skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is no greater folly of contemporary human society than the purposeful restriction of such vast and easily shareable repositories of knowledge.

This is exactly how people stayed in power. Knowledge is power, so keep the masses uneducated so they are subservient. I once asked an Englishman why if the British Empire was so great did all of its colonies revolt against it. His response was not what I expected when he said they taught them how to read.

So watching how the school systems keep getting dumber really does get those conspiracy theory synapses firing. Make great again by taking power away from people really goes towards that.
> We allow inheritance to exist because it creates social good

FWIW, this is also why we have copyright. In fact, this is explicitly why we allow copyright in US.
I think we'll see such self-driving taxi interiors optimized for staying clean and then ease of cleaning. At the limit, think like a stainless steel kitchen that can just be sprayed down. Or these sort of self-cleaning public bathrooms: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/z81KtV9w5fo?feature=share
From what I understand

Unless you've got experience in international corporation law, I'd recommend you get a LOT more sure about this - otherwise you could end up back here on HN posting "My external CEO stole my whole business, what now?"
The big difference between copyright and propery is that me owning a table doesn't stop someone else from making a similar looking table. Copyright that lasted forever would mean that new adaptations of anything could never be made without licensing from the hedge fund that had bought up the original rights from 500 years ago.
I am chained to Windows (not the OP) all over the place.

CAD programs, e.g. SolidWorks, Alibre, SketchUp, eDrawings, Fusion 360? Windows.

CAM programs, e.g. BobCAM, MeshCAM, MasterCAM? Windows.

Office? Windows (LibreOffice is not a functional replacement - you can’t risk having documents being sent to clients looking bad).

FileMaker, Act! Pro, other desktop databases? Windows.

Router control software, e.g. Mach3, Mach4, UCCNC? Windows.

Adobe anything (GIMP is worse than a joke)? Or, if you don’t like Adobe, Affinity? Windows.

No shortage of Windows and Mac only programs in a business. Other than MasterCAM, my family uses or has used every piece of software I just listed in our small business. Linux is not an option; only for home hobbyist use, maybe. If you could get by with a Chromebook, Linux will work for you, otherwise it probably won’t. (This might sound like a slam, but remember Steam also runs on Chromebooks now.)
I sure manage to get a lot of modern work done on my Linux desktop.
I guess I've always assumed that HDs wrote with just a single head: moving to a specific cylinder, using a specific head, and then writing the appropriate sector (CHS). But, I guess it would theoretically no different to write the stripe across all the heads in that cylinder, though for efficiency maybe the sector size would have to expand by NR_HEADS times?

I guess this goes back to various diagrams I've seen over the years.

Anyone able to enlighten us?
What do you mean? Do you have any idea how long it would take people to download even a fraction of a single CD’s 650MB at 9600 bps at best?

My bbs probably switched CDs every 6 months.
Is there really nothing on Earth so important that you would risk your life doing it, but the Moon is unique in this regard?
Maybe they know something that you don't or it's just a glitch.
There's no substance to any of these gripes. What advertising? The section hardly describes where/what that is. Sure there's Microsoft Store/app related things (if you use them) but other than that, isn't most of it third-party/manufacturer-included bloat and ads? I don't see any ads on my Win 11 install anywhere. I never use the Start menu except for my already pinned/frequently used apps. Most of my apps are no MS-related.... VS Code and OS stuff excepted. No ads there. Not using Edge browser so that eliminates any of that MS/Bing/whatever related ads. The file explorer mostly works. Problems with updates come and go, but are minor/years apart. There's no particular lock-in at the level of Mac OS, and I can manage my device/files/plug'n'play mostly without any restrictions. It still feels like my machine in ways that Macs never do.
When talking about a matter of law or regulation, phrases like "feel purpose built" don't carry a lot of weight. Looking at legal definitions of "hotel" across many jurisdictions, it looks like a lot of of them center on the concept of temporary or transient usage. Intent to operate on that basis also shows up fairly often too. Here's a handy compilation (NB not the only source I consulted).

https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/hotel

Note that style of construction does not seem to be a factor. Many hotels offer freestanding villas or cabins, practically small (sometimes even not so small) houses, and have for a long time. Chains like Residence Inn, Homewood Suites, or Extended Stay America have likewise offered hotel accommodation in the physical form of an apartment for almost as long. Personally, I think the inclusion of housekeeping services during a stay is a big differentiator, perhaps because it demonstrates intent to serve a transient clientele. By contrast, a "dual use" house or apartment that is owner occupied part of the time and rented out part of the time does not show such intent. Neither do the illegal sublets that are behind many Airbnb rentals.

In other words, the physical similarity between a suite hotel (like the one I'm in) and apartments doesn't seem determinative. Rather, what seems to matter is the financial difference between a nightly (or perhaps weekly) guest vs. a longer term lessee. I'm not saying whether it's right or wrong, but it does explain why different types of levels of regulation are applicable to each.

P.S. The ones "escaping regulation" are the Airbnbs, not the hotels. Hotels are subject to much more stringent standards wrt safety, sanitation, privacy, billing, etc.
I don't know what the codec situation is like on iPhones these days but macOS removed support for AptX and usually SBC is as good or better than AAC which is like going backwards in time for Bluetooth. At least macbooks still have headphone jacks.
> Unless you have a competing theory of ownership that explains why other assets can benefit the family of those who create things of value after death but not works of art, music, writing, etc., you haven't really made a cogent argument.

Easy. The ownership of intellectual property can indefinitely remain with the author (or be passed on to their children, spouses, etc).

We even have a great model for it now: NFTs.

The right to copy that work, however, isn't something that was either created or owned by the author. That exclusivity is a privilege granted by the state, introduced because it was believed to benefit the society overall.

You can inherit a car, but not a driver's license. The argument is that the exclusive license to copy a work of art is really more like the latter.
Install LTSC
E-readers for me are one of the best gadgets ever invented. Prices though are still high compared to few years ago. I own a Kobo Aura H20 and almost every time take it with me, possibly the best purchase I ever made. They are great for reading regular books, but I repeteadly find online that in general technical books still do not render properly and a lot of people complain after purchasing them.
I'm not denying any of this. I'm just observing that there's a faction in the US which seems to say "speed is a leading factor in car deaths" (which it is) and then insists on everyone never going 1mph over our often-arbitrary-and-politically-set speed limits. When what you're describing as "non-adapted speed" is exactly the actual problem . . . driving beyond one's capabilities or the capabilities of one's vehicle.

Our freeways stateside were largely built in the late 20th century to a uniform 70mph (~110km/h) speed limit engineering-wise. But after the 1970s oil crisis, speed limits became a political football that often have as much to do with driving traffic ticket revenue for local governments as actually promoting driving at a safe speed.

So the problem is that a portion of Americans commenting on our speed limits don't understand there's a difference between "what the government puts up on the sign" and "what is actually a safe speed to drive without endangering other people" as if what's on the sign is some sacred totem that shall not be questioned because We Must All Follow The Rules Like Good Little Boys and Girls.
Spin coating rectangles sucks.
The normal definition, I believe.

A software interface between entities (components, programs, etc) that allows for communication between those entities.

What is yours?
Darktable 4.8.0 Released
"Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Heads"
I want to add my sympathies for those looking at migration in the near future. At least there are tons of good projects out there these days!

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> this is explicitly why we allow copyright in US

The founders of the US intended copyright to last for 14 years, with the ability to renew for a single extra 14-year extension. Like patents, copyright was intended to expire quickly in order to serve the good of the public. Thank Disney for fucking that up for everyone. You have refuted your own argument.
People who hold copyrights for profit tend create corporations to hold the copyrights, then just pass on shares in the company to their heirs.

