skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People deserve free shit. If it costs ~$0.00 to copy something, the morally just thing to do is to give everyone who wants it a copy. If we could generate infinite socks for free, it would be outrageous to tolerate anyone living with cold, blistery feet.

This is such a great way to put it. It's as if we're living in a world where a sci-fi replicator exists and abundance is possible, but we're not allowed to use it, so nothing changes. Meanwhile, corporations just manufacture a product once, then copies it for free forevermore, selling each one for a price with an infinite profit margin.
Many of them are on Wikipedia:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wok_racing

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugger

And of course there is a long history:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Olympic_Games#Events

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_games

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_sports
That's a privacy violation. Different things.
I would love to see a picture of your setup.
I changed width to 700px (from a computed 519.x), increased font size to 1.4rem, line height to 2.2rem, background color to #16212f (a bit darker) and text colour to #efefef.

But I do prefer lighter backgrounds, and would reverse it - light text on dark glares at me.

> I can't tell if the site is fine and I'm thinking that the grass is greener

You be you. Stick a bunch of stylesheets on random selection if you're feeling bored!
It's almost as if posting condescending explanations that don't track the discussion while smugly framing it as if you're correcting some misapprehension of the person you're interacting with is something that can be obnoxious.

It's okay if you're still confused. The world is tricky. Not everyone is equipped to reason about everything they encounter, even they see other people are, and that's okay if you can't. But if you're going to offer your interpretation you need to actually look into what the other person is arguing—not just make assumptions.
> Wringing the life is a pretty mean way to put it.

Corporations don't have feelings. It is okay to be mean to multi billion dollar corporations.
I know a couple people who subscribe to this philosophy. I think that, like customizing Emacs itself, the decision of how much to customize is an important consideration when optimizing your workflow.

Personally, I do 99.9% of development on one machine. If I need to edit a file while ssh-ing, I use vim. I put my .emacs.d in a private repo so setting up a new machine is done with `git clone`. Upgrading emacs does sometimes break things (which can be quite frustrating), but that also is rare enough that I wouldn't want to let that constrain my daily workflow. So since all of those things fall in the 0.1% for me, I have no problem tweaking things to my liking.
> when people talk about cable not having ads, they mean programming didn't get interrupted to deliver ads.

When your entire argument becomes the massive logical inconsistency of "it's not ads because it's not this one type of ad" (see: it's not mustard because it's not grey poupon), misremembering history (Netflix was streaming in the 90s), and yet is also still ignoring facts (most basic cable channels did have interruption style ads), you know you're detached from reality.

According to sources above cable networks made $45M in advertising in 1980 in 1980s dollars, 138M in 2023 dollars. Just a few years into major nationwide networks really getting into it and cable still being a pretty niche market. Somehow they were making millions in ads not having ads according to your logically inconsistent reality.
I want to be the consumer, not the product. With large media companies, it’s inevitable that I will become the product.

Cable was supposed to be free of commercials. Streaming was supposed to be free of commercials.

Thankfully books are still free of commercials.
you build "impure" (in nixos speak) packages for all your software? if not this is not a close comparisson. gentoo shines when you need system wide control of build flags (for perf or security)
Gentoo was also one of the first accessible rolling release distros, which has its own advantages (and disadvantages, to be sure).
I'm somewhat surprised that strategy is only mentioned once (at time of writing). Strategy is vital for any leadership role. Sun Tsu is a classic, but can be difficult to assimilate. There are many resources on Wikipedia.

