skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No mention on how expensive that rental was for Thrower. Did he take out insurance on the plane, or was he personally responsible for covering the loss? Did any of the planes that came in for the assist send a bill for their time as well? Everyone seems to be focused on the plane itself, but I want to know about Thrower! That's the part missing to make this a good movie
It's 95% text, the rest is for flavor.
I don't mean to be rude, but this reads like propaganda.

>China is just looking for ROI and won’t intrude on your domestic politics like the US.

This is objectively false. China absolutely intrudes on domestic politics. See the illegal police stations[0] they have setup across the world. China also continues to attempt to influence politics in Australia[1]. I would be very suprised if these activities are not also happening in Bangladesh and other countries.

* [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_police_overseas_servic...

* [1] - https://www.aspi.org.au/report/taking-low-road-chinas-influe...
They're actually pretty different sets of books.

LibGen/IPFS is heavily biased toward books from the past ~3 decades, especially books that are cracked EPUB's and PDF's.

IA seems to be much more scans of library books from ~1930-1980, many of which are out of print and probably only available to you via interlibrary loan, which you might wait a month for.

IA is a huge boon for academic research when you need to go back to midcentury books. I don't know which 500K the IA is being required to remove, but I'm very worried.
Hellishly and endlessly optimising for profit is how we've gotten the world into its current state, lmao.
Yup. Worse, people told them what that meant in terms of risk and begged them to reconsider, for the benefit of the larger archive.

And even worse, it was an epic strategic blunder. A campaign of "in this emergency, we would love to share books, but publishers don't agree" would've put massive pressure on publishers. They could've had a shot at advancing the legal situation of digital lending. Instead they opted for a publicity stunt.

Yes, sure, people couldn't go to libraries. That's when you collaborate with Project Gutenberg to address the actual need for reading material, highlight great free books, and keep hammering "and we could also lend you XYZ, if publishers only worked with us".

Then you reach out to publishers like Tor, who are already leaning further on the "unencumbered access" spectrum. And work out a deal with them. Promoting their books in return for larger lending count. Giving people the opportunity to buy additional copies for the digital library. (There's plenty of folks in the donor list)

And you continue saying "Hachette, HC, Wiley, and Penguin still don't want you to read their books".

Yes, what they did was the most idealistic approach. Sometimes, pragmatism is better in the long run.
Those are torrents for LibGen, not IA, correct?

Very different sets of books. I don't see how this will help. LibGen isn't going away, not that I'm aware of.
Hard to believe it, but that was over a decade ago already.
> It's not a lie, it's a trivial mistake done by whoever was drafting the document.

Yeah, let's see the regular Joe Schmoe get away with how he didn't lie on his CV, it was just “a trivial mistake done by whoever was drafting the document.”
Achually I am an expert. When I was kayaking in Chile all those small boats had such reflectors made of tin cans. The construction was so particular and uniform that it must have been goverment mandated.
They're not.

IA is mostly full-color scans of old library books.

I've never come across an IA scan on Libgen. Libgen is mostly EPUB's, native PDF's, and the occasional black-and-white high-contrast PDF scan.
My point was that HN hasn't changed in the way you said it has.

On another note: your comments frequently do come across as being a jerk, and quite an unpleasant one. I don't usually address that so directly, and especially not after a personal interaction, but I think in this case it might be helpful (at least I hope so).

This has been a problem on HN for a long time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39610617 (March 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20067503 (June 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19237577 (Feb 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13003328 (Nov 2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10933740 (Jan 2016)

-- and I'm afraid it's still a problem (quite apart from this thread). I assume you don't mean to come across this way, because you frequently say things like "I am not just being a jerk", "I don't want to sound too critical" and so on, but that's not enough when you go on to say aggressive, insulting, and/or snarky things to the other person.

I'm not sure what to add beyond the same "would you please review the site guidelines and use HN in the intended spirit" that we've already been asking you for years. If you do intend to be a good contributor, I think the only way to do it is to double-check what you're posting and meticulously edit out the swipes. My guess is that your posts are coming across as nastier than you believe they are, so it's necessary to adjust in the opposite direction, and not by a small amount.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That isn't a counterpoint, it is exactly what OP is saying–there is already a way to give away a book for free if they author/copyright holder wants to without the IA deciding what should be free.
Sounds like a cool class project! If I understand your approach correctly, this is how live virtual machine migration typically works (e.g., https://none.cs.umass.edu/~shenoy/courses/spring18/readings/...). It also sounds similar to this "remote-fork" concept: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi23-wei-rdma.pdf.
Don't waste your time arguing Chomsky supporters, it's a cult. They keep wringing non-falsifiable theories out of lengthy hallucinations, but it all reveals itself to be just Trek physics later on.

