skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We know very well what things were like pre-copyright. People still came up with compelling stories. Creativity flourished. Of course we've seen an increase since then, but that's the effect of industrialization and overall prosperity not copyright per se.

Do you think differences in how stories were copied and distributed "then" vs. today might have some bearing on the question of whether the absence of copyright "then" implies that authors don't benefit from it today?

For instance, in the year 1400 AD, the cost of reproducing a written work of any significant length for mass distribution was beyond exorbitant. Today, it is essentially zero.

> The success of distributed patronage platforms like Kickstarter is a very real challenge to this assumption. People are in fact making a living by producing content that can be freely copied and distributed.

If copyright is done away with, making money on works before they're released to the public might indeed be the only way for independent authors to make money. Right now it's an alternative to self-pub that's really only available to authors who already have a large established following, e.g. Brandon Sanderson; if people can just wait for you to finish and get the work for free, I doubt they're going to put money up front before you've even finished it unless they're already big fans of your work.

So---in short---no, I don't think the Kickstarter model will protect most independent authors from the effects of a dissolution of copyright law. But I welcome any challenges to the above reasoning.

> Meanwhile, the average self-proclaimed author sees their content languishing in utter obscurity. This can hardly be called a "benefit" of copyright.

What's the relevance of this bitter little nugget? Somebody who has written something is perfectly free to release it to the public domain if they like, and indeed many authors do just that. They are not bound to hold onto exclusive rights to their work just because copyright grants those rights by default.
I think there are a few options/solutions to this already - such as the product below:

https://www.spikenow.com/features/conversational-email/
Actually I don’t mind big files. It is simpler scanning through it or doing a quick search than if you had a bunch of smaller files. And 5000 lines is not awkward for most editors, especially as many editors have the ability to collapse functions.
Sounds like the game is getting people to give him a pass because "it's just a prank bro".
Of course you’ve used “that guy” for your argument…

The most extreme example of someone who might not be rehabilitated.

Think, young people who sell drugs or steal property. Not every case is the same and nor is the punishment.
I'm curious, if some people just think in words, how do they solve visual problems in their head?

For example, can you solve this problem in your head just closing your eyes and thinking about it? (no using your hands either)

* There is a 2D grid in front of you with coordinate system (x,y)

* X increases to the right, Y increases going up

* Point A is at coordinates (1, 1)

* Point B is at coordinates (2, 0)

Q: If we were to move from point B to A, what direction or combination of directions would you be moving? (possible directions are up, down, left, right)

I can solve this in my head but I clearly visualize a grid and the positions of points while doing so and once I have it visualized I just see the answer.

If someone solves this without visualizing it, what are they thinking or how do they do it?
this article is terrible lmfao
It doesn't really undermine your point, but, well ... iOS/macOS/watchOS/tvOS/etcOS is hardly an afterthought, and they are all non-Linux Unix systems.
What about actually using early returns ? I feel like the implicitness of exceptions is more of a downside than an advantage

def handle(request):
if !validate_signature(request):
return 400
if !check_authorization(request):
return 403
person = fetch_from_database(request.object_id)
if !person:
return 404
return { "first_name":person.first_name }
Team Xecuter are heroes in my book. They risked and lost everything to fight for my right to do what I want with hardware I bought, and I don't really care if they made a couple bucks doing it. Their end also brought the end of the xecuter community, probably the friendliest and least hateful gaming community I've ever seen.
I agree with the sentiment of this post, but also agree that self-hosting in a scalable, and secure way is challenging.

Another thing that is challenging is the corporate security, often augmented by Google, applied to domain names that often results in your site getting blacklisted through no fault of your own. Just try getting those flags removed if your ISP becomes persona non grata.

There are so many options now to have a "mostly owned by you" platform while taking advantage of cloud services. Just need to do the pros and cons and choose wisely.
If we want a useful, testable theory that "complexity" causes "software collapse", we need to define both independently from each other and find a way to meassure both. Not that I doubt that there is something to be learned here (see for instance the famous Mythical Man-Month). But without a better theory, we are still poking around in the dark. (C64 pun intended.)
> Most of them have trouble ever making a profit

If that were true, most of the big-budget movie studios would be going out of business regularly. But that isn’t happening, by and large. They do sometimes want you to think they’re not making money. Having worked in the film & games industries, I’ve witnessed some of the creative accounting that gets used.

> do we really need big-budget movies? They seem like a total waste.

Well, people pay for them, and our IP laws are designed to protect the business of creations and inventions. Most of the pharma industry is also peddling stuff we don’t need and is wasteful, however it is big business.
Scientists make ‘slightly sweaty’ robot finger with living skin
I see a bit of measurement, but nothing that looks like an experiment; e.g.: observe, think, predict, test, iterate.

