skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC

> In November 2008, the Board of Directors of OCLC unilaterally issued a new Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records[66] that would have required member libraries to include an OCLC policy note on their bibliographic records; the policy caused an uproar among librarian bloggers.[67][68] Among those who protested the policy was the non-librarian activist Aaron Swartz, who believed the policy would threaten projects such as the Open Library, Zotero, and Wikipedia, and who started a petition to "Stop the OCLC powergrab".

and

> OCLC acquired NetLibrary, a provider of electronic books and textbooks, in 2002 and sold it in 2010 to EBSCO Industries.[54] OCLC owns 100% of the shares of OCLC PICA, a library automation systems and services company which has its headquarters in Leiden in the Netherlands and which was renamed "OCLC" at the end of 2007.[55] In July 2006, the Research Libraries Group (RLG) merged with OCLC.

My theory is that OCLC expanded outside of Ohio, and then the bureaucracy expanded to the point where it became self sustaining. It accidentally merged with monopolistic strains from The Netherlands and is now no different from the other knowledge ransoming entities, also in The Netherlands.

Oh man, the current president and CEO of OCLC.

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

> Prichard held executive positions with LexisNexis from 1995 to 2003. As vice president, he focused on business information and risk management solutions for corporations, libraries, and other organizations.[4]

> Prichard was general manager and senior vice president of sales and marketing at ProQuest Information and Learning, a global publisher and information provider, from April 2003 to October 2005.[4] From October 2005 to April 2007, he served as president and CEO of ProQuest.
And in the context of natural rights, they'd be wrong.

Natural rights are fairly easily thumbnail-sketched by "What are your rights if you're on a desert island?" Out of the context of any preexisting society, what rights would you have?

On a desert island, if I find some words scrawled ten feet high on a cliffside, I may do with the ideas in those words what I will: copy them, change them 'round, claim they came from me, claim they came from god. Similarly if I hear some mountain hermit shouting them from their cave. The natural rights as apply to ideas are very, very liberal. We in modern societies (and only recently) have taken up the experiment of constraining those rights with temporarily and contextual monopolies to incentivize creation of more ideas via property law. This works, but in a clunky, hackish way; it is a strange kind of "theft" that leaves us with more of something than when we started.

And like all good wild hacks, it deserves to be considered for refactoring frequently.
I maintain the systems that handle the logs, and I look at them far more than the people inserting emoji into them. I want to see clear, precise, and concise RFC5424 logs. Why should I try to interpret whether exploding-head emoji is higher or lower in severity than sobbing emoji, when standardized severity levels have been defined?
That would require me to remember a conversation that I’ve had in the first place.
And societies like Japan solved it by making it unacceptable as a society and a culture.
The thing is with the used car market is that maintenance cost is not paid by all the owners. Its paid only by who happens to be holding the hot potato when the battery is screwed, and most people with means aren't holding a car to 150k miles, that's about how many miles an ICE car has in the maybe $5kish used range. The sort of person buying a $5k car can't afford a $10k battery. They might not have access to $10k on a line of credit either. The worst similar thing that could happen for an ICE car is a timing belt going before you replace it and screwing up the engine or the automatic transmission needing replace, both issues much less costly than a $10k battery but also costly enough that people sometimes walk away entirely from the car.
I can agree that for me it was cutting my "wheat" (flour, gluten, etc) consumption that helped me have far less migraines over all. I don't really eat much processed sugar (however I used to when I was a kid). I have taken away caffeine and brought it back without much change in frequency. The hardest part for me was a manager one time thinking it was how much I wasn't spending on doctors to poke/prod/image my head to find the cause or take a new medicine that really angered me. Dealing with people who can't understand that I have no control over when they happen and go away is the worst.
> China, where new EVs can go for about $10,000 or less

This is the part that hit me. In America we have no idea how much we are overpaying for things. There are plenty of reasons, sure, but at the end of the day things are wildly expensive with little to no acknowledgment from the government.
This is actually quite enjoyable. Is this the "proper" way to play RPS, or is this a made-up variant?
They don't want to send you a newsletter. They want to get you to click a unique, personalized tracking link so they can drop a cookie in your browser and start tracking everything you do and tying it back to a single, named identity in their contacts database that they can then try to extract money from.
>What they are doing is buying the vehicle using company funds as company equipment and then writing it down as a loss on their Income/Loss sheet. There's nothing wrong with it and you should do so for any company purchases.

