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I wonder if copyright went away people would still write books?

I respectfully suggest that you're asking the wrong question. Obviously some books would still be written.

More insightful questions might be whether people would still write as many books, whether the books written would be as good, and whether books would reach as large an audience as happens under copyright.

I contend that it is utterly implausible that an entirely voluntary or even patronage-based system would come anywhere close to our current situation by any of those metrics. The vast majority of the cost of making a book has nothing to do with buying a laptop or paying for an Internet connection. It comes from the time and skill and creativity and understanding of the author. Depending on the nature of the book, it also comes from the time and skill and creativity and understanding of proofreaders, editors, illustrators, graphic designers, researchers...
My brother and I built an app together that is only used by the two of us. It’s a simple way to keep a shared ledger between the two of us because we split a lot of expenses as roommates. We’ve been using it almost every day for about 10 months now.

In a way it’s different from the author’s app because our app is over-engineered in some pointless but extremely fun ways. It’s also similar in that it will:

- Never break unexpectedly due to an unwanted app update

- Never spy on us and steal our personal information

- Look and behave exactly the way we want it to, and no other way

I highly recommend building an app in this way. For me it reminded me what I love about programming, and allows me to work on a project unhindered by meetings, project managers, or deadlines. Just like cooking something for yourself, it can be as perfect or as imperfect as you want it to be, as well as an exercise in self-expression.
ESO imaged the surface of Betelgeuse using SPHERE
How to Understand and Evaluate Deep Learning Processors (ISSCC 2020) [pdf]
https://www.google.com.sg/search?q=qwant+bot+detection&prmd=....

Usually the challenge i get is like may be 6 squares and one circle and I need to click on the circle. Apologies, I thought its easy to look this up because I have nt used Google search in a while and when I just searched this just now it's the first result I got on my images section.
Not to deny climate change caused by humans (it's unarguably happening) but some of the headlines really ratchet up the doom and gloom to the point where people think we really are rushing to total climatic shift at a breakneck pace, and well, no we're not, at least not yet and likely not in the foreseeble future. The models themselves don't even forecast such extremes and since the beginning of the 20th century to now, most climate indicators have only very modestly shifted. Sea level for example: since 1900 it has risen by no more than an estimated...... 8 inches, unevenly, and the IPCC forecast for the next century is only modestly higher than that. This is something to monitor carefully and try to mitigate but it shows just how removed the hard facts are from what some of the media loves to headline for the sake of clicks and social media shares.

Some things have even improved. Both the USA and western Europe have more forest cover today than they did over a century ago and certain other countries have managed to pull off their own good reverses too.
It doesn't feel like we've come very far at all from the first time I realized I could use nginx as a forward proxy and have the code just make all service calls to localhost. That seriously reduced the complexity for the development team.

Some days I just want a load balancer that can route traffic to whatever servers are up now and then I'd just have Docker, a service registry, a load balancer and I'd be done for a while. The easy bits should be easy, and they can't even manage that.
Link to the actual image: https://images.app.goo.gl/HgaapxCmCdiTrRKw5
The wrongest thing about this, from my perspective, is that my browser fires off a js 'copy' event when I press control-c. There are times when I've found it helpful that a browser can copy text to my clipboard when I click a button, but I can't think of a single time when I want a site to react to my attempt to copy text off if it.

Is there any way to configure my user agent (Firefox) not to do this? A hack is ok.
Ouch the Bitcoin example is terrible and really detracts from your argument. Currently Bitcoin is sucking value away from real economic output in the form of energy (electricity), financial speculation, money laundering, and cybercrime.
Foodmandu, Nepal’s Largest Food Delivery Platform, Raises Fresh Funds
They were paying to license Microsoft’s ClearType patents and decided not to pay anymore once retina displays had become near standard for lost Macs and subpixel rendering was no longer necessary
I'm not, but best wishes with your projects. I may move to the US, but that won't help you now. :)
If we talk radio telescopes instead of visible/infrared light telescopes, we likeky already have such big radio telescopes in orbit now, they are just pointing the wrong way (downwards):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(satellite)

It is estimated the highly classified Orion signal inteligence satellites currently in geostationary orbit have radio reflecting dishes of more than 100 m in diameter.
> No. If you let users block trolls and bad-faith actors, they go away.

This is so profoundly untrue that Twitter had to stop creating "egg" avatars for users who did not have them because the number of sock-puppet accounts made them block-on-sight.
""fruit of the poisoned tree". Between their lack of accuracy and a dog's bias towards its handler, they should not ever serve as a basis for search or arrest."

I think this is upside down ... the police are never going to have 'incontrovertible proof' of contraband before they do a full search by definition. If they did need such 'total evidence' to search, they wouldn't need to do the search at all ... they could just make the arrest.

