skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the impact is different. The library doesn't pay for the ebook just once. When the library buys the ebook, they're allowed to lend it a certain number of times before they have to buy the book again. Or they pay for a number of lends per day and payments for the books checked out are distributed to the appropriate publishers.

The relationship between physical book checkouts and author/publisher revenue is less direct, but the ebook contracts are an attempt to emulate decay and damage to physical books that require periodic repurchases. Arguably you are hastening the end of a physical book's life and its need to be repurchased, or need to stock more copies, by checking it out.

Please don't misunderstand my explanation to be an endorsement of standard ebook lending contracts.
It sounds like the companies doing the buyback pay 2% on the amount they spend on the buyback. It doesn't look like shareholders would be directly impacted, except for the sellers realizing gains in the transaction. That said, I'm not quite certain of who sells in a stock buyback.
Windows 11 has one built in. it's not as flexible as i3 or the custom tool I use, but it's a heck of a lot easier to use.
Not my experience at all. I regularly lend e-books from my city's public library, and they usually have hundreds of "copies" available for popular titles, and even for less popular or even niche titles I rarely have to wait more than one week.

It is a bit ridiculous that "buying copies" and then imposing artificial scarcity on these is the best mechanism that libraries and publishers have figured out to compensate content producers, but I'm optimistic that they'll eventually figure something out.
It’s not and hasn’t been for a very long time.

I don’t think Mozilla is gonna find their Satya Nadella to shake things up.

They’re stuck in this “ethical” realm that failing businesses like to hide and play victim. To be fair, they were always ethical, back then there was an Angelina Jolie philanthropic vibe. These days it looks more like the owner of an old Subaru Outback smothered in PETA stickers
using the word "consumer base" to describe a population of people doing what today is apparently the bare minimum to have consistently good material conditions in this society seems insane to me

I can't believe that societies allow education to be so profit-driven and motivated. It's so blatantly classist.
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If we're going to redefine dating profiles I'd like to propose my ideal: A random sampling of 10 of your recent conversations with others. I know that's not feasible and wouldn't happen if it was. But I think for me one of the most important things is figuring out who this person really is in practice.
RMS had one ages ago. People made fun of him for it buti thought it was cool
Musk bars Twitter employees from offices in the run up to layoffs
WebView2 updates on the same cadence as Edge. Major updates every four weeks, security updates as needed.
There are an increasing number of ultra-deluxe trains in Japan that aim to replicate the experience. Seven Stars is the original:

https://www.cruisetrain-sevenstars.jp/english/

Prices start at $4500 per person twin sharing for 4 nights, so not exactly cheap, but still a few orders of magnitude less than kitting out your own. Plus it's Japan, so you get a modern train, incredible service and everything runs like clockwork, none of those being terms you'd use to describe Amtrak.

Fun facts: you're required to wear a tuxedo to dinner, and despite the price tag, the train is enormously popular and they need to use a lottery system to select who gets to ride.
USians are heavily propagandized to believe that everyone else is too stupid to form their own opinions and is being manipulated by malicious media and elite cabals to think the wrong things. So we see demands for censorship, meddling with school curricula, etc. Isolation from opposing views due to pandemic lockdowns + remote work boom + network effect helps to keep the divide from healing.
Yes it is common in the gaming industry. That is not a good thing nor a justification for it happening elsewhere.
Sounds very archer-esque
A Golang linter to detect functions not in alphabetical order
Having then pull 80+ weeks is bad no matter where it is.

The game dev work environmental is notoriously shitty, that doesn't make it okay to make it shitty elsewhere.
Understood the risks, figured they were worth taking, not all that broken up that it didn't work out.

Manu is anything but naive.
All the layoffs in the world aren't going to pay $1 BILLION PER YEAR in financing.

Isn't it just a question of "when" not "if" it's done?

They've never made more than half billion per year and much of that was some kind of financial "restructuring"
Why the Postal Inspection Service? (Site's down for me, ATM.)
You can still access it on tor, for example:

http://zlibrary24tuxziyiyfr7zd46ytefdqbqd2axkmxm4o5374ptpc52...
Agent Jack Danger on the case (it’s pronounced Donger)
This is more of a product for developers building passkeys into their apps. Though they will benefit from Passage's expertise in building out their passkey stores in their apps.
So essentially, we have a system where a public entity (public libraries) is compensating authors for creating works that are popular. But going through a middle man (the publisher, and possibly one or more distributors) that takes a considerable cut.

In the digital age, why not cut out the middle man? Have a publicly funded e-library that pays authors directly based on how often their content is downloaded.
> He could have set some product direction, given the employees some time to realign and get some of his features built, and then fired those who could not or chose not to keep up.

