skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> getting an electricians license.

I suspect you may be surprised by what's actually involved in that. Some locations it may not be a big deal, others it really is.
I don’t think the naysayers are worried about bandwidth
Google's "leaks" generate hype and let consumers start to build their holiday gift lists.
But if it's more than halfway to Alpha Centauri, then 1) it shouldn't be gravitationally bound to the sun at all, at least not in the direction of Alpha Centauri, and 2) Alpha Centauri may have its own Oort cloud, which means that this stuff would be continuous from near Sol to near Alpha Centauri.

How strong is the data that the Oort cloud ends at 3 light years? Is it possible that it is just part of the interstellar medium instead?
In Windows, default applications are registered either by URL scheme (so ftp, http, https, gopher...) or file extension (.txt, .html, .pdf, .mp4...). As far as I know there is no special registration for "browsers" specifically, you just register your application as a handler for whatever protocols and file formats you want.

So if you want to make your random executable be "a browser", my guess is you should register it as a handler for http, https, and .html, at least.
All I see in the article is the discussion of "profits".

I would think the PR department could come up with something about "trying to keep costs competitive for our customers" or something like that. Instead they're telling California and Florida customers to take a hike ... along with 11% of their employees.

When is the last time we heard a company enact a company-wide, 50% cut in officer's salaries and a freeze on their compensation?
I can't tell if this comment is sarcasm or not
hopefully the "inside EEA" flag will be stored somewhere in registry
Virgin Galactic’s president explains how VSS Unity is now flying frequently
This feels misleading.

Social media platforms were removing content discussing lab leak theories, and there's enough evidence of government officials colluding with those platforms generally to suspect they could have played a role in that.

That's apart from the scientific community itself, which is what this hearing is ostensibly about.
> 2023-08-15: Notepad++ v8.5.6 without the fixes was released.

> 2023-08-21: Publishing according to our coordinated disclosure policy.

I read it as NOT fixed.
My extremely overpowered device is literally half the size (both weight and depth) of what I had a few years ago.
If the browser market share figures between EU and non-EU now start to diverge, it would really strengthen the case to sue microsoft in the USA...
The battery needed makes bluetooth headphones completely unsustainable.

Their headphones might have a replaceable battery, but headphones do not necessarily need one at all. Their earphones even have a baked in battery that is not replaceable. And in general, not having a headphone jack pushes consumers to buy bluetooth devices, of which almost none have replaceable batteries (the fairbuds-xl are the big outlier). It's an ecological disaster.
Replaced the battery in my 5yo OnePlus 6 the other day for exactly this reason.

Apart from the previously low battery life there's absolutely no other reason for me to upgrade. The camera is good enough, the screen is good enough, weight, screen size, expandable storage all good enough.
According to the article, just opening a malicious file may lead to arbitrary code execution, no?
Edit: will -> may
> Not every mental disability makes people stupid enough to make them need a filtered internet.

It's not about being stupid, it's about being vulnerable. Also it may not be appropriate in every case. I am also weary of removing the ability to access the internet from otherwise functioning adults. I've not quite happy to have a solid stance on it just yet.

As I said: "[..] a filtered version of the internet should be available to you." - That's to say that they can choose to use it. It's not ideal, but it would be opt-in at least for example on a doctor's recommendation.

> [..] people like you [..]

I'm making the case for an unfiltered internet, and I want as many people as reasonable to be able to access it. My suggestion was a compromise.

> As someone in that category, but still able to think, if people like you nerf my internet, the amount of rage and anger that I will unleash upon society is going to be endless.

I don't know your your specific scenario, but despite your fundamental rights, it may for example be prudent not to give you access to a gun, despite your want for one, or claims of rage and anger unleashed upon society.

Also we haven't really discussed (for good reason) what such filtering would look like, or who would control it. That's a difficult situation in itself. There's not really a person or group I would trust with such power.

Edit: Spelling/grammar.
> Really setting aside the divisive political positions that have poisoned the debate in the US

yeah but if you believe lab leak then you are probably also an anti-fauci anti-vax anti-masker qanon trumper who gets all your news from tucker carlson and laura ingraham
>I wonder why not EU but rather EEA

No big mystery: because EEA countries agreed to the ruling to make that a requirement and not just EU countries?

There is tons of stuff applicable at the EEA level, it's quite common. After all the purpose of EEA is to have common regulatory framework.
> If you allow unqualified labor do "refills", there will be food contamination and people will die!