He's not just problematic in politics, he is in linguistics too, just the BS is harder to notice. I suppose his compiler theories were legit, and his pioneering spirit that lead to establishment of multiple fields of researches might be too, but leading theories he'd created are just as dubious as the first man made shed built on a discovered island would be.

And the problem is not just that early speculations in a novel field are often wrong, it's that his supporters don't care. They'd regurgitate those scientific theories(tm) ad infinitum and waste resources for the whole humanity. So don't bother trying to fix them and making them motivated.
What I find bizarre is people gatekeeping the process that helps get things from imagination onto canvas.

Artists and "creative" people have long held a monopoly on this ability and are now finally paying the price now that we've automated them away and made their "valuable" skill a commodity.
In the end: do you enjoy driving your Tesla (yes you do!)

You know as well as I do that you can absolutely piss on any ICE powered car that lacks paddle pre-selector gears and a sodding huge lump of a power plant. That car will also cost twice as much as yours (and your's is not cheap!) If they fuck up a gear change they will end up in the rear view. If you fuck up, you will need new tyres.
The Untold Story of a Chinese Cemetery in San Francisco (2021)
> It also has the nice side effect of discouraging people Waze-slaloming their way through neighborhoods instead of using major routes.

I wish cities would solve this problem by making the main roads faster instead of by making the side streets slower.
Wait why not just charge a small amount?
Yes, great point. In fact, you don't even have to have exactly one more term than the last (assuming the limit converges).
The article you cited is an example of China dealing with Chinese people abroad, or lobbying in other country’s foreign policies regarding China. The U.S., by contrast, meddles with other countries with respect to those countries domestic policies, which have nothing to do with the U.S. or the welfare of U.S. citizens.

I promise I’m not a bot. Just conveying an opinion that’s pretty much universal on the subcontinent where I’m from. Maybe moreso in Bangladesh because the U.S. supported Pakistan through its genocide of Bangladeshis. But in Singapore, for example, the CIA tried to bribe Lee Kuan Yew: https://youtu.be/vNQXLhIcPrc?si=yDyJQT9dfxd-qVuL. Had they succeeded, that single act could have derailed the path to prosperity of an entire nation.

Similarly, Biden has been complaining recently about the “human rights” record of the current administration in Bangladesh. This makes everyone extremely nervous, because when the U.S. starts sniffing about “human rights” that’s often a prelude to economic sanctions or regime change or worse. But the current administration is extremely popular: it has been able to maintain order and grow the economy for nearly a decade—a rare feat in a disorganized and disorderly country. There is a real risk that the morons at the U.S. state department could derail what’s been a miraculous run by the current government over a bunch of stuff most Bangladeshis absolutely do not care about.
If somebody owns an apartment, they should be able to do whatever they want with it (including renting it to tourists)
Built an AI tool for myself for parenting
We are in a situation today where no one can realistically make a competing implementation for Chromium/Webkit/Firefox and at the same time only a company with a large amount of money can afford from and maintain those codebases. I think that's kind of a big problem.
What Might Category Theory do for Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science?
Parent is also saying that virtually nobody does it. This is not true. What I linked is one example, given away for free by an engineer at a prop trading firm and a CS professor. Similar to the linked example, we have excellent books on many technical subjects, available for free. And not because the authors are communists but because they want to share the knowledge or because it helps their broader business.
And now insists others pay their student loans to benefit society.
I didn't say we can know it just from rubbing rods and playing with static electricity. The post I was responding to said there is no way of knowing it, period. Which is clearly false since we do know it now.
I think sw engs have always played a large part in the success of space missions, including emergencies. Even the apollo and early unmanned missions would have been disasters without sw engs finding ways to just get things working.
This sounds similar to what's been done to speedup FaaS cold starts - snapshot the VM after the startup code runs, then launch functions from the snapshot. E.g., https://www.sysnet.ucsd.edu/~voelker/pubs/faasnap-eurosys22.....
Yeah that's totally fair. Being able to send someone out at the click of a button feels like a nice-to-have feature, but not something that will move people over to your marketplace in droves. But I think you're on the right track.
Rust on Espressif chips – 21-06-2024
I had trouble with it not wanting to drop me where I asked, or wanting to pull over or wanting to let me out. Never again.
yep.. but i think there is the side of journalist responsibility with the truth to consider as well..

The moment he was aware his source likely provided him with incorrect information he should had, at minimum, retracted his previous posts..

He did not necessarily had to share who the source was, but he could inform that new information came to light that made so he could not trust the information he based his posts on so he was retracting it..

Exactly how he had to do when he settled..
I suspect they visually inspect the cars after each ride and send them to the depot if there's something that needs to be cleaned up. There are several cameras inside the car giving a good view of the interior.
They’re amazing, I only take Waymo in SF now and will do the same when possible on the peninsula.
Space trucking, right? Not fancy but resilient and sufficiently functonal.
What exactly is your point in the context of this conversation?

