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Gotta love programmers.

> So the question reduces to how much the type of compression matters here

If you compress, you can copyright the compressed bytes.

If you don't compress, you can copyright the uncompressed bytes.

As far as that copyright extending to derivations, e.g. decompressions, the answer indeed situation-dependent. For example, converting a copyrighted font from TTF to WOFF does not remove the copyright. But converting a copyrighted font from TTF to screen pixels to WOFF removes the copyright. (Sorry I don't have a reference; probably findable.)

The "self-extracting zip" derivation would probably fall into the latter category; that is, the copyright would not transfer.

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But even if the copyright were maintained during your advanced decompression, one could argue that editing down to very specific portion of that extremely large body of work was a substantive/transformational derivation, which they could then copyright themselves.

Transformative works are very common in art. The most famous example is Duchamp simply adding a mustache to a print of da Vinci's Mona Lisa, and copyrighting that. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.H.O.O.Q.
> Even if Mario entered into public domain, Nintendo Mario games would still be the superior choice

FTR, The source code for Super Mario Bros. X, a well-known Mario fangame, is now open under the MIT license.[0,1]

[0] https://www.supermariobrosx.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25160

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/opensourcegames/comments/f8tira/the...
FX fighter is my favorite example on PC. Sure, the mechanics were a little shallow and camera bugs because it's 3d in 1995, but it ran on a 486/66 surprisingly well!

Tie fighter and X wing are other examples in their own right as well. Maybe the graphics weren't that great, but I'm sure managing the game world, dynamic music and 3d at the time was quite the task.
Heat water?
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I've been in disbelief at stock prices for a long time - but where else can pension funds etc. go?
Or just implement an appropriate RFC[1] :)

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1217
Also, Switzerland is a small and rich country.

The smaller the group, the less hierarchy you need. I think that Switzerland is at the size limit of what direct democracy can support. In fact, it is not fully direct.

Wealth also helps. The richer you are, the more you can focus on your role in running the county and make informed decisions. That's because you have all your basic needs covered and don't really need to think about about your survival, leaving you open to higher level activities.

The classical example is Athenian democracy (the original). It worked because it involved only about 30000 people of the highest social class. Women and slaves didn't count.
> That's how you turn on DND...

For anyone else who wondered what DND stood for: it's "Do Not Disturb".

Now that I know that, I see there is a subthread about it elsewhere in this HN page - but I couldn't find an expansion when searching either this HN thread or the linked article for the string "DND". Had to go and follow the instructions on a Mac, to find out what it was that lay hidden in the Notifications window.
It was available from March 2013 to June 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Graph_Search
And now there's also a million Syrian refugees heading to southern Europe. What next?
You seem to be agreeing with me. I am saying to escape, not sanitise. What I described is sanitising.
Strictly in the sense that over time it measures something. In the short term peoples opinions matter, in the long run company performamce matters. The stock price relates to earnings and capital efficicency etc over the long haul.
I’m just gonna jump in and say how cool this is. I get that it’s not perfect but it’s sort of a middle finger to “the man”.
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Is uncompression a derivation?
You're also cherry picking a bit. For example, Galielo failed to observe any parallax effect.

More broadly, it's a classic case of parsimony vs empirical coverage. Galileo's model did not enable better predictions, in the short term. Parsimony arguments are always more persuasive in retrospect, when we know that the theory in question is correct. There are many parsimonious but wrong theories. It was not unreasonable at the time to think that Galielo's theory might have been one of them.

>then apply modern arguments not known to people at the time (the actual size of stars) to say that Galileo's scientific argument was weak

I think you're misreading the argument. They point out that Galileo's theory appeared to require all other stars to be much bigger than the Sun, which seemed implausible at the time. This point was made by Galileo's contemporaries, so it can't be anachronistic.
Yes. The lack of support for this in Firefox for Android makes using many forms disappointing.

Interestingly I see that https://vehicletax.service.gov.uk/ uses type="tel", so I am getting a numeric keyboard in Firefox.
It isnt the end of the world having different support on different platforms.
If this is what startups are working on and if this is startup news, then it just might mean the tech world is awash in too much money with too few ideas. Or the news has to sell ads and has publish something. I wonder where Brady will end up? Oh that's sports "news".

Also, I'm willing to bet more 9-5 workers crave privacy and alone time than freelancers want company.

Besides, if you crave company, isn't there something called family ( parents, siblings, spouse, children, etc ) or friends or even pets that a better suited for that role? Or why not take up a hobby like hiking, biking, etc for company? Isn't there something inherently sad and pathetic about trying to find company at work? Maybe it's modern society. I just don't get it.
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I love the "externalpipe" functionality, which is the main reason I switched from terminator.
And when was the last time you counted something on your fingers that was more than 3?