True. He could have. In the meanwhile, he has signed Twitter up for massive amounts of loans whose annual interest exceeds the company's annual free cash flow. I am not up to speed with all of Twitter's finances, but this right here might be one of the fastest way to grow the free cash flow without affecting the core revenue stream of the ad business.

I don't think this would be an act of leadership if it comes to pass. This is just a consequence of the straitjacket that Elon has put Twitter in. Sometimes, constraints help. Let's see what these financial conditions do for Twitter.
It was a joke - sort of ;)
It cannot enter into a contract because it is not a legal person.
> Do you not expect anything out of your teammates?

I expect the same from my coworkers as I expect from myself - that they do their best work for 40 hours a week.

> Do you have no expectations from customers?

I work in the cloud consulting department of BigTech. The expectations of my customers are spelled out in detail by high priced lawyers.

> From politicians

Hell no.

> At a certain point, how you manage interpersonal relationships can limit your path. Sure, you can just devolve everything down to a transaction

A for profit business and your relationship with your company is transactional. Especially in any large company. The CEO of my company wouldn’t know me from the other 1.6 million people that work at the company.
If microsoft's expensive software is bad, why are you using it?

And you don't need anyone's permission to make zstd better. You just need their permission to merge your changes into their (upstream) branch. If you think you can maintain zstd better than facebook, fork their code and compete with them. Its BSD licensed after all! And if your zstd changes are sufficiently compelling, maybe everyone will start using your version instead.

As a general rule, if I opensource some software I've written, I'm under no obligation to accept pull requests in any form. My time is my own. Facebook is free to run their zstd project however they like. They're already doing good in my books by sharing it with the world, for free, under a BSD license. They don't owe you anything more.
> £60

Boy, wouldn't that be nice. A standard calculus book costs $200 in America. Or, £178 (RIP pounds)
it's not built on Ubuntu.
> The relationship between physical book checkouts and author/publisher revenue is less direct

Indeed. The publisher charges universities etc. a one time lump sum to purchase N copies of a book. The author gets next to nothing.

Source: am an author of technical books. Royalties will buy me a few cardboard boxes.
> he does not owe you anything... my 2 cents

What would you do if YC colluded to steal $50,000 from you while your company has PMF and is going through hypergrowth and a public listing?

https://twitter.com/breckyunits/status/1588320077619023872
Can't you work around this tax by having two companies where company A buys Company B's stock, and company B buys company A's stock.?
Behind a paywall.
Gee I wonder why
> People like the woman behind LibsOfTikTok are careful not to incriminate themselves

From what I know, this person literally just reposts crazy liberal videos verbatim. The same thing has and will continue to be done to crazy conservative ideas.

> but they know there are people who will hear what they say and act on it.

What is the account saying and hoping people will act on? It's bringing crazy ideas to the forefront to expose the ridiculousness of them. It's no different then people bringing the "lizard people" conspiracy theories to the forefront. It exposes how ridiculous these ideas are by taking the ideas out of the deeply nested echo chambers they're started in.
> Just admit it. You enjoy your racism and have zero desire to help anyone.

Please refrain from senseless personal attacks as per HN commenting guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsgu
idelines.html

I cannot help recalling a quote that my grandfather repeated to me earlier this evening: "when you run out of reasons, your argument gets louder."
Not a single part of what you criticised is inherently unreasonable. It entirely depends on the quality of the work done, and the overwhelming majority of people do not use anything close to an 8 hour workday to get stuff done. 4-5 at most.
I don't think I've ever come across a situation where talking about your firing in the public square was a good idea. I just don't see any tangible benefit it can bring.

I guess it's cathartic for the one fired, so there's that.
New Twitter Blue verification checkmark has no ID requirements
IAC?
nitter instances still up
I'll cut it with the attitude if they give me my $50,000 back.
It doesn't blow my mind, we are quite a regulated society as much as my libertarian heart wishes we weren't. I generally agree that copyright needs to die, but for it to die, there has to be some private market system for determining provenance for ideas & intellectual capital and rewarding those ideas financially.
Not even Amazon forces publishers to use it! There are DRM-free Kindle books available.

Unfortunately, I don't know of a way to explicitly search for DRM-free titles, but the description for these usually has a sentence like "made available DRM-free at the publisher's request", or is lacking the reference to "use limited to x devices simultaneously".
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Nope.