Often overlooked is dealing with power and politics (https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Work/Politics.aspx)

Keeping up to date on tech also important, especially at the tech lead/architecture level (https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Work/Mentoring.aspx).
Wanna talk about JS? Java?
hey, thanks! i forgot about this thread
If this is true, it's weird how on HN people tend to be more warm to the idea of patent abolishment even though it's actually less broken than copyright.
"DNS Is Political" – Naming and the Tussle for Control
Alternatively, there’s tramp so you’re only opening the file from a remote path with emacs running locally
The world is so much larger than the US, you wouldn't believe.
Then don’t use their production, then you don’t need to pay anyone. No one is making you use it. If it has no economic value then you’d just make it yourself or not utilize it.
Exactly my thoughts, thank you. Most of my CC licenced work is under CC BY-SA. I would possibly be willing to licence under CC-BY, but certainly not CC0, and I believe I am well justified to do so, as would someone who prefers NC-SA or NC-ND. I don't see why the exploitation rights should be elevated on some pedestal even if it is a easy compensation scheme to set up. Then again I don't expect to change the minds of anyone so committed to the British model as juped clearly was, and I'm sure nor do they, mine.
I am a person outside of apple ecosystem that has to use iPhone and occasionally iPad for work.

Question : how do you manage your files?

My wife hears a primeval scream from our home office every 3 months when I determine to try to get files off my iPhone (voice memos, photos, downloads, whatever) or God forbid put files on.

Even worse screams when I try to manage files on device such as "delete all photos" (cannot.be.done).

And I degenerate into gurgles when I try to find or manage different files (a downloaded jpeg is "not" a photo and cannot be found via photos app,has been my bitterly learned experience. Because reasons).

I know modern generations are more comfy outside of hierarchical folder / file structure and treat their device like a massive database, which, fine in principle. But after 4 years of iphone usage I still see it as a massive black hole where files go in but don't come out. So I... Cringe with terrified shakes when people talk about iPads for work. How do your organize your files on them? How do you manage and transfer and version control?

Or am I a dinosaur and everybody's files are emephereally in the google or apple cloud and it's just not a problem, things are magically right and where they need to be?
While that's somewhat not as horrible for new developers I wonder how far that actually puts Apple's average cut from 30% (in terms of revenue not developer count) or how much it changes the point that it's nowhere near 0%.
Of course it's not necessary, but when apple sees a way to gouge for more money, they do it.
Google uses some dark patterns in the UX, yes. It's still weird to me that GP says "The most compelling reason to use Firefox Sync is that it is client-side encrypted" when that's table stakes for any browser sync engine I know of.
quoting myself from an earlier thread:

just to clarify, the 4×6 font is (at least mostly, maybe entirely, I don't remember) the work of Janne V. Kujala in 4x6.bdf, as distributed by Markus Kuhn and now included in XFree86 (and presumably X.org, unless they've dropped BDFs entirely). The XLFD is -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--6-60-75-75-c-40-iso10646-1, so you can try it by running

xterm -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--6-60-75-75-c-40-iso10646-1

My proportional n×6 and 3×n fonts are derived from it.

here i'm talking about my 4×6 font, not tom thumb
What’s your standard build look like at work and how
Many times a day does it run? Does it go all the way to deploying a dev cluster??
but this is first time authors and musicians can get their money
They licensed Sys V to build A/UX. That must have been quite expensive.
Disney also has Hulu and ESPN+.

(They rolled up Hulu after acquiring a majority share with the purchase of Fox)
Yeah, I found this confusing and misleading as well. I was wondering which physical effect could possibly distort GPS in that region.
Who is overrating Wayland?
“Still confused?” LOL, yes!
The Pirate Party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party
Content Diet: Control Your Information Intake
Hey All, I love surfing the web but keep getting stuck looking at memes, gaming clips etc.

I created an internal tool to help me only be fed the 'good' bits of youtube. Things that I want to see (new tech trends, AI developments etc). Not memes, gaming clips or hot girls.

If you'd like to try it visit contentdiet.xyz and I can organise getting you setup.

Would love to hear your thoughts on the problem of distraction. Drop a comment below.

The internet can be an incredible learning place if it's not a distraction.

Jack.
It was surprising to me that Netflix wasn’t even listed as a potential acquirer, with the “panic” levels being discussed.
Too reductionist.

You must "sharpen the saw".

This takes many forms including adequate learning / training for self improvement as well as investment in your tooling that will pay dividends on delivering faster or with higher throughput.

These are second and third system effects that require intention to monitor or measure but the effect is real.
>I think this primarily comes down to a fundamental misunderstanding

I love this. I am not being sarcastic but the optimistic and somewhat enthusiasm of fundamental misunderstanding.

>It’s a classic story of a tenant mistakenly believing the landlord has it easy

I am old. But it still amaze me that "strategic thinking" is such a rare skill set with top executive while high efficiency executive are in abundance.

But then I also remember for more than 10 years the media went with the idea that "execution eats strategy for breakfast."
You don't have a good handle on how experience curves and exponential growth work.

Solar and storage were coming forever, because they cost too much and were rolled out too little. But eventually a tipping point is reached and suddenly prices collapse and deployment explodes. It's not that nothing was happening the long incubation period; the technology was working its way down the experience curve.

Solar has already passed the tipping point and battery storage is doing it right now.
So, you can either try to change what's in the vocabulary of 300 million people for generations. Or change your brand name. They chose the first. Interesting.
It’ll be very good for you to stay in learning mode after your degree.

On the other hand, if your attitude is that you now know your stuff and you’re done learning, that isn’t going to produce the best outcomes for you.

> Testing and QA

Business processes can’t take the place of experienced judgement.
It’s why pluralism is so important, where experts hold each other to account. It’s worrying when not believing some dogma causes you personal problems.
That's the problem. For example modern MacOS has in your face notifications and allows applications in the background to steal focus.

I gather classic Mac OS was done so you can get on with whatever you're doing and nothing bothered you.
In copyright law, moral rights are the right to attribution, integrity, that sort of stuff. It's a loan translation from French 'droit moral'

Unsure if the original baiter meant this
> and 1100 MW peak continuous operation it will take 36 years to make the money back

That total cost is for 2 reactors, not one. Vogtle 3 just started operating and Vogtle 4 will start in a few months. If you divide your 36 years by 2, you get 18 years.
Unused variables in Rust are warnings, but in Go they are errors. Warnings are way more pragmatical - you can still get the code to compile when prototyping, but you get a chance to fix them before shipping. Go’s resistance to introduce warnings is ideological, not pragmatical. It makes it more frustrating to use for no benefit elsewhere.
Going somewhat off-topic here but classic Mac OS had very precise human interface guidelines[1] which strongly emphasised repeatable behaviours and recognisable patterns. For that matter, so did earlier versions of Windows[2]. A lot of thought went into visual cues and design elements so that things looked and acted predictably system-wide and they were designed so that it would always be obvious which elements were and weren't interactive.

Both Apple and Microsoft have regressed in this respect. Minimalism and prettiness have taken priority over usability in both modern macOS and modern Windows and they are far more inconsistent and harder to learn to use as a result. Often something that you learn in one place place or app now doesn't work in another.

In Apple's case this has been mostly as a result of their efforts to make macOS and iOS more alike and to share applications/components across the two, which often creates weird-feeling results and awkward app designs. In Microsoft's case this is mostly because they have more UI frameworks than sense and each new one introduces more problems than solutions. Electron-adjacent apps probably don't help matters either, since they also generally break all of the platform rules and implement their own UI controls anyway.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.5555/573097
[2] https://ics.uci.edu/~kobsa/courses/ICS104/course-notes/Micro...
Not to talk about all the batteries we burn out from it or the billions of devices that is replaced solely because we run so utterly inefficient software.
Monero is the largest privacy coin, with the largest set of mixins / decoys. If the idea of cash appeals to you - the right to buy something without being data mined and tracked by endless private firms and the government itself - then monero is a digital version of that. Monero means money - it is digital cash. Fungible, private, anonymous.
Reminds me of the dark ages, when Xerox was so dominant in the copier market that people used their brand as a noun and a verb. They were threatened with loss of their trademark, because it had become so generic. So they had a massive publicity campaign, asking people to say "copy" instead of "xerox".

