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i saw 6 in the left-right scroller

but when i looked in Firefox Page Info there were some I had not seen on the page. I just grabbed these sorry for dupes or whatever, can't be bothered to clean up. I tried to skip maketing pictures, pictures of the camera

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now this layout is the real UI layout! UX sux and don't download the photo till I click on it, I'm on a modem!

don't even have to get esoteric, a Nikon Z9 body only is $5000 at Target right now

completely different camera but it's a straight up camera and not strange format. for people who are serious/professional about photography multiple thousands is stiff but that's what they cost.

i really can't stand that which is called design today.

I liked interfaces designed by autistic geniuses for other autistic geniuses, they were intuitive and consistent to high IQ people, people who think quickly and structured and hierarchically and of more than one thing at a time, and not design for mediocre people who think slowly and flat and jumbled and painfully and only ever want one choice, the most popular one.

I like designs that acknowledge difference and are configurable. I come from a different culture than designers, and I'm really not interested in them or what they have to say, and I'm not offended that they are not interested in me or my interests. I just don't see why they get what they want but they don't even acknowledge that I might want what I want.

it started with "skinz" for desktop music players: who wants their computer desktop music player to look like an in-dash aftermarket sound system for a car with flourescent segmented displays and many interface compromises for compactness? that does not whip my llama's ass.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yawjaSD__70/hqdefault.jpg

i know i know i give you the urge to downvote me because i don't just say the same things everybody else says because i like diversity of choice.

pithy: Concise and meaningful.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pithy

his prompt might be the result of human creativity but even in that case it's more than likely not to be a copyrightable expression of human creativity.

a copyrightable expression of human creativity in that case would need to be substantial enough in size to carry an imprint exlusive to your boss.

"why'd the chicken cross the road? to get to the other side" is not copyrightable. you can dress it up all you want, "why didst thy chickencock traverseth thee highway?..." etc would not qualify as something that would be exclusively yours/your bosses, because that trick is still rote.

BUT:

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways I like to see you work.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height and number of your pull requests

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight of your overnight toils

For the ends of being and ideal grace you provide me when you ship!

(i'm just extending each line of Elizabeth Barrett Browning https://poets.org/poem/how-do-i-love-thee-sonnet-43 )

that would be copyrightable if it was original to your boss.

The law and interpretation of the law does not have the tidy and necessary obsession with fencepost errors and corner cases. It deals with them by stepping back and saying "what would an ordinary person think should be copyrightable vs what would be more akin to the wordgames that clever nerds on the playground get beat up for?

>isn't prompt design and steering the AI "human creativity"?

yes it is, but that does not make the response by the AI an expression of human creativity and therefore not copyrightable.

If you wrote down your teachings about prompt design and published a book, your expression of your creativity would be copyrightable, but your ideas expressed in the book would not be.

if you-the-creative-human's prompt design was written by you as a computer program, that expression of your ideas would be copyrightable. but other people could just express themselves by typing in what your program does without using your particular expression and would not be stopped by copyright.

it's easy to get in the intellectual weeds questioning this, but just step back to, copyright was intended to give authors an income from their work, without stopping other authors from writing their own works. Everybody gets to write a King Lear play if they want, they just can't copy somebody else's expression of the ideas. What expression is trying to capture is "what makes you different from me, be we alike in most other ways"

as a funny sidelight, the titles of books and movies are not copyrightable nor considered part of the copyrighted work, because they are not considered to, in a sense, "leave enough room to contain expressions of human creativity" although when considered in the larger context might contain creative puns or double meanings that make illuminating sense.

However, the title of a movie may be a trademarked term (like Pokemon, Xformerz, or whatnot) but trademark has a "type" of good or service component (line of business) and the trademark would apply to action figures (dolls) and pajamas (clothing), but not to the film itself.

i wasn't advocating for trade secrets as "equal" or "the way to go", i was trying to explain in simple terms how to think about copyright issues in concordance with the existing legal structures

people here who have not much experience were intellectually trying to reinvent wheels and I wanted to save them time in structuring their arguments. I have been exposed to various tips of the legal iceberg and was thrilled to learn what I learned and trying to pass it on.

it's well known that recipes cannot be copyrighted. But recipes still are protected intellectual property by trade secret law if they are treated as a secret by the holder of the recipe.

Claude code itself is a trade secret, and it is not open source, so its own copyrightability is moot till you get your hands on a copy of it with clean hands.

Recipes cannot be copyrighted because they are not expressions of human creativity. Software written by AIs are also not expressions of human creativity, so the balance is tilted in favor of AI generated copy not being copyrightable.

The Supreme Court or legislation could change this, and I'd guess there will be a movement to go in that direction, but till something like that succeeded it's not so.

>This is sort of why "brand" matters; it provides a source of trust

it tells you more about who you are buying from than how good the product will be, so I guess it's like National ID/Internet ID

>The service changes take affect in August, in large part because they can no longer expect the funding for them to exist by then.