I think the "fraud" comes from the fact that they use it for personal purposes but fail to declare it on their income tax returns as they should[1]. For the typical case of a general contractor or an electrician using their "work" pickup truck to buy groceries or even to commute, that expense is not tax-deductible and must be declared as a fringe benefit.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/publications/p15b#en_US_2024_publink1000...
pikvm is open source

https://pikvm.org/

https://github.com/pikvm/pikvm

tinypilot is open source (but they kind of restrict "pro" binary availability)

https://tinypilotkvm.com/

https://github.com/tiny-pilot/tinypilot
I agree, I don't think this is actually 'new' at all. We have had EFI Stubs, KExec/KSplice (Heads as a loader distro for example) and non-GRUB options for a while.

At best, this approach doesn't make the boot loader 'go away', it just moves that task to EFI. Which means you depend on EFI instead of GRUB. This isn't really different from say, U-Boot, where you have a bootrom (usually in the SoC or ROM) that does bringup, then U-boot as an intermediary, and then the Linux Kernel. Same deal with BSP and Coreboot, or Bochs or any of the other boot protocol launchers.

Maybe if their scope is the narrowest of all the scopes (only x86 and only UEFI 2.0 and higher and only specific distros) it might make sense, just to have it be invented in-house as a fake moat. But the end-user doesn't really benefit (as there is no change), and other distros are unlikely to care. You do get a dependency on IBVs and OEMs to implement their UEFI correctly, which most have a hard time doing as it is. And you can't re-use it anywhere else, except maybe SystemReady ARM servers.
whatsapp bots are a misnomer. metabook punishes you front deviating from template messages in pricing so all "bots" are just the most useless dialog tree.

I don't think I've ever continue to do business with any company who moved to whatsapp useless messages
but my utility bill increased
Does anyone know what collision repair costs are like on non-Tesla EVs? This seemed to be Hertz's biggest problem with Teslas, and I've heard many horror stories of high costs and long waits for Tesla repairs.

As far as Teslas go, they seem to follow a similar value curve to German luxury cars -- you can get them very cheaply if they're 5-10 years old, because the parts are so expensive to keep them running, and a lot of the status wears off when they're not visibly the newest model. This I suppose is less true with Teslas where the visual style isn't that different from 9 years ago.
I used to listen to the podcast when it was still young. His original goal was to do it in maybe 100 episodes or so. After he started making money from Patreon, it slowed to a crawl in terms of progressing through the history of the language.

Eventually, I gave up. I’m not one of his backers, so he doesn’t owe me anything, but I would have preferred it if he did something more like Dan Carlin (there are plenty of quibbles about his historiography, but you have to admit he’s very good at storytelling), doing deep dives on various subjects instead of beating Middle and early Modern English to death. Yes, they were very important times in the language, where the mostly-comprehensible Middle English turned into the entirely-comprehensible (if you have footnotes for words whose meaning has changed and cultural references that no longer apply) early Modern English, but the language hasn’t been static since 1500.
They define RAG as Retriever-Agent-Generator in contrast to the rest of the industry, which defines it as retrieval-augmented generation. So are they creating agents, or doing good old RAG?
I think the term tenacious fits better than persistent here.

