skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IANAL but my understanding is that public domain material can be published in a copyright protected form, yes. For instance, Beethoven's 5th symphony is in the public domain, but if a publisher starts selling the sheet music for it, then that content itself is still protected. So any contributions they've made such as annotations or formatting, cover art, etc are protected but the underlying content is not.
The oldest still in effect copyright I know of is from 1611: the King James translation of the bible is still copyright of the crown in the UK. No other country recognizes that copyright.
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I know a bit about Tokyo and while I love the idea, I don't think it's very practical. The language barrier is real. I'm not great at non-computer languages, and Japanese script seems tough to read when one is visually impaired. From what I've seen, living as a foreigner there can be a bit isolating long term.

Currently looking at Europe. But immigration is hard anywhere. And there are tax implications I don't understand well.
I had a similar question before reading Moby Dick. I noticed it was being sold online, although inexpensive, which made me wonder. It turned out the English text is in the public domain, and anyone can profit from it. So, why did the publisher charge for it? I wanted to read it in my native language, Polish, and the translation was not in the public domain. Additionally, I wanted to easily upload it to my Kindle, so I also paid for convenience. I know this not fully answers your question, but wanted to share my experience.
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I had different reasons but I only hardcoded a few basic keybindings like Escape. Everything else is customizable, but still limited to the three modes (it's just a good combination). Defining explicit keybindings for every symbol on the keyboard turned out to be the cleanest way to fix bugs in the input handler, special behaviour just for insert mode isn't worth it.

> I tried remapping the keys. Not only was that impossible (circular dependencies)

I wonder if that could be remapped in the code itself? From a quick look they seem to be defined in ops.c and vim.h, but I'm not very familiar with the codebase.
Yeah, this URL should really be changed to the original.

Also, despite the datestamp claim on the copy that's currently linked to, the original post is a week old and there's an update:

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/12/josh-hawley-back-to-try-...
<https://github.com/HackerNews/API>

Linked under "API" at the bottom of the page you're reading now.
Or you just mouseover and see "oldnewthing" in the URL...
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of course it is, but the industrialisation of games seems inevitable. You had craft workshops then, with 10-30 people, now you have factories like Ubisoft making yearly releases of whatever game they can (Assassins Creed, Far Cry, etc)

The fact that Steam exists and dominates the industry however, was not inevitable, and its incredible that we have things like Early Access and other tools to enable smaller developers to carve out their niche!
But they did do something good for humanity, create something that gave me two seconds of joy. Depression makes it hard for me to enjoy.
Meaning that your DNA is not safe, even if you yourself never send it. DNA is leaking everywhere, anyone could collect it and send for analysis.
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Same. Then reminds me that the creation of the United States was based on strategic, coordinated genocide and I feel even worse.
I have been using Firefox for many years in Windows and in Linux. Indeed it is much slower than Chrome, but I cannot ditch it because:
- I need tab scrolling;
- I need a separate search box, where I can install and use different search engines. Google search started being crap about 5 years ago.
They were constantly either hunting, foraging, fighting, or roaming. Is that your idea of "living life"?
Thank you, Dang.

As someone on the Israeli left I feel like I'm between a rock and a hard place- I do not condone Netanyahu and his government and am indeed very critical of Israeli governments of the past decades. But on the other side, my 78 year old mother is fleeing to shelter every couple hours as my hometown (not anywhere near the west bank or the Gaza strip) gets hit by rockets, as do my young nieces and nephews, some of which developed psychological issues from the stress. And the stories from what people experienced on the October 7th attacks wrench my gut.

At the same time I'm also sorry for the Palestinians suffering during this war, the vast majority of them civilians. I wish instead of people treating it like a football match where you to support "your side", they could process the nuance of opposing any violence towards civilians and support peace (with the goal of a two state solution with Israel and Palestine co-existing according to the 1967 borders and UN resolution 242).