From FY21 10-K filing[1] p. 74, cryptocurrencies represented 23% of total net revenues, or 29.9% of total transaction-based revenues.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1783879/000178387922...
The owner wants to cut the fat. He's finding it. Yeah, he'll take out some muscle here and there, but were they overstaffed, could they do with less? Yes and yes. In a down market you don't survive by running things bloated especially when you have not been consistently profitable. He's not running a ClubMed charity.
Actually, from what I recall of Mudge's claims, it basically validates Twitter's mDAU metric. Mudge's complaint boils down to he thinks the mDAU metric is the wrong thing to measure in large part because it focuses too much on measuring value for advertisers rather than the health of the platform.
> Unlimited PTO also discourages using PTO because nobody wants to be seen as the person taking the most vacation.

I'll take one for the team then. When do I start?
I see, it's clause 6 in the OSI definition:

6. No discrimination against fields of endeavor: The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

So it's one or the other. Basically, Copilot makes all open source software (according to the OSI definition) necessarily use-without-attribution. Your code is my code. Your work is instantly my work, and no credit will be given.

I think this is a special case, illustrating that these new language models require us to reformulate our conception of what "open source" and "fair use" entails.

The laws and definitions need to adapt to a changing world.
Turmoil at Twitter
Ahh -- InterActiveCorp?
Impactful in how many of those other social media sites consist of links to Twitter I presume.
AI is not treated differently here.
If a human produced this kind of code: https://twitter.com/DocSparse/status/1581461734665367554
they would be sued as well

I am not sure how can anyone root for AI after seeing those kinds of outputs. It's like high-school level plagiatrism.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24947498 Oct 2020, 335 comments
Oh it's stealing. Someone wants to get paid for the work, and they're entitled to get paid.

I think people who know it's stealing, but are willing to download books anyway because of their personal risk/reward calculation (or perhaps they dislike the author and don't mind stealing from him!), have an intact moral compass: They know right from wrong.

I wonder about people who try to rationalize the crime of book-stealing away. Do they know right from wrong?

I won't judge people who decide to steal books, but I don't like those who try to argue it's not theft.
Sktime
I agree that 3-4 hours of productivity is all you're gonna get. Many people could be done without though. Some are a burden than help. He can run the co on 50% current staff easily, 25% is a bit bare bones, but doable.
Many “recessionary events” over like 5 years in between bull runs is neither an actual recession nor a model that has any practical use whatsoever
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American libraries don’t pay for their books?
https://twitter.com/WillOremus/status/1588336115031117824
Eh yes overlooked that but doesn't touch on async methods. I think there is an async postgres connector out there.
An open source alternative that was posted last week:

https://www.hanko.io/
The publisher will have signed an agreement with the author, and also spent plenty of money on editing, typesetting, marketing.

You can't just arbitrarily decide that only one party "deserves" to make money from the book, and doing so would probably lead to a lawsuit.
It is no longer common at all.
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With obvious limitations you could use backblaze. Back of the napkin calculation this will cost you only $150 per month in storage fees.
"(nobody uses Telegram for the secret chats, let's be honest)."

Thats what you would think from a technical point of view, but actually I witnessed some drama with people installing Telegram, because the partner thought it was done only for this "secret chat" option, which seems to be popular for people having affairs. As it leaves no trace on the phone. Most people don't care about the NSA. They care about their partner, or parents spying on them (which says a lot about the integrity of those relationships).
Why do you think the hyperloop should be anywhere? It was just an idea Elon threw out there for someone else to build, not a project he tried to build. (Don't confuse Boring Co Loop in vegas with an attempt to build high speed partial vacuum tunnel at human scale)

You are right that he is not an average person.
Basically. It doesn't work with https. It also doesn't like mixed-content protection. So it doesn't work in modern browsers unless you jump through some hoops. https://github.com/apenwarr/blip/issues/10
I see it less as bottomless greed, and much more as a fear or inability to adapt to a new situation, desperately clinging to the past via technological means instead.

The music industry was the same, initially – and maybe MP3s would still be sold with DRM by default if it wasn't for Steve Jobs and the iTunes store back in the day.

There's hope, though: With very few exceptions, German e-books are also sold without DRM these days.
>… Subscribers would not need their identities authenticated to get the check mark …

This is ripe for scams and is a litigation and regulation magnet for twitter.
Not to say it was at all appropriate but many people will start off with that assumption about US/UK expats in Thailand, they just no better than to give voice to the initial assumption.
During a stock buy back they just buy stocks on the open market. They reduce the number of outstanding shares, i.e. number of shares that can be purchased. The value of a single stock is determined by (company value / number of outstanding shares). By reducing the number of outstanding shares, each individual share goes up in value.
I recall when novell bought suse, since everybody was considering novell as basically a proxy of msft (maybe a member of the blackrock/vanguard galaxy), it was presumed than suse gnu/linux was basically msft gnu linux.
> Having employees pull 80+ hr crunch time is common in the AAA game industry

You say that as if the working conditions in the AAA game industry _aren't_ widely regarded as horrible...

