skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Games made before I was born whose copyright won't expire until long after I'm dead.

Just like Mickey Mouse or movies from the 1960s? Or the Lord of the Rings books?

> In fact, games should have a shorter copyright term since they're harder to preserve and less valuable over time.

I don't understand how that's an argument for the length of the copyright either way? If I draw with water-colours on a fallen maple leaf, that is really hard to preserve and because of lack of artistic skill, was never valuable in the first place (mostly due to lack of artistic skill); but I don't thing that should have its own special copyright term length.

Rights to some artifacts being less valuable over time already factors into the severity of punishment when you get caught pirating (if memory serves right): aren't damages based on revenue supposedly lost from pirating?

> Counterargument to myself and trivia: All the authors of Zork are still living. (I assume they receive no royalties, though, based on how the game industry generally works).

That shouldn't make a difference: when they agreed on the deal to sell their rights (assuming they did so), the parties took into account how long the sold copyrights were likely to last.

> I still have a box legally-purchased of Zork games (CDROM editions) and manuals and a copy of Planetfall here, but should I feel any shame about pirating them? I don't think I should.

I don't much like most of current copyright law. Whether you want to feel any shame is up to you, it's a moral decision, not a legal one.
Next.js is a vendor lock-in worlf in sheep's open source clothing and few recognize this. they've fully captured the bootcamp, self-educate crowd.
You can replace Dropbear with OpenSSH on OpenWRT.
> So sleep well tonight, dear authors. Your vocation is safe from the pod people. At least for now.

hahah "Pod People"... is that what SV residents are now?
So it's useful if your homepage doesn't cycle itself fast enough for your tastes?
It's worth noting that this is not talking about CHU[1], which is what I would first think of as the "Canada Time Signal".

It's talking about the Canadian equivalent of "the pips", the UK version of which is called the Greenwich Time Signal[2], broadcast over normal broadcast radio stations.

CHU is still broadcasting. (And the UK still broadcasts "the pips".)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHU_(radio_station)

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Time_Signal
I'd like to see ML colorize, sharpen, etc., older B+W movies. Silent movies would be greatly improved with the addition of a soundtrack (music[2], foley effects[1], and replacing the dialog cards with voice actors).

1. Yes, they already do add some foley effects. But very little.

2. Yes, they do add a music soundtrack. But it's almost always awful period music.

> the ethical and artistic arguments

Those are all baloney. Doing what I suggest does not destroy the originals in any way. It's simply making the movies more enjoyable. Apparently, a lot of purists want people to suffer watching them: suffer with grainy, blotchy film, difficult to make out flickering black & white, and bad piano music.

There's a reddit newsgroup where people colorize old B+W photos. They really do an amazing job. By colorizing key frames in a movie, ML can take care of the rest.

BTW, I've seen many bad attempts at colorizing old footage, like those "WW2 In Color" documentaries. You can always tell because the teeth & gums of the people are grey :-/ and the faces are a uniform brown. ML ought to be able to do a lot better.
I wanted to comment exactly the same. This loses the advantage of SQLite, make it slower and more cumbersome to operate. You can simply do this with a library.
It's not really an ethical dilemma until you know it works, and then usually if the evidence is strong enough they'll cut the trial early.
> leading us to believe that the past was more like the present than it in truth was

So what? I just don't get this. Can't we just enjoy a much improved film experience?

> so we can connect to their recorded legacy, and removing sociological barriers, which we probably want to preserve.