Also, quoting parent's link:

> It is possible to count to 12 with the thumb acting as a pointer, touching each finger bone in turn. A traditional finger counting system still in use in many regions of Asia works in this way, and could help to explain the occurrence of numeral systems based on 12 and 60 besides those based on 10, 20 and 5. In this system, the one (usually right) hand counts repeatedly to 12, displaying the number of iterations on the other (usually left), until five dozens, i. e. the 60, are full.
Brilliant. I almost wish I needed to lease a car just so I could put some business her way.
If Indiehackers would not be such a bad website. It could be a really nice website, but somebody thought it should be an app and it sucks.
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There are many cases where what you need is instant soup powder, not home made velouté.

And this will save me from writing tests for those lines. With all major browsers. And documentation. And maintain all that, of course, for the next 5 years.

And when new devs will arrive in the team to provide the training for the custom code. I may even not be here anymore

So yes, it can be overkill, or just what you need.

E.G: some server side dev need a quick fix for his personal web site.

Besides, even a lib with zero tests like this one will have enough users and tickets open that it will be better tested that the server side dev code that don't know JS much.
Or you could look at it the other way, why in the world was +10% up from here the "right number" as to its value. Try to justify that first before questioning the contraction.
What this guy did is a thing that most people wouldn't even consider. Looking outside of him and caring for other people more than himself, sacrificing himself for others. I won't say that he was right or wrong but that state of consciousness of seeing beyond your own ego and empathize with others like he did is a thing that we as humanity must nurture within ourselves if we want to survive and prosper in the long run. Prosperity and progress is not about power and money, it's about social communion and caring about others as much as we care about ourselves.
Having both pirated GOG games and then later bought the same games because I liked them so much, I can confirm it is easier to pirate games. GOG is DRM-free, which is excellent when playing the games because it doesn't suck up megabytes or even gigabytes of memory (for DOS-era games), but when it comes to piracy you can just download the installer executable and run it without any problem whatsoever. No torrents are even required, you can just download the EXE through HTTP(S) on most sites.

I've had less problems pirating GOG games than I've had playing legitimately purchased Steam games.
So are you saying I should just not ever want to say "A < B"?
Ha! It does not work however, as a person's sexual preference is a fact, and a statement that either guesses or spits out all recognized variants is not a source of factual information -- no-one is any the wiser afterwards than before.
My point is that the monastery (or clan) represents roughly the maximum facile size of a voluntary (internally motivated) organization.

Scaling above that starts to require some external management structure (your corporation).

Then there is the military (retired Navy here) where there is an explicit hierarchy and a Uniform Code of Military Justice to as an external driver.

Hence the authoritarian fascination with military terms. If that's your thing, then organizing society like some vast bipedal ant colony seems attractive.
Mate, most of us don’t even have girlfriends.
Haha, Zuck telling everyone to calm down and breathe. How 2006 of him.
Distributed computing for citizen science. BOINC, for example
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There is a good chance you already be using 1 if not both of the requirements already if you are building a reasonably responsive web UI that requires a tree view.
Thanks, I was thinking VB6, which I thought was relatively fine as an IDE for its time, although could probably benefit from some ReSharper-style improvements.
This was probably the beginning of the end of Facebook, at least for me. I started interacting with Facebook much less and started to forget about it, because I didn't want everybody to see how addicted I was to Facebook. The same happened with Instagram when everybody was able to see what I was liking. This is turned off now, but the damage was already done, I became too paranoid to get addicted to social media again. I'm clean now for almost 2 years, thank you.
I honestly don't understand what the point you're trying to make is then.

If you're saying people should be aware that handling data safely requires more steps than just parametrised SQL then yes I touched on that, as have others, and it's not something anyone is unaware of. Hence why there has been so many high quality posts discussing the different methods of validation, sanitisation and escaping. So it's a rather strange position to assume when you say "we need to acknowledge" given that's what everyone (including me) has been doing. But it never hurts to be categoric about important points like that so your original post is still relevant.

If you're making some other point then I've already had two stabs at deciphering it and failed both times. So it's really not clear what that point is.

However if your intention was just trolling me then fine, I bit and you won.
The garbage data makes all of the difference. Said accidental generation would make it legal as the only way to pick out the data is to know it already. Otherwise what separates your real name from "Name: Seymoure Butts Sexual Orientation: Mayonnaise".

The fact there is no garbage data at all shows that they are doing judgement on a nakedly wrong level in music - even by the standards of copyright.

