skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually fairly unlikely that the bulk of published knowledge is in the public domain.

By copyright expiry, public domain in the US begins in 1927. Later works may be in the public domain, but all works published prior to 1927 are in the public domain in the United States.

(This may not be the case in other countries.)

There were not many published books prior to the invention of the printing press, and many of those didn't survive. The total number of books (not individual titles but actualy bound volumes entirely) in Western Europe as of 1400 may have been as few as 50,000.

By 1800, about 1 million titles had been printed.

Over the course of the 18th century, presses became vastly faster, as they evolved from hand-operated wooden screw-press to iron-frames to steam and electric-powered rotary and ultimately web presses. Paper became much cheaper (and less durable --- a factor commented on at length in the Librarian of Congress's annual reports to Congress in the late 19th century). Literacy exploded from ~25% to 95%+ over the 19th century (and probably accounted for numerous revolutions and political upheavals).

Through much of the 20th century, certainly by 1950, US publishers were issuing about 300,000 new titles per year, a rate which state remarkably constant through the early 21st century. By the aughts, "nontraditional" self-publishing (a/k/a "vanity press") was nearing or exceeding 1 million titles per year more than had been published through all time to 1800.

Reports that all recorded data was doubling every few years date to at least the 1960s. That would mean that in any two year period ... half of all recorded information was less than two years old.

The catch is that not all recorded data is published. So I'm not sure what the time-distribution of all publishing looks like. But I'm pretty confident it's skewed far more recently than 1927. And would thus tend to be copyrighted rather than uncopyrighted.

If you want to measure works by significance, you might make a different argument --- there are many great works of literature, philosophy, history, and religion which were first published before 1927. But ranking and tabulating these is more challenging than a simple enumeration.
For really long distance flights, yes things are OK, but i'm flying over 5 hours maybe a couple times per year and never did since covid. But on "short" haul (intra EU) flights, and these are typically 3-4 hours from where i live, there is now either no premium service at all or "euro business", which is economy with middle seat blocked, best case with a transformer seat that slightly increase seat width by moving inner armrests inwards, but even that is a rarity. Some backwards, poor countries where digitalisation lags behind others, like Romania and Bulgaria, kept it for a lot longer, in fact Bulgaria Air still has proper business class on a few planes, but every "modern" country (France, Germany, Italy etc) destroyed their premium "short" haul service a long time ago.

Belarus hanged in for a lot longer than others, too, and i think for same reason. Russia still does - Aeroflot has proper 3-class service on most flights and at least normal 2-class even on short haul.
That boils down to "we don't like the result, so we should change the rules". That's... not a great argument in a discussion about how one side refuses to accept the results of elections.
Not quite what you're looking for, but this book is an intriguing description of the struggles of Jeff Immelt and later GE execs to keep up GE's success after Welch's departure. In particular, trying to manage GE Finance: https://www.amazon.com/Lights-Out-Delusion-General-Electric/...
I honestly believe that Toyota and Honda have done their analysis in good faith and believe fully electric isn't the correct solution. They could be wrong or right, but I think they gone by it honestly. You don't push hydrogen this long without reason.
I still use a non-tiled wm for specific use cases.

Openbox is extremely minimalist and customizable. I use it for games, gimp, and occasionally gui application development. You can add directional selection keybindings etc. so it keeps a tiled-esque feel.

I dumped a shellscript in my ~/.zprofile where I can easily switch wms and X configurations without logging out (keep mounts, music, etc). It makes it really painless to switch.
There does need to be a little nuance though, since the vast majority of pub owners are actually on a wet lease then the pub itself doesn't get all of the margin, the breweries normally take 20-25% of that margin.

So an example from a recent wholesale catalogue, 1 30L keg which you can probably sell 58 pints out of will cost around £150 so that gets your cost price of around £2.58 / plus VAT and beer duty and you're up to cost price of over £3.00 / pint

So margins are variable but as you can see if you want to sell at around the average price around the country which is £4 / pint then you're not talking about a massive margin.

The reason why food is a popular option for bar owners is that the breweries don't take any of the margin so the owner takes all the profit from food sales, plus in many ways, the food is extra income from people that would be taking up the space to drink too.
> Unless it is extremely hot, or extremely cold, or you have to go a long way, or if you don’t want to buy an expensive new battery set every five years, or if you don’t have 220v at your house, or if you worry about finding a charging station while you run out of power in traffic, or if you don’t want to use any coal or natural gas to power your car.

I’m guessing you don’t own an electric car, but you get your strong opinions from anti-ev sources.