If they're still the same machines from decades past when I worked at McDonald's then refilling the machine is just dumping a bag of mix in the container on the top. It doesn't take much qualifications. Slightly easier than refilling a printer.
as someone who is now fully accustomed to using an ubuntu derivative for my machine, i find this absurd but at the same time, fitting.

one of the most fascinating ideas that got ingrained in the last 50 years was the idea that TV HAD commercials. a 30 minute show would be only 22 minutes while 8 would be reserved for ADS. since the ads were part of the programming, there was no other alternative but to sit through them.

Today, youtube has the same in video ads and people just sit through them. Its not jarring or making them feel uneasy because thats the same thing on TV as well.

Now, microsoft is adopting the same thing, I'd say apple too because i recently after a long time tried an apple device and the music app was pushing HARD to get the music + or something. Plus, app store now has ADS. on a thousand dollar phone. in a first party app.

i remember the stupid reasoning of xiaomi when they started having ads in the system (oh we are just subsidizing cost of phone with ads) that did nothing to help pricing but gave them additional revenue source. fuck them.

i have a moto phone which has stock apps. 0 ads. all apps are uninstallable without any fusss. i dont have google signed in the phone. i have pi-hole at home.

here is my idea. imagine if i buy a mobile in cash and don't connect it to internet, am i really causing any financial harm to anyone? if no then removing ads should not affect anyone also.

"think of the creators" is often talked on youtube ad blocking.

what about microsoft and apple who shove ads on a paid software and a paid device? why should i see ads there? what "benefit" do i gain? same for google ads across the web.

not to talk about tracking
Yes, getting Microsoft's disrespect was worth it.
Your mistake is expecting Wikipedia to be a reliable source on issues that concern the terminally online.
I always said it: they should work more on their code, not on which kiss-up political title the next version will have.
Same organization whose members bring a snow ball into the Senate to disprove climate change. Zero genuine interest in how the science is conducted.
Not supporting major browsers doesnt feel like "thriving tech industry"

Sounds like cheap ass startups or poorly executing corpos
Is that a sincere question or are you being glib? These models are still expensive to run at scale and probably don't compete with the phone in your pocket for tracking accuracy over a long time.
it's subject to interference, uses more battery and will just not work if you really need it.

anecdote: had a ten year old premium car with "bluetooth" but could not manage to pair it with anything - supposedly the used bt-standard is outdated or something
Hopefully towards the direction of making self-hosting easy for everyone
https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/sajx...

I'd post a teddit or libreddit but 429 https://teddit.net/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/sajxyf/o... https://libreddit.acor.is/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/s...
No, they get the benefit of tariff-free and non-tariff-barrier-free trade in goods and services with EU members. That's a huge deal.
I'm loving M$ having to admit they're intentionally abusing their users by disrespecting their preferences even when it would cost them nothing to do so.
With a warrant, maybe. But would the power company unilaterally cut you because you, say had a neon sign that said ${something you might find on 4chan} on the front lawn?
It’s strictly the regulatory burden of EU membership without any of the benefits of the club.

That's not really true if you are living in one of those countries (I live in one of those countries). In general, we get the protections that the EU gives its people and I get free travel within the zone. Lots of little things like my phone working without outrageous charges when I travel to most places here, too.
Fox Sports Taps Google Cloud for Generative AI Capabilities
The media industry is a rich place for the Gen AI industry .. but most applications seem to be around clip generation, subtitling, etc. I haven't seen too many innovations around product placement, or automatic video generation for UGC.
i call bs

headphone jack can be made watertight no problem
See also the list in the official docs:

https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/community/community-in...
I think they wrote "lightweight text editor" but really they meant lightweight editors, with a loose classification of full-blown IDEs as heavyweight and everything lighter as lightweight, VSCode being the heaviest in the lightweight category.
Or better yet, a registry flag to enable browser choice.
EEA = EU + EFTA. The EEA forms the “European single market”. The EFTA states adopt most of the relevant legislation from the EU. So it’s normal that product policies apply to the whole of the EEA instead of just to the EU.
Nice to see people are considering other languages than python.
Microsoft is clearly playing on Ultra Violence level here in an attempt to force as much Edge market share as technically possible. I guess someone pretty high up has their bonuses tied to those numbers.
+ Switzerland and Turkey
Yeah mine was a citation of those saying EU hasn’t big tech due to regulations
EEA countries get freedom of movement with the EU, among other things. An EEA citizen can work in an EU country without any other requirements.
Microsoft is determined to make users use Edge + Bing.
There was a recent NYT article about this (why ppl believe the lab leak hypothesis). Was eye opening for me. I read the Vanity Fair article and believed it, too.
The Relentless Rise of Stablecoins
Yeah, yeah

