skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely a cool post and I certainly think people should be able to de-DRM things they own for their own use, but I do have some sympathy for the defense of LCP.

Digital books are a good thing. I can hear about a book I'd like to read and start reading it minutes later. It also drastically lowers the barriers to publication for new or controversial authors. I want authors and publishers to be able to make money, so I think it's fair that they take some precautions to ensure that the book is not redistributed for free.

I would love if someone could come up with a truly friendly DRM for ebooks that would be supported by all major reading hardware/software and accepted by the publishers. Then we'd have a functioning ecosystem not dominated by one or two mega players. Curious what people here think might work?
Apparently “land” in the economic sense covers more than just the physical ground.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_(economics)

> Examples include […] and portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Supply of these resources is fixed.

I even saw some folks argue that IP should be considered a form of land, although I’m not sure if this is a real opinion or some very-online-economics silliness. Anyway, maybe worth looking into.

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> If that that were true, we could just replace everything with a sales or value added taxes.

I don’t see how this really follows. Land value is more like a wealth tax than an income tax, right? In the sense that it taxes something held, rather than inflow/outflow.
Have you ever worked at a university?
Had to be a defect somewhere along the line.

OTOH I've probably spent 100 hours deciding whether or not to upgrade a bios or two :\
No? It seems to be quite common. What's your reason to think that it might be illegal?
There's gotta be a long danglist of relateds in one of these posts somewhere given it's such an evergreen.
it's literally just a single html file

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> Every reasonable person agrees with me.

It's exactly the opposite - you're spending too much time in the violent-ideology bubble.

Most of the world is law-abiding, avoids violence, and calls the police. Until recently in the US it was almost universal, afaik, that self-defense was the limit of legal violence, and you had a 'duty to retreat' if violence could be avoided. Only recently has the right wing passed 'castle doctrine' laws there. In other countries, people don't buy guns with the idea of meeting violence with violence; in the US, at least until recently, most people didn't have guns.
Ask yourself: if 99% of the volume is being traded inside the house, how much easier is it to move the "fair" price in that street auction?
What do you feel that the top marginal tax rate should be in western countries today?
This comment went from +5 to 0 almost 24 hours later. Racists win!

Perhaps the bots have hate in their hearts.
It sounds like they didn't read the article. Grandma's money is in a large centralized retirement fund whose managers trade via dark pools, specifically so she won't be grafted by AI traders every time they need to adjust its holdings.
Flip Flop Winch [video]
Every single DNS zone record has an email associated with it. It has always been this way, and it probably always will.

However, there are no checks in place to make sure the email is valid.
Pretty absurd conflation you've got there.

The package manager just offers a common interface for interop, you can still build without dependencies.
From my practical experience, they seem to make a difference in initial engagement which in turn makes a difference in algorithmic promotion which in turn makes a difference in overall “performance.”

Tracking what you click on versus what you don’t, you might recognize that certain thumbnails make you more likely to take a pass.

For clarity, my experience is at hobby scale and part of that hobby is learning about youtube. Trying to make the line go up is fun (until it isn’t) and a little attention to thumbnails seems to make the line go up.
Ah ok so Nestful doesn't integrate with Dropbox/Drive directly, but if the user uses something like them for sync, the app picks up the changes?
CIAM has evolved from a security tool into a business advantage
it's pretty easy to write a lint rule for that
I wouldn’t exactly, but some menus are more predictable (for me, at least) than in Photoshop etc. Filters are also more logically organized (or at least were before 3.0, I haven’t tried it yet but given the discussion around whatever the fuck GEGL operations are doesn’t give me a lot of hope)
I recently learned whiteboards can also use wet erase markers. This has the benefit of not getting utterly destroyed if you graze it slightly.
I get it's a painting program first and foremost, but Krita's text tool is shameful. Glad to hear.
I recommend chalk. Its a little dusty but works great.

Seems to be nontoxic and low in the chemicals and plastic department.