And a dogs hint is not presented as evidence of a crime, merely reasonable suspicion for a search, which is what we want the tool for.

The point is to provide some degree of a reasonable basis for suspicion, after which more effort is used to determine the material outcome: either you have 1Kg of coke, or an illegal gun ... or you don't.

The entire point of the tools are to use something that demarcates reasonable suspicion; dogs, and other things, are viable tools.

If you attempt to enter a country, and you are asked where you are staying but can't provide an answer, or if you do not have a return flight - these are indications of 'reasonable suspicion' of further questioning.
Taste works well when you are in a position to receive a large amount of work that can be organised in a hierarchy according to the work's quality. We will need a lot of that in a few years.

Working up from first principles, staying on time to produce a large quantity of stuff and discovering new facts are valuable methods too. You can't get to useful work from tasting without an ocean of work to receive.
Depending on your org size, Github/Gitlab could still be cheaper than Heroku, and the software is much better than any FOSS thing you can find.
I'm sure most of it was just keeping wit the latest JS standard
Typically you use both, github for the git repo and Heroku for automatically deploying from github.
> If you're going to write Python like C, why even bother?

I agree with you, but I suspect a lot of people fall into the "I want to be able to do this, but I never want to see anyone else doing it" camp.
For the lazy but curious, here's a random Wayback Machine link to their former homepage: https://web.archive.org/web/20140207123808/https://tynt.com/
We had to contact our desktop support group to program the bridge number into the conferencing telephone we use for our stand-ups every day because they'd disabled the ability to program it from the touch-screen and keypad. Cisco VoIP phones now have echo cancelling that I think is as good as the old Polycom Star Trek phones, but having them managed by CCM may be a step backwards.

P.S. We're still manually dialing every day while waiting for our ticket to be processed.
It's senseless.
It's a convenient result in the short term for those of us on the left who think that Alex Jones' views are utterly repugnant, but ultimately these sorts of deplatforming actions are counterproductive. Alex Jones' fans will no longer be exposed to rational arguments from non-fans on the same platform. They'll instead become increasingly trapped in their own filter bubbles, and now have even more of a martyr complex. The cure for bad speech is good speech in an open forum.
>I never though of the red dot around on my service menu (get iCloud) to be an add

Yet I see comments regularly criticising Microsoft's embedded one drive ads(not by you in particular, in general and not that I support that either).

That's the insidiousness of Apple's marketing, they've sold their products as a brand, ecosystem and lifestyle so well, nobody notices every time they use an Apple device, they're essentially not only being constantly marketed to, but are walking advertisements themselves.

Being locked down in a curated, walled off ecosystem controlled by the purveyor of your device is the epitome of being trapped in a bubble of constant marketing for their products.

How far we've come from the days when everybody lost their shit because an os vendor bundled a web browser with their os.
Lex Fridman Interviews Scott Aaronson on Quantum Computing
very interesting. But they’ll still need cash to hire, pay rent, purchase equipment, buy advertising, pay for bandwidth, create hardware prototypes, etc etc. Is the idea you find the cash elsewhere? What happens if the partners don’t get along with the founders or the current roadmap? How much influence do they have? Can it be retracted if it goes poorly?
Wow. Did they repeat your password or some hint you typed in a long time ago?

FWIW I have seen two companies that store passwords properly in a one way hash with salt but store statistics on every password like number of case changes and count of numbers and total length. I personally think that practice is infinitely stupid but can explain why they can say it has 3 numbers in it. One major marketing firm I did work for did that until we showed them why it was so dangerous. They were just trying to make users life easier but that wasn’t a smart trade off.

Personally I would like to know which bank. I have accounts at a number of major US banks and if one I use is doing this I’ll move everything out of them immediately.

Edit: to answer your question I’d hand the info to a major investigative news source and let them dig more. The FTC and banking regulators I don’t think will get involved unless there was damage.
At least in theory you should by able to do really big mirrors for space telescopes due to the lack of gravity trying to flex them. Also there is no weather to destroy your flimsy mirror, so you can make it even lighter.
Really, the web just gets more and more vile towards users.

Sure, highly technical folk are capable of working around this all -- but the vast majority of people do not have a browser that is _working for them_:

- You have little to no control over what content you are seeing. Instead, it is chosen for you.

- A large number of videos (not even including movies and shows) are geographically blocked. You cannot access them.

- Developers are actively trying to prevent: Saving images[1][2][3], selecting text[4][5], browsing on a mobile phone[6][7], and a whole slew of other normal user actions I don't care to cite: preventing users from going back, manipulating their browser history, asking for notification and geolocation permissions, displaying full-screen modals that block content access, scroll-jacking, click-jacking, and more.