Need to dig out the link, but there's a video of a British biologist from a few years ago, talking about how today's university students are completely unable to do any actual science.

All they know how to do is reference "peer-reviewed" (meaning total nonsense) papers to "prove" things.
There are multiple models for cache consistency. What I'm saying is that it seems this tracing library is built on a particular model of cache consistency, and that if it doesn't find any issues, then it regards the cache as consistent. The question is, how much does that model accurately reflect actual cache behavior in the live system, and how much does it simply test that the cache behaves according to its internal model?
A web app that is added to the home screen will do what you want. Create a simple web app (or use someone else's) then in safari click the share button and "Add To Homescreen". Boom, you have a full screen app experience with no App Store. It's not a kiosk as you can press the home button to exit but if it's for your own use that should be fine.
I get the impression that long files are culturally acceptable in systems-level C code. E.g., just a cherry-picked file from Linux: kernel/sched/core.c is over 11k lines.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/sched/c...
Unless you've received an award, have a gold subscription, or have moderation privileges, finding new comments in a thread is not easy. In a news reader, it's trivial.
Artificial neural networks are making strides towards consciousness
This looks like a great project, but after just now trying it a few times for the first time, it's crashing for me on Linux (Mint).

I really want this to work - it's exactly what I need. Does anyone know of any similar projects that work well on Linux? Are there plans to improve Shotcut Linux operability?
Yeah, I'm aware it's in the kernel, but it's only useful for PCs. So effectively it's a "desktop" problem in terms of people deciding to dedicate resources to it. And... hence why it breaks all the damn time.
Militia is just... bad. Everything about it. Managing squads, equipment etc is just overly complicated and full of bugs. And no such thing as balance.

Just seal yourself off and/or use dfhack to kill enemies.
Not everyone. And that is the issue. If everyone invent or keep his wheels, who are going to fly?

And if you do, keep your option open like apple always have their system on 3 platforms and I suspect they might even have a linux option or fpga or five…

You never really own your platform. Just partially.
I prefer a variant of this: own your domain name and make it easy to move.

I don't think everyone has to run their own server. It's fine to pay someone or use a free service. The issue is, can you change who hosts it? If you can, you are in control.
It seems most of these types of post are about simulated quantum effects which end up being faster to do with quantum computers than with classical computers.

However, that kind of feels to me like saying my analog computer (which consists of my hand, a floor, and a glass) can simulate a glass falling, hitting the floor, and shattering faster than a classical computer.
- btc is not a scam

- eth is not a scam

- uniswap is not a scam

- usdc is not a scam

- aave is not a scam
Prachett has a good look at it in his book Going Postal - each “victimless crime” just has its victims spread over a large number of people. You’re slicing hours/days from people instead of lifetimes.
> for whatever reason these projects always tend to get built around old devices rather than more recent models

It’s because the new devices haven’t been cracked open enough to work on yet. Tough to port Linux to a device with a locked bootloader. On the Android phone side even if the bootloader is unlocked it takes a lot of time and effort to write or port drivers.
Meta loses yet another senior exec
Yet another task that's essentially a simulation of a specific physical phenomenon, not demonstrating an advantage on any generic computing task.

As the article states, it's 216 qubits; far too small to do anything faster than a calculator for the quantum algorithms that we do care about (e.g. factoring prime numbers, searching, etc) - after all, running a 256-qubit quantum task on a 216-qubit quantum computer effectively incurs a 2^40 slowdown.
Reduced air pollution leads to higher crop yields
Clean? I rinse them under running water. This isn't a TV cooking show. It's just home cooking.

I should mention that the mushrooms are always cooked well.
Isn’t this one of cited reasons for a lack of diversity in VC funded founders — they invest in a founder as a person and their team, thus biased by personal relations, rather than the merits and details of the actual business plan?
Putting on my skeptical hat: what are commit signatures used for in the OSS community today, in practice? Do they prevent any supply chain attacks? Is forging a commit really an attractive strategy for an attacker? I assume the most form of verification is checking the github account/reputation.
Xanadu's main thing is that they are really good at getting money from Canadian VCs and government.
They often make insane claims like: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.10644

I'd take anything coming from them with a grain of salt.
I don't know anything about these. But would opening up iPhone make it easier for authoritarian governments like China to install backdoors on your iPhone?
Yes after having living in cities with neither, a waste disposal system is absolutely more important.

No sewage system, you will be fine. People will use septic tanks instead.

No waste disposal system = trash everywhere.

