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Simple - bespoke deals. You cant jusy offer a deal to Microsoft for example, you have tk offer the same deal/tax breaks to everyone who writes software.

If Microsoft doesnt need to pay taxes, then I shouldn't have to either. Or we all pay.
Citation needed.

Historians that I have encountered all say early 1800s for punch cards. For example the Smithsonian: https://www.si.edu/spotlight/punch-cards. Are you confusing those with earlier developments in textiles?

I also doubt your claim about when the industrial revolution started. Historians do differ on when the industrial revolution started. But you normally see figures in second half of the 1700s. For example they might cite James Watts' improvements to the steam engine in 1778.

For early 1700s you might be thinking of the steam engine, which was already in use. But the early steam engines were extremely inefficient. Their only real use case was for pumping water out of coal mines where both coal and water were available. The coal itself was being mined for use in fireplaces to keep people warm in the winter, because the forests had been cut down so there was no wood available.
One reason some people like buying Apple products new is they have a reasonable resale value. So actually buying used still helps Apple by maintaining the resale market.
I thought americans won war against indians. Why would they have any obligations? It's the other way around, those who lost the war pay contributions.
A really interesting read, and super fun to boot. One feels the reviewer enjoyed themselves.
There's lots of places on the internet for those people too. They are also free to find them and share them! Maybe they'll even been upvoted on HackerNews!
Maybe you should look further into things.

"An app can be provided for free if the app itself is not meant to make money but as a funnel to bring more customers to other related business."

You are assuming that a random HN dev has a business at all which is not necessarily the case. App <> business

"So you might work for free giving away muffins on the street if that might make people want to come to your cake shop and buy some other stuff. But it's silly to think that you should give your pastries away if you don't have other products and pastries is the only thing you do for a living." You are just agreeing with me here. Making stuff available for others is more work and software is not different unless you just drop the zipped app file in mediafire and leave people to do with it whatever they want.
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Thank you for the anecdote. I'd heard horror stories of dropping a stack of cards and having to reorder them, so it's really cool to hear a story describing another way that can happen.
Yeah, median was a sloppy choice. My thought was just that someone this greedy is also going to be deterred by the prospect of not making more than, say, a barista or janitor but would jump at the prospect of staying gainfully employed instead going to prison.
Oh, I realized I answered how we set it up, but maybe not what we do. It's just during regular library time, a parent volunteer presents/reviews a concept (the teachers tell us what they've been working on) and has an activity. Depending on the grade level, it might be playing with batteries, switches and bulbs, bringing in nature to look at under the microscope, building a motorized vehicle with LittleBits, or trying out pulleys.

Kids can also take stuff from the shelves to work on themselves, but we need to make activity cards to give the ones who are less sure of themselves a self-guided path.
I really do not think anyone is adding lead to food to increase the weight when you could use any metal compound with a roughly similar density like iron oxide (which even has an E-number) and thereby not obviously poison anyone for the sake a few grams and get yourself discovered immediately.

And if you wanted to weigh down the container, lead costs more then iron per kg: just make the existing iron-based can thicker.
And for funding models without copyright, many exist. A few examples are crowdfunding, patronage, commissions and live shows.
I gave a lightning talk about Godot as a wallpaper engine replacement via ScreenPlay[1]. I hacked this together the week before the convention and I hope to release it by the end of the month.

[1] https://screen-play.app/
Sounds like subsituting the "<insert specific type, DRY, waterfall, etc> software model gives prompt results" for more chatty/chatgpt prompt/automated results. The revised utf cli vs gui in 3d printed gif box thing?
Some guy who makes hats and is the author of a book about subatomic particles talked at a meeting about "humanity towards others" about those particles?
I had this problem too when I started, for me it was an incorrect Erlang version. Using asdf to install both of them fixed it for me completely, and was pretty much a good enough experience all around that I use it to manage Nodejs installs too now.
That's ignoring other value extracted by the capitalist class, like "salaries" for capitalists that do no work (like CEOs), anything spent on the board of directors, value extracted indirectly via the stock market, etc.

It's also for a very narrow portion of the global economy, where workers are paid particularly well.
We've already had numerous periods where the UK's energy needs have been wholly met from renewables, there's actually a very good site where you can see all the stats from the National Grid in near real-time - https://grid.iamkate.com

If you adjust the time range to all time (it has data for the last eleven or so years), where you can see the total demand dropping, and the renewables overtaking all of the other production sources.

To be clear, there is still a decent demand to supply gap, but it is dropping year over year, and given that we've gone from an average of 2.5GW/day to between 10 and 13GW/day in that timeframe, another 20 years or so and we should start meeting demand with renewables alone.

