skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Stove essay (in truth it's a prolonged rant) supposedly extols the virtues of empirical thinking, and you invoked it to back up the sense you had that the description of Deleuze's philosophy is vacuous... And yet...

Difference and multiplicity are core to empirical data and scientific & engineering modelling. To make a measurement you assume there is a scale to measure difference. To have a variable is to assume that something can vary. To be a cause is to assume something can make a difference. To have a process is to assume a system that can change and transform. There's nothing vacuous about this.
It’s actually very important that we agree on the structure of the social contract, and this is not “my” system at all, but a description of the system we both rely on to not get stabbed in the street for our lunch money.
Based on all the comments you left in this thread, I'm not sure you really want to engage this topic earnestly.

I think you are making the mistake of applying social contracts that can work well on a person to person level to person vs corporation situations. With the latter, one party has way more leverage than the other. On top of that corporations have proven again and again that they will mislead, lie to you and abuse you to the extent permissible by law, or even more if they think it's lucrative to so. On a person to person level that would be a very toxic relationship. They certainly didn't uphold classical inter-personal social contracts, so why should you?

Genuine question, did you fully read the article before commenting here?
At one company we worked we had a courtyard and for some reason there was a separate office outside the main complex all on it's own - we suspect it was a repurposed visitors or security center.

We then noticed that people moving into it never came back to the main building but left - we started calling it the "departure" lounge :).

He is in the "departure" lounge - he just needs to figure it out that his time at OpenAI is over.
I was 4 when it came past, I remember going in full cowboy gear late in the evening (9pm?) to Signal Hill in Cape Town to watch the comet over the ocean. Perfect starry cold evening...maybe I'll survive long enough to see it back again!
1. Remove all the bullshit. Don't use stock photos, fake testimonials, or logos of companies that aren't your clients. Jesus christ what a mess.
Maybe taking a clue from software. Let's call it "Large Telescope '95" (because let's face it, if it's built they will have been planning it from back then at least)
Not sure about Directory Opus, but Total Commander on windows (and Double Commander on other platforms, attempt to recreate TC, partial success) can do a lot of stuff. E.g. powerful mass rename, advanced queue management for file operations, intelligent "resume" for larger file copying - it checks beginning/end bytes plus ~3 random points inside to to be sure you can continue on copying that huge file cut in the middle. You can color files/folders by conditions, e.g. files/folders created today are red and music files with bitrate 128 or lower are gray. Also, lister (built in preview on F3) - you can scroll through dozen-GB sized log file in seconds. Search is great, you can find duplicate images bigger than 512x512 and show them on file panel for any processing. And plugings. Lots of plugins. For archive formats, for lister, for mass-rename, for file system, for additional columns etc
I've talked to a lot of pirates over the decades and there are very few "lost sales" - something like 80% of the file sharing population are either "never going to buy it anyway" or "I have a paid copy which I have backed up and enjoy sharing".

The peak pirating years for Australia (when per capita the country dominated the file share numbers) were when digital copies of games, music, films were being marked up at 25% to 50% over the (after currency conversion) sale prices in the US and EU.

After some years of unabated piracy the Australian prices dropped to match the rest of the world and piracy rates receded to just ticking over, sustained by the technical types that enjoyed the process as much if not more than the content.

Copyright infringement is a pushback counter pressure against eye gouging over zealous pricing.
You're off on some other tangents...

The government money for the cycle lanes comes mostly from car and fuel taxes:

https://www.nzta.govt.nz/planning-and-investment/national-la...

Roads are mostly paid for by car users - so their relative expense is fucking irrelevant.

It is perfectly valid to complain about the costs of cycle lanes when they are being paid for by people that are not using them. Sure non-cyclists do get some benefits - but nowhere near the amount that non-cyclists are paying.

I couldn't find any figures on cross-regional tax imbalances. But as a first estimate I think it is fair to assume Christchurch government taxes are approximately the same as government expenditure on Christchurch. Not quite right e.g. we hear a lot of complaints that Auckland roading infrastructure is subsidised by the rest of the country.

I'm only quoting public info - this is not an area I care that much about. I'm just interested in some estimates given the issues I perceive around the city.
The definition of private property is defined by political systems, which are shaped by cultural norms and values. It's unlikely that humanity will still treat intellectual output as private property centuries from now. The digital (and network) revolution are paradigm shifts, and the latter can take a very long to play out.

That said, financially supporting worthwhile projects is a moral duty. So please do your part.
When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything is a nail.