This doesn't sound like good faith, but in case it is, it would by pennywise and pound foolish to let them have an exception. In the immediate term better linux drivers would be good, but the precedent that companies don't have to respect GPL would open the doors to linux getting torn apart by big players that want to use it exclusively for their own gain. It would be horrible for the FOSS movement, and we would have traded it for some better drivers.
I can recommend https://github.com/rcmaehl/MSEdgeRedirect
>>you read up on the Kiwifarms

You should read up on what actually happened, one a unbiased source. Which si not Wikipedia.
>It almost makes you wonder if there's some sort of McDonald's kickback scheme here.

Given that there's been a lawsuit between the OEM and the startup making mods for the machine for 2 years and no such documents have been found in discovery, my guess is no.
Well, you could plausibly argue right this moment that those strict regulatory burdens are a benefit of the club - since in this case they're benefiting from those regulations curbing abuse from international companies

Something which almost certainly wouldn't happen if they passed these laws by themselves, rather than as part of a much larger economic area.

But otherwise... I mostly agree with you. Lots of laws, not much representation.
Who cares? It's just business.
Welcome to the fuck-you world of trying to help people! Just remember many will thank you as well.
Does that mean I can use a headless browser as default ?
There aren’t any viable alternatives to ZFS, however. It would be easier to swap out the rest of the OS.
> Ultimately though, these are real effects - the reasons why the actions were taken may control the framing (brilliant strategists vs accident genius vs desperate cornered CEO), I am not sure that framing matters all that much.

Seems to me the state of mind of leadership is pretty crucial in knowing what the future of these models will be.

If the strategy is to release interesting-but-not-business-relevant R&D results as a reputation-building/recruiting tool, we might expect other models in the future, but no big effort to maintain models after release, and models that make a big competitive advantage to be kept secret.

If the high level strategy is to enable ML content creation so you can sell ads alongside it, we might expect Facebook to adopt friendly policies towards such content.

If the strategy is to gain investor confidence about the future of the company, we might think after their reputation is established, flashy demos of closed models will serve just as well as open models.

If the strategy is to mess up Google's revenue streams with for no particular benefit to Meta, it's hard to know what else we'd expect - or if peace could break out and their strategy might change completely.
2014
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nintendo-boss-cuts-salary-save-job...

2019
https://www.hcamag.com/us/news/general/ceo-sets-70k-minimum-...
not really

i know a handful of ppl that have phones above 500euros, but most don't because they have other priorities or kids that might wreck it
Because companies only ever respect user choice for two reasons. 1. it coincidentally makes them money, 2. they're forced to by government. In the US it's interesting to see that state governments are increasingly pushing on several issues (albeit sometimes for dubious reasons), but the federal government is somehow chronically AFK.
I don't think so. Silver nanoparticles are chemistry. This is stabbing.
I wonder if this is linked to the other HN entry [1] titled "Windows 11 will respect default browser for system apps in the European Union."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37320786
> I wouldn't return to more rural areas if 100% WFH is possible.

.....Then this isn't about you?

Not every solution has to be 100% perfect for every person. What FirmwareBurner suggests is a very good idea, and would unquestionably be helpful and attractive to many.

If you don't want to take advantage of it, then just...don't?
See if the root of this question is in distrust in people.

Which originates in distrust in yourself.
When considering things that won't likely affect me personally, I wonder if I'd be willing to suffer the consequences to pay for the reasoning. I imagine myself in the shoes of those that will be affected. This tends to be complicated.

Would I be willing to put my sons in that position: being innocent? That's easy, no.

Would I be willing to have someone guilty of harming my son go free? That's harder.

Would I be willing to go to prison for an innocent man? And I don't mean with the hope of going free. The understanding is, would I be willing to give up my life so that another would stay in prison?

I do this for a lot of stuff that has a moral complexity. Would I be willing to suffer for this outcome? Sometimes the answer comes easily: yes, I would. It forces me to think through the ramifications of what I'm asking others to do. It's not easy, because it forces me to come to terms with my moral desires and my practical desires. And all of this is really a mind game anyways, it's not real. It's speculative. I don't know how I would react if I was really put into a position.

Apologies, this wasn't directly related to the topic itself, but the post made me think of this.
That's not quite it.

The US doesn't, in general, give any extra rights or protections to its people without a bit of force, and then one is lucky.

