skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jerry Kaplan's _StartUp_ is a classic which shows the dark underbelly of deal-making and press-release creation, and why we can't have nice things if they aren't being made so as to ensure the profit of a dominant player: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1171250.Startup

Contrast it with: https://www.folklore.org/MacBasic.html

and the early history of VisualBASIC (and wonder how things might have played out had the Mac had a nice development environment out the gate)

and for management interactions see: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
Nothing interesting. I spend like 99% of my computer time in the web browser, ide and terminal.

Chrome, git, ssh, docker, netbeans
EtymologyMap – an OpenStreetMap and editable map which links to Wikipedia
Wondeful, that means that you can use binary for most part of the system and just rebuild the parts you want to customize. A great saving of compile time !
> So you have to follow a comparison operation with either a conditional branch or a conditional move (and earlier processors in the x86 family didn't have conditional moves).

The x86 family has the `setCC` instructions [^1] that move bits from the flag register to a general purpose one. Example from godbolt, see `setg`:

https://c.godbolt.org/z/MY37oP9vz

[^1]: https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/setcc
Yeah, but lots and lots of hardware lives across a bus without an IOMMU. Until very recently, that was the natural state of things. To me what's notable here is that they have a snoopable cache across a security boundary, where you can get the IO device to read arbitrary data you stuffed in from the CPU, when the CPU can't actually touch the underlying storage being cached!
i want to write. what i don't want is someone else to profit from it without me getting a cut.

that would stop me, because why should i allow myself to be exploited.

this works for contracted work as it is usually paid enough to live off it. and it works for FOSS to a degree as reselling that usually takes extra work (but we are getting to the limits of that too)

i don't know what the best model for this is. maybe some kind of tax for the commercial reproduction like some countries have for music? i think this would still work without any exclusive copyright.

or seen from the other side, open up copyright to allow unlimited non profit use and reproduction
Degrowth Can Work
> [0] Process for making {cheese, tofu}: take {milk, soy milk}, add some acid to make the proteins coagulate,

I wonder if anyone's tried adding lactose to soy milk and using cultures and rest of the process as if to target a particular traditional cheese.

I'm not saying the result would be vegan, I don't know if there's a vegan source or way of manufacturing lactose, but just for interest.
They do mention that they support 3 different profiles - openrc, gnome/systemd and plasma/systemd. Nothing mentioned about glibc/musl split. But they seem to be aiming only for a reasonable coverage. So I'd speculate that only glibc is targeted.
HTMX is not _exactly_ like the rest. It's far simpler than the others, e.g. by not requiring a build step, being pure JS and just having a smaller scope overall. Hot/cold isn't binary.

One of the contributors to the project wrote about the issue here: https://htmx.org/essays/no-build-step/
It is, as it functions in the wild. However, main reason for copyright to exist is to give the creators some control over associations and ways of exploitation.

Repeating the examples I already posted in some previous discussion here: I don't want my painting being used for harmful product packaging. I don't want my music being used as a background for a political campaign or some hateful video. I don't want my literary characters being incorporated into some other work with a different narrative/vibe/whatever.

Is there a better way to give the authors this kind of control which doesn't result in a dumpster fire of a system we live with?
I have suggested that (the big) IF we all have autonomous vehicles what would the market segmentation look like when performance is no longer a significant difference.

If the vehicles don't crash then impact resistance of the structure is not required, especially if "urban only" was a thing.

The absolute budget model of a plastic shell and bench seats.

To super luxury plush seating.

If the crash structures all remained what they are now...

Can you pay for "exciting mode" which maximizes braking and acceleration?

What about "preservation mode" which prioritizes the safety of the occupants over the safety of third parties in the event of an incident? You can bet certain people will have that made available.

"Defect mode" which cuts people up when merging.

"Overtaker" which attempts to overtake other vehicles rather thango at the average speed.

etc.
Loving this story and the UK's passion for creating the most random competition.

You might ask yourself "What if there was a competition about X ?" and then find out that the UK has been doing it for +20 years!
Which companies provide some sort of connectivity to devices flying at 60,000ft? Would that be via satellites?
The cleanup costs are high enough that you could have literally replaced the entire nuclear power plant fleet of Japan and built new ones. When it comes to nuclear safety, tear it up and build again is cheaper than any single accident. Nuclear power plant advocates don't seem to understand the magnitude of the failure of a nuclear power plant. It simply is unacceptable.
Could someone explain the problem being addressed, and the solution, please?
I remember Gentoo taking more than a full day to compile on my computer back then. It did teach me a lot though, will always have a soft spot for it.
I'm not calling it unproductive, it's useful to learn the OS and how things work. It taught me all I need is debian.
> and leveraged cross-country content like no old-world provider ever has.