It depends on your requirements. I still produce actual native GUIs for tools I write. They're faster, require less futzing to service, generally continue working for years if not decades, have far richer control possibilities out of the box and tend not to rely on 5000 layers of excrement slapped on top of each other.

Oh and no fucking Javascript!
> a violation of the social contract.

Wallstreet feeds on daily violations of the social contract, from 2008 to asset stripping to consolidation to the point where therr is no competition, etc.
I use many messengers, Signal too. It lacks in polish and features compared to all the others. Its security premise is undermined by insistence of using a phone number – which can be spoofed or taken over – to sign up.

I see it as the result of hacking spirit running the development, not the product team. Currently it can’t compete.
I don't know what working definition of social contract you are using but classically the social contract is a set of rules between individuals and a state. Crucially whenever these rules change, e.g when DRM modifies the idea of ownership to a weak form of lending, the individuals are entitled to diverge from the contract.
The worst thing about this campaign was that nearly every person on Earth would download a car if that was possible, e.g. with an affordable advanced 3D printing robot.
It does not show this.

Separately, you've either misunderstood her position, or it's poorly thought out, and/or ideologically based.

What path would tax authorities use to ask Signal users (and only Signal users) if they've used cryptocurrency?
my friend had some old Cowboy Bebop DVDs he got from a garage sale way back. i bought them off him, and then visited a 2nd friend's place to rip them using her DVD reader, and having done so showed the series to a 3rd friend group next time i visited them. it was a hit, and after i left one of the friends wanted to watch the bonus features. so i gave him access to the FTP server i keep all my media on and he copied it off there.

by the law as media companies would wish us to understand it, this is piracy. but when and by whom was a contract broken during this chain of events? i shared the content with my friend, but my purchase of the DVD wasn't conditional upon any agreement not to, so it couldn't have been me who broke a contract. was the contract broken by the person at the garage sale who sold the DVD without verifying that the recipient wouldn't pass it on to another recipient who would then duplicate it? if so, doesn't that same logic imply the DVD manufacturer broke a contract? if this is how you imagine the contract to function, it would seem the existence of piracy _anywhere_ in this chain means that the entire industry is criminal.

this isn't a hypothetical, btw. there actually is a Bebop DVD out there with a chain of custody that complex (actually more complex by now).
You do not have to activate the "crypto wallet", even less use it.
Google's Gemini AI demo was faked
My experience here is exactly the opposite: I see the projects you talk about get a lot of positive attention and praise. Sure, there are detractors as you say, but they seem to me to be a very small minority.
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How do you use it? What are you trying to achieve?
Are you saying that there's no difference in nature between physical and immaterial? Or that intellectual property and physical property are the same, with the same working principles, and follow the same rules?
Ah, and you mean when Netanyahu „displaying a ‘map of Israel’ that straddles the entire land from the river to the sea, negating Palestine and its people“[0], it‘s in good faith, but when the Palestinians chant „from the river to the see“, they are not talking about equal rights within Israel for the 20% arab population in a state that defines itself as the state of the jews, meaning even the ones living somewhere in the world. And you also think they don’t mean occupied West Bank, where there is military rule for 3mil Palestinians, but civilian rule for Settlers who have built 700,000 settlements on Palestinian land? Do you also believe they don’t mean the siege of Gaza for over 15 years? So you mean they are just hateful people, have nothing else to do but have a desire to kill jewish people for the sake of committing a Genocide?

[0] https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-brand...
Individual containers are far far easier to steal dockside - seals can be broken and contents taken leaving the container and an undiscovered theft, containers can be rerouted onto trucks, etc.

Stealing a container on the high seas is damn near impossible, doable but a challenge.

The middle ground would be taking under tow floating containers that fall off of ships in bad weather - but I daresay that comes under salvage.
What are you talking about?

A fallacy is a "mistaken belief", so of course it is wrong. And you should look more into the concept of free riding. For that a good introduction would be The philosophers arms episode about free riding.

And what is that about private property? Where did that come from? We are talking about different concepts here, it is about markets and business models. As long as we don't honestly debate how outdated our modes of consumption are, piracy would be a natural response to artificial scarcity.
Recruiting reduces asymmetry.
From the title alone I expected a Milk Float, as they are the canonical eccentric English electric vehicles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_float
Hobbes was not the last (nor the first) person who thought about the social contract. As you put it in another comment:

Allow me to blow your mind https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/contractarianism-contempo...
Another HN post puts this in terms of civilian casualties:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38579988

The average people in powerful democracies have a responsibility to avoid the circumstances which historically have led to mass civilian casualties. For USA, the toll of nuclear strikes is an approachable example. Other great powers have a worse record in avoiding malicious mass suffering.