Crunch happening in the games industry isn't a defense of it happening elsewhere. It shouldn't be happening in the games industry either.
NZ does not have a zero covid strategy, and never did. Pretty much all of NZ's covid restrictions have been removed, and there are thousands of reported cases at the moment.
Serious question: anything like this exist?
exactly what has been extended or extinguished, here? What kernel versions belong to Microsoft?

has Dell, or anyone else, been told to stop selling laptops with Linux in favor of Windows with WSL under threat that they won't be able to sell Windows laptops anymore?

exactly what world are you seeing, because it isn't the one I live on.
In general, tech people are more likely to be early adopters. Also, it helps if the VCs you're targeting can log in as well. Same reason most mobile startups are iOS well before they're Android.

In general it goes (GitHub if you're a dev tool, Apple if you're mobile), Google, MSFT, other SSO, in that order.
Linguists don't define what a word means, the people who use it do. Ethnographers record the definition that a word is used for, and dictionary editors compile those records.
We auto delete. It’s based on the assumption someones email will get hacked - reduces the surface area of the attack.
I like this guy. I like troublemakers. I hope to fill my next venture with cheeky, subversive troublemakers.
You seriously can't just "fork" a web browser these days and run with it.

I mean, sure, technically you can, and there are.

These are enormously complex pieces of software. Even Microsoft threw in the towel.

You need a large corporation, with a large amount of money (in this case, most coming from Google) to sustain this sort of inititiative.
Why should he lose something for _allegations_? Don't we live in a society based on the concept of innocent until proven guilty?
Huh I'm asking a genuine question and I get downvoted. Wtf does the title mean? I clicked the link and I'm none the wiser.
Thinking entrepreneurially here:

Why not lease a car for a month, or a year? All those inspection, maintenance, parking, and labor costs are rolled into your fee, except the railroad can handle them much better than you can.

If it's "your" car, only people you approve of can sit in it. It's a rolling party!
DCA into Vanguard may be ok. Things are on sale now, if you believe in USA over next 20 years.
I guess they failed to anticipate exactly when the Fed would decide that it should induce a recession
I dealt with a large amount of constant pain for my entire childhood, and ongoing but to a lesser extent. It was essentially persistent pain with spikes of immense pain, all over my body.

My doctor very early on told my parents not to give me opioids, as they would ruin my development, become ineffective and I would end up addicted. So my relationship with pain is very skewed, I do essentially what the author describes, observe it but I do not always experience it, especially for stuff I have felt before. One of my less healthy coping mechanisms when I was young was to make the pain worse, so that the relief was comparatively comfortable.

It has made navigating unrelated health issues a bit more challenging, as I can't relate to pain cues very well, and I tend to refuse pain relief meds in emergency situations which is not always the right choice (broken bones fine, final stages of appendicitis, probably want the meds)

One thing that I have sort of always recognized though is that the way others experience pain, emotional or physical, is unrelated to what I have been through, which I think everyone could realise. Just because I have felt worse does not mean someone elses pain is not every bit as impactful to them.
Is firing people for dunking on their CEO what passes for free speech now? Or do you mean firing people for having different political opinions from the CEO?
>Some of the previous executives (Parag) have committed fraud imo,

In what way?
In both cases, large company (the troll/Microsoft) is profiting and smaller subjects or individuals (real inventors/code authors) are losing.

But with patent trolls, large company is suing, while in this case, large company is being sued.

So it's the opposite, and I wish Microsoft loses.

(Note this is between Microsoft and code authors. The people who use copilot don't have a say there, as it's not their code being ingested)
> as I have seen no real change in the service in the past ~5 years I've used it.

You underestimate the effort it takes to keep a service as large as Twitter running. Constant software upgrades to maintain high standard of security, inevitable technological break-age, deprecated dependencies, operations, root-causing failures, migrations (you can't avoid hardware migrations; hardware will die out), planning fallacy, etc, etc.
Often doesn’t the stock go back out as grants to employees? So rather than create new shares, diluting share value, they buy stock to then grant to employees, so the stock buyback is essentially taxed as personal income.
You say that like reading and signal-boosting an article takes meaningful effort. You sit on the toilet, you look at stuff posted by people you follow, see something curious, then you hit retweet or whatever. Modern social media is literally the art form of making this engagement maximally low-effort.

Trawling through the hundreds of actions of thousands of individual employees in a search for subversive contrarian views is a qualitatively different thing with respect to the notion of someone “having the time”.