Mixing in a lot of foreign language content to make their library seem larger is a sad joke and one of the main reasons I no longer subscribe to Netflix.

Edit for clarity: I’m fine with foreign language content in general, as long as it’s categorized as such. The problem is how Netflix mixes it in with everything else in a deceptive manor.

I can remember when Blockbuster and video rental stores would put all this in a foreign language section, which was then further broken down by genre.
Today, yes, but that's not universal across human history.
Simplifying production of custom merchandise led Lisbon startup to raise $19M
Show HN: Investment Tracking Platform – Stockle
A bit different approach to investment tracking with modern UI and actually usable features.

Feel free to check it out whether you are an investor or not, free plan available!
I've got a 48" monitor, too. I also have 2 27" monitors, one one each side in portrait mode. But I'm not sure why you think multiple monitors is complex - plug them in, drag windows over to the side as needed, and go about your work.
Like stock options? Yeah, even that is contentious.
I don't always want to use the full screen of any monitor so I find I prefer smaller so I can switch off the other monitors when needed. That presents its own challenges but I like to use fullscreen for web browsing and such like. That doesn't work on massive screens.
What was the trivial variation? I’d like to give it a try.
from the gentoo page

> we’re now also offering binary packages for download and direct installation! For most architectures, this is limited to the core system and weekly updates - not so for amd64 and arm64 however. There we’ve got a stunning >20 GByte of packages on our mirrors, from LibreOffice to KDE Plasma and from Gnome to Docker. Gentoo stable, updated daily. Enjoy! And read on for more details!
> what's stopping Disney from just outright stealing and outproducing any ideas they find?

Isn't that exactly what they did in early years with Snow White, Pinocchio, fairy tales, etc?
For eye health, I've gotten the recommendation to keep my monitor an arms length away.

If that is true, I'd consider move the screen closer to not be an option.
Do you have any first hand sources of Disney’s thought process and strategy as you’ve summarized them here? Calling Disney naive is bold.
Fond memories learning both Pascal and C when at high school with 486 Compaq machines and the Turbo compilers.

Not long ago I configured DOSemu with Turbo C to do some bare bones graphics development but I just couldn't get used to it.

Does anyone know or recommend a setup where coding takes place outside DOSemu but yet the compiling/execution takes place in DOSemu? (I mean calling all the build chain outside DOSEmu).

I've seen in an older HN post that someone setup a retro IDE with VSCode but I'd like something more Vim like instead of this behemoth.
It's easy to exceed the allowed transmit power if you do that, so be careful and calculate beforehand.
As someone who’s never used MacOS fulltime, what did OS9 do better than X? I’ve found modern MacOS fairly similar to windows in common tasks and interface.
But it costs all of $600! Do you really think someone who just dropped $40,000+ on a ridiculous status symbol is going to want to blow another six whole Benjamins to enable completely unnecessary and buggy features?
Interesting. uname -a reports x86_64, and lscpu also reports x86_64, although perhaps that's just the kernel being patched to lie about the architecture.
The web itself is a historically remarkable occurrence of decentralized control and creativity. Well, the "real web" as referenced in this article.

Corporations have always strived to gain maximum control of the web. AOL desperately tried to fight off its users from going onto the web and keep them in the content made and held exclusively by AOL. They wanted their users to look up by AOL keyword rather than (gasp) a URL that led out their garden.

The only real weapon corporations can deploy against the open web is ironically spam/ad protection/control, which is ironic because the very purpose of corporate walled gardens is access and control of the content so they can inject ads on those pages

The core of this is while the base web protocols and linking provide a key enabling technology, it doesn't provide the necessary content creation and sharing tools needed by non-programmers. Basic HTML used to be something an IQ-100 person could do in a couple of hours.

The war on the <blink> tag is representative of the loss of end user HTML ability. Web developers had instinctive hatred of it, and at some point (was it the XHTML boondoggle) blink was proudly deprecated to the strange joy of so many web people.

But blink was a fun thing a noob HTML document creator (not a developer, just some schmoe making a document, which is what HTML is: just a document by design) could do with simple effort and gave them immediate impact.

Now, HTML is a mess of Javascript and even more arcane CSS. No basic HTML document author could possibly look at the source of any website and glean any useful one-off techniques.

The HTML standard exists to serve HTML web developers and the corporations that employs them. Otherwise we would have had:

- default settings for a basic HTML page that aren't eye-bleeding ugly

- tags that do actually interesting things that don't require javascript

- better interaction tags than links, for sharing things.