IMO this would require that both Netanyahu and Hamas do not stay in power.
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HIPAA was never a law about privacy of medical data. It's a law that governs the management of medical data, with very limited protections for privacy. I think most people misunderstand that law, its purpose, and its implications.
The same Israel who wanted the US to believe a mere calendar was proof of terrorist presence, or that a laminated Al Qaeda poster from 2004 "recovered" was proof said terrorists were prepping chemical weapons, or worse, who keeps telling Gazans they'll be safe in X before bombing the place.
Seems like the biggest differences I've noticed were in the content and lack of spam prevention more than anything particularly technical or performance related. I used to get the odd spam message before, but now I get tagged in all kind of random scam posts, and get likes from obvious bots posting NSFW content.
Great to see the forum mods doing the best they can
well how much returns did they expect when handing out multimillionaire dollar deals to D-list celebs and royals to ramble on about nothing.

and adding videos to podcasts? that's a lot of work to build the framework for something 99% of people did not ask for.

people use to admire the spotify "algorithm" whereas now their song recommendation is as average as a FM radio channel.
Yep, I definitely buy that if you're doing very low-level stuff, C or C++ might be more ergonomic than Rust. But I don't think that covers most of the real-world use of C++.

I'm not too familiar with `socket2` but normally in Rust to construct a buffer with arbitrary bytes in safe code you would first zero it out and then write it. Using `MaybeUninit` there is presumably just a micro-optimization to avoid having to memset things to zero.
Op doesn't make a very strong case. The bill doesn't really impose any additional responsibilities on social media companies, it just removes a special protection that they arguably never should have had in the first place.
But be careful as when someone publishes something public domain they often have things that are not public domain in their version. They can "fix" errors, add artwork, introductions and so on.
Why is Israel’s reaction worse? They seem to be reacting to an unprovoked attack by an openly genocidal neighbor with a pretty big-standard conventional war to eliminate the problem regime.

I’m not saying that Israel couldn’t be more mindful of optics or civilian casualties, but how is this war not justified?
Very good question! Not an IP lawyer, but I believe the gist of it you may copy the original work, but not any sufficiently transformative derivative work, as that would gain its own copyright. So you could copy the text of a public domain book and re-publish it yourself, yes. You could also sell your copies for $10/ea, just like the publisher you're copying from is doing, or give them away for free, or whatever you like.

The tricky bit is what its "sufficiently transformative" to gets its own copyright. Probably simply text printed in a book is not, so I think you'd be OK scanning and distributing such a book. But if the publisher added new footnotes or illustrations or cover art or a forward, etc, that would still be covered under its own copyright and you would have to remove them. And I could see an argument that a certain printing style (maybe a choice in font or page layout?) could be transformative, but I think that starts to be quite a stretch.
> The next thing

Mildly related: At one point I was considering how easily someone could make an e-mail server where valid addresses were all in the form username+code@host, where users could create/manage valid codes using a smartphone app, noting which ones were for which purpose and having inactivity or expiry rules.

Unlike current user+anything@host forms, a the + component would be mandatory, and an incorrect/expired code means spam filtering.
Yes. In the US this happens 95 years after the initial creation of the software. Many other countries match this time period. Other countries may recognize a shorter copyright, but I believe no country will recognize a longer one.
Do people use BC in other ways? I mean, I guess technically, you could just keep streaming, but do people do that? I’d assume anyone using bandcamp cares about having the music actually available.
The cites are up and available.

No surprise that the Harvard paper is defending her.
Yes, the foundation of all software licensing is copyright law and as such all such licensing becomes null and void once it is in the public domain.

However, given that the copyright horizon is only up to 1928 in the US, you've got a ways to go before that is even theoretically a concern.

There was a window of time in which works had to be registered to have a copyright, which is where some of the later surprisingly-public-domain works come from, when the registration wasn't done or wasn't renewed properly. It's possible that some software in that era could be unregistered. However, I'm having a bit of trouble finding a good term for that era and so I can't quite look it up to see if it overlaps a period of time in which software might exist. Any help appreciated from respondants.

Of course, for that to even matter, someone has to have a copy of the software to actually put into the public, and software utility without hardware to run it is pretty limited.
Israel has also been imposing apartheid on Palestinians for years, a fact that high-ranking officials themselves admit [1][2], and which human rights reports confirm[3].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/06/israel-imposin...

[2] https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-08-13/ty-article/ex...

