skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Supporting it is not the same as mandating it (which it effectively has)

2. You're saying that Debian made this choice because of a choice by GNOME. But - was GNOME strong-armed by commercial interests?

3. AFAIK, The dependence of GNOME on systemd was broken quite easily (IIANM mostly by using a forked elogind).
> My best anime conventions were taking by dragging huge amounts of equipment to the con. Here they do them at ugly places with ugly backgrounds and not a lot of nature or anything attractive nearby. My solution was borrowing Canon's 85mm f/1.2. That's a $3600 humongous chunk of glass, but boy does it work. At conventions people put a lot of work into the costumes -- a 50mm f/1.4 may do okay headshots, but little else.

Cosplay is a good example. To unify this with what the article is saying, in my experience if someone takes the time to find a suitable, well-lit setting, then even if they use a phone they'll get a better photoshoot than any amount of expensive camera can get them. But of course if you're trying to shoot dozens of people in a few days at a convention then equipment that will deliver under less-than-optimal conditions hugely improves what you can do in the time and space available.
I’ve been meaning to get around to trying Samba’s AD emulation for several years now.

AD has been very solid in my experience. Samba has big shoes to fill in my mind. Is it really workable as an AD replacement for a real production AD environment today?
What is the use-case for a permissive license that does not permit use by code-fragment-compiler AI systems?
Robert Carver, who used to work at a hedge fund, has a book on these ideas, "Systematic Trading".
I read most of the complaint. The only examples of supposed copyright infringement are isEven and isPrime functions. Here's what Copilot gives me in a Typescript file:

function isPrime(n: number): boolean {
for (let i = 2; i < n; i++) {
if (n % i === 0) {
return false;
}
}
return n > 1;
}

function isEven(n: number): boolean {
return n % 2 === 0;
}

These are clearly not covered by copyright in the first place. This case is really quite pathetic.
Composition has always been intuitive to me for whatever reason, but I also grew up obsessing over the work of Lothar Wolleh so maybe that had a big part in it.

A big improvement that most new photographers are taught in school is to pay attention to the background. Obviously the subject is important, but you should be able to account for everything you want (or don't want) in the photo.
> You're not paying for forwarding, you're paying for someone to host a whole email stack for you (and the associated dev work such as on clients).

I know, and I love ProtonMail (for example) for that, but my use would just be forwarding and not storage or access. In my use case it would feel like overpaying.

> You can choose to use a "free" provider like Gmail if you're ok with paying with your data and a lack of features (such as not being able to use a custom domain).

It's versus G Suite Free (which is my secondary, "online name" email), my main (real name) email has to stay at Gmail because I'm afraid of the mountain of account resets I'd have to do. To be fair, this whole value consideration was back when Google were threatening to kill off G Suite Free entirely (a few months ago), so it was paid-versus-paid then.

> Also by the way, Fastmail is half the price you list at $5/month

Fair, $10/month was off the top of my head.
It wasn't long ago when I felt 1.2% was a good CD rate. Now I'm canceling all of them to move to online savings account paying 2-2.5x that amount.
The thing about Robinhood seems to be fee-free options trading. I don't think any other broker does this
What to do after you launch
Nope. It looks like you are waiting for a new Hollywood film about war in Iraq instead of reading and watching evidence. You cannot even open the Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMD_conjecture_in_the_aftermat...
Or better yet, a Windows VM under Linux.
I've been telling myself I'd buy the next flagship AMD since before Vega. I think I might actually do it this time!

AV1 encode is exciting. The rumormill has been going back & forth between monolithic vs chiplet. Cool to see they seemingly did it. It definitely comes at some kind of power cost, some struggle, but given the expense of modern processes it just seems infeasible to build cutting edge chips at the dame huge sizes. This had to happen, so faults in fabbing affect smaller pieces of the chip.