Even if your waterways get polluted by raw sewage, that’s a lot easier to clean up than a waterway polluted by trash.
Quite the opposite, I hate it when projects have dozens upon dozens of modules with 1 function. Multiple huge files are the best sweet spot. (Only crazy adn exceptional things like putting everything into a single file damages the readability imho)
Or prepare four or more servings. Put in refrigerator or freezer depending on how fast they will be consumed. So the 20 minutes, let's say, turns into 30 but split over four or six meals, so it's not so bad.
The idea is that if you have more tokens, you will reap more reward in PoS. This is because you receive around 5% return on your stake, so if you set up multiple validators you will earn more per year.

Note that PoW works exactly like this too, except far worse due to economies of scale. Purchasing mining facilities in bulk will give you a much better deal than buying rigs as a home miner. Whereas in PoS, both the ultra-whale (1000 ETH) and mini-whale (32 ETH) are earning the same exact % return on their investment. The average user delegating in a staking pool is also earning fairly similar return to all validators (with some % of their return paid to validators for their services).

I do not think the claim that PoS is more centralizing or more “rich get richer” than PoW is necessarily true.
So is it your opinion that no company can successfully compete in the market with WFH?
> Solar and wind projects seem thus far relatively immune.

The relative priority/urgency assigned by governments is probably a factor here.

I have seen analysis suggesting the "learning curve" for wind has turned upward in places, rather than declining.

There might also be some political science term for there being a learning curve in corruption as well. Or as is ascribed to Eric Hoffer, every social initiative ends, in a third phase, as a racket.
I hate offices (open-plan offices being particularly hellish) but there are some advantages:

- possibly fewer home-based distractions and interruptions

- not living at work
I guess selling secure and verified devices. AdaCore is doing it.

My point is that it can be a very profitable niche, not that VCs fund it pro bono.
Not quite IMO. Matrix gets very cluttery very quickly once you join more than a handful of rooms with lots of activity. At least with the mainstream clients. It seems more targeted at replacing telegram and its public groups than IRC.

The channel list in particular is way too low density.
Is this based on what I type, or what other people have typed? I type the same stuff week after week, and would like to make that more efficient. But my most repetitive stuff is specific to me, so it would have to be personalized for it to be worthwhile.

From watching the video above, it looked like the user spend a fair amount of time selecting autocomplete options, and could have typed the whole thing out in roughly the same amount of time. Are there examples that show more bang-for-buck?
"How about never? Is never good for you?"
From what I've seen malls are consolidating. The good ones continue to do well and get even nicer, while all the others slowly die as people make the trek to the good mall. There is no room in the market for average.

It will be interesting to see what happens to them as they die, as they are quite unique pieces of real estate.
I think these are two very distinct mindsets.

(1) "I want to solve this problem, I find it important, and I think I can make enough money while solving it to run a company, and live off it, maybe even get rich."

(2) "I want to run a company and make it big / get something self-sustaining so that I could forget about working for a salary; if solving this problem does not lead to that goal, I'll pivot to solving that problem, or another."

The only similarity between them is running a company that solves some customers' problem, which as generic as it gets. The motivations have little in common though.
If I recall correctly the Dev team didn’t notice this as they were using a test JSON which was not very complicated. Only when the game was in production did the complex JSON cause the long loading times
I too live in an extremely democratic leaning city and the only time my waste has not been picked up was when I forgot to push it out to the curb.

Even the brightest among the HN crowd can fall into the trap that "The other side is incompetent." There are geniuses and idiots on both sides. If your city is poorly run, its not because your city is run by one party over the other. It's because the people running your city is competent at running a campaign and incompetent at running a city. There's not much more to it than that.

BTW, the people picking up trash in our neighborhood are bleeding heart liberals.
I have a first generation iPad from 2010 that still works. It's on iOS 4 or something. We use it permanently plugged in as a photo slideshow thingy, and play Jetpack Joyride and Peggle on it a few days a week.

I keep expecting it to just not turn on one day soon, but it's still chugging along happily. I plugged it into a laptop and updated the photos on it a few months ago, with the expectation that doing so would have a fair chance of killing it for good, but it handled that happily too and kept on truckin'.

After 12 years I think I've had pretty good value for money out of it!
Did you try davinci? My brother went back to Windows after struggling, but after he found davinci he moved back to Linux and has been super happy. I think he uses Fedora but he ran opensuse for awhile too, I think because setting up Jack was easiest. With pipe wire coming it might level the playing field
Service-Aligned Data Platform Architecture
> You just assume that because it is convenient for your argument

You don't need to attack people or be paranoid about their motives; you could use a little trust and reason, maybe even a sense of humor. I didn't read the comment after that, but I can see italics and other signs of another angry, self-righteous outburst. I guess everyone else on the Internet does it, so why not? It's working so well for our society.
Ubuntu Security Notice: FFMpeg DoS Divide by Zero
Read history guys. I even did a master thesis cf the two. The open source is against the free source by deliberating allow commerical software. Down vote you may, you cannot change the history. In fact learn seriously about that part, otherwise you miss the whole point of open source.