Another thing that I think distinguishes a tenacious person from a stubborn one is that when two tenacious people collaborate, magic happens. When two stubborn people meet, they cancel out.
> If they don’t produce them at that price point, you let China and BYD steamroll them

The problem is that they've already proven themselves unable or unwilling to produce affordable EVs any time this decade, so allowing Chinese competition at any reasonable tariff level will almost definitely doom them. For the government, it's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't". And the automakers are clearly betting that the government will protect them no matter what, even if they're suicidal. When companies like GM or Boeing play chicken with the government, they know the government will swerve first.
Just vote with your pocket and don’t buy tickets from them. I do that - yes I don’t get to go to major concerts but there are still so much more that is not on ticket master. I found a lot of new entertainment and was happy to pay $4 fee instead of whatever TM charges nowadays.
I'm not sure if the comment I replied directly to got deleted or if I accidentally replied to the wrong thread or something, but for some reason I thought I had replied about provenance specifically in response to a comment saying that separate prefixes didn't provide anonymity. Using a custom domain is mostly a fun novelty for me, and if separate prefixes didn't provide any value, I'd still just use use a single prefix on my custom domain because I like it.
and their terms prevent gambling, banks and health services. so that closes for most of my clients anyway
> Note that I didn't say they feel pain

Well, I never said "they feel nothing", but if you're saying plants have a right to life because they feel "something" I'm wondering where you draw the line. If you're something of a panpsychist I'm actually ok with these conclusions in terms of metaphysical consistency.
i assume you mean 'in virtual machines' rather than 'in the digital operating system almost, but not quite, entirely unlike unix'?
Ya, that seems about right for my project as well. Although mine won't be OSS so I'm more concerned with finding good ppl with Svelte skills vs React skills. I may need to bite the bullet once I'm closer to hiring. Thanks.
I understand, respect, and value your opinion. Don't get upset, it's just an app.
Great comment.

I remember someone I knew, saying “I can’t tell if it’s an asset or a defect! If I’m stubborn, it’s a defect, but if I’m tenacious, it’s an asset.”

> That's no indictment of contentment, maybe changing the world is overrrated.

I think a significant number of “world-changers” have not had personal happy endings. They may have done a lot of good, but it didn’t do much for their own personal happiness.

I tend to be “tenacious,” but I also like to do really high-Quality work, so it may look like “stubbornness,” to a lot of folks.

For example, I have spent the entire day, today, tweaking haptics and voiceover text in the app I’m developing. I became aware of a very small, rare, cosmetic bug, that most folks would shrug off, but it really bothers me, and I’m going to make sure it gets fixed, tomorrow.
AppleTV doesn’t spy. Downstream whatever apps you do will, but they already know what you’re playing anyway.

It’s mostly diff use cases for if you have media already or use streaming platforms.
x can't run untrusted applications; it trusts everything

any x application can spy on everything you're doing in other windows, send them messages, inject other windows into them, delete them, and post ui events to them. basically with very few exceptions any x application has total control over your account

xpra has other benefits (lower network bandwidth usage, being able to reconnect after network outages, being able to move an app from one display device to another) but that's not what the grandparent comment is talking about
Untraining models is an open research question and not par for the course like you're implying
Yes this definitely happens to an extent. I mostly solved it by grinding away the outside. I used 2x the amount of silver that I ultimately needed, knowing I’d have to remove some.

I’m figuring it out as I go, but it doesn’t seem to be a major issue.
That's the secret.

If nobody used them, they would go away.
> passionate and interrupting each other

So whoever's loudest, rudest, and wrong wins over someone quiet, polite, and right?
you'll realize even the minutiae has value . About 6 years ago I started assembling a family tree & biography for my mom and logging these stories helped.

It only seems tedious because we're trained to value the wrong things.

Think of how much pointless and transient time is spent on fleeting trivia .

If someone is telling you something, that means it matters to them, and having it matter to you as well is what matters.
EV batteries don't tend to suddenly die, do they? You can negotiate a lower price for a weaker battery, and you don't have to replace it the moment it hits 80% capacity.

And we're currently talking about cars that are worth significantly more than $5k. An extra 30% to fix it up is very different from an extra 200%.
I have often heard that total accidents go up. But major accidents go down. They are replaced with and surpassed by minor accidents.