My only ask here is, I wish AMD would add some USB4 outputs. It's not normal- monitors arent built for it but they could be- but ideally with 60w+ power delivery too. Add pcie/thunderbolt. Make this the io card of the computer.
Ford has no trouble selling vehicles at their current prices, so I think they have nothing to gain by competing downward with themselves for a niche vehicle that appeals to people who want a utilitarian basic low-priced vehicle.

If you want something spartan you may have to look at a less regulated market like motorcycles.
That makes sense, thanks. Grepping for C syntax casts with arbitrary stuff between the parens is clearly not going to work.
I found the sweet summer child thing to be snarky as well for what it's worth.
If all the sea ice in the world melted the water would rise 70 meters. I think that’s something like what the post you’re replying to is alluding.
I don't see how you could eliminate the bottleneck in prestigious universities since if they are widely accessible, by definition they would no longer be prestigious.

IMHO, the best way forwards is for folks to push for the expansion of the size and power of the middle class by any means possible (government policies as well as simply patronizing small businesses with our money). We don't need a ruling elite that holds power partially by their common participation in 'prestigious' educational institutions. Those institutions demonstrably do not provide the best education, they should not serve as gatekeepers to power.
I can’t tell if you disagree with the rest of my comment or didn’t bother to read it…

That’s literally not the definition of proprietary.

You download proprietary software when you navigate to (nearly) every webpage. Just because a website like HN sends you (possibly unobfuscated) HTML, CSS, and JS over the wire in plain-text does not mean those files are not proprietary. Those files are covered by copyright in the U.S.

Access to the source code is not sufficient for that source code to be FOSS.

You also failed to acknowledge leaked source code and bytecode decompilation, which were a substantial portion of my comment.
Automated platforms such as twitter certainly play a role in the social media landscape. But in Brazil they are not dominant. Whatsapp rules supreme and is the primary source for news for over 75% of Brazilians. Viral content here starts on Whatsapp and flows out to twitter, instead of the other way around. Some viral content does get bombarded, but it's actively done so by humans instead of by recommendation algorithms.
how times have changed
It’s announced alongside new iOS versions at WWDC and Apple doesn’t break out new iCloud features separate from their new OS feature pages.
> This is a good idea, except that it assumes _reputation_ has some directional value upon which everyone agrees.

Reputation is inherently subjective. I think any technological solution that treats reputation as an objective value that's the same for everyone won't work if applied to any kind of diverse community, but I don't see any problem with a technical solution that computes a high reputation score for that TV star among his fans, and a low score among people who aren't fans.

(It's also sometimes worthwhile to consider negative reputation, which behaves differently than positive reputation in some ways. Not all communities should have reputation systems that have a concept of negative reputation, but in some kinds of communities it might be necessary.)
Is the status quo today akin to the story of The Emperor's New Clothes?
People ask me about my Pebble fairly regularly. I think they mostly notice the rainbow watch band I have, then realize it doesn't look like a Apple Watch.
Windows Server has a vast ecosystem of skilled technicians, vendors, and MSPs who maintain the installation in the closet of every barber shop, high school, auto parts distributor, and dental clinic in North America. These institutions don't have & wouldn't be able to get the expertise to run their own Linux servers in the same way. That's what Windows Server is for. But as applications migrate to SaaS and the cloud, the operational capabilities of random small customers stop being relevant. Microsoft is trying to catch up to this with Azure, and Azure is embracing Linux, because that's how the internet-scale backend game is played.
Slightly modified, since microsoft is the sole gatekeeper of which software can be run on their heavily subsidized (anti competitive) hardware.
I have been looking for something exactly like this, Obsidian with a calendar plugin didn't feel right and I don't like that https://reflect.app is online and Apple only. However two immediate gripes

1. The name is kinda forgettable or weird, I installed it this morning and every time I go to pull it up I have to think to remember the app

2. Dark mode is nice and all but some people like myself cannot use it https://jessicaotis.com/academia/never-use-white-text-on-a-b... so consider a light theme or even better a soft palette
It’s free for the people who need it the most. People that pay little or no taxes because they are poor.
> that there is speed-of-light quantum communication within the brain

What does this even mean?
Chaos, confusion reign ahead of Twitter layoffs
Think some of the negativity about Copilot may be the perception that if an individual or small startup attempted training an ML model from public source-code and commercialised a service from it they would be drowning in legal issues from big companies not happy with their code used in such a product.

