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The fundamental idea underpinning copyright is that it allows people to make a profit from their work, be that recorded video, audio, a written computer program, or any other kind of intellectual property.

If there was no such thing as copyright, if you recorded a music track and gave it to somebody, they could legally sell it themselves to other people, and undercut you or just give it away for free. (of course people still do on a person-to-person basis, but this would make it completely legal for even a movie theatre to show hollywood movies without paying any rights)

Why is creators being able to make money in this way from their creations good for society? Well, previously, the method to make money from art before copyright was the patronage system, which involved wealthy individuals sponsoring an artist to create things on their behalf, with varying levels of interference in the process. This worked to some extent, but the fundamental idea underpinning copyright is that if everybody sponsors a small amount for a product then it will be better for most people, rather than catering to the specific tastes of a single wealthy individual.

You see this kind of thing happening nowadays with platforms like patreon - it is possible to earn a living from a relatively small subset of the people that actually consume your content, and even while giving it away for free, simply because those people have a desire to see more of the same stuff. The problem with patreon is that it has to overcome a little bit of a tradgedy of the commons problem, whereby stopping your own individual contribution is unlikely to have much of an impact on the quality of art produced. Nonetheless, it seems to have found it's niche, and is only growing.

What about if nobody pays for art? There are plenty of parts of our culture that nobody got any money for. Often things created by relatively nameless folk expecting nothing in return but the love of creating are some of our greatest cultural works, be them folk songs or open-source software.

While I speak mainly about art and music in this piece, any kind of intellectual property that can be copyright works in mostly the same way. There is relatively little that is different in the grand scheme of things between monetising a song and monetising a coputer program - both are practically impossible to do without allowing the user to share it futher without your control.
I have been mutating data for decades without any unexpected behavior gremlins.
Fast hashes are useful for signing, MACs (symmetric "signatures" so to speak), key derivation (HKDF and all kinds of Diffie-Hellman handshakes come to mind), as part of cryptographically secure PRNGs (though most of the world has moved on to stream ciphers for that instead) and probably more.

While programming, just try to think of a scenario where having a mapping between some kind of arbitrary data (and maybe a key) and a fixed-size, uniformly random-looking output could be useful. Opportunities to sprinkle some hashes on things come up quite often when you look for them.
My point is there's a tradeoff between prevention and penalty. Sometimes, the best option isn't a locked door; it's a clear sign saying "trespassers will be prosecuted" and a security camera (i.e. auditable access, not preventative access denial). That way, people can get in if they need to to do something critical, and one can resolve the question of trespass later.
Check into police impoundment and auctions in your area.
I have used whois cli since the early 2000s because I did not trust the registrars as domains I just searched ended up being registered. Never had that issue again since then.
That really depends on what end of the climate change stick the country is at. Such smearing/harassment has never been a thing in Russia/USSR. Back at USSR in the middle school in mid-198x we were taught the scientific fact of human caused climate change/global warming. The lessons were learnt well - these days Russia invests all the way into the things like the new and increased oil and gas production and builds up the new large fleet of ships and related infrastructure - ports, railways, etc. - to ramp full scale up during the coming decade the freight route through the clearing Arctic as that route is shorter than through the Suez channel.
> a step towards converting paragraphs of text or conversations into easily stored images

If the Major system is for memorizing numbers, what's the link between numbers and text?
High energy high quality generalists are always in demand. Maybe get your foot in the door, like SDR or Tech Writing, and then work hard to break out of that into something more interesting. That happens all the time where I work.
That I did, I thought the map shown was next to his was one he saw before he started his project.
Doing an OOB whois search is almost certainly fine. It's when you search on godaddy.com or whatnot that you get burned.
Hashes are useful in a wide variety of cryptographic applications, of which file signing is just one example. But you are correct, you would not want to use this by itself for password hashing. But that is true of any cryptographic hash. not just Blake3.
Seriously. The use of the term "opposition" here makes it sound like vaccinations are things people can have subjective opinions about. It's like having a dissenting opinion on 1+1=2 or voicing ones opposition to the sky being being blue and expecting everyone to be cool with that. Except in the case of vaccinations, these dissenters cause people to freaking die, and not just themselves or their own. And their argument is literally never anything more than, "well, y'know, some people are saying vaccinations are bad, I hear. Some of them are even in my family or on TV or go to my church so there must be something to it!"
No no, you can buy an apartment, and rent it out, and then the renter registers the apartment as official address etc. So the apartment isnt empty. There are some laws you have to follow, but its pretty easy to do. I dont know the details of Germany, but mostly what i have seen here is not enough supply, and big demand.
https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
It is a long-term problem, which means sign of the highest derivative is what matters most. If acceleration is negative then eventually velocity will be too, and that means eventually we'll start lowering absolute values.

Since change at human scale is never a step function, signs of progress will always appear at higher derivatives firsts.
You are correct about Uber not being profitable. They’re burning cash quickly. And if you look at market performance, they’re not where they expected to be. Furthermore, they’re fighting things like employee unionization (See California) which will increase their cost.

And Uber is fundamentally different. It’s not seasonal, and the costs fall mainly on drivers rather than the company.

Investors are hopeful on Uber, but I bet if a scooter company tried to go public right now, it would get eaten alive.
Similar to PyFlame is also py-spy: https://github.com/benfred/py-spy

> While pyflame is a great project, it doesn't support Python 3.7 yet and doesn't work on OSX, Windows or FreeBSD.

I wonder how the CPU profiling in Scalene is different. It does not mention PyFlame or py-spy at all in the Readme.
Of course, the memory profiler is some nice extra.
The larger picture may not be cut and dry, but this example is. The wording of the policy is very clear, and so is the wording of the ads in question.
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> can be implemented like a persistent data structure

you don't get much benefit from persistent structures if every element of an array is modified, like in the examples in the post.
I can see personal e-scooters as being a great alternative to cars for short trips such as commuting less than 5-ish km to work, or taking the kids to school. However, I still think bicycles are vastly preferable. With a pannier rack you get quite a bit more cargo space, and in the winter, the fact that you're physically exerting yourself helps to keep you warm, which makes for a more comfortable and pleasant trip. Also, the whole "Lithium batteries aren't supposed to be operated below 10C" situation limits e-scooters' value for a large chunk of the year in temperate climates.

The for-hire e-scooter market continues to seem to me like a novelty more than a realistic transportation option. My city's recent e-scooter pilot program hasn't done much to dispel that notion. People used them quite a bit in the first few weeks, but, by the end, most the scooters were obviously going all day without being used.

Also, the whole "last mile" argument started seeming a lot more hollow once I realized that, by the time I got to the busy areas where e-scooters were being placed in the mornings, I was already 75% of the way to the train station. More like "last block". And, at least when they were being used, I'd have to walk well out of my way to find one to use on the way home, too, because they were scattered all over the neighborhood as a result of their normal and intended usage pattern. So, they didn't seem to be much of an effort saver going in either direction.

All that said, I'm guessing that they were being highly valued because of the very low barrier to entry for the market. A fleet of e-scooters is presumably quite a bit less expensive to purchase and maintain than a fleet of docked rental bikes. What got lost in the shuffle was the fact that the dock, while it might seem like an unnecessary annoyance, is actually a big part of what makes those rental bikes pleasant to use.
It could be your local DNS resolution that is leaking to bad actors. It would be kind of stupid and self defeating for registrars to undercut their own customers. I would expect that some have done this in the past, but would be very surprised if it is done at Gandi with their knowledge... and undoubtedly French law would not smile kindly on such behavior.
SSR just seems like tail chasing, but this time around there is no mature server-side framework (like Django, Laravel, Rails). Maturity, ecosystem cohesion, and higher level abstractions are all casualties along the trail of abandoned work in the name of "scalability" and "modernity".
someone probably got around to writing / running a script that checked the ages.
Right? At 300 baud you could almost read the text as it appeared. Buying a 9600 baud modem after a year or two at 2400 felt amazing, like, "wow, whole lines of text appear before I even start reading!"

Then, with the jump to 14.4k it was like, "wow, a whole PAGE of text practically just pops up!" One whole... screenful of bytes. Wow.

Then you'd start an XMODEM transfer of a single image file and go make dinner.
It used to be true. Their first few months of the SPA was really rough on the UX front, but it really improved since then.

They have a good design staff, but there was so many minor decisions made over the years that no knew exactly what was a necessary feature of the UI and what was just fluff.

They needed some real world testing to get a better design.
I think it's a profitable market if you survive the competition. You build the moat by petitioning the government to force licensing (like docked bikes do) and then enjoy the monopoly pricing. There's a natural advantage to being the same guy serving lots of markets so then you're fine.

Whatever happens electric scooters are here to stay. They will be the future of urban last mile transportation.
The VC funded scooter rental companies don't bear the most significant cost of scooters, public health. Quality studies outlining the risk and costs are scarce, but there are some:

https://www.austintexas.gov/sites/default/files/files/Health...

Key points: 15% of scooter riders who seek medical attention have a traumatic brain injury. This doesn't include those transported by EMS. 63% of injured riders had ridden an scooter 9 or more times before.

Perhaps e-scooters are safe in some markets, but in many they are a death trap that the vendors will never have to pay for.
A lot of big name companies don't pay dividends. Berkshire Hathaway is a notable one. They have only paid a dividend once, in 1967[0].

