skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and may cause plaintiffs to cease publishing certain works

Okay, go on, stop publishing these. If a book is such nobody would voluntarily buy for a reasonable price DRM-free e.g. on Gumroad, it probably isn't worth existing.

I doubt many people pirate content instead of buying it just because they can. People generally pirate what they can't afford easily enough and what they aren't excited about nearly enough to pay for (also whatever comes in ugly locked-in formats so a pirated version means better UX). In both cases they wouldn't be paying even if they couldn't pirate so there is no actual lost profit here. Except in cases when someone could unfairly force people to pay unreasonable prices which is the usual case with textbooks.
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> I can't get behind the logic that we should wait til we can accomplish those things

Where in my post did I say we should stop taking IDs and then wait until all of those are 100% fully accomplished before trying something else? Re-read the post - it's not there.

I'm arguing a more robust fix would be to do all of those things. That's not incompatible with keeping the current system of checking IDs until we hit some critical mass where the fixes for the more systemic issues reduce the need for checking IDs.
Oof. Yes. I don't get the speckles, but the middle portions of the tunnel "shudder" like looking a something slightly out of focus at extremely high power through a telescope, and it feels like I'm about to get a migraine.
You're missing a huge part of this: The "competition" you think you're referring to had, you know, actual rules. Sending people to get jobs at a rival, and steal all of their internal documents and trade secrets, is illegal in most countries.
As a vim user for many years, probably influenced by reading about kakoune, I had gotten in the habit of prefixing all my actions with v to start in the visual mode, somewhat like the kakoune-way, previewing my selections before I use them.

However, recently I've repented my errors. Having discovered that insert mode <M-Key> functions as normal mode <Key> and moving away from the visual mode whenever possible, I realised that despite the touted simplicity of the selection-action model, there is much cognitive benefit to the vim-way, in making keys function as one bigger conceptual step, combining the motion and the verb into one inseparable unit.

Compared to using visual mode, I no longer wait to look at previews then continue, but simply keep typing away, one command after next, trusting that my machine will follow, it catching up the 'buffer' of my commands at its pace. This truly helps me feel much more connected with my work at hand, 'feeling' my text, not going back to seek at what I expect already, and forgetting about the details. Getting used to performing actions in just one step, albeit a bigger one, allows me to think more effectively about how I edit my text. Conversely, to allow only the expression of 'simple' text concepts does not reduce my cognitive burden, as I would need to, and be thinking of, how to use 'simple' text motions/selections to emulate more complex ones anyway.

On another note, I've finally found myself embracing vim's window management, terminal, buffer management... I'm in awe of the way that vim has gently paved for me, all along. Beyond minimalism, as a shell/terminal multiplexer, vim is great.
That is his whole play - more than anything, US conservatives want liberals to be humiliated and angry, and Elon delivers, and that is the ONLY way owning an EV can be palatable to that crowd.
Vaccines activate the immune system. Inverse vaccine suppress it.
This is supposedly a restoration project but I’m pretty sure it’s a parody.

The corporate responsibility page returns “The page you were trying to reach cannot be found” which is a little too on the nose.
Evergreen story.
Hah. People have believed in this for some time. MAPS has been around for a while. What you mean is, not the right people, and now we are back to morality policing.
Look for standalone 5G (SA) if you want lower latency. Most 5G is actually bonding 5G channel(s) to a main 4G control channel(s) so it has 4G latency.
The entire point is that it isn't something the customer wants more, but they get stuck with it because they need a subset of it and it's all glued together.

This is quite distinct from providing two products together. You can go to the store and buy an entire PC with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Edge. Then you can install Firefox on it, or remove Windows entirely and install Linux. The trouble comes when you can't separate them anymore.

Then in order for a competitor, and therefore the customer, to replace the banana the customer wants to replace, and which would otherwise be easy to replace, the competing product also has to replace the gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle. Which is bad for the customer.

And tying is illegal. Typically it was in the context of a company with a dominant market position requiring you to buy products in a related market if you want the product you had to get from them, but now they're doing a new thing. Not only can you not buy them separately, you can't even separate them after you've bought them -- which should be a violation regardless of what kind of market position you had to begin with, because its primary effect is to harm competition. But this stuff is pretty much invented by judges as they go along, so who knows what they're going to do.
Not when he wrote it for and showed it to box. Doesn’t matter how he “licensed” it. They would have had good legal standing to come after him. I can’t believe he wrote that on his blog. He should honestly take it down.
> They even falsified their stats to adopt the Euro.

"They" is ill defined here. The people who falsified the finances were not the people who suffered under austerity.

> Except the EU is not responsible for and does not control their member states' finances.