These shares are valued the same as any other shares for an opaque, non-public company, with a single owner, whose assets have very ambiguous and widely disparate values, and which has the ability to cease operations for long periods of time and still remain profitable.

In other words, they’re worth whatever the owner wants them to be worth.

This is just my cynical interpretation. But if you think valuing real estate is hard, try valuing copyrights.
Switching away from kindle is going to require some initial amount of faffing about, no matter what. I feel your pain.

Once you've done the initial annoyances of deDRMing your kindle stuff, you can use the kobo account and store. I know that's another account which you understandably don't want.

I've never used a kindle but my kobo is amazing. I do use the store but I do deDRM my books on a computer before putting them on my reader, which is not necessary lol
I like ebooks because wherever I go, I always have the book I'm currently reading right in my pocket. If I get stuck waiting somewhere, I can read some diverting, thoughtfully-composed material instead of scrolling through reddit or playing a mindless game. Screens aren't quite as pleasant to look at as a printed page, but it's a worthwhile tradeoff for me.
I sort of figured that anyone capable of leaving that abusive relationship would've done so long ago, but apparently Microsoft Windows still has something to lose.
The gnorp apologue demonstrated there is a lot of interesting design space left in the genre. I’m excited to see what comes of games made by folks who were inspired by it.
That just doesn't seem like a big problem, in fact.

It is a big problem when the only ones who can write browsers that will work on all the sites people care about are Big Tech.
Why are they more expensive?

Likely because they're not pricing based on their costs, but rather what the market will bear.

Although they have a lot of R&D to recoup, so that's a cost.
This is the road to hell. We all know that advertising eventually corrupts the advertising platform. It happened with radio, broadcast TV, cable TV and the web.

You'll be very sorry in a very short time if you put up with ads in an OS you paid for, on hardware you paid for. You're letting Microsoft externalize some of the cost of advertising to you.
I mean, it's correct that Pythagorean triples are not the same thing as the Pythagorean theorem, but "Pythagoras" (or at least the Pythagorean school) proved things about modular arithmetic with the triples. The geometric interpretation was they were the measures of the sides of right triangles and that no other right triangles were "measurable" (that is, they could not be expressed as having 3 rational side lengths).
No, it died on Windows 11.

On Windows 10 everything MSFT developed was UWP. They were basically banned to use anything else. The only thing that used old frameworks, were... old "legacy" components.And the old legacy components barely had updates because they avoid to touch.

WinUI (in part) was even born because of this. They already had internal XAML controls (DEPControls) for all their apps, and they decided to open-source and named WinUI. And then later they also wanted to open-source the UWP XAML stack and decouple from Windows updates, and that became WinUI 3.0.

Even on 11 launch, there was an attempt to continue with this effort, but well, it's Microsoft... they rewrote taskbar to be UWP (not WInUI 3!), because well, WinUI 3 was (and is) worse than UWP. On other apps, they didn't wanted to rewrite from scratch, because then you would break compat (File Explorer Shell extensions, context menu... etc), so they had a great idea to just mix old UI with WinUI!

So you have WinUI on Notepad, File Explorer, Paint, etc, but not in the entire of it. So they were trying to make things more consistent (and WinUI), and it only got worse because mixing the two added too much complexity, WinUI 3 is slower than UWP, etc.

So they started going web. Also because of budget reasons.
Which is why facebook had the motto "move fast and break things", you need to break bad abstractions to get to good abstractions and solve problems.
Image plane and depth-of-field effects of Electronic First Curtain Shutter
Rear-ending someone going slower than you is not their fault.
2024 won't be the year of the Linux desktop, but it will be the year of the Linux desktop for everyone who gives a damn about having control over their digital life. PopOS is lovely so far, I cringe every time I have to interface with Windows 11 for my job.
It was interesting from 2010 to 2015 when all of the people who died in WWII and Holocaust lost their copyrights.