Is this a uniquely US thing? In the UK, people always say "hoover" instead of "vacuum".
If it has calories, then someone who cares about bodybuilding or athletic performance is going to care about its macronutrients.
That one was of his best videos, but while it made me a lot more optimistic about human affairs, I wouldn't translate that to the world at large. Large groups of people and organisation do not function like humans.

While this shows it is scientifically proven that being nice and forgiving works with fellow humans, governments and corporations do not operate like that. They have no feelings, they have no physical presence, they do not care about hurting or helping you. They only care about preserving and justify their existence.
Going to have to xerox this for my wall.
Cute attempt, but Velcro/velcro has already been genericised for decades at this point. Nobody's going to move (back?) to "hook-and-loop," especially when the alternative rolls off the tongue a lot better.
Why not use an actual real example instead of a fantasy of infinite socks? And you bind your concept of "morally just" to cost.

What if it cost $.05 to copy? Why is moral and just (related but not equivalent) bound to cost?

As to a real example: a professor of medieval history has incurred the cost of his education, including reading handwriting in a foreign language, the cost of time, effort, travel and more in researching and writing and has now typed up a book on his computer and it is "free"[1] to distribute so it's morally just to give a copy to all who want it?

You pretty much cloaked your greed in a word salad of meaningless moralizing with a jargon dressing and no real context.

[1] Even digital requires the cost of equipment, electricity, and access, so if you bind morally just to free it doesn't exist.
Sure, if you want to breed even more generations of computer illiterates. We should be encouraging people to learn about the computers they use so they can do actually useful stuff with it later in their life. Not just "hey here's an app, now go make me more money by looking at ads"
The 2x3 case is very interesting though, because it's the basic size of a Braille cell. (2x4 Braille also exists, but it does not help readability all that much here.) So you could read this font on a Braille device without knowing the actual Braille script.

Louis Braille actually invented his own 10px bitmap font for mixed visual-tactile use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapoint It fell out of use after typewriters were introduced.
The Pi (at least 1-4, haven't looked at 5) has an extremely weird set up where the GPU actually boots the system using a binary blob before handing it over to the CPU. When mainstream linux was first beginning to support the Pi this caused a lot of issues. One of which was that GPU acceleration was not available. It was in the Pi foundation's own distro (Raspbian/RaspberryPi OS) but not in others. One of the first to get it working was Gentoo. I really, really wanted to get Open Morrowind working so I tried it for a while.

Then I had to re-emerge a software package to change my timezone and I was just done. Thats way more complicated then it should be or needs to be.
I find using GPS easy. I find navigating by signs easy.

I find doing both difficult, GPS very much encourages my brain to shut off.
What is foreign language for such a global service?

If I am in Spain, should shows in English be bundled in a "Foreign Language" along with Korean dramas, Japanese animation, and a couple of odd series in Dutch? How is this helpful?

Not saying that language categorization is a bad thing. Being able to filter shows that are available in a specific audio language, or with a specific language available for subtitles, would be a bad thing. But I seriously question the helpfulness of "English" and "Other"
Comments like that one aren't harmless—they're the sort of attack which would quickly destroy this forum if we allowed them.

There's a common pattern where people underestimate the provocation in their own comments by (say) 10x and overestimate the provocation in the other person's comments by another 10x. Put those together and you get a 100x distortion in self/other perception. That's a lot of skew.

I don't mean this in a personal way—as far as I can tell, we all have this bias.
I can't tell if this is good marketing disguised as a joke or if it's just mega-out-of-touch cringe.
> It's almost as if one of them is not like the other.

Use this newfound insight to take my comment in good faith, as per HN guidelines, and recognize that I am making a generalized analogy about the gap between law and ethics, and not making a direct comparison between copyright and slavery.