Chalk. Even comes in colors.

I'm not joking.
GitHub is behind ADO in multiple areas. Boards is the one they're furthest from ADO on; leaving that for last is letting them get the others to a state where ADO users can successfully migrate some of their work to GitHub now, even if the boards need to stay in ADO.

That said, Microsoft is never going to be able to completely kill Azure DevOps. If nothing else, they'll have to keep it alive for enterprise customers' TFVC source control history.
The gulf is sooooo wide now though

GIMP is still trying to reach parity with CS6 days from 20 years ago, all for the gold star of saying “we did it guys”
If you own a smart TV that runs RokuOS that may not be an option. Just turning your TV on will serve you an ad.

Absolutely disgusting behavior on their part.
Usually I'd strongly bias toward OSS. But gimp's ux is just so bad, I'd sooner use (_vomits_) adobe knowing I'll have to wrestle a bear in order to cancel my subscription. But there's no need. Figma, while not OSS, is free, and it does have acceptable UX. I'm a newb who occasionally needs to brush up an image or combine multiple images for my startup. I got more done in figma in thirty minutes than in gimp in 3 hours, and was much less frustrated. I could never find the relevant button (or sometimes even pane) in gimp. If you already learned gimp, use it, but for anyone else it's false economy - the time you lose fighting its UX outweighs the feelgood/freedom of using OSS.
GEGL is just a library created to modernize GIMP's image manipulation pipeline. It forms a DAG of image operations. It's what unlocked non-destructive edits and porting everything over to it was a pretty massive undertaking (though it probably didn't need to take 20 years...)

End users really don't need to know about it. Its exposure in the UI is likely just because a lot of stuff it can do isn't available yet in the traditional GIMP UI.
Yes, vibe coding is part of the great LLM marketing campaign. I'm old enough to be skeptical of things that are overhyped.

That doesn't mean it's a fad or generally bad. It's a great way to implement ideas and then validate them. A dream for startups. It doesn't matter if founders can't even write their "hello world" when validating an idea.

The downside is as with all AI generated code comes during the lifecycle of the code: Who's responsible? Who knows what the code does? Who's going to maintain it beyond AI? Is it secure? Reliable? I don't care about the next Tic Toc clone being written by AI, but how about software in the nuclear plants that is powering all the AI? Or in transportation, medical devices?
UX was Ergonomics back them, but current term also implies some "desire" to return to application, a tint of marketing maybe?
Well, http/3 so far works in China and Russia, because, presumably, many enough required services are using it so that blocking indiscriminately is not practical.
I think you’re pointing out a very important point; it seems like everyone pretends that you can ‘scale up’ scientific research, when it’s more like a service (that doesn’t scale). One problem might be that the people allocating the funding also stand to gain from pretending that they can “supervise” infinite amounts of research with no diminution of quality.
You can do the same with a Sharpie. All inks contain a solvent for their pigment, so you can use the same marker to remove the same ink. Just mark over it and immediately wipe it off.
> you still have firebombs, gas attacks, and myriad other weapons

All are post colonial-era technology.

By analogy to your argument, if we can only address surveillance as if colonial-era technology was used, then we can only address military actions that way. What if someone set off a colonial-era explosive? Not a big deal, right?
>>you'd think the universal experience is 1% good, 9% benign, 90% actively seeking the downfall of civilization

It might not be a grand conspiracy or might not come from meticulous planning, but what happens is they just work for self preservation. Its no secret that people who work on a thing are bound to know things about them better than some body who just approves leaves, or makes abstract decisions. You will get replaced if you don't assert authority often and proactively kill the biggest threat to your position. This also means maintaining pets, and rewarding them more than people who are performing better.

All of this resembles a pattern of behaviour over the years with managers sabotaging everything good around to save themselves.

Over years I have seen managers are the biggest reason why companies go down. There are few other reasons.
Don't forget how someone can find any word in that filing cabinet, instantly, from anywhere in the jurisdiction (and is probably shared elsewhere).
Just a few million extra deaths in the world as a direct result of some tech egomaniac acting on a petty grudge, no big deal.