The part relevant to your comment is that the US military now needs to prevent war rather than excel at it. And it has chosen to look as formidable as possible to rational enemies. I think Europe agrees with this, but I don’t know if there are other ways.
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A pirate didn't steal content, though. Nobody lost any content! There was no transaction involved. Piracy isn't zero-sum.
https://archive.is/bPHh2
I not only read the article, but I am familiar with Doctorow’s positions on this issue, and am fairly well versed in ethics.

The problem here is probably that most folks can’t separate what “is” and what “ought” to be. For example you’re discussing how corporations behave despite it being wholly irrelevant to the question of whether or not piracy is immoral. The argument is one of “oughts” and you’re trying to talk in terms of “is”, despite the gaping crevasse separating the two of them (Hume's Guillotine).

This isn’t where ethics is ambiguous or debated; it’s very obviously immoral to pirate, for a whole host of reasons, some of which I’ve already mentioned. From there you surely can concoct scenarios where a baby would die if it doesn’t hear a Metallica album or whatever, but the general point will stand.
Usually subpoenas and search warrants come with a stamp, and more importantly records are returned to the court registrar, not handed over directly to the person claiming to be servicing a court order. The registrar would presumably say "wtf we didn't order this" and then the gig is up.
> we divided the total number of sales we had from all sources by the total number of unique IPs in our database, and came up with about 0.1. that’s how we came up with 90%

Did they account for dynamic IPs? If not that number is way off.
> I hope apple keeps android far far away from me though

What a bizarre thing to say.
Exactly - if you think about the automatic dead/hot pixel removal, the camera is going to assume these errors are always in the same location on the image, and maintain a mapping of where they are.

If instead in space these errors are caused by cosmic rays and can affect any part of the image randomly, and for a limited time only, then this requires a different algorithm, otherwise the camera will eventually be painting out the entire image as different areas get affected.

That all said, I know nothing of the details of these camera firmwares, and they may be doing other things instead. But, I suspect it is not as simple as some comments in this thread suggest... because nothing ever is.
Sorry, that comment is solely based on "desk-study".

I've heard lots of positive and some negative about Linux Phones---and I do want one so bad. I think many of those comments come from Pinephone users who are happy with the device, but upset with battery life, camera quality, other nitpicks, etc..

The Librem is often reported as "overpriced".

And you are using this as your daily driver? Clearly my information is out-of-date.

UPDATE: I just watched some recent videos and read a couple of recent reviews. The librem 5 looks and works great. I guess I'll start putting some money aside.
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The unit of measurement is already known, by agreement an Imperial horsepower is just shy of 746 watts. That agreed conversion factor has never been in question as we've never cared what the actual power output of a nominal horse is under nominal (defined) load conditions.

My point is the actual power of a real horse in agreed horsepower units cannot be accurately determined if the conversion of 'pulling' force isn't accurate, so the only issue is calibration.

Even in the metric-phobic US the rest of the dynamometer would likely be designed around SI units simply because that's how most engineering measurement is done nowadays. That means all calculations would be done in SI and converted into legacy hp units.

Fortunately, Imperial measurements in science/engineering has all but died so the interest here is only academic. Another similar anachronistic measurement is the illumination unit candlepower, again a conversion factor to SI was agreed but in this instance (unlike hp) there was a defined physical standard—the international candle (or it was so some 80 years ago until the standard was updated).

(I say 'fortunately' above as I had to learn both Imperial and metric and I'm damn glad Imperial has all but gone. Dealing with foot-poundals, PSI, etc. is for the birds.)
Hmm I think you’re skipping some major parts of world history.

Jewish immigration to Palestine was not particularly great. Jewish people were not really heavily trying to move to the Middle East where people didn’t like them.

What happened is that Great Britain, following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire and the division of that region between itself and France, decided to make the Israel state, make it official through the League of Nations, and then encourage Jewish people to move there. It was the ultimate solution to the several century old “Jewish Question” that Europeans had. Of course people started moving to a territory controlled and sanctioned by none other but the British Empire.

By sending them to the Middle East, Europe could get rid of the Jews and Britian can get an ally. Win win for Europe. Jews, Palestinians, Arabs and everyone else be damned.

Of course, after hell obviously broke loose, Britain realized that their mandate was not working and they pulled out of a problem that they created.

…And nooowww we’re here.
The basic meaning of theft is that the thief actually deprives the owner of their property. If I steal your car then you obviously no longer have it and can't use it anymore.