During austerity, the "troika" (which included the European Commission and the European Central Bank) micromanaged Greece's finances. The Greek government was basically held hostage and forced to take very specific measures, down to which tax to change by which amount and which state assets to privatize in which way. The EU publicly aspires to be much more than just some soulless customs and currency union, and throwing a member state under the bus in this way and immiserating its population goes against what the EU supposedly stands for.
I'm very pro ebike. But some American classes of ebikes are just electric motorcycles with a set of crank arms for show. Pedelec bikes are ebikes. Everything else is with a throttle is a scooter

Cycling has more benefits than replacing cars. It connects us with joyful movement. And the infrastructure is cheaper to build and extend compared to railways.
Agreed. Airtable is only projected to have $150M in sale in 2023. Even $1B is probably optimistic at this point.

Asana founded in 2008 that went public in recent years is only worth $4B in market cap with over half a billion in sale.
Overall, zombo.com has done better than Enron
https://colourise.com
I just a few days ago watched a really good fairly deep dive video about the US' historical reasons behind this:

https://youtu.be/fAyY0kGmgmc
It is necessary to store the ability-to-castle state with each rook; attempting to keep it only attached to each king is insufficient.
Have also seen people make sleeping platforms out of schedule 40 PVC, for sleeping in the back of a car.
Gates looking like an arrogant little dweeb will have a lot of results.
he moved on.
Eeeeyeah. When I'm applying for a job, if I go to their corporate site and their about us page reads like the KPMG anthem, or Weird Al's "Mission Statement", it's a huge red flag or at least it prompts followup questions. (Most annoying is when I ask the crooter followup questions and get "Did you check out their web site?" as a response. Yes, I did, and it told me nothing. Did you?)

Based on that, we should've seen Enron's collapse a long time coming.
I remember that era of using `<select>` dropdowns for navigation. Phew.
That makes a strange legal argument, though. You can't say that Apple putting the default up for bid is anti-competitive behavior by Google. So would you say that Google can't bid in the auction because that in itself is anti-competitive? That also seems like a tough legal argument to make (though I am not an expert on this) because it means that basically everybody is allowed to be in the auction except for Google.

You could definitely say it was anti-competitive if Google was paying more than they earned from this search traffic. But I seriously doubt they are doing that.
That’s really not how it works. Ostensibly by showing it to box, it was written for box, and they would be well within a standard of legal standing to make your life a living hell for taking it elsewhere. You should really be more careful with what you say.

Why would you wontonly open yourself to legal liability? You say “they’re free to come after you” but you really _really_ don’t want that. Ive seen that happen to friends and the stress almost killed them.
Rust's compile times are worse than Go but are still way better than people make it to be.

Here are some examples:

---

Rust Analyzer:

Clean build: 31.02s

Incremental build: 3.07s (Added a `println!` in a level-2 dependency in the dependency graph)

SLOC: 306,467

SLOC of dependencies: ~879,304 (After removing `win*` packages which make up for another 1.3M)

---

Zola:

Clean build: 24.58s

Incremental build: 1.34s (Added a `println!` in a level-2 dependency in the dependency graph)

SLOC: 17,233

SLOC of dependencies: ~2,087,781 (After removing `win*` packages which make up for another 1.3M)

Obviously, not all source code gets compiled due to conditional compilation but it makes for a good approximate if you only take into account 2/3 of it.

---

For comparison with Zig by building ZLS:

Clean build: 20.13s

Incremental build: 10.27s (I believe this builds the ZLS package again from scratch so not really incremental)

SLOC: 45,806

SLOC of dependencies: I don't know how to get this.

---

This was on a Ryzen 5600x
I remember reading discussions about mRNA vaccines being created to sensitize against immune system molecules, like in the way that Dupixent is just a monoclonal antibody that works against certain interleukins. So many interesting things out there for people with autoimmune diseases!
They still can be installed today, the sun hasn't changed much.

And still they're rarely installed. I knew more people in the 90s who were ripping them out or leaving them dry (they were popular for pool heating in some areas) than installing them.
That may apply to logical debate, but it does not apply to persuasive writing nor interesting reporting.

Writing about a person and providing background information about their former job but not about the facts that make them pertinent to the subject matter is dumb.
It's not, it's just a re-hosted clone of the original Enron site circa 2000 (https://web.archive.org/web/20011003192049/http://www.enron....).
Twitter is still throttling competitor's links
The reason for paying them is to prevent blackouts. They also don’t pay market prices.
That's one of the most entertaining posts I've seen in a while. Would very much like to see a part 2. Also, as an aside, wow are those some tasteful gradients on the recent post links.
/e/OS is not well rounded.

It is currently shipping Chromium Browser/System WebView from December of 2022 with 265 known security issues: https://divestos.org/misc/ch-dates.txt

Users cannot change the system webview, Android only allows pre-included ones as it gets directly loaded into the process space of all apps using the WebView widget.

