skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> does show that their exist people that do not want to pay.

Of course not? This entire thread is talking about how IP is a sham. Its totally out of touch with physical reality. The original design of IP to begin with was more to protect the printers than the artists themselves - the problem that needed addressing in the 17th-18th century during the dawn of IP protection wasn't that creativity was this new thing people were trying out - it was that industrial printing of media was suddenly a thing at a scale whereby the manufacturers of books wanted their infrastructure protected from scalpers undercutting their expensive runs of literature.

IP was conceived as a romantic way to protect the middle men of creativity from the start, and while those middle men still exist, their function has been totally technologically obsoleted to the point where random strangers I have never and will never meet are offering to send me copies of things I want for free. That is damn magic that could not have happened even thirty years ago. There was always a marginal cost to information transfer that is now gone, and with its departure the hollow justifications for information monopolies at gunpoint are plain to see as immoral and unreasonable.

They always were, it was always a protection racket for middle men, but at least last century the economic indicators aligned marginally with the concept. Now they are in total opposition to physical reality and those that realize it are less guilt tripped by pirating some corporation larger than several nations works.
It's not a subsidy specific to China. It's an international agreement to charge certain international rates for postage. It applies only to packages under a certain size and weight.

But it probably should go away. It creates this weird imbalance where shipping things from China to the US can be cheaper than shipping something to your next door neighbor.

NPR's planet money had an informative and fun episode on the topic. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/01/634737852/epis...
Expletive deleted. Project Dragonfly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine)
From the OEM as much as possible. I know their parts are "expensive" but nobody debates that they have the best fitment and quality compared to places like AutoZone, O'Rly, etc.

The only other option is to look for the company who builds the OEM parts and find their suppliers. For example, you'll find Exedy builds clutches for companies like Honda. So if you can get an Exedy clutch from your local parts store, it's usually the same as the OEM part.

If you do research too, you'll find that there are a lot of high-quality aftermarket parts suppliers too. If you are looking for bearings, you can usually look for places that sell SKF bearings (or whatever you prefer), and measure and cross reference the sizes to find what fits your application.

So what it comes down to is, it depends on the part, and it depends on what is available from where. It's basically a giant research project for every part.
I have never had a problem sending headers or getting http status code in JS. requite('http') is your friend in node. XMLHttpRequest is your friend in VanilaJS.

Your beef seems to be with a pile of convenience code added by some other projects.
Could start calling them highwaymen.
Does this use GrapesJS?
Not only plain old copyleft relies on copyright, but also the model of publishing code under the GPL and charging for a commercial license. I have used three such libraries in client work, and I absolutely love this model:

- We can audit software before buying

- We have the ultimate "right to repair"

- Open source/hobby projects can automatically use it for free (SAAS/closed source projects often offer this as well, but there's more friction)

And even if we are not technically required to upstream any patches that we make under the commercial license, the average engineering team will try to keep their downstream patches to a minimum, and the easiest way is to get them merged in the original GPL version.
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Because small towns in the US are dying. Manufacturing and ag are down, services and tech are up. The former provided jobs evenly spread throughout the US where raw materials and good land were. The latter encourage consolidation in denser metro areas.

A local government is an economic entity too. It takes in income from some set of people and distributes services in return. Taxes mean getting income from the residents, which in turn means those residents need to be acquiring money from outside of the area to compensate for that. When jobs are dying, that money stops coming in. Traffic fines let a small town extract money directly from people outside of the city, which means it places no burden on the citizens receiving the services.

I'm not saying this is morally justified, but that's how the system works economically.

These small towns are in a really rough spot. Many services are not fully elastic and can't arbitrarily scale down. It's not like you can say "the fire department only puts out fires between 3 and 6 PM." A sewer line that only goes halfway to a house is not 50% useful. Below a certain level of wealth and density, a city simply can't sustain the services it needs to provide to its citizens. Their options are:

1. Take in money from larger government organizations. State and federal funding can keep these cities alive. This is how, for example, they're able to still provide mail service, because it's the US Postal Service. With this, basically the larger metro areas are supporting these small towns out of duty to the greater good.

2. Extract money from people living outside of the area directly. That's what this article is about.

3. Disincorporate entirely. This does happen sometimes, but obviously this has a lot of downsides. Actual humans do live in these places, and these cities have long histories. Times change and some things do naturally go away, but there is a material loss when it happens.
It's an uncomfortable realization when you first figure out how much of modern "medical wisdom" is based on incomplete understanding, bad stats, marketing crapola from food and drug manufacturers, and weird NGO groups trying to justify their existence.