I'm hopeful that newer technology in that timeframe coupled with lower costs will encourage more and more generation growth from the sector, especially if more local generation and storage is encouraged, for example home solar/wind and home battery combinations. We'd also end up with a much more resilient power grid if most of the day to day needs can be met from local power systems, with the main grid only needing to supplement high stress periods and industrial and public communal requirements.
It's pretty easy until school, or daycare, or television enters the picture.
I am sorry, my fellow Emacs* user, but our tech stack has been irrelevant for decades; we are now... retro text editor hipsters.

* [if you use vim, insert Gimli/Legolas meme here]
Oh yes, it happened to me. It was with Palantir software, an interesting experience, really, but it is a good thing it was a relatively short mission.

It was some kind of big data processing, probably called that because the entire database doesn't fit in a single floppy disk. So for some reason, they had to use an overly complex distributed architecture. Absolutely terrible, it took tens of minutes to get a result because was a queued job and the queue was filled with other jobs that were so poorly optimized that they took hours instead of seconds. I don't really blame the authors of these jobs since there is no profiling of any kind so you can't optimize properly, you don't even know how long your job actually took to run because it may be stuck waiting for a resource and it still counts as runtime.

In the end, they were essentially SQL queries that any decent database (ex: Postgres) could support, and our biggest tables where in the order of a few GB, which would be absolutely no trouble for them.

For dev that went beyond your typical JOIN query, I ended up getting the open source software the framework was built on, downloaded the data as csv files, and tried my stuff locally, and when I was done, copy-pasted the result in the editor. I also made a few tools using the REST API to work around some front-end problems.

The most "fun" part was when my manager went to explain me what I had to do. He imported the data into Excel, and in a few minutes of Excel magic, he did everything, just to show me. It took me 3 days to implement it in the framework. In other words, my manager was 100x more productive with Excel than I was with the framework, and I was rather "efficient" among my coworkers. My manager was really good with Excel, but still...

I think I got a glimpse of how it felt to work with punch cards.
I'm not too familiar with MDD constraints, but there may indeed be better ways to model this. In particular, I'd be very curious to see if any improvement can be achieved using regular constraints (one for each row/column).

PS: I remember meeting you during the poster display at the CP2019 conference at UCONN. We discussed the difficulty of finding solutions for the Nmbr9 game because there were too many propagators. It's a small world!
Obviously my anecdote doesn't trump your anecdote, but I've had 4 different cars (different brands each time) and a few motorcycles so far (all the same brand but w/e) and have had them serviced at multiple dealerships. In the UK you have to have an "MOT"[1] issued by a dealership every year after the vehicle is over a certain age. So in total I've probably had a vehicle serviced about 20 times across everything from top end fancy dealerships where they give you an espresso and an office to work in while you wait[2] to sketchy places where you feel you probably don't want to touch anything because you'll be covered with germs and/or grease. I've literally never had a problem with my keys or me or the dealer finding the vehicle before after or during.

Again: this just doesn't seem like a problem that even exists let alone is serious enough to warrant giving an entire organisation permanent unfettered access to my vehicle or its location.

[1] Roadworthiness certificate

[2] Yes that's a thing it seems
Author here - thank you for the compliment! Always happy to answer any questions (the docs are admittedly quite sparse) and hear about what people like/dislike about the library!
Some would argue that the colonialism that created the status quo was pretty obviously discriminatory. Removing the last vestige of their sovereignty would be like saying “now that we’ve undemocratically seized your land, changed how it was governed and moved in enough people to vastly outnumber you, come join in our democratic process where you’ll be overruled by our superior numbers!”
Being infected with toxoplasmosis could be an interesting thing to control for, for all subjects, but their samples are already relatively small, so I am not sure any observation would be significant…
What’s interesting about the diet isn’t the mechanism for weight loss (you’re right, you don’t eat enough calories, that part is simple enough.) The interesting part is the intense appetite suppression that the diet produces. From my brief experience, it’s like after a couple of days you lose interest in eating - even when your body is sending you signals that indicate you’re likely starving. It’d be really interesting to figure out what causes this and then (preferably) reproduce it in a form that doesn’t require potatoes or injections.
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What you say is true, but you've inserted an inaccurate context with the quote.

There is no guarantee that _direct access to system calls_ will last forever...