I'm a modern person, I have modern morality? Guilty as charged, I guess.

We're supposed to cut them some slack because they were just behaving as people of their time? Nah, I don't think so: there are plenty of examples of people at that time who were highly critical of colonialism and the treatment of indigenous people. If they can follow their moral compass so could Columbus and Cortez. "Everyone else was doing it" is not an excuse adults get to use: people are responsible for their own actions. As for their beliefs: they were wrong.

There are other points you could be making but I really hope you aren't making any of the other ones I can think of.
You're not paying for access though. You're paying for curation. Access to any given site is free (ignoring the cost of internet access itself) assuming you know the URL. What is not free is someone taking your query and finding sites that might be what you want. You pay in currency or attention. Take your pick.

We all need to think about paying for the internet because literally none of it is free. Not even the hobby blog on a random desktop in someone's basement. It still costs them that bit more in electricity. If no one will pay then we all deserve to drown in ads because that's what we say we wanted with our non-dollars.
No. Tom's a genius. This guy was only a perfectly fine programmer.
Not at all. I forked before I used anything with CUDA. I didn't need it but I guessed this could cause all kind of weird problems.
The Intricate Link Between Compression and Prediction
This may be the biggest gap in my understanding. I didn’t realize that at some point the JavaScript is turned into instructions running directly on metal, I thought everything occurred within a synthetic/virtual environment.
He Memorized the World with Google Maps. Now He's Exploring It
Spot on. You don't have much time with them before they grow up and move out.
Steve Omohundro was one of the main authors of starlisp.
It’s somewhat hypocritical to believe otherwise when one’s employment (or if that offends you, the effectiveness of copyleft licenses) depends on the existence of intellectual property. That sort of nuance tends to be lost on the “information wants to be free” crowd.
>> It seems like all of these eink devices are designed that way.

After going through 5 Kindles, I got a Kobo reader a few years ago, and couldn't be happier. It is more expensive than the Kindle because the price isn't subsidized, but the physical design is great, and I haven't broken it yet (I broke 4 Kindles through normal use).

They support loading your own software on without any "jailbreak", and I use Plato (https://github.com/baskerville/plato), which renders documents significantly faster than the stock reader.
US imposes sanctions on Russia's AO Kaspersky Lab executives over cyber risks
I switched to Underwood Ranch’s sriracha sauce, and I enjoy it.
Nitpick - I think if your DVD streaming service is free and single-person only, then you probably can - it would qualify under space or time shifting concepts. I don't think you have the right to monetize a DVD you purchase in general in the US, though.
Two weeks ago my buddy @fulligin
pulled me aside and said "I have something to show you." That something was the Daylight Computer, which I was previously unaware of.

I've since bought one and am using it fairly extensively for reading. Vincent recorded some impressions:

The DC-1 has a whiff of magic to it, comparable to the first time using a Kindle.

(Other people profess to have this feeling from the iPhone/iPad the first time. I honestly don't remember those as being "my life now has a before and an after" moments. Kindle was that.)

The Kindle is a substitute for paper, via eInk. It's the best available way to buy books, a somewhat mediocre reading experience which acts like an inferior substitute for paper, and an absolutely gobsmackingly frustrating software/hardware artifact to use.

I love mine to death.

The DC-1... I don't know if I can put this into words. My brain reads it as interacting with paper. Not like a crafty technological emulation of paper via eInk with less eyestrain than a typical computer screen. No, my brain screams "this is paper."

I've only read about a book and a half on it so far, and it's pretty clear it will be the way I read the next few dozen books until they make a successor device that displaces it.

The size/weight is just a little too big, and I largely read at night, and "drop on face" is real.

And when using the Kindle app on it with the default settings, the physical width of a line is just a tad wider than comfortable for reading for me without needing to seek to the sides.

But it feels like reading paper.

Underneath the hood it's an Android something or other. I don't anticipate ever using it for much other than reading, and so the combination of Kindle (the app) and Chrome is probably the most technical work I'll ever do on it.

It's snappy and responsive, like a tablet.

In particular, I found myself taking many more notes on the books I was reading than I typically do, because t 300ms h 300ms e 300ms 300ms e 300ms xperience of typing on a Kindle is absolutely maddening and misinputs screw up enough highlights/notes to not be worth aggravation.

It also works in direct sunlight, better than any screen I've ever used. There are a pair of sliders you can trivially adjust for brightness and color warmth, in case you don't like bright white lights when you're reading at night.

I typically dial mine in to look like paper.

Oh it is quite remarkable, like you're seeing a live action version of the Daily Prophet rendering in real time in real life, when you have a video of a human talking playing on a screen that your brain is screaming "That's paper, paper moves now, what is happening to the world."