And it still makes many connections to Google and includes proprietary Google binaries and downloads more at runtime: https://divestos.org/misc/e.txt

Disclosure: DivestOS is my project.
Please don’t paint your obvious naivety re gender as scientific enlightenment. This is real populist Ben Shapiro reasoning and I’d really hope that this community is above it. The reality is that esp. when we are talking about mental health it is important to be specific about the nature of a sex/gender breakdown. Could it be a question of hormones? Socialisation? The author/s are using concise language in a scientific publication and because of your naivety and typical software developer undeserved sense of transferable expertise, you are claiming it as superfluous, when it isn’t. Please consider that maybe you are wrong, and not everyone else.
I wish instead of the subsidies we shat out for EVs, we did them for ebikes instead.
Could dementia in congress create a security threat?
The title would be less misleading if they simply changed s/radiation/electromagnetic radiation/.

They don't just do this with Apple. News outlets have been sensationalizing dubious research into the link between mobile phone RF exposure and a variety of maladies for decades now.
It's a big deal to many of them. For the landscapers in particular, being able to fast charge the pro-level electric packs for leafblowers, weed whackers, etc in the frunk is a big part of it as well. From what I understand, there are contracts here in the Bay Area that pay more if the landscaping crew is electrified.
Yeah I don't really have a problem with this. They are just going to a large electricity user and saying "we'll give you some free electricity later if you stop using it now." When the alternatives are brownouts or giving the grid operator the power to force businesses to suspend their operations, this is better.

As usual lots of hot takes from people who just read the headline
Surge pricing would tend to make planning impossible and depress activity in that market.
They will convert at precisely the moment it makes economic sense.
Shouldn't we be more worried about the president? Congress can't do much, and no one congressperson can do anything.
"Arzach" by Mœbius. "The Incal" by same and Jodorowsky.
The exemption for "large operating companies" was adapted straight from the text of the 2019 Corporate Transparency Act [0] (at inserted subsection 5336(a)(11)(B)(xxi)) that this regulation is implementing; it's pretty much set in stone from FinCEN's perspective. The closest I could find to an initial rationale was in the statement given by Ron Wyden when he introduced a 2017 version of the bill to the Senate [1]:

> The bill is constructed to exempt many legitimate businesses, and the information requested is already provided by most companies in the normal course of business. Collecting beneficial ownership information at the time of incorporation relieves later compliance burdens for legitimate businesses, while at the same time prevents illegitimate businesses from operating in secrecy.

That is, the regulation should impact as few businesses as possible while still achieving its goals, so any company that fits into the mold of almost-certainly-not-a-secret-shell-company should be exempted if possible.

Regarding the "left-field fine", that's presumably why businesses have a 30-calendar-day period to report that they are no longer exempt. But obviously, that isn't going to help if the business is unaware of the reporting requirement. Perhaps the requirement on new businesses is expected to spread awareness before the requirement on existing businesses comes into effect.

[0] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-116publ283/pdf/PLAW... (big PDF warning)

[1] https://www.congress.gov/115/crec/2017/08/02/CREC-2017-08-02...
Two trends might contribute to a new type of national security threat: (1) People are living longer, and (2) people are
working later in life. As a result, the workforce might experience a higher prevalence of dementia than in past generations. Taken together, we believe that an increasing number of cleared personnel—that is, personnel who hold or have held security clearances—have or will have dementia.
> Are there some words in the parent comment that "pretend there aren't tradeoffs"

Yes. They quoted it! "you just need root". Especially the word just. That kind of phrasing implies that it's not flat-out impossible on many devices and that it doesn't break major functionality.

"I know users that don't use that feature" is praising with faint damnation.
I don’t think kids having easy access to lots of things is a good idea. However, I think adults having easy access to those same things is fine.

Why would you bring up that straw-man unless you think that you should still be able to control your children’s choices after they become adults? They may be your descendants, but when they are no longer children, you don’t get more than an advisory role in their choices.
Scientists achieve breakthrough in efficient electrocatalyst for clean energy
You’re right.. with the added bonus of most people getting their iodine through their salt, anyway!
Don't worry, that's actually quite a natural error to make
The electrons barely move, so you're not stealing leptons. Also, generally filesharing involves someone freely giving you copies of files, so you're not stealing from them in any case.

It's more like the "I consent, I consent, I don't" meme.
This is such a massive invasion of privacy. The government is completely (and perhaps willingly) incompetent to keep this information confidential.
What, fundamentally, would be actually different if the US was "metric?" Why should a federal government enforce one particular standard or another?
This is just a feature inherited from LineageOS, not anything special to /e/OS.
The former is a necessary condition of the latter.
populate

disambiguate

state

indicate

Devil's Lake

https://youtu.be/Pr-Vfnd7Yno?si=ivrE5_ph4WPrzWdD
It's quite doubtful it will keep working.
Those citations appear to be from a single source: the project's own web site.