Nobody is suggesting destroying the originals.
and colorized... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIeNnDee-Ok
I had no idea. I was certain this was his late night set and that Jupe made both overpriced tents and cologne in the same factory.
I found myself unable to read the whole thing. I'm not sure exactly why, but it was a tedious task to keep reading it, so I skipped past the last half to Atwood's commentary.
Does the army have strict controls over what troops can bring in the barracks? I get that there are some security implications, but not really. These are super basic devices and there are some very simple controls that can be put in place to mitigate any real concerns.
Geos 2.0 C64 – My journey exploring a 8-bit desktop operating system
I bet you could use some kind of generative AI to automatically render images of each scene from a text adventure.
Not that far off from the truth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37638563
Seems like a flawed study on its face.
https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/6f/39/148a82a2f38cf7...

https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/c8/98/6da75ea926e4b3...
Forcing all taxes to be itemized separately is a win for enabling people to have the most information to make the most accurate decisions. It allows them to see how much money the government is taking from them, and depending on whether they think that number should be higher or lower, allows them to make informed voting decisions. Voting is far more important than choosing which restaurant to eat at.
I'd doubt that. Extroverts are more socially oriented.
It's still doggerel. The rhymes are forced and the syntax stilted. The praise is vapid and lacks any sort of insight.

It reads like a college fight song. I'm good with replacing college fight song writers with a computer.
> If AI makes creation of all artistic works easier and cheaper, then the value of old content becomes significantly lessened.

Even today, creation and publication has become a lot easier and cheaper since Shakespeare's times already. But people still like his work, despite a flood of new material having come out since they were first published.

Of course, Shakespeare is exceptional in his cultural cachet.

> We should adapt new copyright policies to not only preserve these works, but to push people to keep innovating.

What do you have in mind? Archiving is already mostly allowed by current copyright policies. And I'm not sure how copyright policies can 'push people to keep innovating'? At most you can try to get out of the way.

Or, if you are being sneaky, you can lobby for arcane and arbitrary censorship rules: after all, limitations breed creativity. Eg East German political jokes were a lot better than West German ones.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Void or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo
I have no desire for this giver/taker credo to be justified to me, so please don't bother. However, I would say that the example given is overly simplistic, almost childishly so, and ignores many critical details, such as how Alice acquired land and an apple tree, why Bob doesn't have land or an apple tree, how Bob got a dollar, etc. Not to mention that everyone needs to eat food, including Alice. (It's unlikely that Alice could survive on an all-apple diet.) Thus, if buying food makes you a "taker", then we're almost all takers. Certainly the wealthiest people in the world aren't farmers, and I'm pretty sure they don't grow their own food either.
I always get in trouble when I try to use hyperbole to explain a broader trend.
Have you considered not basing your life decisions on spite/opposition? I mean, vaccines are great and all, but your reason for taking the covid one is a little amusing.

I guess I just really dislike the culture war.
> I've written dystopian short stories worse than that!

Is your name Roger? Sub-question: do you have any nieces or nephews?
It is a callback to the first paragraph in the article, where Atwood makes a reference to the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers, in which an alien race breeds clones meant to replace people in society.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077745/
If it was just search that was broken and needed fixing, then a competitor would have stomped google search into the dust already. The reality is that the internet itself is now 99.99% shit thanks to the SEO insanity that Google created.
The market size podcasts is tiny compared to books and movies.

IMDB and Goodreads address mass media. Podcasts are niche. Even the most popular ones.

In addition books and movies have the backing of multinational corporations. So there is marketing to create cultural awareness.

There’s no IMBB for YouTube and no Goodreads for blog posts, either.
Is the 8086 so different from the 8088 that it requires a different BIOS?
The merchant may pass on the line item information as well, whether they do so depends on what agreements or other motivation they have.
I would certainly consider it for 10k. Because no I wouldn't buy a Prius because they look goofy and I like my current vehicle. 10k is close to the tipping point, but would probably be worth it. If it was cheaper though definitely.
I am a fairly outgoing introvert. I like people, I can have conversations with ease, I am confident, but after a while my people budget is spent and I need to go somewhere quiet. There's a misconception that "introverted" means "shy", and that couldn't be further from the truth.
yep - timezones are not straight lines - namely around the international date line.
If you think global warming is bad, just imagine if your kingdom were invaded by a horde of orcs!
Visa/Mastercard is usually a contract that is bundled with your PSP, where Amex needs a separate contract merchant by merchant.
Fireside chat with DHH – Leaving the Cloud [video]
This video needs more views, if just for the sheer number of burns DHH gives to the public clouds during it, it is honestly hilarious at times (in a good way).