Selling "Harry Potter but with the capitalization inverted" to dodge book copyright nor even "this key and this very long block of data which happen to decrypt to the complete works of JK Rowling, don't decrypt because that would be infringement wink wink nudge nudge".
Digital Ocean bandwidth is 1 cent per gigabyte.
THe SourceGraph server for Go is deprecated in favor of 'gopls'. This is documented on the sourcegraph github page.
See https://github.com/rochus-keller/VerilogCreator/blob/master/... for a compatible IDE.
Apparently, he made the LSD that made the 60's; the hippie Heisenberg.
Ironically that would be a way to disclose your very real data by omission.
It's an optional extension, so a client may ignore it without failing the connection. It needs a lot more adoption. I could, for example, instead of getting a wildcard cert, get LE to sign a CA valid for my domain. That way I can issue certs for my domain myself and put load off of LE.
> No rhythms, no meter, no tempo, melodies are longer than 12 notes

I am not a musician, but which of these are copied in the Tom Petty / Sam Smith case that motivated this exercise? To my untrained ear, I do hear some similarities in the relative lengths of the notes (meter?).

I found a side-by-side comparison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YflFw9T77FQ
Your version:

> The author [...] claims that C++ exceptions are outright evil and should be avoided

What the article actually says:

> This includes the RTTI and exceptions stuff; C++'s versions of those were enough to convince a whole generation of programmers that introspection and exceptions were outright evil and should be avoided

Your reading comprehension is lacking. You didn't understand what he is talking about. Why is Google not using exceptions?
> I despise autocomplete

Could you elaborate on why that is? I feel similiar but I cant just tell why
Instead of Hasura and GraphQL, you can use RPC and directly write SQL queries to retrieve and mutate data.

One way to think about this is that with RPC you remove the whole API layer and directly write SQL queries instead, while permissions are defined programmatically on a case-by-case basis. This is much simpler than Hasura!

For Node.js there is https://github.com/reframejs/wildcard-api.

For other backends you can implement JSON endpoints (https://github.com/reframejs/wildcard-api/blob/master/docs/b...)

While scaling to a large company, you progressively migrate from RPC to GraphQL (with or without Hasura).
> apartment buildings can shade hundreds of houses

Do you think that isn’t obvious? So keep new apartments away from houses and vice versa. So what, no big deal.

The idea is called “planning permission” and why sewage plants are not normally next to residential areas.

Problem solved a very long time ago — which is convenient, because this is the exact same problem you’d have to deal with when planning the solar farm in the first place, because the apartments can shade solar farms too if they’re built too close.

> And again, one roof for many families doesn't scale.

Not claiming it scales with arbitrary height. It’s clearly constant with arbitrary height. Claim is that it’s still useful for ~4 stories with one family per story.

> A solar farm has every advantage over this scheme.

Except for land cost, grid capacity including connecting to the farm to the grid in the first place, and the money rooftop solar saves on the cost of the roofing material, and the way local power generation at least enables the possibility of power when the grid is down like happens sometimes in CA fire season, and the way this puts more money in the hands of normal people whereas a traditional solar farm or power plant will put it in the hand of shareholders, and the fact that large land use changes have their own ecological issues and NIMBYism (remember, if we suppose that the rooftops don’t cover enough area, then the solar farm you want to build is larger than the combined area of every building in the city it’s associated with), and the way rooftops get built every time a residential building gets built so in the case of houses it will scale perfectly with population when a PV farm or an apartment won’t. (Apart from that, what have the Romans ever done for us? Etc.)

Edit:

Just to be clear, if you were to say “American building codes make rooftop PV needlessly expensive”, I’d agree with you. My in-laws and parents both had PV installed in the UK, and even a decade ago it cost them less than half of the prices I see quoted on HN for American rooftop PV today.

However, this an entirely separate argument to the one you appear to be making.
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Every 3d game on pc that didn't require a dedicated 3d card ans still ran somwhat well is basically a marvel, tech-wise

I also had a 486/66 and I loved that thing but it was slow as hell, what so many dev achieved with it is humbling
Exactly, there are no laws against being a Bünzli.
I think you and the parent post both have captured necessary, but not sufficient, attributes.

The problem is that before any of that matters, assuming your goal is mass adoption beyond narrow niches of the already interested, you need to convince people they should care. This is fundamentally marketing and sales, which are the sorts of efforts many people trying to build these things are actively disdainful of. Moreover, who is the messenger to public? The very same decentralization that makes these sorts of solutions interesting actively works against the sort of marketing and sales activities that would get the non-initiated engaged.

Fragmented, uncoordinated, and probably just word-of-mouth messaging against well coordinated, well budgeted, and financially motivated opposing interests seem to me to be the bigger hurdles to overcome than assembling the right software or protocols.
Name already in use for Ernie's bath toy.
Of course the most common mass gatherings, people going to places to do non-essential work, will continue apace.
Time Frequency Duality
And those things that float in the bath!
There are some intermittent things like drying my laundry that it makes sense to do only when I have extra power.