If that is indeed true, what’s the needed replacement ratio to make it worth it?
Well, I'm no expert, but I can say what I think. First, your product looks awesome.

But I do think the landing page is a _little_ less good than it probably could be, but I'm not sure I can say exactly why. I bet there is some company out there that could take this thing from an obscure product to a Christmas staple, if they got their hands on it. Maybe there is a way that you could do it in a profit-sharing way so you're not taking a financial risk yourself. After all that is the point of venture capital also: they fund the endeavor and then own part of it.

My one suggestion would be de-emphasizing "you can do whatever you want with it" and emphasizing "here are the things that you can easily do with it". Because most people aren't gonna do any customization, or at least, will be intimidated by that. The ideal impression is that I might impulse-buy it because it's a cool desktop calendar, but then use it in other ways afterwards, and power users might get it for the customization features.

(couple other small things: that _particular_ NYT article makes kind of a weird impression. Maybe make something that doesn't involve a picture of Trump? People hate Trump and they hate seeing pictures of him also. Also, the phrase "an acquired taste" is not worth including. Black and white is stylish! someone who wants that is going to already know they like it.)
apple notes and paper journals.
I've had many ideas that have been watered down by the editing process that by the time I'm done have lost the impact or connection to the original idea.

Maybe I lack the vocabulary? Writing skills? Maybe I'm self censoring? Maybe it's my perfectionism optimising the local maxima?

I don't know but I do know writing has ruined some, not all, of my ideas.

This also wasn't my main issue above. I was more concerned that the idea you can't have good ideas without writing them down was deeply flawed and a bit gatekeepery.
The government is more interested in protecting autoworker jobs in the US than lowering the cost to a broader set of consumers, unfortunately.

If we allowed Chinese autos into the country free of tariffs, prices would almost certainly decline materially in real terms over the next few years.
I don’t get what this is. How do I search the db? All I see is “test post” and links to 4 unrelated pieces of content?
I’ve been using StoryGraph for a long time, since it was a PWA. It’s come a long way and the developer is great at listening to feedback and taking suggestion. Highly recommend it
I also have strong feelings of frustration towards ROS but I have yet to see a viable alternating. Half the value of ROS is the community building robot specific packages on the ROS foundation. Any frustration with the system is certainly smaller than rolling a new one.
It’s possible to initiate from Addy as well. For example, if your Addy alias is example@mailer.me and you wish to email hn@gmail.com then you would send an email to example+hn=gmail.com@mailer.me from the email address registered to the Addy account.

The Addy app has a utility to generate this, too.
Top review I see, ISIS has infiltrated the PBS reviews section :

Reviewer: Lin7650 - - April 28, 2024
Subject: WARNING!!
THE SPAM COMMENTS BELOW (AND POSSIBLY ABOVE) ARE FOR ISIS WEBSITES!! DON'T CLICK THEM AT ALL COSTS!!
Gold is 19.32, tungsten is 19.28.
this sounds like something you can fix with a two-line shell script

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/xpra --ssh=ssh "$@"
> But is it still the cheapest when you account for battery storage?

In India where the biggest load will be air conditioning and thus correspond with sunshine? Definitely.

But the answer was different two years ago. Electricity projects are often decades in scale and takes time to propogate.

But you're right about costs. Solar and batteries are all the cost up front. Poor people and poor countries are often forced to buy more expensive things just because they can be purchased on an installment plant. A fossil fuel plant is cheaper up front but you have to continuously buy fuel. It only becomes more expensive after ten years or so.

Helping with the financing would go a long way.
Our options shouldn’t be see no concerts from successful musicians or pay monopoly pricing. This is something government should solve.
This reminded me of a similar plot line in a sci-fi style tv episode, and sent me on a massive 'tip of my tongue' hunt, it turned out to be 'The Dead Zone' episode 11 'Shaman', but is only suggested as being 'hundreds' of years in the past.