Personally, I wouldn't have created my own deployment tool like they did, and just stuck to either VMs+docker+something like ansible, or just k8s on prem since they already had some things running on k8s. (They said they thought about k8s on prem but were scared at the support costs from SUSE, but...you don't have to get support for k8s..., you can pretty easily provision your own cluster on prem with rancher, rke specifically, and that is free/open source).

Either way, I can't help but agree with most of his points and I'm getting pretty fed up in general with the public clouds. Perhaps cloud repatriation will actually be a thing for a lot of companies.

For more context, DHH's original blog post about the subject at hand https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47...
Of course the first answer, Wikipedia! I have the link!

(Offline Webpage Friendly Kiwix format)
102.62 GB uncompressed ZIM file format
https://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia_en_all_maxi.zim

Two problems with Wikipedia
1. It is absolutely full of unnecessary knowledge
2. It contains little knowledge of how to do anything

We'd be in big trouble! All the celebrity bios, corporate history, could probably half that to be essential. That's 50GB left!
I think that ought to be illegal and IMO, the punishment should be even higher. But it's a different matter from the right to fire anyone for any reason.

Given a fair environment, being fired can be an advantage to the employee.

Imagine working for a company for 10 years where the employer secretly hates your guts due to personal reasons and you are never promoted, never given a raise, etc... but they didn't fire you because they couldn't find a good reason and were concerned about legal repercussions. Isn't that horrible that you wasted 10 years and could have been earning 2x more at a different company?
> As a consumer that has real value.

Of course, that value is entirely funded out of your own pocket.

Instead of paying with your Amex for overpriced goods, you could put a bit of money to the side for every normal purchase, and use that pot to 'refund' your electric screwdriver yourself.
It just struck me that much of my fondness for Cyberdog was in its icon.

It’s a bit surprising that we don’t use pets in icons and app names as much given how much people love them.

The other one I remember was Fetch, an FTP application with a dog. Transmit tiny truck icon was also cute. Icons were more creative back then.
The only thing that can stop people from being debunked for various bullshit reasons is a legal mandate, explicitly establishing a right to a basic bank account such as e.g. EU payment services legislation does. Even convicted fraudsters should have a right to participate in society by being able to receive and make electronic payments.
Hasn't the epa said that it doesn't make a difference[0] and can be create ozone levels higher than the current health standard?

0: https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/ozone-generators-...
There are literally a dozens of SQL database service companies.. yes it's a large market but at a point you're just competing for fumes
The babyccino way!
I would like one. It's hard to find trustworthy curated lists of good podcasts
Sounds like a Tesla problem, of which there are many. Thankfully there are many other non-Tesla EVs out there now.
Yeah, I've come across this plenty of times. When it is food delivery I don't really care, but sometimes a totally different car than shown on the app will pull up to give you a ride and expect you to get in. No thanks, that's a cancellation from me.
According to the article, $1 in housing in 1999 is equivalent to $1.86 today. That's... incredibly hard to believe. The Case Shiller is up over 300% for the same time period.

And $1 in food is $1.84 today? I don't have an index to reference, but also hard to believe.
The irony is that speech restrictions are most likely to harm the common people that are advocating for them, over the long term.

If they are advocating for them because and while they are vulnerable, then it stands to reason that less vulnerable people will eventually dictate how the laws are applied.