In addition just because code is available publicly on GitHub does not necessarily mean it is permissively licensed to use elsewhere, even with attribution. Copyright holders not happy with their copyrighted works publicly accessible can use the DMCA to issue take-downs that GitHub does comply with but how that interacts with Copilot and any of its training data is a different question.

As much as the DMCA is bad law rather funny seeing Microsoft be charged in this lawsuit with the less known provision against 'removal of copyright management information'. Microsoft does have more resources to mount at defence so it will probably end up different compared to a smaller player facing this action.
Hey at least this way you don’t look back at 20 years and see how good you used to look in that suit.
> I'm assuming you're in HR?

No, I am also an SWE as well. I am a manager though, so I understand the “corporate” side of things and what it takes to fire and lay people off. It definitely sucks being on that side too.

> The same people constantly tooting their own horn about how respectful and human-centred they were would go out of their way to rip the soul and humanity out of everything they touched.

Jeez, it sounds like you worked for a terrible place. And I would be unsurprised if it was just HR because those attitudes usually get pervasive. I’m sorry you had that experience.
I'm one of those who are against copyrights, but fully support this movement, for 2 reasons:

1) If Github Copilot is a free software liscensed under GPL, I'm all for it. Microsoft is using other's collective hard labour to benefit itself.

2) Its Microsoft. The king of dark patterns, monopolization, and the enemy of software freedom. They can't have their cake and eat it too.
Timescale wrote their Promscale extension for Postgres in Rust. So it exists.
Moreover, if this case wins, it threatens to disrupt one of the biggest technological progressions of all time.

AI/ML will change every field just as the Internet and smartphones did. It doesn't show any indication of peaking, either.

If the US chooses the wrong path here, we'll only tie our hands behind our backs. Other countries won't be so foolish.

We should be able to train on any media a child could see, hear, or read.
Netflix 4K is pretty low bitrate. I haven’t checked recently but was not seeing anything approaching 20mbps last time I looked. That said, it looked pretty good.
https://www.schwab.com/cd-rates-test

1-3 month CDs are 3.9%
You mix up concepts. The client app is responsible for e2ee, you don't have to care about the server.

So you can actually audit the client code and make sure it is e2ee, which you cannot do with WhatsApp. In other words, for e2ee you must trust WhatsApp, not Signal.

I presume that for the outdated code, you think about the server code. That's different and would imply metadata, not message content.

Signal is e2ee, and you don't have to trust them for that.
> everyone who isn't a complete idiot knows that animals are not stupid

To be fair the article doesn't claim anything like that. We already knew that crows are smart, but it turns out they are smarter than we thought.
I use MIT- and BSD-licensed code at work in a closed-source commercial system. The documentation for our system acknowledges our use of the open-source code, and I'm sure the authors are proud to be part of our codebase (with attribution). That's the use-case.
If you want to add an initrd, create an EFI payload: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_kernel_image#Manual...

$ stub_line=$(objdump -h "/usr/lib/systemd/boot/efi/linuxx64.efi.stub" | tail -2 | head -1)

$ stub_size=0x$(echo "$stub_line" | awk '{print $3}')

$ stub_offs=0x$(echo "$stub_line" | awk '{print $4}')

$ osrel_offs=$((stub_size + stub_offs))

$ cmdline_offs=$((osrel_offs + $(stat -c%s "/usr/lib/os-release")))

$ splash_offs=$((cmdline_offs + $(stat -c%s "/etc/kernel/cmdline")))

$ linux_offs=$((splash_offs + $(stat -c%s "/usr/share/systemd/bootctl/splash-arch.bmp")))

$ initrd_offs=$((linux_offs + $(stat -c%s "vmlinuz-file")))