Really, the core web and web browsers should have a robust web page authoring tool for end users. Kind of like 4GL tools and the like from the age around when the web was born, which another story today was complaining about the loss of. I WANT my grandma making a blink-tag-laden geocities monstrosity of cat and grandchild photos. Some teenager making emoji walls of hearts.

But that ship has sailed. The web is firmly controlled by developers, and by extension corporations, and by extension, governments.
I believe you are right. For reasonably small character heights, it would decrease the angle slightly.
As all these competitors launched, I thought maybe NFLX's days were numbered.
Basically NFLX was first mover, but now you have a mix of niche targeting streamers in play. If you have kids or want Star Wars you get Disney+, if you care about sports/live then you pick one of the competitors with that, if you want more highbrow you get HBO/Max, if you want Star Trek you get Paramount+.

Now watching them all burn cash and now scramble to consolidate, maybe I think NFLX was right all along. They have a deep catalog of licensed content from other studios. They churn out absolutely endless amounts of mid content with no name actors at low cost. They have the highest subscriber base with which to attract advertisers to the ad supported tier. They have tons of people on the paid tiers.

Most of the high budget flop boondoggles you keep reading about in streaming shows have been newer players. NFLX was and continues to be the only ones making money.

Think of it as reversion-to-mid wars. NFLX churns out lots of decent forgettable mid but watchable 8 episode series, occasionally renews them for 2-3 seasons. The big brand studio streamers are instead taking expensive IP and high paid actors to ... churn out sequels/spioffs/prequels which turn out to just be high budget mid content. NFLX is very smart here.
My point is that, for a not-unreasonable interpretation of "shuffle", it is the same as "random".

nvm
I think that’s the problem. People have seen all of disneys stuff and what’s new isn’t original or appealing to anyone.
>> Gentoo Linux Goes Binary.

they did decades ago.
A moral right is LITERALLY DEFINED as "rights of creators of copyrighted works generally recognized in civil law jurisdictions and, to a lesser extent, in some common law jurisdictions."

Whoever tweeted this seems to have heard the term 'moral right' and decided that it means the same thing as 'natural right' or something? I don't get it.
they should've had a longer name if they didn't want to become a noun
For me this is great news for less powerful devices I use that I don't feel like setting up a binrepo for (especially when it involves cross-compilation), but still want to reuse my portage config and custom ebuilds for.
Is this finally the time and place to discuss the credibility of Sara Pascoe's 18+ meters, 3 times in a row, perfectly in the middle of the carpet landing pea throws in season 3 of Taskmaster?
IPS black imho better choice (I own one). VA looks very very bad with dark themes in IDE. Also, I do not know any Eyesafe certified VA's. I am sensitive to blue light and my eyes love Eyesafe certified panels.
Rent-seeking doesn’t mean “produces something and charges recurring fee for its use.”

It actually refers to what you’re implicitly defending here: capturing the value of people’s production. Training AI on other people’s labor without paying them for it and then extracting value from it is rent-seeking.

Consider what happens to AI companies’ value if they had to enter into mutual agreements with their data sources. AI company value will be almost solely determined by the AI company’s own value contribution, which is close to zero, while the data sources’ value would be unaffected or go up.

If your business model relies on you leveraging the work of others without mutually agreeable remuneration, chances are good you’re the rent-seeker.
I recently put together some very small fonts (3x3, 3x4, 3x5, 3x6, 4x4, and 5x5) and tried to enumerate most of the possible glyphs as part of working on little projects on SSD1306 OLED screens: https://moonbench.xyz/projects/tiny-pixel-art-fonts/
Go has “zero” values. The zero value of Boolean is false.

https://go.dev/tour/basics/12
some are willing to bear the risk of bricking their phone. far fewer will accept the risk against the cost of their luxury car
The problem is that, as soon as you hit moderate complexity, validating claims becomes difficult, time-consuming, and full of traps. Are you going to microscopically analyse every sausage you eat? If not, how do you trust that it's safe? Experts.
Fun fact is that Gentoo is the most normie distro. ChromeOS is based on Gentoo and all have coreboot. I'm not disparaging it as much as seeing it as a similar learning tool.
A language that supercedes C, but with a borrow-checker
I am interested in safe languages, but without the complexity of Rust. I already spent many years working with C++, and I notice similar tendencies with Rust. Are there any up and coming, safe alternatives to C, without, perhaps generics and all that it entails?
Absolutely correct. Back when phones were “hard” to jailbreak I made quite a bit of side cash doing it for people at the campus cafeteria.