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/021615/why-doesnt-b...
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In principle I agree with you, but in practice what often happens is that it takes a herculean effort to pass any bill at all, and politicians are more inclined to declare victory than to pass a follow-up bill. Even if they pass a follow-up bill, it may take until the next legislative session, which could mean a huge delay. This creates incentives to get the bill modified before passage.
why stop it at 15 minuites? I can't imagine a single scenario where splitting time reported into anything less than hours would matter all that much, and the best possible systems would be more freeform in approach, allowing the worker to specify the actual time they started and stopped, rather than only being able to start and cease work in specific intervals. It would allow for greater resolution naturally where the worker is switching tasks more often.

As for people saying such a system would be misused or completed lazily, those arguments apply equally well to filling out timesheets at all.
I don't imagine anyone ever recorded themselves slacking off intentionally on a timesheet.
Anywhere where you do hashing of stuff and you'd like it to be faster. Content addressable systems use hashing to generate identifiers for content (where the same content has the same identifier, and different content for sure has different ID). If you have a 2GB file you want a identifier for, using BLAKE3 would make that a lot faster.

> Capable of verified streaming and incremental updates, again because it's a Merkle tree.

I don't really understand what this means (verified streaming + incremental updates), could someone clarify? Merkle Trees are simple (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree for people who don't know)
You may have hinted at it, but I think Apple's subsequent turnaround after acquiring Next was mainly due to their founder, Steve Jobs, coming back to Apple.
Curious how many of the scooter-haters in this thread drive cars daily. In my experience they're a huge boon to walkable, car-free or car-lite lifestyles, and all but useless in the suburban parking-minimum wastelands that characterize most of the United States' postwar built environment.
...which is async.
If they live there a couple of months a year it's a vacation home, not a vacant home.
On the flip side, do you want Facebook or any company to control what you can or can not say?
Why do they have a cult following? I never heard about them and reading all this here, I cannot say I understand why anyone uses them at all.

Edit; I use (and have been for a very long time) namecheap for registration and (recently) Cloudflare for DNS. I used to host all DNS myself, but that became a bit of a pain with many domains as that's definitely not my core business.
There is plenty of room for what you describe. You just shouldn't call it Open Source, because Open Source has a well-established definition already. You could call it Shared Source, or Source Available, or some one suggested Business Source. Whatever you want to call it (that isn't already taken), but don't lie in your marketing efforts by calling it open source.
Water has very high thermal mass, is indexpensive, non-toxic, non-corrosive, and multi-use. Its liquid temperature range corresponds well (for evident reasons) to living conditions.

There are phase-change and transformational materials. Most complicate the process markedly, and may degrade (through loss or contamination) over time.

Only liquid-solid phase-chane is likely to be useful as liquid-gas volumetric expansion tends to 1:1000, leading to very large volume, or high pressure, or both, considerations, with corresponding costs and risks.

Aqueous thermal storage is remarkably inert. Small leaks are harmless, large leaks leave no long-term toxic legacy, pressures are ambient, materials are mundane, systems, monitoring, and controls simple, well-developed, and well-understood.
Limitations on corporate liability and America's approach to company registrations means that often times companies openly profiting from misinformation are torn down - then the owners register a new one and keep on keeping on - if their actions can be proven to cause real harm the owners may be prosecuted but this is a rare occurrence and not enough to discourage people from trying to profit from it apparently.
Yep, I tried full reset without restoring from backup. After a few months, it got back to the choppy and sloppy level of performance again, not even mentioning battery lasting a bit less than a day. Which was a dealbreaker to me, since dealing with battery anxiety is not fun. My current phone easily lasts me 1.5 days without charging, so even with very heavy usage, I am never worried that it won't last me through a full day.
Why. Just why. This is so stupid. It's taken decades to make progress on current abatement efforts. This is only going to make more people sick with cancer for decades to come. As the article mentions, it's been completely banned in other countries for since the 1970s. Many alternatives for it's various uses exist. There is literally no need for this.
There’s a ton in Denver that’s for sure.

Bird, Lime, Uber/Jump, Razor, and Lyft just off the top of my head. There’s pretty much at least one or so parked on every corner in the downtown area.
How is this even possible? I know that at Google, there was no way to access customer data directly. So this couldn't happen. That seems like a saner design
Copenhagen has plenty of novice (i.e. tourist) bicycle and scooter riders.

I'm confident that, regardless of "feeling", bicycles are the better option for pretty much all tourists/novices who can ride one. It's much, much more stable at all speeds. Scooter riders wobble when starting off, wobble when going at a reasonable speed, wobble when stopping and struggle with turn signals.