[3] https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/isra...
not trying to unload on you because it's many different people, but Ok, I give up trying to say "it's not a defense of the ISPs" because clearly people aren't capable of separating threads of thought. I guess the limbic system response to "evil ISP" is just too overpowering for the frontal lobe and logic falls by the wayside.

It's simply not possible that two different things can both be true? That ISPs already have to do it so should disclose what they're charging, but that also the number of taxes and fees are ridiculous? Why is that so hard to separate in people's minds?

If a Comcast president said that ham sandwiches are better when they're grilled, and I said "he's got a good point there" would that also be misconstrued as a defense of their billing practices?
Is that an insult, a compliment or both? I seriously cannot tell.
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Look at MemGPT
> it was not an easy life, for sure.

Then it wasn't play.
If you think bands actually sell albums on one site for $2 that they sell for $10 everywhere else, then I guess you can just go and keep believing.

I just think it might be better to not support sites like that and instead torrent directly for free. No need to sealion.
I called Spectrum before I canceled to specifically ask if they could get me faster internet without changing my TV package. They said no -- I was on a grandfathered plan from a prior company they had bought, and they would have to recreate the account to do anything. So I got Fios + YouTube TV instead. And when I called to cancel Spectrum, the guys says he wishes I had called before getting Fios.

It's very clear that the only time they care is when your actual money is on the line. Before that, everyone is shackled by whatever chains management puts on them.

This was also shortly after they sent me a new modem and told me to install it or risk losing connectivity within like a week. And then on my next bill is a charge for updating the modem...
There was very little time like that. Where you couldn't hold in your hands the content that you bought.

Radio broadcast becomes popular in 1920-1930. While records playing speed standardizes in the late 1920s. Say Wikipedia.The vinyl single and LP are later but you easily buy records long before vinyl. If anything, I don't know that there were paying streaming formats in early radio.

There was probably quite a bit of content that was played live on the radio - and not available as recordings. And it would have been pretty hardcore to make your own recording of the stream.
The timelessness of those old cartoons has waned considerably. GenX was already getting reruns of Disney and Looney Tunes cartoons that were aimed at Boomers. As the boomers are aging out, a lot of the slices of both domestic life and leisure time in these cartoons are something alien. Women in the kitchen? Hunting rabbits? And with a shotgun? Really?

Itchy and Scratchy are Tom and Jerry ad absurdum. The Flintstones were somewhere between Tom and Jerry and The Honeymooners. Most of this stuff does not deserve a replay.
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Those are the most serious allegations:

"The men and teenage boys were taken to a warehouse where they sat on a bare floor covered in scattered grains of rice. There they were beaten, interrogated and verbally abused. There was no sleep, and the grains of rice cut their skin as they sat there, undressed."

A man claims:
"Some people didn’t return from the torture sessions. We would hear their screams and then nothing.”

From what I read, it seems typical of counterinsurgency war.
A testimony is no proof but humiliation and torture is commonplace is counterinsurgency wars, whether systematic or an initiative of lower ranking soldiers operating on the ground, so it's not an extraordinary statement. And torture can obviously lead to death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterinsurgency

Now I am going to argue something polemic and I am arguing it in the spirit of discussion. I'd love to read well argued counter-arguments :

However supportive of Israel one may be and how repulsed one should be by Hamas, I'd say that we should not fool ourselves in that the military operation in Gaza is Israel defending itself ("Israel's right to defend itself" is now a commonplace phrase) rather than avenging itself. You may think it is justified in doing so but it still is payback imho.

In my country's law, individual self-defense is defined as such :

1. It has to happen in the same time as the agression

2. Its only purpose is to defend against the agression

3. The defense has to be proportionate

It seems that so 1. is not met since once all the militants having trespassed having been killed, Israel was no more defending itself. and it's hard to believe that the civilian collateral damage is just defending either. I'd say the third criteria is met in so far as Hamas has rockets and automatic weapons.

Is that an unreasonable take ?
Does this analysis also consider the wide ranging massive impact of fentanyl and similar drugs that have skyrocketed drug overdose problems in all communities in the past five years?
> Is “constant malnutrition” the norm for animals living in the wild?