From what I can see via my searches though, this isn't a particularly new theory, and it has been suggested to have happened ~12k5 to 13k before present for a couple of decades at least.
lol at a16z calling itself small.

also, what startup business plan was hindered by regulation? ignoring the obvious airbnb, uber, tesla (tesla as in sec regulations lol), and all the kleptocurrencies scams.
The website comes up in Safari, and is scannable from there. Don’t need to add to wallet. I used box office wifi to get text and follow url.

I never asked for this BTW, would rather have a paper ticket.
There's an easy but terrible fix for event loops lag. By app means, limit your work, do hard stuff like these folks did. But. If you just want to stop the suffering, all you need to do is yield periodically!

if (n % 1000 === 0) await require('node:timers/promises').setImmediste()

If you sleep in your async functions, other work can flow. Just unblock the other work.

Node calls this partitioning your work. https://nodejs.org/en/learn/asynchronous-work/dont-block-the...

Maybe don't use this specific library but it's pretty easy to rebuild everyday array iterators (forEach, reduce, map) to automatically yield every n iterations. https://www.npmjs.com/package/nice-loops
It definitely involves doing a bad job at scale. But also perhaps some of those employees were keeping it stable. Many of them were things presumable, like, account managers and stuff for advertisers.

That said, yeah, I agree that it sounded like most of Twitter was bullshit. Actually I'm confused why the OP said "let's not pretend like bullshit jobs are real". Twitter seems to be pretty clear evidence that they are.

(I happen to think they're everywhere and that this article is just terrible. but even worse than bullshit jobs are the bullshit grift economy. After all lots of tech does make money, by doing stupid misanthropic shit. It's bullshit, but not because it's unproductive: just because it's productive at making the world worse for everyone else. Different problem.)
Great idea, but curious what the market is for a service like this. Seems a little niche?
Responding a compliment is a skill in itself. Less is more. A simple : "thanks for saying that" , is adequate.

I assure you nobody is keeping score. People are so self-concerned that they honestly won't remember what you said, only the feeling they had when you said it.
In my experience: Allocation is OK, but garbage collection is bad.
I am unable to scroll through the site with arrow keys, page up/down or middle click.
This is exactly why the parent suggested that the funds have to go to another part of government that isn't being funded by the city. A city cannot cut their funding of federal parks to effectively reassign money from red-light cameras because they aren't funding federal parks in the first place. The federal government is probably going to cut park funding and reassign the money somewhere else, but the people deciding to install the red light cameras are still not directly incentivized to generate revenue with them.
Damn this looks like even I could make decent web applications in it. Pretty cool.
I don't see any reason why not: https://plausible.io/docs/events-api although you'd have to come up with your own user-agent
Even new words tend to have clear etymologies. Laser was LASER, for example - an acronym became a word in itself. Many scientific terms are just from Latin or Greek, which makes sense in the context of European science - languages that all scientists, regardless of where they were in Europe, would have at least some familiarity with, making it easier to translate and recognize across vernacular languages. I understand very little French, but “50 millimetre” doesn’t take a lot of imagination to figure out.
didn't pipewire preserve pulseaudio compatibility though?
Another similar open source app is DBeaver: https://dbeaver.io/

Works with more than just SQLite.
That's the conundrum, right?

Pay a higher utility bill or no life on Earth.

Hard choice, innit?
The government is doing what it can to keep things expensive to insulate domestic industry from global changes. This is entirely on purpose. 266% tax on chinese steel, 25% tariff on pickup trucks, 30-50% tariffs on washing machines, 100% tariffs on electric vehicles, 50% tariffs on solar panels, etc.

This isn’t even getting into the regulatory capture which prevents foreign products from being used/sold in USA.
A colleague of mine bought a Tesla. He was looking to trade it up for a newer model after a couple of years and it depreciated probably $30K (nearly half) if I recall correctly. He absolutely loves the car, but nobody wants to take on that type of depreciation hit.