As a Tesla owner, let me put most of these non-issues to bed:

1. Extremely hot - drove to Vegas last summer. 110-120 degree heat for most of the trip there. No issues.

2. Extremely cold — yes, this can be an issue if you need to drive long distances in the cold. Day-to-day local driving is completely fine, and distance is also not a problem if you are willing to stop at charging stations at shorter intervals. I don’t live in a cold area, so I don’t know what those intervals are.

3. New battery set every X years (you said 5). This might be a minimum, but practically speaking it seems to be 10+ for teslas. The original tesla model s cars are about 10 years old, and the ones that need battery replacements due to wear and tear seem to be few —- and the tech has improved a lot since then, and it’s getting even better.

4. 220v at your house — regular plug is fine for local driving. This is what I use. A buddy of mine lives in an apartment with no plug. He just goes to a charger every 2-3 weeks while he gets a haircut. This is very much a non-issue.

5. Charging station in traffic — well, sure, maybe. That’s no different than running out of gas in traffic. It can happen, but it’s usually the result of a series of bad decisions by the driver. I will add that EVs actually get better mileage in the city due to regeneration.

6. Don’t want to use coal and natural gas to power your car — This is a slightly odd argument. NG is relatively clean. Coal is definitely an issue, but the use of coal varies from state to state. In CA (where I live), it’s 0.15% coal, iirc. If your state creates dirty electricity, take that up with your elected officials and your utilities. If you have the means, circumvent this by getting solar (if possible).

I imagine that someone will comment that I am taking a privileged stance as a Tesla owner, and I slightly agree… right now. That said, lower cost EVs will happen in the near future, and lots of folks buy cars that have a purchase cost comparable to a standard range model 3 while having a much higher total cost of ownership than the model 3.

Regarding the article, EVs will definitely require new and different infrastructure both in the US and Japan, but any potential problems are all very solvable.
If this had been release 20 yrs ago, it would have been amazing. I left Windows when VB6 died.
The OED says cromulent is now a cromulent word:

https://www.lexico.com/definition/cromulent

But Merriam-Webster fails to agree:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cromulent
> The people losing their jobs have been actively harming our society for their own selfish ends without contributing anything of value. I have zero empathy for them, and if they all end up unemployed and bankrupt that would be a perfectly acceptable outcome.

What's the difference to FAANG employees?
Pretty much certainly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31984080
Controversial opinion: I wish every GPU programming language and API did memory management like CUDA. In CUDA, you allocate and manage GPU memory using things like cudaMalloc and cudaMemcpy, which behave exactly like what their names suggest, and handles to GPU memory allocations are just plain old pointers just like regular pointers, except pointing to the GPU’s address space. Basically if you know how to deal with memory in C, you already know how to deal with GPU memory in CUDA.

Contrast with Vulkan/GL/Metal/DirectX, where in order to manage GPU memory, you need to know about a whole diverse zoo of different buffer types and different rules for different buffers and there’s a billion different API calls to handle different cases… I just want a chunk of GPU memory that I can do whatever I want with!
The cost of solar technology is dropping at an exponential rate [0] [1]. I've heard (and I believe) that solar has undercut coal (and maybe gas?) [2] by at least a year ago, if not more.

In the US, and I imagine Canada and other European nations, we talk about putting solar on an individual house scale and, at best, earning 'credits' to give back to the grid if we have a surplus. Often times there are locations that can't push more energy into the grid from solar because the local grid can't support it.

Nations without this historical infrastructure don't need to be limited by the infrastructure created to support coal and gas plants as a distant and centralized building. They can build solar power plants next to cities or towns and potentially build a decentralized grid. This is analogous to cell phone service vs. land line service. Without the legacy infrastructure, cell phone adoption is much quicker and easier.

Battery technology is also seeing an exponential drop in price [3].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swanson%27s_law

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/23/most-new...

[3] https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline
I think a handful of technical "phone screen" style questions would be more reasonable, especially if you tie it into their code base/organization.

1. What are your thoughts on "functional programming"?
2. Define "functional programming".
3. Do you use a distributed database?
4. Define "eventually consistent"?

That kind of thing.
IPP 3D Printing Extensions [pdf]
Referenced previous discussion that this was going away from early June 2022, 167 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31698148
Not any more, the majority are owned by the brewery groups and leased to the landlords.