They might be accurate, but they are not impartial evidence for unanimity or even broad consensus.
After the dotcom crash I looked for some safe haven outside of the industry, and found a landing place at a global fiber optics networking division of an energy trading company called Dynegy. Sounded safe!

A month after joining they backed out of their planned buyout of their largest competitor Enron. Apparently this Enron thing was cooking their books.

Enron sued Dynegy, Dynegy countersued, and started laying people off. They decided that the fiber business wasn’t worth preserving since there were about a dozen such networks and not the demand to accommodate more than one.

Over my 11 months in of employment there I had 9 different managers and was finally one of the last 4 people keeping the lights on in the 500 person global HQ.

It was a weird time. For several months I kept the perp walk photo of Jeff Skilling in handcuffs as my desktop background. It was cathartic.
Interesting to hear that zoning ordinances are equivalent to the people’s bureau of housing.

And nice to know that the market serves everyone (if they have enough money), but those retirees in their little house will be moving out, because they will not be able to afford the property taxes. So actually, the “market” is forcing them out.

It is also interesting to hear the argument that even though increased supply has not slowed (and may have accelerated) housing prices, we should ignore that data, because theory tells us that in the absence of increased supply, prices would have risen even more. That’s a difficult point to argue, since it seems more like faith than fact.
> The government is completely (and perhaps willingly) incompetent to keep this information confidential.

Yes

It should be public
Fun fact: Brave Browser on Android contains the proprietary Google Play Services library: https://divestos.org/images/Brave-GMS.png

I cover this in depth more here: https://divestos.org/pages/browsers
Is that something you have shared online (or would share here)?
Netflix is a big one.
Imagine a continuous space without holes in them (no holes at all, not even tiny ones).
> Solar thermal is an aimed aluminum trough and a stainless steel pipe painted black on its focal point.

No, it's actually these fairly sophisticated phase-change evacuated tubes that have a heatsink at one end immersed in the water, from what I remember reading.
Except a number of people have very specifically—and in bad faith—reframed social issues as political issues already, and we need to recognize that as a real aspect of the world we live in and not just a philosophical issue.

For example, there are a lot of people who become cops because they hold reactionary views on social issues. And there are a lot of people who hold reactionary views on social issues because of their political affiliation, rather than the other way around. It’s not good, but it is an aspect of the world we live in that should not be ignored, particularly because some people don’t have the privilege to ignore it.
I’ve also seen a change in packaging, example: changing from a glass bottle to a plastic bottle.
Funny I just saw venus earlier and i've never seen it actually have a visible diameter rather than just being a bright dot. It does look like a small sphere right now.
I see they are taking birth rates as a basis. That assumes that all the children they have will follow their parents' religion. I don't think that can be taken for granted.

When I look at my own country it seems that people are less and less following their parents' religious choices. Most Catholics in Holland of my generation are only so in name. That say they are to please the parents, but they don't do anything church related.

The same happens to more strict religions like Calvinism. My generation generally doesn't care about it, only their parents do. I guess even at a young age kids find information these days and start making their own choices. Having a religion that forbids loads of fun stuff isn't really attractive when you see other people living their life without all those rules.

My parents tried to make me Catholic but I already rejected it when I was very young. I was baptized but I refused to do any more like communion or Sunday school. It just made so little sense to me (and science made so much sense instead)

I wonder if the same will happen there.
This was an amazing read. One of my favorite memories in college was building a spreadsheet in Java (some of the guts were there) in third semester CS.
If you buy the iPhone 11 right now, you will get 1 version update and that's it. You will still get security updates I guess.
Shortly after this passed it turned out that propublica ended up in the possession of what appears to be the detailed tax records of every American. And this happened even though there are substantial criminal consequences attached to the disclosure of misuse of tax records.

In the case of this Beneficial Ownership information there are no such assurances, even though the much stronger ones for tax records turned out to be woefully inadequate.
And I was called a racist 25 years ago when I said, “like, our engineering school is, like, crawling with Chinese nationals.” We said like a lot on the 90s.
Look, I know what copyright law says and I know that LibGen is probably and actually illegal and that authors are entitled to payment and all that stuff. Heck I come from a family of authors so I get it.

But man, can you imagine being the guy quoted in that article calling an open library - whose only goal is to spread knowledge - a "thieves' den" of illegal books"? Talk about being on the wrong side of enlightenment.
Perhaps we should reframe how intellectual property works to make secrecy no longer desirable and allow industries that rely on "trade secrets" to realign naturally.
Guess they weren't part of the anonymous, unanimous considerers.
The people I know who had them complained about maintenance problems, and dealing with freezing weather.

I've considered it several times, and it came down to it being too much work.