Can we get back on topic?
I heat my home. The difference between heating via compiling my kernel and heating via whatever heating you use is almost certainly negligible. But I get a custom built system out of it too.

I don't cool my home, though.
I am guessing here, but I worked at SCO (when it was a UNIX VAR, not three vexatious lawsuits in a trenchcoat) and the killer was always licensing fees, especially to AT&T. Sun bought a royalty-free license to SVR4 from AT&T which became Solaris, but it cost them on the order of $200M (if the figure I was told was accurate). SCO had a royalty-free license to SVR3.2 but had to pay out $250 to licensees for each copy of SCO Open Desktop 3 they sold (the precursor to SCO Open Server in 1995) for stuff like Motif, IXI Desktop, the Microsoft C compiler they still used ...

I suspect Apple went to AT&T for royalty-free terms and were quoted a price that, in the troubled Spindler/Amelio era, they simply couldn't afford for a niche product (the servers).
> never went away.

It might still be hiding out there, but when search engines never point you to it, social sites don't allow links to it and even your browser lacks any advanced way to deal with it (recommendations, notifications, editing, uploading, etc.), how are you ever going to find it? The amount of normal open web sites I tend to interact with is approaching zero.

Doesn't help that the retention on the open web is pretty bad. All links turn into 404 within a couple of months, so that little bit of interaction I still have with the open web happens mostly through archive.org.

It might not be dead yet, but it's certainly not in a very healthy state either.
No need to look far, the pathology is blatantly obvious visible in some despots - who think normal everyday people should never have agency and can ever be only puppets for the powerful. Secret services, governments and cooperations are filled to the brim with these types at the top. So the first step to remove that sort of policy, is a screening for the pathology among the powerful.
Don't be dramatic, there was no danger.
Right. So you have the option to go for free software. And that's great, I'm all up for it.

But it's actually the same thing. The software creator gets to choose how you use the software. It's their right.

I think if you take away strong copyright, it will be replaced by DRM and legally binding license fees for even trivial things like books. And I think, to some extent, fair enough. I think if you make something, you can freely choose what terms people get it on - and they can always refuse.

If anything, copyright is more permissive than the alternative.
I’m so sorry to ruin your day.

https://lithub.com/the-time-terry-pratchetts-german-publishe...
Yea, same here back in the day. Stage 1 installations for Gentoo really made me interact with the kernel and software in a different way. It did not just work, but while solving the issues, I learned a lot on how things worked internally. It's a great thing to get really familiar with the workings under the hood.

But yea, now-a-days I'm on Ubuntu LTS.
Many of these are propped up by local sports. Once the big American companies start branching out, many of these local streaming services will be acquired or wiped out.
Don't forget the anti-asian racism implicit to the belief that soy, a food eaten widely in asia, makes you weak and feminine (whatever that means). The backlash to soy is inextricably tied to old stereotypes of asians as weak and docile.
Of course you customize your Debian installation over time.

Over time is the key here. A package here, a small config there, and after some time, that installation becomes so unique that it starts reading your mind.

Non-breaking updates is the icing on the cake.

The biggest point is you install Debian once, or when your processor architecture changes.

--Sent from my a 6 year old Debian installation.
A 5 year old human has better cognitive skills and reasoning ability than current AI. And this only increases over time.

Maybe we should regulate 5 year olds. You never know when one of them might decide to destroy humanity.
Ultimately yeah, it's this. Netflix wins because it understands hanging your hat on one series or IP is business suicide. They churn out a bunch of shows, from higher budget big IPs to a bunch of lower budget series and animations.

David Zaslav and other media execs wanted to try and force the old media philosophy in the streaming environment, which also meant executing a bunch of mid-budget and lower-budget series to try and save money. Except they also shot their only chance of following the actually successful model of Netflix.
This is literally a psyop. This is free marketing. Don’t fall for it.
I generally use barrier it is a software solution like synergy