The same officials who think that "whataboutism", aka the call to ignore unequal application of the law, is a positive argument are the same officials that want censorship. That isn't a coincidence, and the same resultant risk to the population is shared between the two strategies.
Stage Manager was a thing in 2006 OS X beta
Liberals tend to be introverted? You know that the "creative" types, the "arts and Hollywood people", are composed of 90%+ liberals right? Introverted, ok...
but there's no mention of what incomes did over the same period? the recent inflation was caused by cheap money policies (probably around covid) which flooded the market with spending, driving up prices.

also, isn't inflation always calculated on a 12 month scale? each month they publish how much prices have increased from 12 months before. This means that if there is a lot of inflation for a few months, each succeeding month after that will show high inflation till that bulge in the snake works it's way through. The numbers are a valid comparison to a year earlier, but misleading if you think "omg we've had month over month of high annual inflation numbers!"
Easy in the technical sense, certainly. The issue moves to UX. Likely there's some metrics/calculus that suggest that eating the occasional customer caused loss is actually more beneficial to the bottom line than having the customer eat it.

I'd expect that having customers swallow the cost of late cancelations would likely alienate a large fraction of them; perhaps the calculus is such that the money saved doing this is actually less than the lifetime value of the average customer.

I've seen this said this a few times here in various ways, but the optimal amount of fraud is non-zero [0]. While it's feasible to eliminate most/all fraud in various arenas, it's not cost effective to do so.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32701913
Are you always this hostile about other languages existing?
IME, it’s less about POS systems and more about what the merchants are willing to give up in fees.

Amex charges significantly more than the others, to the point that multiple businesses I frequent offer a sliding scale - par for cash/check, +2-5% for Visa/Mastercard/Discover, +5%+ for Amex.

This is just one more input to an optimization problem for me, but for merchants makes a significant difference: my mechanic says he saves thousands of dollars a month by turning Amex customers into Mastercard customers, and Mastercard customers into cash customers.
maybe they're trying to tell their submarine fleet something

https://www.businessinsider.com/bbc-radio-show-may-be-preven...

> During their isolated missions, crews watch for signals that the UK still exists — and may launch a counter-attack if they believe their country has been destroyed. One of these signs is whether BBC Radio 4 is still broadcasting the "Today" programme, Britain's flagship news and politics show.
How We Use Linear Regression to Drastically Improve Humidity Sensor Accuracy
I thought he already had a laptop.

EDIT: https://www.stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

"As of 2022 I use a Thinkpad x200 computer..." (followed by detailed explanation)
Sad story about casts of the elgin marbles, which used to be in the main hall/stairs of the Edinburgh college of art: the art school had the casts cleaned believing they were post-casting later attempts at decor.

Turns out a) it was original at time of cast victorian takes on the original colourscheme and b) they destroyed a lot of fine detail the casts had. So they basically ruined historical artifacts, about beliefs of victorian art historians.
It's a simple explanation and not a justification. From your comment I figured you don't seem to understand but it appears you don't want to accept it, that's fine too.
If the ads were guaranteed to be funding the creators (as well as the platform), I could stomach that.

Edit: Seems to have been patched. No longer working at a given timestamp (eg a 40s into the video bookmark), except in rare cases and it seems to work in incognito.
Note the correspondence with federal deficits.

Inflation is how we pay for deficits.
as individuals our power to change is small, but it is not zero. what it takes is to live with conviction that change is possible, and slowly get others to follow your example. the problem is not that change isn't possible. the problem is that many have given up trying.

change is possible, but it takes time and effort. which means patience. and it requires picking your battles. you can't fight all the problems at once by yourself. you have to pick a few issues that matter to you the most, and focus on those. and then instead of trying to make a visible change focus on a few people and try to win them over.
EV Road Trips Suck Now (Except in a Tesla) [video]
This is an appropriate amount of rage for a standup that went too long.

And, I agree with the author; most stories in most sprints never get done (for a million reasons, 999,999 of them foundational) and just roll over from sprint to sprint to sprint until the inevitable collapse of the company (via M&A).
Most of mass estimates of the MW in the outskirts come from measuring motions of stars (just not in the disk of the MW) dwarf galaxies, globular clusters or stellar streams. These measurements have their own issues, but now many of these measurements broadly agree and this new one very is an outlier.