If you see an independent pub in the UK it will be labelled as a 'Free House' that means it is independent of a brewery and can sell any beers it likes.
The every 5 years thing is greatly exaggerated. There are plenty of Teslas from 2012-2017 still going strong on their original batteries.
Beyond “grabbing a bite to eat“ being a very different level risk than going out to physically exhaust yourself on foot daily, violent crime per capita in the us is several multiples higher than it is in Australia on average, and it’s not remotely evenly distributed. The place most commonly cited as the most dangerous in Australia is Rockhampton in Queensland and the only numbers I could find were from 10 years ago— 2 murders per 100k, and apparently that’s dropped considerably. By contrast, St. Louis Missouri has about four times as many people and their murder rate is about 68 per 100k. St. Louis has about the same number of murders per year as Australia on a whole. I am quite certain that your experience in a rough neighborhood in Australia is not representative of many of our rough neighborhoods here.
A lot of what you says makes sense. Except " Also, the need to somehow recycle and dispose of all of the internal combustion engine cars would be a problem. "

We are already well equipped to recycle and otherwise dispose of worn out combustion vehicles. I don't think anybody expects electric cars to accelerate the need for that - existing cars will continue get used by the increasingly less affluent until they are worn out, just like they do now. They aren't going to all just get scrapped tomorrow because electric cars become more common - they will continue to age out of the fleet, just like they do now.
Oh so like media and porn?

/s but not so /s

I suspect this is exactly what state actor technology exists at and is deployed in various receptacles throughout.
I agree. Maybe there’s a reason for all the extra complexity in vulkan, perhaps because such a wide variety of devices are targeted?
Well that sure doesn't sound modern
Habits and values go hand in hand. You make habit, what you value. If not, then you didn't value it much...
I switched to a tiling WM about a year ago, and I went through most of the things he mentions in that video, but I'd say it was likely due to the fact that I had been using regular desktop environments for about 25 years, so everything was completely new to me.

These days I don't need to fiddle with my WM configuration, and I have all the other things (launcher, media controls, keyboard layouts) set up nicely too. I can just boot my system and start using it. It works exactly the way I want it to, and if there's something that doesn't work quite right I have direct access to the source code of the WM. A while back I had trouble with a volume widget that didn't work properly when using PipeWire, so I just went and fixed it myself.

I rarely have to venture out into Windowsland, but when I do I feel incredibly clumsy and slow, which is quite frankly weird after such a short amount of time using a tiling WM. They're definitely not for everybody, but for me it has been a fascinating experience.
I think it's not that everyone is chasing their extra 1.5 years at the end. People always did that as much as they could.

A massive portion of healthcare spending (50%) goes to a tiny percentage of the population (<2%). We've grown that population and increased our spending on them in various ways. Back in the day, many issues would not have arisen because the way people lived prevented them, or they would have not been acknowledged as matters for healthcare at all.

- Many kinds of drug addiction basically didn't exist, due to lower availability and a very different social environment.
- Diseases of affluence like obesity and its endless related problems.
- People would deal with their mental health issues on their own, or with their family.
- Many things back then didn't have treatments, which now do have treatments - often expensive ones.

Life was both harsher on individuals and less corrupted by illnesses that come from technology, affluence, and worldly connections. People's every mental and physical issue wasn't held up as a thing for sociotechnological treatment, and they were left on their own, but this also made people have more inner strength and not fall into a pit of helpless victim mentality.

We've gained a tremendous wealth surplus since then, and it seems to be a law of societies that industrial surplus mostly gets consumed by concurrent bio-social deterioration. We coddle and support people who would have been told to deal with their own issues, or just laughed out of the doctor's office back then. For better or worse.

Society is also lower in trust and less homogenous. Because of concerns about discrimination, decisions that would have been made cheaply and informally on the spot now have to be formalized and done through rubrics which give suboptimal answers because they lack human judgment and also consume more resources. Society is way more litigious and doctors have to spend a lot more time and effort covering their asses from lawsuits and accusations of all kinds.

It's a complex issue with a lot of causes.

I suspect Scott Alexander has some good writings on this.
Brutal take. Squeezing hundreds of thousands of dollars out of patients/insurance for maybe a few extra months is immoral imo
“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results – rendering them useless
IEEE STO: Printer Working Group: 3D Printing
> anyone who takes them has to use an 18th century pirate ship, weapons, costumes, the lot. Flintlock pistol and cutlass, rum and hardtack, sodomy and the lash. If we're going to use 18th century laws, we should stick to 18th century technology and custom, it's what the founding fathers would have wanted.

If you showed the founding fathers the service rifle used by militaries today (with magazines of ammunition, automatic fire) or portable anti-tank munitions, you think they'd say "nah, flintlocks are the tools we want for the job"?
There's a compelling argument that Germany's lax attitudes toward copyright in the 19th century helped propell that nation[1] to a dominant position in science and technology.

Germany now is a leading copyright-maximalist power, unfortunately.

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Notes:

1. I say nation and not country as the German language and cultural nationality pre-existed the German state in 1871.
Why can't we have raw UDP in JavaScript?
right, since the popup for permissions is in the app when its requested

I would like more permissions to be different than all or nothing though. I wish you could segregate contacts. like, if I don't tell people around me that I know a high ranking official, why should a random app just because one of us uploaded our contact list.
"many vehicles stay on the road much longer than that today."

Do they really, though? Per https://ihsmarkit.com/research-analysis/average-age-of-vehic... the average age on cars on the road now is 12.2 years.
Salman Rushdie Joins Substack’s Stable of Cancelled Writers
Does anyone know of good tutorials for CUDA programming incl debugging? Especially one that also covers the recommended way to bind w/PyTorch?

I've always found writing CUDA kernels to be a bit unapproachable.
performance is not that important, usually the time to run a sql query takes 100ms > 1 hour, and so it doesn't matter that parsing it takes 0.5 ms.
Modsy shuts down design services, cutting roles and disrupting orders
A huge part of meditation and hypnosis is concentration, sound isolation, wearing headphones, being calm etc. It's still a really interesting idea, just the mass hypnosis part.
Private Equity is acquiring and combining small practice veterinarians and pet insurance is becoming more common. Soon vet care may feel much more like human care.

https://www.axios.com/2022/03/04/pet-care-lures-private-equi...
Doesn't seem to work very well in Firefox, at least not in my browser.
I was just window shopping in a few towns in the UK. Local stores and places like Sainsbury. Comparing staple items to Safeway and other US stores.

Prices may have change recently.
I strongly disagee that the Senate is not the most powerful institution.

Ask yourself this question: who has made more important, far-reaching decisions for the country, Mitch McConnell or Barack Obama?

Repeat the same question with Trump or Biden if you want, even though they have left time in office than Obama.
I publish both Android and iOS apps regularly, this is just Google getting to feature parity with Apple.

Apple had data safety, Google now has it.

Apple didn't show permissions, now Google also doesn't.

Presumably most people don't really care about permissions anymore.
Same, it's full of new age bullshit but those binaural meditation MP3s were really effective for meditation. Way more than other guided ones I found.
Because the desire for a leaner, unbloated browser or a browser that can 'run' JavaScript in the terminal still exists so this project floats up pretty regularly.
Getting random forks on a test repo, the one with actual code isnt as successful
Technically it's 240v in the US.

I'm sure there's an exceedingly small population of people who don't have 240v, but those people also don't have electric ovens, dryers, or stoves/cooktops.
Sounds like they didn't learn bankroll management.
I agree. An inportant one for me ia the filesystem. Why can't I segregate Whatsapp to a single directory?
I mean Apple still manages to list all IAPs even those only happen on prompt.

The thing users want isn’t what permissions the app could possibly request, but what permissions are required to use what specific features of the app.
F1 Manager 2022. Take a gamble on safety car for a single stop strategy with your rookie driver, or play it safe and do a 2-stopper. Rinse, repeat, and also get into F1.
3) 30 minutes for 186 miles isn't great. Normal for an ICE is 5 minutes for 300-400 miles (482-643 km).

4) I have two cars. One is 15 years old, the other is 25. They are cheap, they are reliable, and I get 30 mpg. An 8-15 year lifespan is again, kinda sad in comparison to ICE.

I'm looking forward to electric cars being generally feasible. But the battery tech needs a lot of help. Charging times and lifespan needs to match ICE cars.
i rarely ever use exists and prefer to do left joins or left semi joins (in spark)

i'm not exactly sure what you're asking though, in terms of sql generation, it's not difficult for me because i just take in sql and output sql from the ast
Basically its what people who want to bypass the kernel network stack because they think its slow. They then spend the next few years writing their own stack till they realise they've just re-written what the kernel does and its slower and full of exploits.

Yeah, receiving packets is fast when you aren't doing anything with them.
The Pico’s official documentation seems leagues better than what the PRU’s offer(ed).
Yes, an the government in the west is very totalitarian by historic views.

Recall the United States declared independence over 1/4 the taxes we have today and “no representation”.

Now, I can’t buy antibiotics for myself (but I can for my fish or cow) over the counter. Wtf world is this.
I am with you here! There are lots of things I enjoy about living in the city, but ultimately I would also rate it as a net negative for my quality of life.

After almost 10 years of it, my family is finally taking the plunge and we are getting out. (Hooray for remote work and StarLink!)
There is nothing wrong about biased news if there is a variety of biases available. I think for local news the risk is very high that a small group of volunteers can capture almost all reporting and push only their biases.
Is there even a way to know if a local practice gets bought out by a large corp? Seems like the FTC could help with that
Hey, great work! Can you talk a bit about the use case that inspire you to write the tool?
Is storage the primary concern with hydrogen?
The Victorian Internet [YouTube]