It started with Freud, and ended when Adolph Hitler and Anne Frank lost copyright protection on the same day.
> 0 other reasons

Well this is just sad propaganda. Zelensky (and others) had publicly admitted to sabotaging deescalation agreements.

You don't want to fall for "nothing happened in Donbas before 22" bs.

It is really such a weird situation. Western and Ukrainian politicians had publicly stated they were actually going for a fight for a long time, but we still see people doing wired moral posturing.
Hey, thank you for your sharing.
Tap4 AI Crawler is useful for me to update the ai tools content for my ai tools directory.
You're in the "we only need power during the day" camp, but with extra snark. Well done.
Very nice work Do you mind elaborating on how this differs from “outline” and “anytype”? I think a comparison table on the website on how this solution differentiates itself from competitors is going to be helpful. Also, what’s going to be the pricing model?
Because it’s not. Switch to Linux.
I decided i would prefer to quote Ms Frizzle instead of this.
Wait until you run a PiHole and see all the telemetry and dns requests that are made to *.apple.com even when you are not signed into iCloud.
It wasn’t the full experience of the OSC that we had as kids. The walk across the bridge (also closed over structural concerns) and the gradual descent over the course of your visit into the Don Valley subconsciously tied science with the natural world.

The last half-decade, it was a shell of what it was.
Every consular officer who does interviews hold this power.

Their words are literal laws backed by the fulll authority of the US, irrevocable and undeniable. Millions of people applying for a visa in the country they work in is subjected to their judgement without any recourse. There is no questioning their authority or their decisions even if everything they said is based on a passing whim. No, I am not exaggerating. Their whims is reason official enough to deny a person coming to the US and potentially changing their entire life forever.

Imagine that amount of power vested in what amount to a politician in training.
can someone suggest tips to remove all the bloatware from HP/Dell/etc and reinstall a cleaner minimalistic windows in a laptop? How do I know all the compatible drivers that exactly map to my specific laptop? The vendor websites are sometimes ambiguous and I don't get the confidence that right drivers would be installed. If reinstallation is too much of a hassle, is there at least some kind of script that can remove all the non-essential bloatware and make windows lean?
I also moved over to PopOS over a year ago and have been quite happy with the end result. Between Steam and Lutris I’ve been able to run everything I want to, and I don’t have to play whack-a-mole with Microsoft’s “features” that I’m not interested in.

Bonus points: I’m having fun with my computer again!
I bought the 5.8” inkpalm recently in the regular aliexpress sale, was just over $100. Ask me anything. Which Anki apk do you like? I’ll see if it can be coaxed to install it.

It’s fine for what it is, screen is a little reflective and the system is very sluggish. But it runs KOReader just fine for me, even large epubs and pdfs render ok (eventually).

It’s incredibly light and pocketable but I worry about scratching the screen - it is not iPhone level gorilla glass.

Also the narrow screen takes some getting used to, need to play with then font size to get a decent amount of words on a line without getting tiny.

Eink hasn’t taken off because it’s too expensive. A device like this should be a $20-30 impulse purchase not new-mid-range/used-flagship smartphone price.
I didn't say the current system worked well, but neither was the parent post critiquing just the current system, but "purposeful restriction" in general. Accuracy matters.
1. Absolutely.

2. Information and knowledge is for all.

3. The line to draw is 10 years to commercialize, and then release into public domain. Statute of Anne was 14 years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne), but 10 is better for today's age.
> well after SSDs have come close to superceding spinning rust when all tradeoffs and variables are considered together

SSDs are great, but I wouldn't put them that far. There are definite drawbacks to SSDs due to the nature of their design that HDDs don't have, and vice versa. Use the right tool for the job, as they say.

Personally, I have both SSDs and HDDs in my rigs because I have workloads appropriate for either of them at a given time.
I want the details that matter to be in view, as on a chess board.