But don't worry! It's not all doom and gloom, websites like Reddit, Instagram, Facebook, banks, and more are heavily pushing their users away from the web to mobile applications where you have ZERO choice.

And we're going to maintain this backwards-compatible stack of completely volatile pieces of anti-patterns until that migration to "apps" is complete, and you can no longer distinguish between the app on your phone monitoring everything you do or the site running 5 different layers of VMs and doing the same -- albeit a bit slower.

[1] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/122922/discoura...

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21110130/protect-image-d...

[3] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35897974/how-to-prevent-...

[4] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16805684/javascript-disa...

[5] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8365272/disable-copying-...

[6] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10177456/how-to-disable-...

[7] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22618724/how-to-disable-...
"A roomy 5K desktop, on a bus."[1] is a recent silly tweet of mine. The system as demoed is variously unusable: an inappropriate camera lens is terribly blurring passthru; the underlying desktop capture is scaled, losing pixel crispness; and the scaling and config are making head motion too sensitive.

But the motivating idea... Nreal glasses have a crisp 1080p stereo display, at 2 meters, with a laptop-like 50deg (5 held-out fists) field-of-view (vs this demo's 90-ish). Used as a viewport into a larger (and shallow 3D) desktop... I'm very much looking forward to trying that. One downside is that's still only 1080p visible without head motion... but the motion mapping can be variously aphysical.

[1] https://twitter.com/mncharity/status/1225091755667853318
Pretty sure you have that backwards
I agree and share the frustration.

A stock Apple application "Books" does something similar as well. When copying text -- using keyboard shortcut or the context menu rendered as soon as you lift your mouse (another tragedy) -- your clipboard will look something like the following (2 lines):

“<what you actually wanted to copy>”

Excerpt From: <Author>. “<Title>.” Apple Books.

That gets written to your clipboard; quotes and everything.
Any hyperlinks about that overlocking? I have an MK-52 and didn't know anything about that.
That’s pretty cool. Is there a chance to make it real-time, so it’d be like collaborating on Figma?
The 90s called for their post back
Jerry (YC S17) is hiring Software Developers (Toronto; SF bay area)
All code bitrots, and no code is perfect the first time (or ever?).
about:config -> dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled = false

You can't do it through a user agent, though
I really respect the attempt at trying something new here, but framing it against a traditional VC model might be a bit of a mistake (on the journalist's behalf?).

I'd suggest thinking about this as an innovation on the venture studio model, or later-stage accelerator model (e.g., YC's Series A cohorts). I've spent the last few months toying with the idea of a venture studio and the economics are hard to swallow for some founders and for later-stage VCs... A model like this, where you get an operating, experienced serial entrepreneur to help you and kick your ass... I like that a lot. It's different and worth following, if nothing more.
Thanks!

I think Flutter will be one of the standards for app development in the future.
because it's simple, beautiful, and enable you to build apps quickly.

Flutter is very easy to use and enable you to create apps cross-platform.

Dart learned mainly from the official documentation. It has so much information.

it has good at Formatter, so you can learn excellent notation systematically. ;)

I'm satisfied with the performance and developer experience.
I wish clipboards worked like emacs yank buffers. Then you wouldn't have this problem.
I was thinking about the removal of the <blink> tag, removed in Firefox 23 Ah, those were the days :)
What exactly is the messy part?
Latency would be too high outside of Europe
I'm not here to defend the model (just posted my own comment supporting it), but just one note on the "getting along with founders". This is true for board members, early employees, etc. and I don't think their model makes this part any different.

Opex for the VC fund, on the other hand, I'm not sure about.
That's awesome! Hyrum's Law is one of my favourites in the repo and one I share the most often :)
Yes and no.

Is the US military broadcasting strength? Probably. That would be consistent with its history.

However. That doesn't mean they know. It only means they are in the best position to make the claim. No one does misinformation as good as the NSA, CIA, etc. does.

The two things are independent.
It's not just an annoyance. Think of copying shell commands...
congratulations!!!!
Actually my terminal emulator (xfce4-terminal) added a preview + confirmation dialog a few months ago for copy-pastes including newlines (i.e. which will execute a command instantly). I thought that it was to avoid accidental mistakes, but it makes even more sense that it is to avoid this.
I'm pretty sure this breaks copying from google docs.
That report is quite outdated. It's almost 2 years old. There is a 2019 version in https://blog.racket-lang.org/2019/01/racket-on-chez-status.h... and I guess Matthew will post the 2020 version soon.

The idea is that someday the CS version will be faster than the traditional version. Now the CS is faster in some benchmarks, and slightly slower (205? 50%?) in others. IIRC the worst cases are in code that uses too many mutable pairs, and the futures block more often.