On the other hand, even very young children on unpowered kick scooters tend to have pretty good control.
>Why shouldn't a government agency be a responsible steward of all of its assets including its intellectual property?

I'll bite. Because it clearly does not benefit the taxpayers that fund the agency.

The taxpayers paid the MTA to make a map. Assume someone creates a derivative work that makes more sense (mind you, this is clearly not what happened -- if it is not obvious to you, you have not really read the article).

There is absolutely no benefit to the taxpayers to have the "derivative" map removed. The availability of the "derivative" map does not affect the availability of the official map, which is given away for free (not for profit).

In other words, if I pay you to develop software, and someone else writes a better manual for it, you'd be an idiot to take that down, and I will not be happy.
Your best bet for future support for efficient code is a language that emphasizes support for coding powerful, efficient libraries that can be used anywhere, for any purpose, without compromise. Such libraries earn the extensive testing and optimization that widespread usage both demands and justifies. High-level, efficient libraries enable coding at a high level, avoiding low-level pitfalls.

C++ is still all alone in pursuing this course, today. Rust might start off in that direction after it matures more.
I missed that, sorry. Thanks for clarifying!
They never had a real "no bullshit" policy. When I had my domains with them, I had been asked to verify my identity 34 times in 12 months. 34 separate fucking times. Because "ICANN says so" or some stupid shit (their words, not mine). It stopped the moment I moved to Google Domains, where they asked once and never again.

EDIT: And, to make things worse, each time I was threatened with the "confiscation" of my domain, and the round trip on the tickets was so high that each instance took 2-3 days to resolve. Frustrating as hell.
I wonder if the benefit is to shop owners in the area where scooters work. My reasoning: Scooters are a replacement for walking. Shop owners depend on foot traffic. If you can generate foot traffic by reducing the time cost, you can increase shop visits.

I do recognize a number of holes in this logic, for instance: is scooter traffic comparable to foot traffic?
I'm not sure if accessibility is something you focused on or if you just got lucky but according to this thread I need to give insomnia a try since Postman is not concerned with making there software even marginally usable if your blind.
https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/31...
> Unfortunately that's the story for any OS these days that isn't already firmly established.

Maybe because we're coming at this from the wrong perspective?

I love the theoretical idea that I could build a generic x86 box that can boot into any OS I feel like using, but has that ever truly been the case? We certainly don't pick software this way—if you're running Linux, you're not going to buy a copy of Final Cut and expect it to work.

Well-established software will of course work almost everywhere, but niche projects don't have the ability. Unless you use something based on Java or Electron, which is equivalent to using Virtualbox (or ESXi) in this comparison.

It's long been said that one of Apple's major advantages with macOS is they don't need to support any hardware under the sun. Non-coincidentally, the recommended way to make a Hackintosh is to custom build a PC and explicitly select Mac-compatible hardware.

Now, if an OS doesn't for instance have support for any model GPUs at all, cherry picking hardware won't help. But perhaps this is where projects like BeOS need to focus their resources.
> 15% of scooter riders who seek medical attention

This statistic is meaningless without a base rate.
This. The original stated intent of Prop 13 was people not being able to afford to stay in their homes due to rising property taxes. OK fine, but when you sell your house for $2 million, you most definitely can afford it, and you should pay up, with interest.
> It had bought one to verify the claims and informed the company selling them, Assurance Wireless, of its findings but had not received a response, it said.

Knowingly distributing malware - doesn't that carry jail time under the CFAA? I sure know I would be facing jail if I tried that.
I mean, it'd be best if the government did this and was held accountable in terms of censorship in all the normal ways they are - but Facebook decided to adopt the responsibility to be the one who needs to control it... so they made their own bed.
Yeah this is clearly a thin affiliate site churning out content optimized for "robot mowers" and not somebody with any real expertise on the subject.
I’m a big fan of https://www.ledger-cli.org . All my personal finances are tracked in plaintext, in a git repo, using ledger.

That said, making that viable has involved a slowly-evolving ecosystem of supporting tools. For example, I wrote a set of libraries that leverage the free Plaid tier ( https://plaid.com/ ) to automatically fetch bank and credit card transactions, and apply them to the ledger journal. I also wrote a script that takes a schedule and projects out future transactions to the journal, so I can define recurring transactions and view their impact on accounts projected into the future.

The combination of this means that viewing my current reality is easy, and viewing the impact of known future expenses (largely recurring bills/obligations) is easy. That’s been the single largest factor in enabling my long-term money management, because it’s given me confidence in the numbers, which has let me tune things like automatic 401k payments and automatic transfers to savings. I can move the maximum amount of money into long-term-storage because I always have a clear picture of “how much money do I need to keep out to account for my bills/expenses”
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