I'm probably going to go tankless propane for hot water heating though. Heating water takes a lot of power, storing hot water produces a lot of waste heat, and in the winter when I could most make use of that waste heat is when I'm expecting to not have much of a power surplus.

If I could get a hot water tank that was well enough insulated...

It's a good point, I'll need to do some math, and it would probably need to be in addition to some type of tankless/propane heater, since I still need to shower in the winter when I don't have as much extra power.
You are probably being downvoted because the Swiss system of direct democracy:

-has existed for much longer than Swiss banking being particularly significant

-existed already when Switzerland was one of the poorest countries in Europe

Also, banking is only significant in a small part of Switzerland.
Good god, is this real? https://karmabot.chat/

Am I wearing enough pieces of flair?
>people 100 years ago, and most of those people were happy.

I’m asking out of general curiosity and not snark, but is there a reliable source to this?

A cursory search on my end didn’t return anything. I often wonder if the obsession with “happiness” is a relatively recent phenomenon borne of our own privilege.
>Inevitably, new hires would be unhappy that they did, in fact, have to write vba code all day and would argue for switching to a better language

JavaScript alone should prove that the "better" language does not win on language design alone (These days it is at least pretty ok)
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A proportional symbol map doesn't seem very useful. It's meant to scale by area of the symbol, but at least personally I find myself comparing the diameter of the symbol.

Maybe thick 2d lines would work better?
>"people 100 years ago, and most of those people were happy."

citation?
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Is bootstrap already completely abandoned?
I have thought about starting a little website where people open up their living rooms every once in a while to create an ad-hoc coworking space. It could even be the kitchen or the dining table, as long as you're sharing ideas, learning, and getting to know what other people are working on. From a business perspective, I'd rather make use of the plentiful libraries in Amsterdam than pay for a coworking space.
>His conclusion: When cities shut streets off to cars, people drive less. The myth of a “carmageddon”-style traffic jam is apparently overblown.

This seems to completely ignore the fact that what actually has occured here is that the reduction of drivers is a negative for those drivers. Those drivers now either have to cycle or use public transport instead of their cars or have to move. That might seem positive to the people who don't have to make those sacrifices, but it's a massive negative impact on the people effected by this.
I came to say that the diamond princess is kind of an ideal case for getting a handle on things because it's a largish finite closedish population, kind of like why ecologists often love islands.

One thing that's puzzling to me though is even though the infected rate from the diamond princess is reported at 700+, the recovery rate is still reported at 10+. So what's going on with the other 690+ people? Are they still sick in a way they could still deteriorate? It's confusing because the cfr based on dead and recovered is still pretty high.

Again, though, the diamond princess is helping to clarify things, because nonreporting and nonpresenting aren't issues for the most part.
The rise of cloud computing has had a smaller climate impact than feared
> it involves setting up a system similar to national ID cards

No it doesn't. We have a register of everyone resident or tax paying here in Norway and no ID cards. The government keeps on trying to make ID cards happen but the relevant departments always seem to be dragging their feet.

You already have a national register in the UK: National Insurance numbers. The difficulty is that it is simply not properly joined up with taxes, banking, etc.

I very much doubt that there is any serious political objection to joining these databases amongst the general public; as you say the civil service departments feathering their own nests is the biggest problem.
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I don't mean this as a jab, but have you ever compared your overall gains with the s&p over the same period? unless you're really smart/lucky, it's probably not worth the stress.

I also "lost" a lot of money this week, but I'm not leveraged and I have positive monthly cashflow, so it's no big deal. I just bought a little more of my favorite broad market etf than usual and went back to my life.
This reads like an Onion article. I heard about this on Lawful Masses with Leonard French, a copyright attorney who pwned Prenda Law. Also, the number of potential melodies, considering the degrees of freedom involved, is on the order of the number of games of chess. IANAL but this doesn't seem more than a stunt to call attention to the legal climate.
To be fair, it's very democratic (is it the most?), not very free. Living there you have to put up with all sorts of restrictions that may seem overzealous for someone from, say, Eastern Europe. And they have the same ridiculous bureaucracy (unlike the UK, for example).
Which game was this?
It's Ordnance Survey.

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I've been using both VSCode and JetBrains IDEs with their VIM plugins. The VSCode one is kind of shitty, but overall both do the job well enough that as a not-super-proficient-vim-master-guru I don't really lack any features.

And you get all the IDE stuff as well. Pretty much a win-win there. (if the vim functionality is good enough for you)
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That's what I mean by "free" as in freedom. It's a democratic country, not a very free one.