$ objcopy \

--add-section .osrel="/usr/lib/os-release" --change-section-vma .osrel=$(printf 0x%x $osrel_offs) \

--add-section .cmdline="/etc/kernel/cmdline" \

--change-section-vma .cmdline=$(printf 0x%x $cmdline_offs) \

--add-section .splash="/usr/share/systemd/bootctl/splash-arch.bmp" \

--change-section-vma .splash=$(printf 0x%x $splash_offs) \

--add-section .linux="vmlinuz-file" \

--change-section-vma .linux=$(printf 0x%x $linux_offs) \

--add-section .initrd="initrd-file" \

--change-section-vma .initrd=$(printf 0x%x $initrd_offs) \

"/usr/lib/systemd/boot/efi/linuxx64.efi.stub" "linux.efi"

The resulting linux.efi" can be added directly with efibootmgr, and contains the kernel boot parameters (cmdline)
Moxie is not at Signal anymore.
Of all the Linux package managers (sans 'frontends/wrappers'), RPM is probably the least horrible.
Personally when I look at the tech section I want to hear what's new in technology (I guess you'd call this marketing), not politics and gossip about what some rich meathead said. Put politics in the politics section, and the gossip in the tabloids.
So, it isn't clear to me which of these clauses you are citing grants them the forced right to "Copilot" (which I'm using as a verb to avoid defining what stage of production we are talking about) that wasn't granted by the license of the code, but let's assume for a moment that you are correct: that just means that GitHub as a service makes no sense, right? Like, there are a ton of people using GitHub to develop using code I've published in the past... code which is under various of these example licenses, and which I've never myself (as the copyright holder) published to GitHub (and, in fact, would never as I despise GitHub). There are also a number of very popular projects--such as the Linux kernel--which people no only upload to GitHub but which have official mirrors of on GitHub where no party even owns the copyright in order to agree to these terms of service. Meaning, if you are correct, GitHub is often being used illegal and a ton of the source code they are training against wasn't legally provided to them in the first place.
Is there evidence of this besides some guys claims? Did it affect all tech reporters or did a strange manager lie and affect just a couple?

> Social media companies have been steadily usurping the power that traditional media once had. It's also a fight among the professional-managerial class over who gets to have power and define what 'truth' is

This seems really...ironic. The benefit of the news over social media is that the former has a reputation for being reliable, explicitly saying "you can only cover X positively" or "you can only cover X negatively" is a really good way to destroy both. If true, this actually makes social media more reliable than the news, because news reporters can be fired and their articles not published, but it is actually very hard to censor millions of people and 100% control the dialogue or punish anonymous users beyond banning them.
Google doesn't sell its search feature as a product that you can just plagiarize the results from and they're yours. Microsoft does that with Copilot.

Copilot is as much of a search engine as Stable Diffusion or DALL-e are, which is to say they aren't at all. If you want to compare it to a search engine, despite it being a tortured metaphor, the most apt comparison is not to Google, but to The Pirate Bay if TPB stored all of their copyrighted content and served it up themselves.
It's probably that, I'm just used to calling webview apps "Electron" out of habit. Changed the word.

Either way, it felt really bad coming off the native, animated, efficient Office UI. And I'm usually not against Electron/webview apps.
Interesting thought.
Is Robinhood that common in the crypto world? I know they support it, but I would have guessed it was an “also” feature rather than a driver.
This is no good for middle class day traders
I remember when BLM was becoming a thing. I was working with a rapidly scaling concurrent system.

We had already gone through every variation of “master” and “slave” and had code using it to describe the various relationships.

“Slave” was a worker whose behavior was exclusively and directly defined by the “master”, “minions” had more autonomy, etc.

Eventually the terminology expanded and lost all sense and reason. Just our own in-house jargon.

If we could do it over we would have chosen something different, but we were fighting for solvency at that point.

COVID really messed stuff up.
> The day they push some proprietary or oddly licensed technology to be integrated into their
> Linux is the day a thousands alerts should be raised into the community.

EFI boot?
Why would anyone trust a financial institution with their money when they have acted like Robinhood as acted?