Modern medicine is really good at trauma care, and certainly the discovery of vitamins, antibiotics and hand washing are good ideas; otherwise, I'm not so sure!
How the Views of a Few Can Determine the Fate of a Country
Function vs. Object
I think to go really fast, you'll have to introduce a new data structure, similar to git's. (I'm thinking it's a trie, but I'm coming up zero evidence for that.) Calculating the dependency graph could be nearly instantaneous with an improved data structure on the client. Syncing the local tree with the remote authority can also be blazingly fast. After that, if you really want to be smart, you can use an rsync style transfer that only copies differences. And if you want to boil the whole ocean, make all the package maintainers conform to a standard that reduces installation to a pure copy operation.

It'd be awesome if updating a node was a sub-second operation, it's definitely a big benefit to cloud based computing.
They'll have to raise their prices to accommodate the additional expenses, unless their plans include selling at a loss to eliminate competition.
Yea this was the "elephant in the room" as I read this article. Even if the budgetary requirements necessitate that you pull a ton of people over regardless of race, I imagine the instances where probable cause requires you to pull an individual out of the car for a search are heavily biased.
The Original Usenet Physics FAQ
To clarify, you have the money, right?
Hold on. Is the price tripling needlessly or for environmental reasons?
The FAQ (linked from the very bottom of the page) is more interesting. The server part is just a file server. The client in this case handles all the file syncing, including locking. The client is the interesting part.
The thing you're missing is the ability to access it from anywhere, without having to carry around devices. The whole reason people use the Cloud is because they leave USB sticks and drives behind all the time. Home Cloud solves the trust issue of using a third party to handle private data and also the problem of leaving your storage devices all over the globe (where they can be stolen).
The advantage of having a US based middle man is that he can be held accountable if the goods sold are unsafe or counterfeit. These days it’s difficult to buy genuine goods of eBay and Amazon unless you buy from a reputable seller. It shouldn’t be this way.
Well, as long as it's all legal I'm happy :D
Look no further than the Linux kernel for an example of almost every major tech company being invested in the largest software project in history because its in all their individual self interests to not try to reinvent a wheel that big for a competitive advantage.

The prevalence of proprietary kernel drivers likewise lends credence to the value in having forced openness, which would fall under more right to repair than IP for consumers of products hosting software.
There are well known problems with poor food availability in some of the poorest neighborhoods.

Thanks to Walmart, I think clothing at affordable prices is available everywhere in the US. That comes with some nasty externalities, but we are at least clothed.

The US is mostly well supplied with air and water.
Absolutely true but it's important to make sure that if the library does have a rich collection of works they're all properly catalogued, sorted, easy to access, and easy to check out. If you already have the books available, make sure you're giving people a chance to check them out. Sure, most might go to the library for events and hangouts but some might be happy to borrow a novel or a scientific text. It's about resource usage.
That's a good question and I don't know.

The net terrestrial vertebrate biomass has shifted markedly over the past century (and undoubtedly over the previous 50,000 years of the Human Diaspora). What the pre-Columbian American bison population was I have no idea.

Total pre-industrial wildlife biomass ~10,000 BCE, by estimates, was ~1/7 that of the present, and smaller than humans in total:

http://peakoilbarrel.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Terrestr...
Ok, in that case I agree that browser-apps/database frontends are useful. I was thinking more about consumer apps.
1. Protecting with IP ¡= Copyright

2. I didn't say Copyright prevents others from learning

3. A work is never sufficiently original, it's always a derivative
In The Autobiography of Malcolm X, he tells how he learned to read and write by copying out, by hand, the entire dictionary he got from the prison library, copying a page a day. (It's in chapter 11 of the Autobiography).
Go is already being used in lots of microservices.
I didn't downvote, but IMO if anything, it's the "dieting and exercise" part. You may as well ask water to flow uphill, for how productive that is on society-wide scale.
bittorrent, blockchains
> Even if I grant him the necessity of doing things this way, as he seems to claim, that just bolsters the argument that invasive tracking is baked in to nearly everything, that you simply can't do business like this without it happening.

It's much the same problem as (among other examples) mobile device permissions.

Things have improved somewhat, but for years every Android app asked for permissions like "view and edit the files on your device". 99% of the time that was innocuous. Saving a single user setting could require creating and viewing a file. It's easy to see why devs with no good alternative would have been frustrated to hear "hey, why do you want permission to see all my stuff?!" But that didn't make it good or secure. Flashlight apps would get file permissions to save a single setting, then hoover up as much data as they could get with that permission.