IIRC Many of the changes of the last year were to improve the transformation from Racket to Chez Scheme. For example, some structs can be used as function in Racket, so in (f 1 2 3) the transformation must add a check to see if f is a real function or a struct that contains a function. If the transformation know which variables contain real functions and which struct, then the checks can be avoided, and hopefully the function can used in the constant folding and other transformation.

(Some of the checks can be eliminated by the optimizations in Chez Scheme, but some are just too difficult, so it's important to improve the transformation. For example, I think that the unnecessary continuation marks are very difficult to remove using only the information available in Chez Scheme, and the continuation marks are used heavily when the debug mode is enabled.)
> If that was true, HN would be infinitely more popular than reddit.

Not sure that was the best example. /r/programming is kind of notorious for being HN on a few-hour tape delay with a substantially diminished quality of conversation and fewer comments in general. But it's kind of a moot point because...

> twitter, reddit, facebook

All of these social networks are moderated to one degree or another. In fact, this entire post was spawned because of a Twitter moderation decision, and it is nowhere near the first time that this even happened.

More importantly, none of these social networks gained popularity because of lack of moderation. Twitter became popular because you could potentially win the lottery and talk to a famous person. Reddit became popular because Digg refugees needed somewhere to go and it had pornography on top of that. Facebook became popular because you could keep up with your buddies from college and everybody had real names and faces attached to them.
> I can't figure out if they want to cripple Huawei, which seems unlikely to succeed, or if this is some sort of negotiatong tactic as part of some bigger geopolitical game.

Is there anything about recent US trade policy that suggests to you a well thought out, long-term strategy?
Oh jesus this actually hits the mail on the head, I had a brief foray into development of UWP (modern windows store) apps, and damn the performance and language are good, but I was so jealous of all the visualizations, ui elements and libraries web devs have access to, while I had to dick about with basic gauges.
There have been reports of UFOs since the second world war. I don't think the Chinese were flying highly advanced drones back then. Same thing with the US.
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I have two issues with Notion -- first, it's not _quite_ fast enough. I find myself avoiding taking notes with Notion because I don't feel like waiting for the page to load, the search to find what I'm looking for, and so on. And second, as someone else mentioned, it feels kind of structurally disorganized.
You're still assuming that everyone wants to rip off content for free, but we know that isn't really the case at all. Many people do understand and accept the idea that you don't just take something that someone else worked to create without paying a fair price for it. Given reasonable copyright reforms that eliminate most of the dubious biases of our current systems, it's not implausible that most people would continue to cooperate and thus support the creation of works that they then get to enjoy. But making it explicitly legal to rip things sends a very different message to normal people about what society considers ethical behaviour.

A relevant analogy might be using mobile phones while driving. Here in the UK, using a handheld phone while driving became illegal quite some time ago. And so it should; the evidence that driving while distracted by a phone makes you much more dangerous is beyond dispute. Most people accepted this, perhaps because there was also a decent public information campaign about the risks, and many did stop using their phones on the move even if they used to before. A few persist, and you can usually spot them from the way they're swerving at random intervals, unable to maintain a consistent speed, running lights, and otherwise making the same sorts of basic mistakes that a drunk driver would, and although we have a problem with a lack of policing resources to catch them, those who do get caught are punished.

Now, here's the catch. The evidence used to support the ban on using a handheld phone while driving also shows very clearly that the main problem isn't the physical part of holding the device, it's the distraction from using it. That means hands-free calling is almost as dangerous as using a handheld phone while driving. However, our government did not see fit to make using a hands-free call illegal at the same time, arguing that enforcement would be impractical.

The day after the ban came in, there were huge displays of hands-free kits in the front of every supermarket and phone shop in the land, with banners saying things like "Stay safe -- use a hands-free kit". Not stay legal. Stay safe. And to this day, people are dying unnecessarily on our roads, because the government gave a free endorsement to an incredibly dangerous practice by implicitly condoning it.
Generally true but some architecture jobs have you designing solutions across multiple technologies that you just can’t be expected to master. Sometimes you need to rely on experts, including devs or other architects. The job then becomes finding a workable rough outline and then checking it heavily (and iterating) in areas you don’t fully understand. You don’t spring fourth a design so much as collaborate one into life.

I like people who want the right answer more than those who want to be right.
The last sentence of the article is the absolute best:

> Ironically, a little reverse searching reveals that this code was copied verbatim without attribution from this StackOverflow post (see “Manipulating the selection” from the top answer). Maybe copy/paste isn’t so bad?
Since the problem is lack of internet infrastructure, as the market has failed in providing decent internet to a significant portion of the population, I suggest that the government subsides (or even funds) the infrastructure projects required for bringing the portion of the population a decent internet connection that the marked has failed.

That seems like a pretty obvious policy change that a mere layperson can come up with in their couch. I’m sure a civil engineer can do better though.