This is a fundamental question.
The same kind of polarizing, brinkmanship-like content that people complain comes from social media algorithms is present on spades on every non-algorithmic community I've spent time on: from HN, to Usenet, to Matrix/Discord rooms, to 4chan. I used to agree with this consensus but even after trying to concertedly avoid these platforms I find this kind of content throughout every English-speaking community even on topics that aren't politics. I've changed my viewpoint; while algorithms don't help, I think getting angry at them is just shooting the messenger.
Throwing big numbers around without a little context makes understanding the feasibility hard.

How much is Twitter currently spending? How much are other big social media firms spending in comparison?
Search Pipeline: Part I
Crypto was responsible for approximately 35% of Robinhood's revenue in 2021.
My interest in gear has always been a sort of nerdy sideline of the actual photography. After 20+ years, I get just as much fun out of trying new/different gear as I do actually taking photos.

I also personally hate editing photos (its just boring), so getting it as close to perfect in the camera as possible is an important point for me.
The government is ultimately the 'buyer' of the stolen goods. They are the ones that demand the catalytic convert be installed. Government created the risk for theft when they created this black market incentive. They have all the incentives and tools to lower the risk they took wherever possible.
Depends what you are trying to do.

Vanguard, Fidelity, Schwab, TD Ameritrade (while they are still separate-ish) all have different pros and cons.

What do you need?
I use Vuetify for this. There’s a million lines of CSS under the hood but I end up writing maybe 5 lines of CSS per project, not counting all the layout and color classes I attach to elements.

Tailwind is similar, except that Vuetify components are appearance + functionality. Whereas Tailwind is appearance-only.
If people are constantly complaining about the same thing, the thing should be fixed. Then you'll have no more complaints about the thing or people complaining about complaints about the thing. I'm tackling world peace next.
As a general comment about fears of layoffs and being rehired. Keep in mind the scale of these layoffs vs jobs reports. Sep Jobs report 263000[1] jobs added. The layoffs this year (according to layoffs.fyi) are about 195000-- less than a single month's added. Yes they're not the same job, yes they're likely at a lower total comp. But we're not talking about everyone having No job like in the great depression. We're talking about people having to shift into the sectors that are growing and maybe tighten up their budgets.

Now, as for where my real concern is imagine making even $15 an hour and finding out that necessities[2] are outpacing your already pay check to pay check life? I really feel for those folks who didn't over leverage themselves and are suffering despite working full time.

Remember that fear is a tool the capital class uses as leverage against those without options (or who believe they dont have options). Things like getting you to accept lower pay than they know they can offer, scaring you to take on excess load so they can fire your friends, and controlling the narrative and getting in front of it so they can profit when the masses shift sentiment. Focus on making yourself independent, resilient, and generally informed, and you'll have far more negotiating power.

[1]: https://blog.dol.gov/2022/10/07/september-2022-jobs-report-s...

[2]: https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2022/consumer-prices-up-9-1-per... eg Fuel to get to work is up 40% .
The Fed giveth, the Fed taketh away.
That's a bizarre and unfounded accusation. Author of WebP worked on JPEG XL, and Google has shipped AVIF which includes tech from Mozilla, Nokia, and many others.
You didn't read the relevant part of the complaint. It starts on document page 14 (PDF page 17). There's a clear footnote:

> Due to the nature of Codex, Copilot, and AI in general, Plaintiffs cannot be certain these examples would produce the same results if attempted following additional trainings of Codex and/or Copilot.

The offending solution from the AI included extra lines that are reasonably understood to come straight from Eloquent JavaScript:

console.log(isEven(50));
// → true
console.log(isEven(75));
// → false
console.log(isEven(‐1));
// → ??
I do miss the time when whimsical stuff like that was commonplace. Even if it wasn't always original or super funny, some of it was, and it was nice that the Internet was a place for those things.
I certainly think it tells us something about RH. You don't see Vanguard or Fidelity losing a third of their userbase in a year.