting and not a direct substitute for tea from Japan from the article.

The growers in the article had been heavily disrupted by tariffs.
by robocat | 2025-11-24 13:52:23+00:00
Your summary is incorrect. From link from link:

while the majority of [the savings] consists of traditional transport decongestion benefits, around a fifth are arising from e.g. health, journey quality and safety.

Cycling doesn't replace cars, it just reduces the cost of cars!

Once you're too old, the health benefits are less clear e.g. my mother dangerously broke bones after falling off her bike (I think cause was overloading herself with a grubber in a backpack).
Show HN: OgBlocks – Simple Copy-Paste Animated UI Components
by thekarank | 2025-11-24 13:52:39+00:00
Hey HN,

I'm Karan, and I'm a frontend developer

I built ogblocks.dev because many developers I know want their sites to feel polished but don’t enjoy writing CSS animations. Hand-coding animations is harder than it looks, and most existing libraries are either static, pricey, or not very customizable.

ogBlocks provides copy-paste animated UI components built with React, Framer Motion, and Tailwind. No installation required. Everything is fully customizable, responsive, and works in both JSX and TSX. It also includes a private repo, Discord access, and a free 107-page ebook.

My goal was to make practical animations accessible, even if you don’t enjoy working with CSS.

Lemme know what you think
by gushogg-blake | 2025-11-24 13:53:29+00:00
Someone at the bank was finally able to give me a hint: this is a continuous payment authority, which is not the same as multiple one-off card payments.

Someone at the personal finance stackexchange[1] mentioned that with a CPA you "still owe the money" if the transaction fails, which kind of makes sense. Maybe the "transaction for full available balance" was just the easiest way of conveying the notion that "a merchant is entitled to take an amount that's greater than or equal to your full balance".

Still, misrepresenting the merchant's actions with basically a made up transaction seems like a sure way to create confusion where we really need clarity and accuracy.

[1]: https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/168001/continuous-...
by lazide | 2025-11-24 13:53:41+00:00
The thing that prompted this is people fell for it, and he can use it as leverage to get rich.

That everyone was willing to stand by and let him do it (as in not apply real consequences or physically/procedurally actually stop him) is the opportunity that presented itself.

If a criminal suddenly walks by and steals your unlocked car (or breaks the window and steals it), and gets away, it’s a bit silly to stand there complaining you didn’t ask them to do that!
by alextingle | 2025-11-24 13:53:50+00:00
Every time I look at a new project, my face falls when it's written in Rust. I simply don't trust a system that pulls in gigabytes of god-knows-what off the cloud, and compiles it on my box. It's a real barrier to entry, for me.

When I download a C project, I know that it only depends on my system libraries - which I trust because I trust my distro. Rust seems to expect me to take a leap in the dark, trusting hundreds of packagers and their developers. That might be fine if you're already familiar with the Rust ecosystem, but for someone who just wants to try out a new program - it's intimidating.
by TrackerFF | 2025-11-24 13:54:20+00:00
At least with samples, you had to do some actually arrangement - namely placing out the samples in your DAW, make some active creative decisions, etc.

With tools like Suno, you really don't need to do anything other than just type in the your prompt, and hope for the best.

The closest analogy I can come up with, is that making music with tools like Suno is like hiring a musician / composer to make the music for you.
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-24 13:55:10+00:00
> The average user does not see things like app config files, cache data, etc as their own files.

All the more reason to put this stuff into the user directory, so that it is automatically included in backups and syncs done by the unaware user.

> The current /home has so much absolute junk that it's easy to not know where your stuff is.

Not my experience. Application data of application XYZ is either in ~/.xyz or in ~/.{config,local,cache}/xyz, depending on whether the application is FHS compliant or not.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-11-24 13:55:48+00:00
I doubt that the consulting firm seriously overbilled.

To my knowledge rather consulting firms are great at selling the necessity of lots of consultants or consultant days:

Just let the customer talk very openly about their wishes for the project, and you immediately get an insane scope explosion for the project, i.e. it "needs" an insane amount of consultants over many years to implement all these wishes.

To increase the bill, every highly qualified consultant that is necessary for the project "needs" a lot of support personnel (senior consultants) so that the senior consultant can 100 % concentrate on their work (otherwise the customer would pay insane hourly rates for highly qualified experts to do "grunt work" - no customer would "want" that). This way, you sell a huge number of senior consultants (this is rather some low rank) to the customer.