I think a more plausible reason is, "withdraw the services now to get people who want that spending and that service irritated, and therefore more likely to get out and vote for it". Keeping service in place till the vote might supress the vote through complacency.

I'm not passing a value judgement on this top-down pressure on the electorate, governments should in theory be neutral and uphold current law, but governments are populated by politicians, and politicians who advocated this still want to advocate it and give it its best electoral chance. In a like "up is down" sense, people who favor cutting this government expenditure should favor the early cuts, they save money... of course, they don't, just sayin.

you probably have a high wage profession, and you max out FICA etc. and stop paying payroll taxes around April every year. You don't like the income uptick at that point cuz you're just so darned happy to pay payroll taxes? There's a line on the form, you could throw in some more. But housekeepers are also self-employed and those taxes fall much more heavily on them. While they are in a lower tax bracket and pay less as a percentage of their income tax, payroll taxes don't work that way (till somebody chimes in to say "no, Portland Oregon is absolutely confiscatory on this score, we practice Bolshevism!" which would be missing the point)

I seriously don't mind living in America and paying taxes here but, but when better and more efficient tax regimes are available, or when socialist tax proposals derail local economies, I seriously want to educate people about them.

>If a tax is a function of the worker's income, it doesn't really matter (except for nominal terms) whether the worker or employer pays the taxes,

yes, I took a lot of micro (and macro too for that matter) but if what you say were true, neither political party nor activists would go on and on about taxing "corporations". You should direct your comments toward the parties that do that. But of course, you would get downvoted because the parties that do that don't want to hear otherwise. That's what I was doing, trying to explain ecomonics in ways they'd be receptive to, because telling people how things work is always a good thing even if they are not ready to go all the way.

also, in terms of pure micro, indirectly taxing things is never as efficient as directly taxing them, which you are not accounting for. The inefficiency tax in the form of "lower overall employment" is not easily measured even though we know it's quite significant and as impactful as "well this tax averages out the same" when it's not the same.

ah, good correction, that's why the self employed hate them, they have to pay both halves.

the main reason for the distaste is that self-employed people generally fall in the class of people who do a better job preparing for retirement, and the govt old age/retirement systems are not intelligently run, it's more like "money under the bed" that gets raided to pay the current generation of old people rather than being saved not saved for the future. That same money in a private insurance account would offer the better returns as investment accounts do.

the reason the retirement funds are set to go bankrupt is that there are a lot of baby boomers. This is not the baby boomers fault, when govt retirement programs were set up back in the depression era, it gave pension eligibility to people who had not paid into a retirement system, paid for by current workers, and that can kept getting kicked down the road. I don't think anybody wants to see penniless old people, they simply want a government that plans ahead and doesn't keep kicking the can down the road, and doesn't raid pension monies to use as "free money" to pay for other government pork.

>TriMet relies heavily on payroll taxes that are deeply unpopular among the self-employed and small business owners

just a point of clarification, the term "payroll taxes" refers to Social Security and Medicare taxes that are applied to your paycheck; you don't pay them, self-employed and employers pay those. Wage-earners do not pay them directly, but do collect the social security and Medicare benefits that they pay for later in life, so in that sense it's something of a deferred bonus to workers.

Everybody also pays income taxes which are a separate set of taxes, and they are equally hated by all.

"payroll taxes" are called that because they are applied to payrolls of people who pay payrolls. Payroll taxes would not pay for things like mass transit.

>Valid complaints, but contrary to the HN guideline

the site not too long ago banned ai generated content. i don't know if they changed it but pointing out that something was AI would have been following/flagging the rule/violation

an article about a new app is an article about a new app, even if self promotional.

an article that spends most of its time talking about the sunshine and roses of purchasing domains from a domain squatter, even if you are a domain squatter, is an article about domain squatting.

>"we don't need to read it" [here]

many people here don't read the articles, and that's not going to change. (on today's internet, jumping from the site you want to be on to a site with unknown UX patterns is fraught)

but people here do read the comments, so having important details from the articles in comments here improves the quality of comments here, at least if you value staying on topic.

the question isn't whether the user is trusting Plaid with too much access, the question is whether Plaid is trusting these apps with too much.

>LLM-assisted coding is $100/mo. It looks very commoditized when most houses in developed world pay more for electricity than that.

this is a small nit, but you still have to pay your electric bill, the $100/mo is on top of that. if you're doing cost accounting you don't want to neglect any costs. Just because you can afford to lease a car, doesn't mean you can afford to lease a 2nd car.

Poe's Law whoosh

it's a blatant double standard if you have evidence of people "doing it and getting away with it", but you don't, you just suspect it. and it's scapegoating if blame is centered on a person or group to explain away the totality of a widespread (or made up) problem, and that is also not happening here, instead "a person did something" and got arrested.

