skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really damn annoying. One of my interests is Celtic Studies/Linguistics and there's a thesis that was written in 1939. It's our one representation of this particular dialect of Irish. I've seen it, it's literally falling apart and the pages are see-through. There's been no digitization of it, and no interest in digitizing it by the University. But I can't check it out for in-library use and make a copy of it myself. When it's lost, it's lost, all because of stupid copyright laws, and won't be in public domain until 2076 in Ireland. It was literally written in 1939 and is our one description of a now extinct part of the language, and will literally be in pieces by then.

Copyright should be no more than 10 years, renewable if there's a sizable re-release (.i. > 1000 copies) to make it constantly accessible at reasonable prices, and only for the original creator's life. That's the only way. If people stop publishing and using stuff, copyright ends.
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That doesn't have to get in the way of an acquisition. Public companies are routinely acquired in a variety of ways.
If that warranty really works as advertised.. sounds like a great situation, and you get the OLED.

OLED is great yeah.
Policy making determines who makes money. As such, it will ALWAYS attract those looking to profit by influencing the process, aka regulatory capture. aka corruption.

This is inescapable so long there are regulators and so long it involves humans. Any system that does not heavily accept and model itself against the potential for corruption is naive. If its not trustless, decentralized and emergent from the bottom up it doomed to eventual capture.
In a way, yes, but both Google and Advertisers know that not every view is going to have a fully captive viewer. It's a spectrum, and where you think the line should be drawn between unethical and ethical behavior is a personal viewpoint.
This is perhaps more related to the language than you think. Many languages have good debugger support from a terminal.
It's less common, but there's also a lyocell process for bamboo. (I have sheets and towels that are bamboo lyocell, and they feel amazing) It's also likely only possible using modern technology, but it is far more environmentally friendly than bamboo rayon (aka viscose).
We can thank WebKit and Apple's policy around it on iOS for suppressing and holding back these attempts, as sites on average still _need_ to work on an iPhone.
Yes, I know. I thought about it after I posted. I wanted to emphasize that "web" can be a small part of Internet use, so a browser's importance is placed in a wider perspective. The rest of my comment talks about its importance within that niche, though.
Yup. And that's why I would not want to see a treaty. Better to have nations acting independently of each other at the policy level, learning from each other's experiences. It's like a market where nations can explore different tradeoffs in how they declare an end or live with it.
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It's a religious impulse.

It may not be literal religion, in the sense of believing "God says this is the right thing to do," but it is the same underlying instinct - "This is Right, and I must do all in my power to serve it."

Humans pick other people who agree with them for their teams, so after a while corporate cultures are almost guaranteed to become homogeneous.

Once they are, groupthink and lack of dissenting opinions means the company starts to explicitly support whatever causes fit its corporate culture.

That's what it looks like to me, anyway.
Do you truly, honestly believe that being preinstalled on Android and ChromeOS, advertised specifically to Firefox users on the homepage of the #1 most visited website in the world (google.com, and it was literally the only ad that has ever been allowed there), and shoved into all kinds of installers for Antivirus, Adobe, Java and so on with the "make Chrome my default browser" button automatically checked --- all of that had nothing to do with the "true reason" Firefox has been trending down?

The marketing campaign for Chrome alone, if it is even possible to assign a dollar value to it, would have cost billions of dollars for anyone other than Google.
I am. I probably just need to compress it (and write some media queries too). Thanks for the note.
Somewhat worrying that I can't seem to find the source code for WACUP listed anywhere, checked their website, discord, and github. I'd feel a lot better about using it if I could see the source code. Currently using Audacious with a Winamp Classic skin.
It's like a group sonar.
Well, lawyers just reiterate books and like to argue a bit.

I completely agree with this post that this isn't a problem of developers at all and even that a bit more openness to lacking experience is warranted (I don't believe that to be unprofessional at all).

The fields someone has expertise in are niches in most cases. The particularities of an xcode build process isn't something you can deduct from theoretical computer science either.

I don't want to take myself and my expertise too seriously, I think CS has more of a problem with pretending to know it all. There are times when you want to reflect that, especially to customers if you think you can provide solutions to their problems. But with increasing experience you should develop an estimation on how small your area of expertise really is. Call it specialized if you want to, but looking at the big picture most engineering disciplines are too vast to champion them completely. Same with math and physics.
Not really: “Religious conversion is the adoption of a set of beliefs identified with one particular religious denomination to the exclusion of others.” It would seem rather pointless to have a separate terms for “conversion” and “conversion from effectively atheism”.

And it’s definitely a forced conversion: the whole purpose is to explicitly ignore one’s will, and is used to “trap” children into religion, generally followed by indoctrination about alleged “obligations” and “duties”.
Sorry for bringing the thread completely off topic, but your username triggered a tinge of nostalgia for something I haven't seen referenced or thought of in a long while.

Is your username a reference to the mid-2000s pre-youtube video series, "Pure Pwnage"?

That's right before the Internet became dominated by platforms. EzBoard was taken over by phpBB, Invision, etc. Blogs.

Sorry, I need to turn off the nostalgia. Fitting that this happens in a Winamp thread, though.
A friend from Syria once told me that in their country flashing warning lights means "f* you", and when he saw it for the first time when going abroad, he was really angry when someone thanked him. Like "I've just let him merge and that is how he acts to me?!"

But I personally haven't heard of any other cases when this isn't considered a thank you gesture
It just means that it is fast :)
WinAmp 2 was the last "real" version, before the AOL buyout of Nullsoft took its toll.
Are you using Firefox on Linux, installed via a package manager? What you describe is the behaviour when your package manager updates Firefox in the background from under its feet - not the fault of Firefox. Firefox's own updater will not automatically update without warning.
I currently use 2.95 and see no reason to update. But I listen rarely mp3's in the last years.
And Chrome pushed another pointless UI change six months before that.
This is my pet peeve. Browsers should not allow any websites to hijack all computing cycles. This was already clear a few years ago during the Monero hype. The fact that most adblockers will detect such attempts today doesn't change the fact that any website can almost prevent you from doing other work just because you opened it. The current strategy of dealing with this problem ("this tab has become unresponsive") is inadequate because it is reactive, not proactive. I'd like to be able to blacklist everything and whitelist only chosen websites I trust. Loading for too long because of tracking code? Too bad, choose another loading strategy or I just close the tab. Making my fans spin faster? Begone.
Perhaps a bad example of a free market in action, what with the rigid zoning laws and regressive tax incentives.
"This demo requires a decent graphics"

Even being from 2011, the fact that works right on a 2017 low end phone with low battery, is totally mind blowing
Much cheaper than CPU cgroups if you want some corse grained isolation when stacking workloads
Parts of this are comedy.

> For me Firefox is the only alternative to a complete Chrome hegemony in the sense that:

> it’s open-source in the real sense (a project that’s truly community-driven)

I missed when the community wanted to do away with tab groups, compact mode, or keyword searches synced via bookmarks. The project is handled by a corporation with a multimillion dollar advertising deal with one of the EvilCorps. Uhh, yeah.

> it has a great track record of fighting for its users and for a better Internet.

Last I checked, it's owned by a foundation that's very okay with advocating that others tell me what I should see on the 'net. "We need more than deplatforming" are not words I ever want to hear from a privacy organization's mouth. That and "fighting for its users" don't exactly go together, unless you believe the Foundation's purpose is to be its users' moral custodian in matters that are not tech-related.

The whole sales pitch of this thing is "you should use a browser that increasingly sucks, that's increasingly lacking in support, whose stewards get their money from EvilCorp and cheerfully advocate for Internet censorship, all because they use a different browser engine". When my option would be to use browsers that do not suck and actually improve release by release, have revenue streams not so beholden to EvilCorp and put their makers' personal politics aside for user control and privacy.

Choices, choices.
It's too late, damage has been done. Twitter is a mess.
He is talking about when Mozilla made Firefox send the browsing history of randomly selected German users to a company they had invested in, Cliqz. That is the by far biggest ethical violation of Mozilla and which, justifiably, still haunts them. That said both Chrome and Edge are worse.
What kind of board allows an announcement like this to happen in such an uncontrolled way? I feel like this is just more evidence that Twitter's board is weak.
I'm curious how you achieve this? Is it similar to Calibre-web's Send to device? Or did you code the conversions yourself (or are you using an external service) and emailing the file?

Are you also providing the reading experience or sending the converted file raw to use in another program's reader?
I am thrilled to hear about the “develop locally, build remotely” feature.
I agree, and it is largely unfixable. An additional problem comes in when people profit from the emergency powers being in place. Someone always will. Profit isn't only monetary.
That security advantage is the reason it's inappropriate for certain things. One of those things is i/o intercept. You don't want browsers to be able to do certain things that games or first class apps can.
What do you mean by space?
... which of course shows another, arguably deeper, aspect of the problem: the general share of GDP that goes to labor, particularly lower paid labor, and how that compares with increases in the cost of fundamental things like housing. Somehow, we've ended up with an economy and a culture where someone can work 40 hours a week but not be paid enough to afford a lot of what our culture also assumes to be basic. This isn't an accident, and has effects way beyond just mountain resort towns, though the effects are particularly acute and visible in such places.
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Tree being hemp?
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> The older code was all C based and very simple. I wasn’t fan of the new direction.

Pretty sure the original author hung out in #winprog (EFnet IRC), I wasn't a great Windows programmer but I remember him showing off how he created the skinnable interface and everything. I also remember spending a half hour downloading a Rob Zombie MP3, using Winamp to play it, and wondering what the big deal was :)
IIRC, Winamp 3 introduced the new skin engine which supported transparency and was slow as molasses on contemporary machines. Moreover, 2.x switched to the new MP3 decoder at some point, and many people didn't like it, either ripping the old decoder from the old versions or stopping upgrading past a certain 2.x version.

(None of this is important today, I guess)
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On my phone, about 70% of the screen is a newsletter popup and a cookie banner. The title is the only part of the content that's visible. The cookie banner isn't GDPR compliant.

This might not be the best platform to complain about the state of things.
Yep. Completely right. I’m a idiot/very tired :)
Adversarial image attacks are no joke
I use Firefox as my daily driver and I couldn't disagree more. But it's hard to reply adequately because you don't actually tell us what your problems with it is. In what ways is Firefox not an acceptable alternative?
reminds me of the random "R" "A" "K" stickers on the back of taxis in Pakistan. No one is sure how or why this trend started, or what the letters signify.

https://pakistantruckart.com/2010/05/01/taxi-motifs-in-islam...
BioNTech has started developing a new Omicron version of its Covid-19 vaccine
I like this solution we came up with a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16163984

Ten years of free protection, then costing $10 × 1.5 ⁿ ⁻ ¹ for each subsequent year. Year 10 costs $0, year 20 about $380, year 30 about $22,000, year 40 about $1,300,000, year 50 almost $75,000,000—and few fifty-year-old things will be worth $75,000,000 per year and growing to retain copyright to.
Kubernetes makes CPU pinning rather simple. Just need to meet conditions to reach Guaranteed QoS. https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/cpu-mana...

We are running lots of Erlang on k8s and CPU pinning improves performance of Erlang schedulers tremendously.
> Obviously not used in competitive racing, but very useful recreational for track driving.

While actual race cars don't have turn indicators, actual headlights are common in some racing classes (especially for endurance racing), and multi-class races are common (where multiple different categories of cars are racing on the same track, often with _very_ different top speeds). Flashing headlights is a common way for a faster car behind to indicate to the slower class of car ahead that they're coming.
What it says is that people mostly just post when they want to complain about stuff. Some minority of people are outraged over lack of PWA on iPhone, so they post to complain loudly about it. Some other minority of people are outraged over electron apps on Mac, so they post to complain loudly about it. It's not the same people, it's just the same pattern of the loud minority and silent majority.

I'll admit, though, I'm in the "I really want native Mac apps" minority :)
Twitter has always been a mess. Anyone sensible who wasn’t speculating had dismissed Twitter as a platform for serious usage about 5 minutes after it launched.
"basic browsing experience"

Google pushes out yet another half-baked, poorly considered new feature in Chrome and overnight has mobs chanting about Safari purportedly holding everyone back because of some close to irrelevant fringe thing.

Safari might just be the fastest browser, and it supports a ridiculous, awe-inspiring array of features and standards.

And the greatest indictment of the ridiculous anti-Safari smear is that no platform uses the browser more than iOS users do. iOS users always are over-represented in web usage compared to marketshare.
Lego for me were about building new things from scratch; of my own invention. I never understood the make-this-exact-thing in Lego. I have bought a few of those newer kits, and they were more like puzzles (but with instructions, hmmm...).

Plastic models (of spacecraft, aircraft, cars, etc.) fulfilled that role for me: make a thing to look like a thing — and with so much more fidelity than Legos.

There is a sculpting aspect to model kit building; building in 3-dimensional space that I like about it. You understand the thing in 3 dimensions as well (whereas you were most likely only familiar with it in 2 dimensions, such as, for example, the way the Millennium Falcon spaceship is represented on screen or in stills).

There too is an aesthetic about the thing you are building. A car model might be of a car you have always liked the design of, could never hope to afford. In building (and later displaying) the model you are coming to grok the form and design lines you have enjoyed.

Honestly though I tend to not really have the room or inclination to display my models. Not sure if the journey was the reward and I ought to bin them? LOL, why do I do it?
> Kavita is a rocket fueled self-hosted digital library which supports a vast array of file formats.