And, by the way: since of cause many consultants you sell to the customer shall be highly qualified experts in their discipline, and the project trivially consists of a lot of disciplines, the number of subject-matter experts that can be sold to the customer can be increased by a lot. In some ordinary software project, you would simply use a small team of good generalists (jacks of all trades, master of none) who can do most things in the project, but of cause, as a consulting company, you rather sell the customer "some of the greatest experts that money can buy" (without mentioning that these are insanely expensive and not really needed for the project).

That's how you do it; scamming or billing unrealistic hours is for amateurs.
by aurareturn | 2025-11-24 13:55:53+00:00
Honestly, with an LLM, I can do it by myself for $96,000 - maybe less. I had a brief look at the website.

Downvote me if you want. But I just built a small business website for a relative in about 5 minutes using Vercel's v0. All I did was upload the logo design, gave it some details about the business and it spit out a fantastic professional looking website in about 1 minute. Made some changes to it and pressed a button to publish with a custom domain and it went live. The entire process took 5 minutes.

I'm sure I can make a weather website with a map for $96k.
by constantcrying | 2025-11-24 13:56:28+00:00
>are killing it in them (best selling EV in the EU, Renault 5). What, if it's not a global behemoth dominating the world, it doesn't count as manufacturing? What exactly is your argument here?

My argument is that China is producing EVs of the same quality for 70% of the cost. European wealth comes from exports.

>This is assuming that the Chinese competition would be allowed to compete on the same terms, which we already know won't happen - both the EU and the US have put in tariffs. And we can see that a low cost Dacia EV is similarly priced to a low cost BYD EV.

Exactly. The European car industry only exists because China is not allowed to compete, this is my point. There is no German/French/Italian car export industry anymore. Who is buying a German or French EV when he could be buying a better car for the same price or the same quality car for a lower price.

The car market for these companies will shrink from the entire world to Europe, surely you can see that this is an existential threat to European manufacturing.

>And we can see that a low cost Dacia EV is similarly priced to a low cost BYD EV.

Yes, this is exactly what I am saying. A BYD EV with 27% tariffs applied is cost competitive to the lowest end Renault Platform. In other words, the only reason Dacia is selling any cars is because BYD is not allowed to compete.

On the topic of aircraft engines. The Chinese have mastered almost every technology the west has, it is delusional to think that they will never make competitive aircraft engines. You are correct, COMAC will take more than a decade to compete with Airbus, but with the current trajectory it is practically inevitable they will catch up.
by vrighter | 2025-11-24 13:56:36+00:00
" Just constructing what seems to be a reasonably private and robust linux computer took at least a year of full-time effort."

How? I mean seriously, if it took one whole year to set up one linux system, then you must have close to no idea what you're doing. It takes a couple of minutes to install the OS, and another couple of hours (heck, make it days if you want to be extra thorough) to apply some hardening techniques.

Edit: Also, you can't buy "don't write code vulnerable to SQL injection" and you can't buy "Don't ever store passwords, plaintext or encrypted or whatever. You must never know any of your users' password". This to me indicates a naive wannabe vibe-coding their way to disaster. You can't buy "privacy and security" separately from your own product. They must be part of the core business, fundamentally part of the product's design
by Retric | 2025-11-24 13:57:07+00:00
> a removal attempt is the most effective and cost efficient way to find out whether the ting can be removed

Cost efficient for your team’s budget sure, but a 1% chance of a 10+ million dollar issue is worth significant effort. That’s the thing with enterprise systems the scale of minor blips can justify quite a bit. If 1 person operating for 3 months could figure out what something is doing there’s scales where that’s a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

Enterprise covers a while range of situations there’s a lot more billion dollar orgs than trillion dollar orgs so your mileage may very.
by inglor_cz | 2025-11-24 13:58:03+00:00
"The bartender was Czech, and he watched all this quietly. As soon as we stopped at the last town on the border, the police decided to tell me to have a nice trip, and he took me into the store room on the train, opened the window and poured shots and lit a cigarette for me as we crossed the border and said "fucking Germans. Welcome to Czechia... anything is possible!""

I can almost hear him. That is basically the essence of Czechdom :)

It is interesting how some aspects of culture are essentially the same and others diverge wildly once you cross the border. When it comes to Bier and Schnitzel and snowy Christmas, Czechs are almost indistinguishable from Bavarians. But in other aspects it is just as you saw it, two worlds apart.