Obviously you’ll need more room for a car, but the market will form.
For convince? There is a single app with all the music, recommendations, and everything. Also, Spotify would be far cheaper. Most people would just use the app with the biggest catalogue, and not a single dime would go to the artists.
The "Team America" theory of dicks, pussies and assholes? I flat out don't buy it. It's not like Assange and Snowden are just such mean fuckers out to harm the poor American public that you have to fight dirty to combat them -- even though you really don't want to. That's laughable. Or that COINTELPRO was just the only way to handle MLK. No, you fight corruption and criminality with integrity. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, the only way to justice and peace, on small and large scales. But everybody just wants to shine light on the their opponents, while believing the stuff they made up about themselves, and made others believe. So there's a lot of half-measures, if even, a lot of lip-service. We want to catch the terrorists who aren't on our payroll, the unpredictable factors, and want to make sure the ones that are don't get caught, the valuable assets. (and it doesn't even matter who says that to whom, this "we" applies to everyone with the means to read this, all nations are equally fucked up in that regard, certainly all the powerful ones). So nothing really gets cleaned up.
Not sure if you mean that sarcastically, but it's a really boring and stable OS, the setup is just a few clicks and hitting enter a few times. I think I haven't even bothered to change the wallpaper on my newest laptop.

There's nothing really special about Debian as well, it could as well be Ubuntu, Mint or anything else that's plug n play. I'm just used to Debian, and it comes with less junk I don't need installed by default.
That’s neat. In my area and usually outside London connectivity is much, much, worse. Also depends on parts of London. When I lived in Finchley for instance, I barely had signal on multiple providers, let alone gigabit connectivity.

Out of curiosity, what’s your provider? If it does work where I am then I’m getting one for each device.
Netflix’s foreign content is quite good. Especially the Korean stuff is pretty high quality and way cheaper to produce, seems like a good idea to me.
hot bloodedness ~= num dependencies
Copyright needs to be reimagined.

There should be different rules for "originators", legal owners, and legal entities. When the controlling legal rights of a work are separated from an originator, the speed to public domain should be accelerated.

In this system:

- An originator is the person who creates the work, and owns the work by default.

- A legal owner is a person who buys the rights to a work.

- A legal entity is any legal construct meant to represent a person or multiple people.

Time to public domain would be faster if a company outright buys the controlling legal rights to a work.

vs.

Time to public domain would be slower if a company licenses the work from an originator.

Works with no originator enter the public domain on the fastest track.

Previous discussion of this idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37899357
At scale a few % efficiency can make a big difference.
Good luck insuring such a modified vehicle, without brazenly lying about the fact.
You are assuming a lossy compression. Stylistic guidelines and personal habits of beat journalists suggest you might not, depending on how detailed the LLM is. The complaint has many quotes that are long verbatim sections.
Yes the cave drawings were for funzies. That sort of art still happens, also for funzies.

We get higher quality art via professionalization, as is readily apparent in the historical record (not many hobbyists in there).
Hollywood accounting or not on the profit side it still doesn't explain why it has leveled off at 1/4 the revenue of Netflix too.
I would prefer if the current zeitgeist didn’t go around stripping older content of what it deems incorrect. There’s no guarantee that twenty years from now there won’t be a totally different view of what’s correct anyway.
Presumably the content creators are paying taxes just like the rest of us. Many almost certainly improve society in other ways.
Are you perchance working in academia? Your suggestion seems to assume unlimited time and resources to write everything yourself, while the purpose of using third-party components usually is to save time and resources.
Interorganizational Workflows Based on Message Sequence Charts and Petri Nets
Luckily there’s tons of movies that don’t have those slurs for people to show their kids.
Technically it’s a government entitlement / subsidy, but on the plus side, at least it’s an entitlement everyone has equal access to.
The worst example perhaps. I have the unfortunate honor to work on our python projects from time to time, but rarely and every time that I do, something is broken. No other software is as unreliable. Only Ruby comes close and probably for the same reason.
This is my work method but use just code (terminal window driving tmux) on laptop monitor and 1920x1080 LCD for browser and sundry.
I wanted to, but I have no idea if I’m supposed to write $20B or B$20.
If I'm ssh'ed into a server, I just use vim. (I am using vim keybindings in Emacs after all.)
For sure, yes. That’s the statuest status symbol ever. Having a luxurious item that you modified to have unique features?! For only 600$ more?
I think you don't understand how writing, making music, making movies or any creative endeavor works.

You don't get to decide "ah now I am writing top charts song" and you write it and then you sing it and it goes to top of charts you rake in profits and swim in cash like Scrooge McDuck.

You create work and then you release it to the world and world decides ... countless times it turns out great work is appreciated only after author dies.
That changed years ago.

Most developers now see a 15% hit, only going to 30% once they’ve hit certain thresholds.
Putting economy and society first is a way to put up a dystopia.

This logic always comes to conclusion with things like disposing of disabled and elderly.

In other words, not a great argument.
To find God before you die.