Not stashed away in some obscure, poker-style location.
I think you are actually reinforcing the point: Software has gotten very slow and does a whole bunch of who knows what.
My sub-half-hour but supra-half-min take is that official non-sanctioning of bugs/exploits might be the interesting protomechanism to impede the evolution of granfalloony (vs karasserai)

System II & System I shades to be explored when cycles freed, but my basic thesis is that the bug discoverer/onlookers are trained to quickly direct reflexivity towards in-game rewards rather than towards tribal/purity considerations?

Post-mannichean millinery?

EDIT: which fencing weapon is most conducive to a healthy democracy?

System I)(II take: sabre > epee > foil

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12650-018-0521-3

Possible measurement: look up rule-type-evolution rate
You can choose to run updates if you want. Choice bing the operative word.
Just guessing: in chess you have all the information, whereas in poker you don't.
I bought my first Windows computer in about 20 years a few months ago. It’s got 11 on it.

It's an insanely tiny very low power thing that was almost as cheap as I could get. I just needed a Windows PC around and it fit my needs. Totally fine for basic stuff.

But wow. I’ve seen articles about how it was getting worse, new things MS has done, pulled back on, and put in later.

I was used to all the stupid advertisement stickers that have been there forever. Bing desktop images I’ve seen before and is a nice default IMO.

But the big ads in the start menu? And the thing of the day on the search bar? Candy Crush and other crap? CONSTANT OneDrive and Office 365 nagging? Are you sure you didn’t mean Edge this time? Really?

I’d heard of it all but it’s so comically over the top in person. And takes a while to find out how to disable.

My last personal PC was XP Pro in the early 2000s. I’ve used a number of work PCs with newer versions but they were all locked down with group policy so none of that appeared.

Windows is a self parody at this point. I know it’s a very good OS technically. But wow they found out how to ruin it.
Not justifying the shitty antics of MS, but most of the junk can be turned off by registry settings which most large organisations automate via GPO
https://archive.ph/piVso
I think a lot of the problems being discussed in sibling comments can be solved to an extent if we limit copyright to its original 14 years. That number was decided in a much, much slower age (1790). In today's world, 14 years should be ample time to monetise most creative work.
https://kernc.github.io/backtesting.py/

https://vectorbt.dev/

https://github.com/QuantConnect/Lean

https://www.amazon.com/Security-Analysis-Foreword-Warren-Buf...
Current really isn't flowing through the air. The relevant equation for resistive materials is J = sigma E; J is current density, E is the electric field, and sigma is resistivity. Air's resistivity is huge - if you pump any significant current through air you will cause arcing.

What really happens when you transmit energy through air is charge accumulation. Think of a parallel-plate capacitor - electrons accumulate on one side of the plate and holes on the other side. If you draw a black box around the system, it looks like current is flowing through it. But no significant current is actually going through the dielectric, or you will ruin the capacitor.

Electrical engineers model the phenomenon that Veritasium pointed out as capacitive coupling. In a circuit diagram, we would literally just draw an additional capacitor in between the relevant circuit elements.

In DC, this doesn't really matter after a certain settling time because the capacitor has settled to a certain charge. But in AC (or DC right after you flip the switch) it is non-negligible.

Edited to add - to be clear, there IS an electric field in the air - but the current density is negligible unless you've caused dielectric breakdown.
I'm going to guess the poster was banned for something a while back. When you're banned on HN, you aren't locked out of posting, but everything you post appears as dead by default and requires someone to vouch it.

dang has talked about this before, but there are a number of users who were rightfully banned, go on to post nothing but healthy, constructive comments that almost always get vouched, and then immediately turn abusive again when they're unbanned. So the current moderation philosophy is to leave them banned and let users vouch their comments, which works out better for everyone.
Confusing title; my initial impression was AT&T was literally hanging up on landline customers when they called support.

Article is just using “hang up” in a colloquial sense. Cute, but unnecessarily confusing.