Doesn’t sound very ESG. What is rocket fuel in digital library contexts, and why is rocketing desirable to feature in a digital bookshelf’s heading blurb?
I know you are mainly commenting on "cloud remote" things, but I do want to mention that I find VSCode's "remote ssh" mode very useful, and I use it frequently when I'm sitting at my windows desktop and I want to edit code on the headless linux machine in my basement.

So in general I am positive on IDEs that allow some type remote editing experience.
> Medical community should not be the only one making decisions that have such a massive impact on society.

Perhaps not when it's economic, technological, wartime, etc. Sure. But when it comes to the healthcare of everyone (not just the individual), they absolutely should. The problem is that politicians seem to think they know more about healthcare than the experts do.

> Why is your right keeping families separated not selfish?

My family has been separated, too. By almost half the planet. Your victim appeal doesn't work here.
Thanks. I've been a skier for a long time and have a market / data mindset and I have been watching the changes on ski mountains/communities over that time.

For me personally the hyper cheap passes have a had a positive effect in getting people into skiing that wouldn't be able to afford the commitment. It has, unfortunately, lowered the quality of skiing as on good weather conditions the volume of runs you can get / time spent in line has dropped significantly. That and the quality of snow decreases (ie more people chew up the snow faster). That is admittedly only a concern for skiers/snowboarders who are at a certain level of ability to take advantage of those conditions (most people don't care).

I think one of the unintended consequences of the ski industry doing this is that they have (and probably don't really care) made it skiing worse for locals (via higher housing costs, more competition for resources (snow, food), congestion. Maybe it has helped the local business owner, and maybe there are more jobs but I would wager the jobs are not career jobs but more like dead end jobs. It is an age-old problem between corporate ownership of ski mountains and crusty locals -- the power dynamics lie in the favor of the corporates.

The model plays well for the traveling skier type who is willing to travel and stay on mountain accommodation. They lower the costs of acquisition and recoupe on spend on site. To everyones point - the disney model / theme park model.

Theres lots more to it - but probably as far as I am willing to think about it at this point :)
Is there any Document Management System with good search/indexing capabilities, versioning and format conversation features that is targeted for personal use by individuals?

This and Calibre seems focused on ebooks, rather than on documents.
But then you still have to draw a line somewhere for what's trusted outside of it - browser & password manager for your bank example, and for SSH keys probably at least some project related tooling that you have to decide to trust or audit or whatever.

If you use both host & VM I think my point stands, the host may as well be another VM (or the VM another physical machine) it's not that it's virtual that's adding anything, it's the separation, which was my point.
> Twitter stock jumped more than 11% on the news.

Right. It better close up more than 11% today.
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> There's a certain "buyer beware" quality to open-source stuff

It's not a quality of open source. It's a quality of specific things, and not of other things. Just like with proprietary software.

The only difference is that you need to beware a little less with open source, so more people are willing to.
Jetbrains now has a remote agent, works decently.
I was contemplating getting one of these for my 3 year old. He’s very interested in computers, but we don’t have one to let him have/use.
> also babies and children aren't smokers so there's no equivalency.

Well for sure, but I do remember the thick cloud of smoke that we had to go through... I'm not saying it's equivalent obviously, but still quite amazing that it didn't affect us more.
Eh, my work gave me a laptop and created a service for devs (virtual desktop) in the cloud.

The laptop can't be used (security clampdown pretty tight, can't install anything useful) and the vd would die with 1 command (memory exhaustion), and had to go to their office to bring it back up.
"Among the study's limitations, Iwama notes that the data collected from the FBI was not complete because of changes in reporting practices. In addition, the percentage of firearms licenses, which she used as a proxy for gun ownership, represents neither a perfect measure of gun owners nor an accurate count of the number of firearms available by county. Finally, the small size of the study's sample hindered the author's ability to examine patterns across different counties in the state."

Doesn't sound that convincingly rigorous.
Technology as Pandora’s box.
The original web was building something because you wanted to. It was about staking claim in a space online, your own space, where people could visit (or not) and it was all yours. Geocities and YTMND taught so many kids HTML where they could build wacky sites just because. There was no monetization driver.

Web3 feels like a by-product of being taught to monetize every hobby we have. Nothing can exist for free anymore. There is no more web to stake without some ad or product being shoved down your throat.

I do hope it's only a trend. I've been itching to create silly sites again, just because.
They did so in secret for their German users until they were caught red handed and had to stop doing so due to the public backlash. They lost millions of users in Germany due to that.

That said Google and Microft both keep collecting your data despite backlash while Mozilla stopped once caught.
Dunno.

My hack for reading Manga is to pack them up into a PDF and download them to a tablet where I can read them unconnected.