>Rural kids are put into situations where they are expected to rely fully on themselves, with life-or-death consequences, from a young age.

come to the city, farm boy, and we'll give you a corner you can sling the brown from and we see how you do. we find something fo yo daughters to do too*

*i have absolutely no street smarts, country or city, but I do watch Law & Order and know how to pound a nail and know what to grease the maitre d' to get into the hottest restaurants in town. and beyond that i got friends, some of these guys know people who know people, just sayin

it did not make me wish to engage in political or ideological battle, i found it an interesting reflection of a complicated person's thought process. So, any battling is on you (you no doubt have a lot of company: "don't you dare feed us raw meat, we'll jump up and down in our cages and spill the poop buckets")

reading TFA gave me a complicated perspective on OSC, and reading this comment gave me a more complicated persepctive on OSC, so I'm glad I read both, and I'm glad the long battle scenes were left out of both.

this list of potential victims is from some of the press about this. there are a bunch of articles about this, I may update the list if it's straightforward [ok, i'm updating, filling in details from https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-investigating-wave-myst... and https://www.newsweek.com/nasa-issues-update-missing-nuclear-...]

Below is a timeline and summary of disappearances and deaths between 2025 and 2026, according to OAN [not sure if some of the update/additions are from OAN]:

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Died: 2022 Amy Eskridge—Scientist reportedly researching anti-gravity technology.

July 30, 2023 - Michael David Hicks—Research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory; worked on the DART Project and Deep Space 1 mission.

July 4, 2024 – Frank Maiwald: The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory researcher died in Los Angeles at age 61, with no cause of death disclosed.

May 4/May 8, 2025 – Anthony Chavez: The former Los Alamos National Laboratory employee vanished.

June 22, 2025 – Monica Reza: Director of Materials Processing at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory working on a government‑funded rocket materials project overseen by McCasland [see next entry], this NASA scientist went missing during a hike in the Angeles National Forest, reportedly disappearing just yards from others in her group.

February 27, 2026 – William Neil McCasland: The retired Air Force general left his New Mexico home and has not been seen since. [McCasland also was privy to much UFO data]

June 26, 2025 – Melissa Casias: A Los Alamos administrative assistant disappeared from her residence; her mobile devices had been wiped.

August 28, 2025 - Steven Garcia—Government contractor at the Kansas City National Security Campus in Albuquerque.

December 12, 2025 – Jason Thomas: The Novartis researcher working on cancer treatments went missing, prompting a search that ended when his body was recovered from a lake on March 17, 2026.

December 15, 2025 – Nuno Loureiro: The head of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center was fatally attacked at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. [wasn't that by the disgruntled former classmate of his from 25 yrs ago in Spain? doesn't mean it's not connected but]

February 16, 2026 (August 2025?) – Carl Grillmair: Caltech astrophysicist who worked on NASA’s NEOWISE and NEO Surveyor missions, he was shot on his front porch during the early morning.

>lower margins (more middlemen taking fees)

middlemen taking fees is not the measure for comparison, the question is whether you could run your own ad business for your own platform and keep your costs lower than established players who sell on all platforms. the answer is generally "no"

look how much money coca cola makes, and they sell it cheaper than water and still pay for advertising!! we should all make our own coke and not advertise it...

reagan was not remotely neoliberal (though he was a disillusioned former socialist and union leader) but he did knock liberalism off its perch.

it was clinton who delivered the democrats to wall street and vice versa

in another comment you just said "When was the last time you kept a phone longer than 2-3 years?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834195#47842655

how do you square that position with your stance here on e-waste as it applies to other people who are apparently ruining the planet?

> - Invasion of Grenada (Grenadian Military) > - Rating: Poor > - Note: A very small force with limited heavy weaponry and minimal organizational depth.

> - Gulf War (Iraq) > - Rating: Competent (on paper) / Incompetent (in execution) > - Note: Iraq held the world's fourth-largest army at the time with modern Soviet equipment, but failed significantly in command, control, and air superiority.

> - Iraq War (Ba'athist Iraq) > - Rating: Poor > - Note: By 2003, the military was severely degraded by a decade of sanctions and previous losses; it collapsed within weeks of the conventional invasion.

the lesson of those wars to the US is, like sports teams, we need to deploy our forces in kinetic actions regularly or we lose our edge, lose touch with the battlefield and capabilities of opponents.

peace is better than war, of course, but you need to look at the progress of history as a stochastic process, and if you skip all the little wars because you have a choice, you will be ill-prepared for the big wars when they are thrust upon you. maybe call the little conflicts "friendlies", we need to compete in the friendlies to be ready for the unfriendlies.

>America hasn’t faced a peer-level, modern military since the Korean War. For seventy years, it has specialized in "wars of choice" against overmatched opponents

America has not faced any wars in its own "theater", it's own backyard; rather, it has "chosen" to fight wars that seemed important enough to travel halfway round the world, bringing lots of stuff. One of the American military's strengths is logistics, both getting there and on the battlefield.

>mistaking uncontested airspace for actual invincibility.

America pioneered and still leads in combined arms fighting doctrine and capabilities, and that basically requires air superiority as the first step. There's no mistake, it is creating uncontesed airspace (which starts with creating the capabilites) that enables victory at low casualty rates. It's not so much invincibility as "convincing vincibility" of opponents.