No, but struggle is.
It's insane to me how these CEOs shit on their own former employees (in front of their current ones) and don't see that as a negative thing, or a thing that could cause further detrimental effects in their company. What a horrific thing for what so many CEOs claim to care so much about - culture.

Look, if you want to cull people I think you have the right to do so. But maybe call it what it really is, you want a smaller team. You want to pay less in salary. That's fine, but don't blame multiple levels of managers for doing what you told them to do.
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At my last job, most of the company was laid off during the early part of the COVID lockdowns.

...Including the IT guy who was responsible for killing everyone's access credentials...

All of us that were laid off watched the company-wide zoom where the CEO tried to blame everyone who had been laid off as dead weight. They managed to get the other IT guy to kill our credentials the following week.

Then they laid the other IT guy off before anybody had sent in their work laptops or other work equipment because the CEO decided that if the offices were going to be closed indefinitely we didn't need an IT guy. The company had to write off more than $1 million in assets that were never returned, including a number of very expensive, very new RED cameras.

A lot of times, IT's "failures" are just the failures of management.
I think there's also an element of competence. Why choose 300/300 over 500(*)! They don't know the difference between fiber and cable, didn't read the fine print showing the low upload speeds on the "500". :facepalm
The white phosphorus Israel is using in Lebanon and Palestine is manufactured in Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Is it just me or is it incredibly useless?

"Here's a list of effects. Here's a list of things that make a song. Is it good? Yes. What about my drum effects? Yes here's the name of the two effects you are using on your drum channel"

None of this is really helpful and I can't get over how much it sounds like Eliza.
Anyone else here also still using LogitechMediaServer (and iPeng) to stream their own music?

Such an old system (written in Perl), but still runs great!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logitech_Media_Server
https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver
https://hub.docker.com/r/lmscommunity/logitechmediaserver
I am always looking non-subscription options for similar..

playing with affinty designer, similar.. eyeing luminero neo?

Appreciating self hosting AI gen..

Microsoft Designer is really making me happy - but I worry they will subscription paywall it eventually - I would pay a one time fee.

Someone has to have list non-subscription alternatives to all the things.. like photoshop alternatives you can own..
He still has nothing on this old crooked fool: https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/as-bidens-climat...
Wow that is super hidden! They have a fake ToS to try to stop you from seeing the real one.
Not to mention that Disney has run afoul of both parties a handful of times over the last decade, so it's a challenge to find support on either side.
> Meanwhile, to keep this at-best modestly interesting historical film locked up

Well, it's not just the film, it's also everything in it, including (that design of) the characters themselves. When that enters the public domain, anyone can use (that design of) those characters for any purpose, including in their own works that have nothing to do with the Steamboat film. I can go make a platforming video game ala Cuphead using those characters and sell it. While I think that's a good thing for society, you can probably understand why Disney doesn't.
You're not the first to request. Might add it, can't promise tho.
Twitter is about an order of magnitude too small to have to worry about this legislation.
Might want to check your sources. The released prisoner with broken hands is Mohammed Nazzal; the one greeting his family is Mohammed Shatara.

https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/video-misidentifies-pales...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67581915
Try to not do this to yourself too much. Everybody needs an outlet, and you can't beat yourself up for spending time relaxing or enjoying instead of hustling with a side gig or something.
Ask HN: Proper procedure/etiquette for reporting a security bug to a fintech
Hi - For one of my side businesses, I have a business checking account with a fintech company. (That is, not a bank, but rather providing a user interface on top of an existing bank.) I've been plenty happy with the service (all the features I need, no fees, no hassle). In the course of using my account, I accidentally stumbled across a security bug, where the website will leak other clients' private information.

I tried to get in touch with some higher-ups (co-founder and lead engineer) via LinkedIn, but no luck. I emailed support asking to get connected with some higher ups to report the bug, and they thought I was asking for a job. I called support, and the rep didn't seem to understand the nature or the gravity of the security bug, and said they were forward my report to the "accounts department".

Anyhow, what is the normal and proper procedure you would follow to report this to the organization?

I appreciate the insight!
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