Stability in the syscall API exists because Linux is a kernel that supports multiple distributions. Not because random applications could call it. The latter is an emergent feature, but not one that distribution maintainers will necessarily respect. POSIX only guarantees access to functions in libc that can perform these calls. As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, there are specific reasons why future direct access to system calls in user code could be restricted. Whether they will or not comes down to how distribution maintainers decide to deal with syscall related ROP gadgets.
I didn’t think PCOS could be triggered by birth control - doesn’t seem to be a lot of evidence to support this either. Looking at the mechanism of action of COCs, I can’t think of a mechanism of why COCs would cause PCOS. Oral contraceptives are usually first line in treating PCOS which makes this anecdote even more weird. Can you provide any more information?
Nice! The ones at https://wholeearth.info/ start at 1970.

Purpose statement:

> We are gods and might as well get used to it. So far, remotely done power and glory—as via government, big business, formal education, church—has succeeded to the point where gross obscure actual gains. In response to this dilemma and to these gains a realm of intimate, personal power is developing—power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested. Tools that aid this process are sought and promoted by the WHOLE EARTH CATALOG.
Can a different person copy the style of copyrighted work so closely that it violates the copyright of the original artist? I feel like this is a question that must be answered before we add AI into the discussion.
BIOS systems can load a page from disk in just a couple of bytes (since you are calling into the BIOS to do the actual work for you).

Obviously, if you want to read from a file, you have all the overhead of understanding a filesystem.
> This is why we can't have nice things.

A gang steals, we can't have nice things.

When amazon steals from us, that's perfectly fine?
Sheesh just got its first one on the same day as posting this. Feels like someone's personally taken the time.
I suppose that muslims reject it because muhammad used galena powder as a medicine.

It might be an excuse, though. Their heavy metal content is likely why people started using spices in the first place. They can't taste good without them. Nothing can. We evolved to detect their presence, and like their taste.
So....you're into anarchy?

Sorry to say, discriminatory behavior is fairly common in anarchic systems (see, evolution, mating impulses).

You need a bit of discrimination in order to not discriminate.

Don't like it? Rewrite the laws of physics! (maybe fix the whole good and evil thing too while you're at it)
Yeah, I am equally confused and I fear the law is going to royally bungle this one and we'll be stuck with something really stupid for some arbitrary number of decades or generations.

It just seems obvious to me that "human made thing to transform some set of things into a composite+transformation of those things" is fair use if fair use is to make any sense at all. Since analogously, like you said, in the same way you are taking your experience including experience of copyrighted stuff as a set of things you are drawing upon producing something of your own. All art is derivative.

It makes zero sense to me at all that it's suddenly a problem that art is derived if, instead of artist directly painting something, artist sets up some device that paints something. In both cases "human takes inputs and produces something unique" (not a copy, not a scanner, in case that was not clear from context).

Unless I'm missing something too, but based on what I see so far I just feel like I'm from mars and don't belong here.
> if you wished to include such images in training, you would also need an explainable AI that could tell you exactly what training inputs are influencing its output.

This is a huge leap that would change copyright law dramatically, even for humans.

Youre asserting that copyright doesn’t just protect from reproduction, but from use as an example to learn from.

I think this would break copyright altogether. What musician or artist can say a work is 100% original and does not incorporate any details or concepts from work they’ve seen / listened to / read?

I know people hold that position, but it’s important to be transparent that applying copyright to training/learning (in addition to output) would be an overhaul of copyrigh, not a clear and obvious application of the law as it stands.
Well, good to know! Thanks! But this would not have previously been obvious to me at all.
Only works if the potatoes are McDonald’s fries.
I'm 47, I met my current three best friends the first day of college. Two of us have families and we have all moved about. We have an active group chat on imessage and still get together a couple times a year.

There's no relationship-as-a-service app despite the hype, relationships take work and you only get what you give.

edit: when we do get together we just sit, watch youtube or play video games and drink beer just like in college heh. Our meatspace relationships are like a time capsule more or less, in that respect it's sort of depressing haha.
If we could copyright every stroke in our paintings or every line in our artwork, nobody would be able to make anything new. Humans copy painting techniques, photography tricks, shot setups (angles, margins, etc) and make new pieces all the time that advance the world of art.
This is why centralization of ordinary retail is not great.
I want to to see bulk RSS feeds of independent blogs.

My RSS reader YOShInOn uses superfeedr to ingest RSS feeds which I am highly satisfied with except that it costs 10 cents/feed per month. If a feed gets 100 items a day it is a bargain. I have a $10 a month bill right now, ingest about 100 feeds and get about 3000 items a day.

I'd like to add a few hundred independent blogs but it would be crazy expensive for a small amount of content. I could build my own RSS crawling infrastructure but no matter how you slice it, polling all those feeds would be a hassle. There used to be quite a few instances of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_(software)

but today I've only found a handful worth pointing YOShInOn at and I'd like to see more.
Personally I only read reviews of running shoes from lazy obese people, paraplegics, and amputees.
So people lost weight and these people have “no idea why?”