Fortunately, this submission is off-topic for Fascist News and has been flagged accordingly.
Show HN: WebGL Renderer for Chip Layouts
I was speaking more to something which happens with some consistency even in a random system. For instance, waves hitting the same piece of rocks over and over till the rocks take on a certain shape.
Is that a gaming monitor?
In that vein, you might find this article interesting:

https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/discworld-rules

It also was posted here on HN recently -- discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43299815
the art of making a successful video requires

Only to the degree Youtube defines success for a person.

As a form of creative expression, a Youtube video can be successful independent of the analytics.

Sure defining success on your own terms means you need a day job. But defining success on Youtube’s terms treats Youtube as a day job anyway.
How exactly does it work?

By terminating an udp stream and fetching the backend data using http 2.0?

This might be enough for static web and such, but in a "new web" you'd want to use all those nice features of http/3 which have no direct equivalent in http/2, like multiplexing udp streams for video and such.

And if you forward the udp stream itself, what do you do with the certificate? Use a selfsigned one with no expiration date and add a custom CA? Seems laborious.
Meant to say “release code”, not “research code”.
When I read Juju I think you were talking about JuJu Densetsu xd.
Santa Cruz has one.
> > In fact doesn't providing them with supplies make it impossible for their domestic industries to fill their needs?

> In fact, doesn't providing them with lifeguards make it impossible for their developing the ability to not drown?

> Helping others does not limit what they can become.

Wouldn't providing external lifeguards impact the ability for a domestic lifeguard market to exist?
> The idea that a 91% top marginal tax rate would stifle investment or innovation is misleading.

If you make $100,000, at a 91% tax rate you'd have $9,000 left over to invest. If you are taxed at 28%, you'd have $72,000 left to invest. $72,000 is greater than $9,000.

> And the economy didn’t collapse under those high rates

Right, because they weren't actually paying those rates.

> hoarding wealth

The wealthy do not hoard wealth. There are no Scrooge McDuck cash vaults. All their money is invested, not hoarded. If you tax the money away, it is no longer invested.

> kicked off a massive concentration of wealth

Wealth creation is not "concentrating" wealth. Wealth is not a fixed pie.

Musk did get government contracts for rockets. If he hadn't successfully delivered the goods, he wouldn't have been paid. Those rockets also cost 10% of what it would have cost NASA otherwise. A government contract is not a subsidy. SpaceX and Starlink were not subsidized.

I subscribe to C. Northcote Parkinson's observation that a 10% flat tax makes for the most prosperous economy while providing sufficient funding for the government. (He's mainly remembered for Parkinson's Law.)

> A lot of that wealth today goes into stock buybacks, speculative assets, and offshore accounts that don’t create jobs or grow the economy.

They do, except for offshore accounts, which benefit other countries. (All investments are speculative.) Stock buybacks are also investments.
Well, I intentionally designed it in a way to avoid any HIPAA issues.

First of all, the system does not analyze data or store any reports tied to personally identifiable information (PII) - so no names, birthdays, emails, security numbers etc.

Also, the analysis report (which again is not tied to any PII) is deleted after user requests the report or at latest in 15min if the user does not request it (aka it expires and is removed completely).

Lastly, the only way to get this report is to consent it being sent to you via (unencrypted) email you provide. You can always opt out and not agree to this and the report will never be linked to any email and will be deleted shortly after.
This actually looks good. It's like a less-obtuse Haskell. At a glance the features seem to be just the right mix of functional programming paradigms and standard imperative programming.
Just wanted to say that i love your app's icon.
It's easy to paint a rosy picture of an imagined better alternative.