Copyright infringement or counterfeiting, which is related in some jurisdictions when an unauthorised copy is made, isn't stealing in law because it does not pass that test. Hence your example completely misses the point.
Haha, I thought the exact same thing.
1. Piracy is when guys in ships board another ship and take its cargo. Copying files is not piracy.

2. Sharing is caring and information wants to be free.

3. La propriété, c'est le vol!

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_propriété,_c'est_le_vol_!

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pierre-Joseph-Proudhon
They would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't, er, (checks notes) open source.
That’s not what a fallacy is defined as, and are you seriously unable to see how private property is relevant to copyright law?
I have been introduced to Deleuze, but oh my, he is really hard work, even secondhand. If interested in assemblage theory, start with DeLanda.
In XML, they are referred to as "empty-element tags" and are functionally equivalent to a start tag immediately followed by an end tag, such as <br></br> or <hr></hr>. If a tag has no content, it can in principle also be written as an empty-element tag, for example: </p>. However, such use is not recommended: "For interoperability, the empty-element tag SHOULD be used, and SHOULD only be used, for elements which are declared EMPTY."[1] "For interoperability" is defined as: "Marks a sentence describing a non-binding recommendation included to increase the chances that XML documents can be processed by the existing installed base of SGML processors which predate the WebSGML Adaptations Annex to ISO 8879."[2a] "SHOULD" is explicitly[2b] used as defined in RFC 2119: "This word [...] mean that there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item, but the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a different course."[3]

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#NT-EmptyElemTag

[2a][2b] https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-terminology

[3] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt
He is very popular in the arts, but I don’t understand why. It’s vaguely platonic (which I like) but obtuse (like kant).
Generally speaking, when you get a subpoena you can demand "conduct money" precisely to reimburse this cost. Otherwise the subpoena is unenforceable. Not sure exactly how warrants work
> "no one will ever doubt your manhood again. We get it. You were picked last in gym"

> While the post didn’t specify why the truck could pose a particular hazard

I wonder why people think the organization is trash?

It says a lot about HN users who think it's ok to talk about people like this. You think they are on your side? You're the pathetic nerd they are referencing, do you think by agreeing with them they will be your friend?
The price is quite high for a jobless minor, of which most gamers are.
Philosophize This is a very beginner friendly podcast. I'd gladly recommend it to anyone with even cursory interest. Then you go to History of Philosophy without Any Gaps. ;)
Every time I read[1] about CRISPR there seem to be concerns about off-target editing, that might cause all kinds of trouble. Is this a solved issue ?

Note: I am not a doctor, but I do have a genetic condition that might benefit from CRISPR therapies, hence my interest.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10034092/#:~:te....
> Not really, unless the user goes to the settings and disables battery optimization for the app

That sounds "very possible" to me. Apps can even pop up a dialog on first run instructing the user to disable battery optimization, and then load up that settings page when the user taps a button in the dialog. Certainly some people will be confused by it, still not know what to do, or not want to do it, but it's still quite possible.

And if the user won't do it, the app can still spin up a service with a foreground notification if they really want to keep things working decently well, and use Android's scheduled jobs mechanism to restart the service every 10 minutes (or however often) to catch cases where the service still ends up getting killed.
And you are presuming that no pirates do by claiming that all piracy is immoral.

How do you stand on the idea that someone desperately poor, who cannot afford a text book that would be transformative to their life, pirates said book. Is that still immoral?
Very illuminating information - now reading this ABC article about what is happening on university campuses and the pressure that university presidents are under is seen in an entirely new light.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/uproar-university-presidents-remar...
I resurrected my wife's 13 year old Sony Vaio as an emergency laptop recently with MX Linux. I had previously tried Ubuntu and also Zorin Lite on it, both worked - but slowly and things like hibernate were broken and freezing up if left unattended.

MX is amazing on it, it runs as fast as I remember XP did when the laptop was new, hibernate works perfectly, screen dimming, extending display over multiple monitors and handling unplugging a monitor fine...all the things that Linux has been known to have issues with on random hardware.

I have now put in a bigger SSD and 8 more GB of RAM and the laptop is a great little media centre and simple gaming machine for the kids. I'm tempted to setup dual booting my Dell with MX now, it's a great desktop and project
Seeing Halley’s Comet. I was lucky enough to be born in a year where I may see and remember the “once in a lifetime” event twice.
When considering quality, you should really compare not to the original model, but to smaller models which use the same vram/compute
I waited 10 years for my brother to grow up and ask me the question. Unfortunately he did not ask the question until he took a class in CS that introduced him to vim as a tool. And he did not ask me but searched and got this answer instead.

I had a long tail of memes to share with him ready if he had asked.