Well, ok, it’s calories, but why even bother to have any sort of study about this?

Of course people who don’t know about calories would think they invented a whole new idea and methodology on scientific research
This is known as "the cost of doing business" and used to be baked into business models. Granted, business models have changed significantly with the rise of the internet and direct individual sales, so maybe it's time for a change. As long as that change still protects consumers from larger businesses with the edge against them.
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Stats give that to around 15%, it is not an outlier.

Side effect from hormonal pills is not some sort of conspiracy. Go to feminist forum and ask about it.
Even better approach: do it like the British. An 'unwritten' constitution. No need to even have a document for the plebs to read and criticize. Whatever gets a majority in Parliament ends up being the so-called constitution.
I was thinking of getting a PS5, this kind of confirms it.
Should I add typing to my Ruby project?
I’ve spent a lot of time recently investigating if I should adopt gradual typing in my Ruby projects and I’ve summarised my research in this post where I’ve picked 5 key criteria which I’ve seen mentioned most often by people that are using gradual typing successfully.
> What are the socio-political effects of mass psychological changes brought about by putting a large chunk of the population on medications without full knowledge of the side effects?

Not really a question big pharma is interested in discussing ...
Not true, I have had exes with IUIs and they all had crippling pain and much worse cramping with them. In every case I talked them into get rid of the IUI, and the pain went away.

The best birth control method (as defined by least side effects and max efficacy) I’ve come across is cycle tracking / family planning (called that because you can use it to get pregnant as well as prevent pregnancy). It’s simple (you can only get pregnant at certain times in your cycle), but there’s nothing for pharma to sell (it’s free!). Weirdly, doctors never seem to trust women to go through with it (and always try to push medicated birth control), but it’s easy, even before Apple added it to their products.
This website's automatic "subscribe" popup/prompt, which appeared in the center of the screen, covered all content, and had "404" in the middle of it, made me think I had clicked a broken link. Awful design.
The topic is interesting, but I couldn't find a way to decline their cookie notice
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My plan for tv is to start with Season 1 of Sesame Street from the 1970s which is on HBO Max. Work up from there. But yah it’s going to be hard.
You're not missing anything. When humans do this it's fair use.

The question is... Is fair use an exclusively human right? For example, we have many rights that do not extend to our possessions. Animals have no protected right to life or liberty. The human rights enjoyed by their owner do not flow to them.

Similarly, just because a human has a right to fair use, do AIs?
So don't be surprised when sites like this pull no revenue and end up shutting down because people really, really do not care about some nobody's political hot takes when they want to read about video games.
I am the cook in the house:

My first kid - great eater up until about age 1.5, then pandemic hits, and then everything became much more complicated for a variety of reasons.

My second kid - will eat really anything, but does show a preference for certain snacks which isn't surprising. But, also loves salmon, avocado, lentils.

My third kid (my wife - :) ) - A long-time carbs/cheese aficionado. Doesn't love a plate of broccoli or a bowl of lentils like I do.

I'm the strictest/healthiest eater by a large margin. At some point, you need some compromise in your system (my opinion, not suggesting for you)
If your workplace is very strict about nudity in internet content, please be advised that the linked PDF does have some very blurry naked people on a couple of pages.

I hate having to type that, but it might save someone a talk with their boss or HR. A very slim chance, to be sure.
Why does the App Store support pay-once apps, then, if it is not realistic?

The majority of small developer apps are not subscriptionware. Many developers have for decades successfully run a business without recurring perpetual income from completed sales.

Resist the drip feed demand that developers be paid in perpetuity for work they did once. Not all software is SaaS.
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reconcile your view with the case law on john carmack non-literally copying code
> Git keeps is simple as possible

Of all the adjectives used to describe Git, “simple” seems to me the least appropriate.

Yes, the internal Git implementation is a “simple” DAG of content hashes, but the rest of the plumbing leaks so badly into user space you can’t begin to call using Git “simple”.
Did you read the Alan Wake II article?
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Because there's no reason to assume that the "default" state of nature is some ideal or good for anything. It could be but what are the odds? We're still apes in a world that changed wildly out of pace with the speed of natural evolution.

> equally large percentage of the population on androgenic medications

Its funny you say this because doing this would actually put humanity back to the testosterone levels men had for most of human history.
The best we can do is model good habits and provide a solid foundation.

I remember in high school I had a stint of having crouton salads for lunch. That’s exactly as it sounds.