> the trillion dollar companies who traffic in fossil fuels are way more politically powerful than the future renewable energy companies

Do names like Solyndra or Northvolt ring a bell? Renewables companies are also capable of being backed by popular politicians and raising billions of dollars in capital; that alone is no guarantee of success. If you're claiming that the diligence of O&G operatives in the shadows is what led to the downfall of these companies, well, that just sounds cartoonish to me, which I suppose is appropriate given the context.

In general, there hasn't been an incumbent in history that was not more politically powerful than upstart startups looking to disrupt their business. That's what being an incumbent means. Yet Ford successfully put carriage-makers out of business, and Tesla took a lot of established carmakers' lunch money. It's a very dim view of the world to suggest that political power, rather than the real-life economics of a new technology actually being better than the old, drives change.

> renewables are already on par with fossil fuels pretty much across the world, and their costs are dropping considerably

If this were true, German industry would not be having quite such a hard time as they are now.

> networks of roads to carry the trucks that move the gas to those gas stations

Roads aren't built to carry gasoline trucks. That's a complete inversion of logic. There's not a single road that would be obviated in a full-EV world. Even the roads going to and from refineries! Plastics will still need to be made.

> If we were starting from scratch, it would cost a fraction of that money to beef up the power grid to supply that power to electric cars in the form of electricity instead

Some estimates are at $2-4T to go full EV[0]. That's hardly a small chunk of change. Have you tried adding a L2 charging port to your home? I have. It cost me about $550 in just the copper wires alone, and the labor of going around the attic adding conduit and pulling wires was a pain in the ass. Scale that up nationwide and I don't see a cheap or easy solution here.

If you're really pressing the "starting from scratch" bit, well, that's an unanswerable hypothetical.

> in the real world, the primary factors keeping fossil fuels around are [...]

In the real world, a gallon of gasoline is roughly 11 kWh of energy (look up how big and expensive a battery of that size is), and I still haven't found a battery-powered mower that mows better than a cheap gas-powered one.

[0]: https://energyanalytics.org/infrastructure-requirements-for-...
Wow! Do you then use white board erasers, chalk board erasers, paper towels, microfiber clothes, squeegees ;P, or what do you use then to erase?
Would you be open to Android? I love the idea
So, How Fast Is Rust Anyway
> results in hardcoding protocol details in application code

Are you suggesting that this could have been implemented a different way? Example: IP could be negotiated to upgrade from v4 to v6? I am curious about your ideas.
> It's a very, very stupid question; asking it is not worthwhile.

I, for one, learned something from your response, so clearly it was a great question and very much worthwhile. How did you manage to end up so horribly wrong?

It is funny how the seemingly well educated on HN hate education so much. A classic case of "I got mine"?
No address space does not mean you have memory, you can reserve gigabytes of address space and your process will still show nothing allocated until you commit it.
Friend link if anyone needs it: https://effective-programmer.com/so-how-fast-is-rust-anyway-...
Crayola make dry erase crayons. No fumes, cool colors
Perhaps some kind of "SD-card multiplexer" arduino project, where you have 50 SD breakout boards all mounted in a tall stack, each with an LED, and maybe a "reset" button if it doesn't detect ejections. Some circuitry in the middle would set each LED status color, and switch which of the 50 is currently connected to a single set of access pins.

It still involves annoying work by humans, but it would be much more straightforward: See a bay that is showing the "idle" color, remove any finished card and put it in the finished-box, grab a card from the to-do box and put it in, then press the button to signal a new card is waiting.

If that process took 6 seconds, 1000 cards would mean 100 minutes of tedious work, but you can spread it over multiple people or (since the card-read takes time) do it in short bursts interspersed with other activities.
>Most IoT applications are not very sensitive to things like latency and what counts as reliability is very much dependent on the situation.

IoT is not about latency. IoT is about devices being behind a NAT which does not allow inbound connections.