So, capsule summary: I thoroughly enjoy it.
Before you get too much buyers remorse it's worth appreciating the Boox will have a much greater battery life.
Edit: I'm not interested in continuing this conversation. Have a nice day.
That’s annoying - I hope it gets worked out, that’s the last bit I need to take Waymos exclusively.
Along similar lines, I recently learned about an early nuclear physics textbook written by George Gamow. The first edition came out in 1931, and the preface of the second edition in 1937 describes how the book had to be completely written because the state of knowledge had changed so radically in those few years -- most notably, by the discovery of the neutron and of induced radioactivity.

It's fun to think about a time when this stuff that we now take for granted as basic physics was not just new and poorly understood, but the forefront of knowledge was advancing so rapidly.

I haven't been able to find an online copy of the 1931 edition, but the 1937 edition is called Structure of Atomic Nuclei and Nuclear Transformations, and it's available through the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501245
Hmm, I suppose I can see your point. When doing reactive things you have to think "what should this depend on". When doing imperative things you have to think "what depends on this that I need to remember to update". I always found reactive programming to be easier to reason about generally, but I suppose if someone's stuck in an imperative mindset it can be difficult to pick up reactivity.
For those who want a bit of Secession without going to Vienna: the Neue Galerie[1] in NYC has one of the largest Secession/Wiener Werkstatte collections outside of Austria.

(A fact that the website doesn't touch on is that the Vienna Secession was critical in defining what the Nazis eventually labeled "degenerate" art, and that much of the surviving Secession work is of unclear provenance after being expropriated before and during WWII. There are a bunch of small plaques all around the Leopold and Albertina museums that make oblique reference to this.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Galerie_New_York
> Bezier curves, elliptic curves, fills, outlines and gradients should mostly suffice to represent every unanimated SVG

There are also filters, pattern fills, dashed strokes, etc. Also, mesh gradients (as supported by Inkscape) are immensely powerful but not yet standardized.

A lot of people are surprised to find <script> in SVGs and maybe that's a bad idea, but everything that someone thought was pure unnecessary bloat are actually features that users depend on. Maybe there is a cleaner and purer universal standard that covers everyone's use cases, but users already have SVG and would rather see incremental improvements here, as opposed to waiting for a new thing that is less capable.
Was ‘Blue’ invented or discovered?

Fundamentally, it’s the same type of problem - and really more of a philosophical thing.
I think it’s pretty clear I am not saying “there outta be a way to give books away” which would be a very stupid thing for me to say.

I’m saying we should legalize the giving away of all books, but must rearrange society to ensure authors and all people still have the support the previously got from the existing system.

Engaging only with the stupid point I didn’t make is a waste of time honestly and is seriously missing the point.
This isn't about their pandemic actions, this is about the controlled digital lending they did for like a decade before COVID.

If it were just over the emergency library, the court would end the restrictionless lending and likely issue a fine. Instead, the court ruling was that CDL was illegal, and only mentioned the National Emergency Library to say "as CDL was already illegal, it was also illegal." There also would likely be a fine, but the case is being appealed.
> After a rebase you have commits where no one's ever run the tests, no author ever intended to get the repo into that state. Hell, most likely no one knows if the code even compiles.

That is the role of the CI system.
> Seizing 100% of a person's economic output is slavery right?

This is a ridiculous argument. Just because the statement is true, doesn’t mean it follows that you can measure enslavement as a percentage of economic output or that any value greater than zero is “indistinguishable” from slavery. You’re just trolling.

I mean, if I have to spend 100% of my economic output supporting my sick partner because there is no healthcare safety net, by your own definition I am now enslaved by your kind of “liberty” - entirely because it is dogmatically closed to any kind of mandated cooperation.

What a world you dream to live in - a nightmare for all but the strongest.

> beyond the strict minimum necessary to maintain liberty itself

I ignored this because, conveniently, you also get to choose what constitutes “the strict minimum necessary to maintain liberty itself” - making your reasoning perfectly circular. “It is this way because it must be this way”.

> Fear is just as inevitable a part of life as joy

Society can work to reduce fear, and increase joy. But these are not the likely outcomes of the world of your fever dreams.

> US v. Butler (1936)

I am not familiar with US case law but my understanding is that this case reinforced the limitations on the federal government. In any case it reads like yet another cartoonish non-sequitur.

Here’s where I’m going to get of this bus of stupid.
Substack simply has better quality.

I've been involved in some things a handful of times that made it into the paper. Technical laws being passed, corruption, complains about a system failure... In every instance the only thing that was really correct was the simple facts (law X passed, thing Y failed, person Z arrested). Anything more nuanced tended to be 'technically' correct but was phrased in a way that often would make you think the opposite of what actually happened.
Interesting timing for this video that talks about bias in stem history (for example how naming discoveries/inventions is done in different cultures)

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNLLvDYm/