skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm struggling to see who the intended audience is for this book.

Based on the preview, it appears to be 86 pages of illustrations in a cartoon style with a little bit of descriptive text in the form of 'fun facts.' It reminds me of the style of a children's pictorial encyclopedia.

This seems way too simple for a serious video geek, archivist, or historian, but who else will be interested in learning about dozens of historic video formats?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/12/do... indicate Hispanic support for Democratic candidates fairly steady during that time period; check the second chart.

The theory doesn't hold up to the actual charts.
Is that really "widespread/mainstream" though? Podcasts listening is pretty huge; in the US "38% of those age 12+ in the U.S. are monthly podcast listeners" (ref: https://www.edisonresearch.com/the-infinite-dial-2022/)
It might not be widely known, but they have in the past had copies of the Archive in Alexandria and other locations. From my brief time there, I know that issues like these are of great concern to the Archive.
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Sorry, by the way, if I've misunderstood or misread some of your posts. I'm truly not trying to be argumentative for the sake of it, and expect we agree much more than we disagree, overall. Also: yes, I'm sure you're right about your local market, and part of the problem discussing these things is that the situation in schools varies greatly state-by-state and region-by-region, so it's easy to get wrong ideas about things—teachers unions might be so powerful they're part of the problem, in some places, but in others they barely have any power at all so those very-common "teacher's unions are out of control and that's the main problem with education!" takes come off as something from another universe, or teacher comp might be borderline-OK in some places, but really, really isn't in others. Some places, there are five private schools in a 30-minute drive that charge $40+k/yr and are all pretty good or even excellent—others, there are five private schools in a 30-minute drive and they all charge $12k/yr or less and are all terrible (but do cater to religious and/or political preferences). It's a highly heterogenous field.
mpv is what powers smplayer, my absolute favorite movie player app (sooo much better than vlc).

By itself, mpv isn't very user-friendly though, it needs to be wrapped up in a third-party GUI, then its power really shines.
A superb piece of software.
Because Romans complaining about how decadent the current generations are, and how they were weaker than their ancestors, goes back at least as far as Roman literature does, a generation or two before the Battle of Zama and the end of the Second Punic War? If Rome was truly decedent then, they had another 350 years of growth in power and magnificence until their actual zenith. This suggests that the two factors were completely unrelated: Rome rose and fell for reasons totally unrelated to it's supposed cultural decadence, the toughness of its people, etc.

(Cue Peter Heather's argument that the fall of Rome was actually related to its inability to attract immigrants any more: for generations Rome survived and triumphed over other cultures because of its unparalleled ability to make new Romans- from other people's in Italy, from Gaul, from Egypt, from Germans, they could make everyone's sons into real, classically educated Romans, and that meant that their state and armies were sufficient. Then, for various reasons that he describes in his 2005 book _The Fall of the Roman Empire_, they lost that ability, and that was what doomed the Western Roman Empire.)
> I believe there are certain large corporations(far larger then Harper Collins et al.) which would benefit from an enlarging of the domain of fair use around now.

Who are those corporations and how would they benefit?
Good point. I'm sometimes upset that I have to dig through a legacy database to figure out how to make my new web app work with it. I sometimes have to commit programming crimes to work around a legacy stored procedures that the company is unwilling to touch at that point. However, my job is relatively relaxed. My boss doesn't require any core hours from me and I go to the office every few weeks to touch base and attend meetings.

I then talk to friends who are doctors and pharmacists.....and I wouldn't be able to do their jobs. The pharmacist works 12 hours days. Mostly standing. She cannot leave for lunch. She rarely has a moment to text or do anything else at work. She under intense pressure to show up everyday. If she misses like 3 days due to any emergency she is going to get fired.

All I can say fuck that. Software development has its demons but most devs can make six figures changing the color of a button or creating relatively simple CRUD apps once they understand modern frameworks and databases.
Hey, [name]! I think it's great that you're thinking about the role of the founding engineer.

I think it's important to understand that a "founding engineer" is someone who has been with a company since its inception—someone who has been instrumental in building and developing the product/service/company from the ground up. That doesn't mean they can't also be a co-founder, but I'd say that's not necessarily true. Founding engineers are usually the people who don't put their equity and their money is not at risk during the early stages that decide the fate of the company. But when they do own the risk, they are taken as founding member.

It sounds like you're wondering whether or not the term "founding engineer" is trying to conflate the role of founder with much less of the benefit. Yes, there are definitely benefits to being a founder—and things that come along with being one—but I don't think those benefits apply to all founders. It really depends on what kind of business you're building and how much risk you're willing to take on as an entrepreneur.
Conflicting online reviews influence when consumers buy
I know about ISO 780. :D I also know about the constraints logistics companies work under. If you think package handlers are looking at all the symbols at the box and carefully considering how to best meet them for an entire shipment...

My buddy who worked at FedEx once told me that "fragile" was a french word that means "to drop kick".

These symbols are much more effective in manufacturer and retailer-controlled portions of the supply chain. Once your goods are mixed with goods from many other customers, and individual accountability is lower... bad stuff is gonna happen.
It would be harder to focus all the blame, and the hand of the law, on a single institution.

Currently, only the IA will fall, and anyone who benefited from their seeming folly will have no issues.
> Get a job at smaller to medium sized non-tech company.

I do the first part: finding smaller to medium company. Smaller companies have better visibility, more work than people can finish so everyone gets to work on big whales. There's in general a better comradeship too. Revenue per employee in good smaller companies are usually larger than that in big companies, so people don't have to fight for resources as much.

I'm not sure about "non-tech" companies, though. IT in non-tech companies are usually cost center, so there's usually insufficient investment in tech workers in those companies. Some line of work can be hard to find in non-tech companies: distributed systems, large-scale database systems, high traffic systems that require deep optimizations on throughput, latency, and etc.
Great article. Calling APIs RESTful because they return JSON has always been a peeve of mine. But here's the question though, why do APIs need to be RESTful? What is the need for a client to have no knowledge of the server, if the server can also provide logic that can run on the client. In some sense, one could argue that a service that provides both raw data and client logic to transform raw data to hypermedia, is still very much in the spirit of REST. Webapps by definition must satisfy this requirement, so it is moot to be asking if a webapp follows RESTful principles. Of course it does, it runs on the web! Native apps on the other hand have sure ruined everything.
Good point that it's also a credential. So I probably end up using a password manager almost as a "dictionary" to keep track of all of my aliases.

Thanks for the input.
It would be weird to have a law that says "drinking water is illegal unless you are thirsty or want to drink water for some other reason," right?
Time to change the law. It does not benefit people in this particular case.
The lesson should probably have been how most of the developed world doesn't care. In most "developed" countries it's a healthcare issue mostly now, except after the "land of the free" has an episodic meltdown all over global media and rakes it up... Again...

Thanks again for the nonsense endless articles explaining how none of you colonialists can get along with each other.
Spring, hive, iis, and typescript makes for a more solid stack
This is not as legally clear cut as you make it seem. There's plenty of legal discussion around the issue of format shifting books.
Smalltalk, my experience has mostly been with the Squeak and Pharo variants. It hits everything on your list, in my opinion.
How and Why We Run Untrusted Java Bytecode in a Secure In-Process Sandbox
Isn't the "recycling" in those cases just "ship it to a third world country who claims they have recycling but really it's just extremely poor people taking apart electronic goods with minimal tools in what is effectively a landfill"?
Neither of your examples seem obvious or objectively criminal, or uncontroversial for that matter. If you pull back from Lambo to a Civic, is this still obviously criminal?

classifying suspicious transactions is a weird and dangerous path to legislate.
There are various ways how you can push in malware to isolated systems (compromised USB drives used to be common, and still seem to work in some penetration tests; but in general, you might succeed in getting someone to deliver a malicious document file to such a system with some zero-day in it. Also, compromised hardware - e.g. ship them a USB mouse that 12 hours after plugging in technically becomes also a USB storage device and a USB keyboard to send commands to install stuff), but then you have the trouble of what that malware should do once on those systems - being able to establish a communications channel is useful in such a scenario. So there's definitely a role for such tools, only these scenarios are relevant only to quite expensive targeted attacks, essentially spycraft by state actors, not for e.g. commercial ransomware operators.
Oh, that's actually good to know, thanks. My only experience with a nice modern transreflective display is (IIUC) the Playdate, which looks great.

Since you seem to know about these things, do you have any suggestion(s) for where to buy a DM250, preferably with a US keyboard layout? Somebody elsewhere in this thread said that exists, but I couldn't find any mention of it myself.
It's not turning a blind eye, it's accurately interpreting that forcing a woman to give birth when she wants an abortion will be detrimental to her mental health, thus making her abortion legal.

Sure it could have stronger wording in law, but it's not causing any problems as it current is. But you've misunderstood it from your first comment, where you wrongly said it is a "criminal offence" when done here in England which is just entirely wrong.
That's actually a great example. The Kabul Polytechnic University was defunct when the US showed up in 2001. That's what the USSR left behind in Afghanistan — the Taliban and a stone-age culture. Nothing else except death.

The Kabul Polytechnic University has remained open since 2002 when the US set up a new government.

Will it last? Who knows. But so far, the US has left a stronger positive legacy than the USSR ever managed.
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Can you explain what you mean by comprehension?
If it's just about money: abortion is probably cheaper than raising a child, not just for the parents but also for the government.
Florida yes, but you're missing the whole last portion of the article:

Tl;dr: Florida has more access than some of Europe, but Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas have more restrictions than pretty much all of Europe except for Poland.

"On the other hand, several states have banned abortion from conception, with only exceptions for the life of the woman (no exceptions for rape, incest, or lethal fetal abnormalities): Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas. (For Texas, the law is currently held up in court.)

These laws are more restrictive than almost anywhere else in the rich world. Poland is similar, but is it “rich”?"
Meanwhile Silvio Gesell just wanted a simple currency and land reform at the time to make it easier to pay off the reparations without dooming the country into poverty.

Nowadays people write books how he was literally worse than Hitler. It is kind of amusing how easy it is to be hated by everyone because you have a difficult to attack argument.

Is the idea of negative interest rates really that taboo? I personally got interested in negative interest rates due to macro economic balance mechanics which don't even require the existence of a real economy to justify negative interest rates. If you want to shrink the money supply without causing a deflationary spiral you must lower the interest rate below zero so that the real interest rate is zero which is fair for consumers and savers alike.
I think this is a mismatch between the sink and the faucet and it’s totally the installer/chooser fault, not the faucet. There are sinks and sinks, the match has to work. In my rental there are two bathrooms. Both have the same faucet, different sink. One makes me bank my knuckles on the sink, the other one doesn’t (but it leaks). It can be done
> 40% of global electricity is from coal. Europe needs to increase coal usage because of the war.

Or put another way, because they didn't bother to become energy independent and shut down nuclear plants instead of investing in more.
> deciding whether to e.g. gzip a file before SCPing it somewhere

Off topic, but to not waste time on such trivia in the future, add

Compression yes

to your ~/.ssh/config.
> RSS is one-way publishing; there is no way for content creators and their audience to interact

I consider this as the main strength of RSS; respecting the privacy of the audience. If the audience want to interact they can still choose to do so. The small amount of friction actually helps to beat down the noises.
It may be great solution in specific context, for example when outsourcing parts of app to different teams and you create intranet app where perf. is not that important.

Everything needs context.
I absolutely believe what your ex colleague says/thinks of his job is exactly what he means, however he's comparing it with a retail job,which,in most cases are pretty crap. I also understand that even if the job may look crap, it can still be a huge improvement for the person who's doing the job. I've done enough crappy and good jobs in my life to know the difference, but I appreciate not everyone would have such a perspective.
I have it in my head that playing fast and loose with the law is just how things are done. I think the problem here is Internet Archive is not making heaps of money for shareholders and (arguably) causing these publishes to lose money.

An example is Uber 'invents' smartphone taxi's and says the laws of employment and taxi's don't apply to them. They make a ton of money and here we are.

Maybe I am being overly cynical.
This wasn't about preserving archives, or distributing old works that should have been in the public domain by now, or even "lending" out digital copies backed by physical copies they owned. This was about distributing unlimited digital copies of current works (some published just the year before). Legally and morally I cannot see this as any different or better than blatant copyright piracy.

The Internet Archive does a lot of good things, most clearly legal, others gray areas that I think should be legal. This stunt was different.
I agree with the Internet Archive on philosophical/ideological grounds and support their actions overall...

_However_, they have to operate under the same BS everyone else does, so it seems naïve for them to take reckless actions that could put them in this position
> owned by George Soros

Near as I can tell, The Guardian is owned by Scott Trust Limited, which looks to be a UK equivalent of the U.S.’s not-for-profit legal entity. Further, I can find no documentation of Soros being an influence.

What proof do you have of this claim?
I only see one reference: The Great Filter is a reference to the Drake Equation, which is pretty well known by STEM nerds, especially those interested in space and astronomy. Certainly seen it mentioned many times on this site. I don't see any other references at all?
Ah that makes sense. When I read blog my mind goes immediately to personal blogs which to me it means a space where you write about everything that interests you, not some some specific topic. But you're right, if one doesn't care about that they can achieve the same with some more specific and more focused platform (for example GitHub as you mentioned)
I never suggested asking just one person, to be clear!
Sure, but I fail to see how that has anything to do with a father's supposed right to abandon a child he doesn't want.

Actually, I think I sorta see what you're driving at - 'if it's just about money, forcing women to have a medical procedure at a man's choice is cheaper'

The problem with that is it's unethical and morally wrong to do that.

If you are more responsible for the existence of a child than I am, by virtue of having fathered the child, why should I have to pay and you not have to pay? That's what it comes down to, not 'what is the cheapest thing to do.'
This is one of the few things on the internet that I truly feel makes my job so much easier. It solves a complex problem so well, without over-simplifying. I've been using it for years, and still love it.
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not in a similar category but foobar2000 for windows is infinitely customisable and really powerful. including its UI, plugins, embedded language for tag properties.

for example check the reddit and look at peoples setups. all wildly different
Let's be real, the main reason these plans don't work out is because management changes their mind every couple of weeks.

There are very few software shops with the management discipline to not change a plan for a full year, because the plan is working.
Weird edge cases are very rare by definition. If they're not very rare, then they're not weird edge cases. And allowing them to exist and be handled in a bespoke way is not the same as handling all cases in a bespoke way. The law can help isolate those weird edge cases by handling the broad cases up front. That way the truly unique cases can get the resources/attention that they need.
> ...the official position of all the major, conservative churches...

Isn't there a massive long tail of unaffiliated or "nondenominational" churches in the US? You'd miss that if you're only looking at surveys of official denominational positions.

> and the local Lutheran churches also see their USA counterparts as more towards radical/"extremist"

Which counterparts? Aren't there like three biggish Lutheran denominations in the US? IIRC, one is quite liberal.
I thought a thumbdrive was the attack vector for stuxnet.
A compiled-away, type-safe, readable RegExp alternative
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And while we're getting proof, can we also get a clear explanation of why it's even relevant?
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I've been in a similar same scenario myself lately. I'm in the middle of a project that should have taken a couple of weeks to complete. Instead, it has taken months due to many, many changes being requested during its development, some of which involved scrapping large portions of work multiple times.

Management has both greenlit every requested change, but then also blames me for the project taking so long (it's been in development for so long, so clearly it's the developer's fault. Oh, btw, we're going to need to completely scrap this version of the UI, too, just like we've done a couple of times already).

I frequently feel like I need to "catch up", even though I know that it's not my fault. So I get really conflicted on the evenings and weekends, usually putting in extra hours to squeeze out just a bit more progress. Really, I know better, but I can't help but feeling that after months of this, somehow, this weekend or evening will be the one to finally make the difference.
I can relate, so I wanted to build something that is more organized. Similar to email, but with all the modern features we have in other tools like chats and online forums. I posted a thread about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32139750
Even faster lower_bound() implementation, wanna benchmark on Apple M2
designer grass in different colors; fish genes in oranges; new mammals as pets designed to sell.. people know very well that is what is going on.. pure BS to make a buck, like "fast growing things that live 600 years" .. like fake medicine, but worse because it breeds. zero confidence in MBAs and shysters making this a GMO business to "save the planet"

ok - better, plants whose seeds die instead of refreshing; plants that are allegedly immune to only MY brand of poison and won't hurt anything; trees with patents.
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The display sync resampling is amazing.

When I first experienced it, it made me realize how terrible VLC is; VLC can't play back video at a consistent framerate, and this is particularly noticeable in panning scenes in videos, especially anime.

People talk about VLC like it's a poster-child of open source, but really, I just see a bloated, crash-prone program that doesn't even do its primary function particularly well or efficiently.
I still don't understand what compelled IA to blatantly violate copyright law like that.

From what I can tell, even buying a book and then digitally lending it out, isn't exactly a human right. Regardless, IA was doing that without issue for years.

IA then decided they were going to "lend out"as many books as they wanted. To

What exactly is surprising here ?
It's more like the depression before WW1, the hyperinflation in 1923 and the great depression all combined resulted in Nazis gaining power.
The density is also vastly higher.
Overtaken how? Download size? Startup time? Ubiquitous availability? Number of kernel hackers who use it as their daily driver? What's your metric?
> The mission of preserving human culture is far more important than respecting rent-seeking copyright holders

That genuinely may be so, but "this law i broke shouldn't exist" is not an advisable legal defense.

Also, what you call "rent seeking" others would call "return on investment". I do think there is a grey area here, "fair use" being one example, but i think summarily discounting distributors and publishers wholesale doesn't help your stance.