The problem was precisely that the innocent, 'right' way of using permissions was potentially a channel for abuse. If people object that loading a single font from Typekit is inherently a violation of privacy, maybe they're fundamentalists. But in practice, what I see people point out is that it creates a threat to privacy, that the entire ecosystem of data access in inseparable from the ecosystem of tracking and advertising. And that's absolutely true.
The author seems to have been confused; instead of a review of the work, he's produced a (very low-quality) politico-moral rant—complete with the staples of such rants from the Right of gratuitous and inaccurate references to moral relativism (for not ranting like the author) and socialism (for elitist totalitarianism, which may be a double misrepresentation because it's not clear to me that there is any real basis for the accusation of elitist totalitarianism, either) about the subjects of the work with a (brief) swipe at the author (the aforementioned reference to moral relativism.)
In the real world, credibility matters. Most of us aren't going to fact check everything a journalist says, let alone conduct additional research to find what they may be omitting. I have no idea if what this person is saying is true, but I have to get back to work and I don't care enough to find out.
"Left" and "right" have been pretty arbitrary ever since the French Estates General set up their seating plan with monarchists on the right and republicans on the left. That fight, like all fights before and since, was really divided along multiple axes with overlapping but not identical motivations.

I don't think there's a single thing to be misunderstood, so much as a rough analogy between many different kinds of political battles. Anti-intellectualism does seem to present a kind of newish element to that fight, though I suspect it's always been present in various guises. (I will say that I'm particularly unhappy with the version of it that has dominated for the past 30 years or so.)
That's right. It is GNOME. KDE takes you right to recent logins and a login/password prompt (without a transition). I primarily work via VNC or ssh, but get questions constantly from new users. Wiggling the mouse is universally benign. ESC, Space, or even clicking can be "destructive" in the wrong context.
> If it was independent to your income, then your income should not matter.

The effect of a file is strongly dependent on your income, so if fines are to have any deterrent effect, it must also be dependent on your income.
Seattle home prices lower than a year ago, for second month in a row
Abolishing patents is radical enough to begin with, so why stop there? If everyone had UBI and free healthcare to cover the material costs of living, is it really so implausible that people who were interested in looking for apples that cured something would do so?

That aside, the obvious answer would be to publicly fund this kind of activity that we deem beneficial to society.
Those low income housing requirements are counterproductive in many ways. You end up with low and high income housing, but those policies are terrible for those in the middle. Too "rich" to qualify for low income housing, but unable to afford market rate.
> There is a reason companies like Algolia exist to provide better on-site search.

I didn't say users do not search on-site, I said users do not search on blogs.

> And if I have to build another API just for comments, doesn't it defeat the simplicity of using a static generator like Hugo?

Not really. That is solved once and all your hosting problems are solved forever.

> Maybe I am missing something?

Maybe I'm wrong, but OP seems to be asking for himself, and this is HN after all.

> At least you acknowledge markdown's inferiority in this case.

No, I'm acknowledging your lack of technical skills.
I don't know what this abstract "idea of copyleft" is, but the underlying principle behind the GPL could not be achieved without copyright. The GPL doesn't merely embody some notion of "right to repair" or "right to tinker." Its principle is to put the user on the same level as the original developer. It therefore requires not only source code, but source code in the "preferred form of the work for making modifications to it," plus everything required to build that source code:

> The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.

A world where you could freely modify binaries and distribute the results would not provide the same freedoms that are essential to the GPL. Copyright is absolutely necessary to accomplish that goal.

The GPL also embodies the fundamental moral theory of copyright: "I created this thing, so I get to decide the terms on which you use this thing." The GPL doesn't just embody the idea that users should be free to do what they could in a state of nature. It is fundamentally predicated on the idea of enforced reciprocity.
If our current civilization collapses, I think it’s unlikely that another similar one would arise- or if it did it would happen much more slowly. There are no more easily accessible seams of rich ores of any kind in the world; the deposits remaining require a lot of energy and technology to use since they are low grade ores and it would be very difficult to get to a high enough technology level to use them without already having the refined minerals. A chicken and egg problem.

https://images.app.goo.gl/5aNH7AWvb3V745ZH6
It is not a foregone conclusion that the universe must have a Harry Potter series of YA novels in it. Nor is it required that if such a series exists, that they be exactly as they were written. In our universe, we have seven books of Harry Potter, following an archetypal plot arc.