Well, whilst down voted let me repeat the thing - some Vp did not invent internet but he did let go of only education institute used that network. Now it allows commercial activities.

The mix is hard. The pure is ease. But without the mix and the complexity dealing with this, you do not have today open word of software and even internet.

And mix is hard. (And pure like free source is so pure it is a cult those days.)
Most of the changes are due to Washougton State law changing, not because Microsoft wants to implement these changes.

So, we'll see Amazon do the same I assume.
Ah, Netscape Communicator?
I agree that GitHub "verified" does seem to be mostly for show right now, thanks for emphasizing that.

My point was more that the show (which many would consider using it for) isn't even working yet for this project.
The article cites this open access Nature article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04725-x "Quantum computational advantage with a programmable photonic processor"
They're huge milk floats. As someone who has only ever owned two cars (1L Citroen and a 3L m240i), and who has driven a Model 3, I can say for sure that internal combustion cars have a lot more character and are more fun to drive, with relatively comparable performance if considering their price when new.

As far as "worth buying" - what do you think? A forty five thousand dollar product that does the exact same thing as others that cost three thousand, albeit with running costs significantly lower. Those running costs don't add up to making Model 3s better than cheap used ICE cars that get 30+mpg.

I don't understand the mentality of people who want a "good value", "worth buying" vehicle yet wish to buy new - I'm not fully up-to-speed about the corporate/tax benefits of doing so, but I know that a personal choice to buy a new vehicle while paying VAT is one of the worst decisions you'll make in your life.

That being said, my impression of the Model 3 is as follows:

- The interior is not as premium as I'd expect for the price tag, and the quality control issues are unacceptable.

- It can be a performant little milk float, and seems genuinely well engineered from a drivetrain/battery point of view (E.G. Nissan Leafs of the same age seem to have significantly worse battery lifetimes, presumably because of their under-engineered battery health management).

- Driving-wise, it's zippy, and the suspension feels much nicer on British roads (think: Swiss cheese) than my m240i (though people online claim that BMW purposefully made my generation's m240i's suspension horrible).

- Infotainment has a bunch of useless crap that no one should care about. Significantly more tacky than what my beamer has, and nowhere near the quality nor well integrated nature of the Audi infotainment/digital features. That being said, if you want to talk overpriced vehicles, Audi seems to be the king in that respect.
I've done that when searching in-app has failed me, grepping through the mail store on a zimbra instance. Only useful for plain mail though, unless you are scanning headers not bodies. One day I might write a script to harvest IMAP accounts into a database (unpacking encodings on the way into the DB, and sitting a few other transforms & derivations where relevant like finding the local "received for" information and putting it in an efficiently searchable column, so things are easily located) so I can just SQL the crap out of it. Doing the same to a filesystem structure designed for easy getting might work if you'd prefer that.
Wasn't it so that squid does not support https? If yes, there shouldn't be much to cache today.
Actually, it doesn't.

If you're working with real numbers, then your step counter is a natural number, you repeat for[2] infinitely many steps, and the probability of failure is exactly zero.

If, on the hand, you're working with surreal numbers - which you would have to be for "infinitely small (but non-zero)" to make sense - then your step counter is a ordinal number[1], not a natural, and you repeat for[2] non-well-foundedly many steps (one for each ordinal), after which the probability of failure is again exactly zero. (Otherwise it would be the reciprocal of some surreal number, that is less than some ordinal, and for any ordinal, you can show that you tried a well-founded number of times that is nonetheless strictly greater than it.[0])

The more existent problem is that you can't put any useful upper bound on how many rerolls you'll need, which is terrible for constant-time algorithms, and particularly for cryptography.

0: And you actually only need two to the power of the number of tries to be greater, since the failure probability of one sample is at most 1/2, so the probability after K tries is at most 1/2^K.

1: ie, a positive whole surreal number, rather than a positive whole real number

2: Technically, you repeat for up to but not including that many, since you're guaranteed to terminate by then.
Copyleft / GPL licenses require copyright law to have any threat of enforcement.
Otherwise anyone could just ignore the terms of a copyleft license and use open source under any terms they wish.
Part of the problem is we’ve gotten rid of all possible punishments save fines and prison time. You can’t sentence someone to mental healthcare or to true rehab, etc. sometimes you can make parole dependent on it, but it’s not very workable.

The untold story is that the victims of crimes are often people nobody cares about so it’s not a “big deal”.
Ask HN: How to Manage Thousands of Files
What tools or systems do companies/applications use to programmatically manage and process all their images and other files? How do you also keep track of all those files and changes in a database?
> Micro Python - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7839699 - June 2014 (1 comment)

1 comment is not a very big discussion