With UDP-based HTTP/3 it is possible to do "udp hole punching".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_power

Also, it’s pretty clear we also don’t put our own citizens first either. So the reasons for doing it are clearly not altruistic.
The more you work in software the more you should realize the developers writing security-critical software (in this case the one writing that sanitizer) are often/usually as clueless as you are. The solution? Hard to say.
Ditto, same size, same thing (different brand), cheaper pickup ~ $70 (2024) "Magnetic Glass Board", chose black since it seemed less NPC.

Lots of cool pens on Temu - https://www.temu.com/search_result.html?search_key=Liquid%20...

Also cool. Looks great under a UV light too.
>> upper management tried to gaslight everyone into thinking on-call was just part of normal work and didn’t warrant additional compensation.

> If it's made explicitly clear in the job interview process that on call is expected in a role and if it's enforced evenly across the organization, this can absolutely be normal and ethical—you're on a specific salary and your salary includes on call expectations.

Where this logic breaks down is when on-call expectations are in addition to what a salaried position compensates - a 40-ish hour work week.

Expecting an employee to be paid industry rate for services rendered and then expecting periodic 24-168 hour near real-time availability without compensation is, by definition, "unpaid on-call".
Here's the thing, seizing of crypto is how they intend to fund the "strategic bitcoin reserve".

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-pr...

I might be giving them too much credit, but the conspiracy follows.
So the layoffs make sense?

If you are not responsible for whatever decisions you make, and you don't even make any decisions that amount to anything at all, plus you don't do anything(code, SRE etc) why should you have a job?
From Cognition to Understanding
I used to be friends with some finance guys around 2008 and they told me the same thing. Retail investors are basically suckers to them who can be exploited.
> the position that an impassioned crowd has more right to that property than the owner

That is a blatant straw man. The original position is more or less that nonviolent enforcement action must precede use of force. You are arguing to start off with violence, and even to apply that to perceived precrime ("ongoing or imminent" in your words).

To be fair regarding your wording, depending on your definition of "imminent" and the crime in question I might be able to agree. But that doesn't appear to be the case here.

To the rest of your comment, you seem very politicized. Most of what you wrote is non sequitur to the point that it doesn't seem feasible or worthwhile to respond. An outraged minority on social media is not the "most people" I was referring to (indeed they are a clear minority). The mainstream media exhibiting an agenda about a particular event has approximately nothing to do with the general principles we were supposedly discussing here.

Why should your interest in asserting property rights be permitted to trump human rights and due process?
Are you an LLM
Isopropyl removes all inks and glues. It's incredible.

It's also fantastic to wash your hands with when doing cell and tissue cultures and trying to avoid contamination.
Also it's actually gypsum. Same material plaster and plasterboard is made from.
It already has a package manager. Emacs.
It seems like you would agree then that the use of force should be acceptable as long as you know its asymmetric.

Am I misreading you there?
Doesn't seem to work for any emulators I have (cmd, Windows Terminal, Git Bash, etc.) :(
> "It's not being used", except for nearly half of Google's traffic:

One of the world's largest ISPs, Vodafone, is yet to support IPv6.

What Google supports is irrelevant if your ISP can't handle the traffic.
Polipoems provide daily poems about politics
You'd be surprised how many people don't know this. When I first started working for a multinational it created considerable confusion.

I have workmates in the US who say "we plan to have this done by summer". Fortunately, it only seems that US workmates use seasons as time boundaries.
P.S. Income tax is based on income. If the wealthy were hoarding money, they would realize no income and no taxes will be collected. To generate income, the money has to be invested.
> I bet if you ask ordinary Joe about privacy concerns with voice assistant devices, he'd tell he had no clue.

Because Ordinary Joe is willfully ignorant, not because no one was shouting about privacy concerns.
Yes, and that's why they are removing the 10 layers. It's not working for them any longer either.
Not really. The whole point of quic is that it is built on top of plain old stupid udp, so it does _not_ require any OS level cooperation. The raison d etre of quic was to get rid of interacting with OS developers, convincing them, and patching some old ecomstations, and just "do what we want" in the process level.
Numerical Python: Scientific Computing and Data Science Applications (3rd Ed)