There is no particular reason we should believe that if Harry Potter did not exist, there would be nothing similar enough to Harry Potter to serve as close substitute. Kids could have gone nuts for Barry Brassgears, the steampunk airship cabin-boy that ultimately grows in knowledge and ability to defeat Max Clanks, the industrialist bent on clearing the skies of all independent captains. Or maybe they could have latched on to Sirene Ceta, the young mermaid adventuress who stumbles into a scheme by landswoman Gail Greywave to seize control over the Pacific salmon runs, and foils it. I just made these up, but anyone can write an automated generator to spit out these pitches.

Without the copyright-based business, the type and the quality of the popular stories change, but they still get written. The problem becomes discoverability, because it is harder to make money by promoting someone else's work. More promotion creates more copies, but you can no longer monetize the copies directly. You only have author goodwill and branding to work with.
To clarify what dataflow is talking about, two Windows hotfix updates to the same component can be installed indepedently, or one can be installed and the other not.

This ability does not exist in Linux package managers since they deal with packages - there is only one newer package to install, and installing that new package replaces the entire existing package. Hotfixes work by applying patches to the affected components' files, which is why they can be independent of other hotfixes applied to the same components.

Hotfixes are also grouped into larger updates, the largest of which is a service pack. (You released N hotfixes over the last month and expect everyone to apply them in the future. There's no point making every user in the future download N updates where one batched up one would suffice.) So when Windows Update has to answer the question "Is this new update required or is it already installed via a previous update?" it has to do a bit of gymnastics to figure out the answer.

So both approaches have their pros and cons. The hotfix method means you can get targeted fixes with no feature updates and smaller chance of regressions, at the cost of being more complex to solve than "if server's version > installed version, download and overwrite".
That's why I wrote

What we need is a user friendly browser

Firefox is a step in the right direction.

The next step would be for some open source initiative to do the work and de-google Firefox completely. If that fork of Firefox gains traction, it might bring Mozilla on the right track so they drop their ties with Google to survive.
That post, like everything else I can find about this news, is a year old. Did this really happen?
When I read news like that, it doesn't really inspire any hope. When VC money is invested in something it seems like the only thing that ultimately matters is a nice exit for the VCs. Low income people needing housing is just another resource to be exploited.
I don't want to downplay the importance of investing in your health early, but I generally disagree with the sentiment. Pills are possibly the best form of treatment that exists (so long as there is a pill that can treat your condition, like there's no pill to treat a severed finger).

People have been taking medicines for mellenia, and pills are just medicine that has been measured and packaged in a convenient way. Its the difference between telling patients "Go find a willow tree and eat some of its bark" vs. "take two aspirin".
I'm not surprised at all. Between friends who work in finance and friends who work in the nonprofit sector, I can tell you that one group never got forced to cancel their birthday or holiday plans at the last minute to cover for some giant screw-up on the boss's part while said boss spends the same evening at home with the kids, and the other had things like that happen almost regularly.

Which isn't to say that finance jobs aren't stressful and grueling, but they at least seem to be a bit more inclined stop short of being personally cruel to their staff.

"You should be happy to work here, we're doing God's work" is a powerful force that's easy to abuse. And, in finance, everyone knows that nobody else is there for the deep personal sense of fulfillment, either.
It's not a disagreement over whether Darwinian processes maybe happened somewhere at some time. The question is what is the primary process driving evolution, and what do we see in the lab. Darwinism isn't there, as far as I can tell. So, why some irrelevant processes are taught as the big guiding mechanisms of evolution is a mystery to me. Darwinism, insofar as it's a major part of evolution, is clearly dead. And with certainty it is dead insofar as it proposed to be #the# fundamental explanation of origin of species, as Darwin originally proposed.
One can't use the technical situation to escape the legal situation. If you dispute the ACH transaction, privacy.com could still claim you owe them that debt.

They likely won't, being still subject to the court of public opinion. But it doesn't bode well that they're trying to escape the more direct avenue of accountability.

(IMO the FAA is blatantly illogical and should be judicially nullified. But until that happens, we're stuck being on guard for these offensive customer-hostile terms)
After the latest update the mac mini is actually a very fine server. They can be configured to hold a 6-core i7 with 64gb RAM.
And then fewer people will buy Big Macs. Market forces in action.
NY shouldn't be overlooked here. Driving from CT to Ohio, I'll see 5x as many cops in the short part of the trip in NY than I will on the entire rest of the trip.
It feels a lot like telling poor people to "just work harder"
Jerk is the third derivative of position (1998)
That's a great recipe for building soul-sapping places that people then have to suffer in for decades/generations.