Measurements using gas have their own issues, and also they do not go as far away from the galactic centre as the new rotation curve from the paper.
Canon Nanoimprint lithography semiconductor manufacturing system (5nm)
Do you need one for left and one for right ear, or just one of either?

If just one of either, how do you decide which one to get?

On the one hand, if I am right handed, I might find it more easy to quickly take it on and off if it's on the right side. But at the same time, that would also mean that whenever I answer my phone I'd also have to take it out first. Unless it can also be paired with the phone and used when answering calls.
Weekly Hurricane and Rainfall Patterns Are Linked to East Coast Pollution (1998)
The Weeping Willows of Winnipeg is a shit story, but if you were working on a short story, and you got 5 suggested rewrites for a given paragraph, or you were looking for ideas for a plot point or something similar, then you could use ChatGPT to help you out.

In exactly the same way, sometimes I give ChatGPT a complete coding task and it can't do the job. But while I'm working on code I can get it to do certain things and it saves me a lot of time and sometimes comes up with very useful insights and things I was unaware of.

I'm sure authors (or anyone else whose job maps to "language processing") can use it similarly.
I think a while ago I commented something along the lines of "let me know when we see a successful book/article/speech which gets revealed to be largely AI-generated". And that hasn't happened yet: AI-generated content has always been noticeable and generally considered bad ("was X written by ChatGPT?" is an insult).

But I know AI is already being used to assist human writers, not just with boring emails and speeches, but creative works like articles and books.

Moreover, if AI ends up writing something decent, it won't be recognized as AI-written. And the human "author" probably won't be quick to reveal so; due to the controversy surrounding AI, and because then people would over-scrutinize it and just point out mistakes which even a human would make (or really minor opinionated things they call mistakes just to have a point).

Going back though, if AI ever does get to the point where it can replicate human talent, eventually we're going to know. If GPT-5 exists and is able to replicate human-quality writing, it's only a matter of time before someone reveals it, or a competitor catches up and then they reveal it.
I think they are saying you’d need $1.86 of today’s money spent on housing to be equivalent to $1 spent on housing in 99?
My contention is that any show stopping bug makes it to production, it was a problem with the system and process not one individual.

And it’s not a lottery ticket. Have you seen the stats of developer/revenue for Google, Microsoft and Facebook?

It’s a lot lower for Amazon because of the warehouse workers, drivers etc and Apple because of Apple retail
The value of the USD still erodes even amidst the many technology advances since then.
You’re right, not even iCEO yet.

But it was certainly a different Apple. Can you imagine Cook, Federighi or Ternus on a theater taking any random question? I’d love that, but it’s not going to happen.
I suspect that buoys and placement make signed languages harder for machine translation than spoken ones.
I'm sure ChatGPT+DALLE would do a decent job of it, as long as one of the scenes doesn't accidentally trip its badness filter.
With traditional css you'd most likely have a class for all the relevant attributes.

<style>
.someClass {
display: block;
color: black;
}
</style>

<div class="someClass">...</div>
Nice to see Omnigres trending on hn; congratulations Yurii!

The project is interesting, and thought provoking, because it goes against the often recommended "good practice" of separating storage and compute. Doing the exact opposite has a lot to offer in terms of performance, simplicity, and speed of development.

I am currently also working on a database-first web application framework [1], with different goals and use cases, and I bet we'll see more of these in the future.

[1] https://sql.ophir.dev
Agreed. Everything is at least a solid 30% more expensive than just 2020. Food has gotten insanely expensive in that time.

Anecdotally, I can remember a burger at a restaurant was about $6 in 1999. Now average seems to be 15 to 20.

I would believe that everything is about 3x the price from 20 years ago. This chart seems to say the average is less than 2x which I don't agree with.