Hence, no real consumer protection (which would include this). No signing of a thing giving rights for children, and so on. The rights folks legally have were grand enough 200 years ago, but have become substandard over time with little upgrading.
> Intuition pump: imagine the postal service opening every letter to check to see if someone's organising a letter writing campaign sending abuse to George Washington

Just on this specific point: this is not a particularly weird scenario at all. There are very strong rules about what you can and cannot send in the mail, and these rules are enforced. The most obvious example is the Comstock laws, which regulate "obscene and immoral materials" sent through the mail (including things like information about birth control). They're from the 1800s, but several are still on the books. It's not a strange concept at all in American law to regulate what can and cannot be sent through the mail.
In case you're getting downvoted:

https://unusualwhales.com/politics/article/congress-trading-...

https://campaignlegal.org/update/stock-act-failed-effort-sto...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/13/us/politics/c...
"Respect" but will nag you and refuse to open certain files due to "security"

Source: currently on win10 enterprise and it refuse to open certain PDF files outside Edge, because "security"
Switzerland is not in the EEA. The EEA is EU + Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.
These companies are all about efficiencies and supporting a single setting globally is more efficient than having per country settings.

They also like to take choice away from power users with the same excuse.

But regarding browser choice, they are happy to support different behaviors depending on geographic location... which already tells me that current Microsoft's practice of forcing Edge onto users does actually make a difference.

The marketshare figures will just be the cherry on top.
I think we already have a pretty good system for managing access to wealth/value, which has several levels of safety, and is relatively low-hassle. I think it's the existing banking infrastructure.
and chickens ...
Your argument doesn’t hold at all. The functionality is already there, so ask yourself, why are they depriving people outside of the EU this functionality when it’s already there?
There just is no conflict between water-proofnesss, repairablity and having a headphone jack.

Water-proofness/resistance and a headphone jack does not collide at all. There are many devices that proof that. For repairability, I also do not see how this might conflict with the other goals, as quite some devices had headphone jacks that were easy to swap. Look at how the framework laptop puts them on a small audio board for example, the same had been done in phones.
Yesterday was a great day. I got permission to wipe the windows 11 laptop I was given by work, and install Linux. Windows 11 is abysmal.
Wouldn't our extensive records of the variants so far make it possible to see if a variant discovered in bats tomorrow is newer than the one that started the original outbreak in humans?
What does using a Mac have to do with the article?
So when you include price for storage to make it work 24/7 then we are on same price as nuclear power plant, but with system more reliant on weather. Too cloudy few last days? I guess no electricity for you then.
Apparently the machines are cheap and McD likes that.

The cost of maintenance is thrown onto the franchisee (350$ per 15min as explained in the article) which McD doesn’t have to care about. So Taylor seems them cheap because they know they will get their end from maintenance which the franchisee pays for
They should have never done this in the first place and it was 100% intentional to try and trick you into using Edge. Secondly it is morally objectionable to just turn this off in the EEA. Thirdly, they still try and force Edge down your throat all the time.

That shows that the user is only being respected when pressured by legislation, not because you're the customer.

Microsoft does not respect its customers and does not deserve our business.
On the windows front, it actually costs them more to make the feature geographic dependent. But on the browser dominance, the choice would actually cost M$.
And if you believe that then you've been brainwashed into ignoring inconvenient truths.
You don't.

https://github.com/miroslavpejic85/mirotalk

It's even faster for 1 on 1 conversations, but as others said, if there are too much participants it will be slower.
Would that be so bad?

Advertising has destroyed the internet in my opinion.
When you're at the point of tricking your operating system into thinking you're in a different country in order to make it function properly, it may be time to try a new OS. GNU/Linux has excellent compatibility with 95% of windows software through wine
Asking another culture to their way? Could luck w/ that. There's nothing stopping us from bringing it up but I can't picture a diplomat hinging a deal on wet markets.
Sure they get benefits, just they get no influence on what those benefits are.
Who gets to decide who is a Nazi or a Communist? Maybe one day you'll be declared a Nazi for disagreeing with something the government in power decrees or even because some social group disapproves of your lifestyle. Definitions are powerful and recently, quite flexible to achieve desired goals of those who make themselves the arbiters of definition.
In a way, yes - it's no different from scalar CPUs from back when they didn't need to wait for memory. GPUs are specifically designed to operate on vectors.
The regulatory "burden" is also a benefit, in general, which a lot of people fail to understand and is also the reason Brexit Britain hasn't significantly diverged from EU rules.
As for the "why": I'd love to learn about all of the historical and regulatory incentives here. From what I've managed to cobble together, this is partly due to CAFE standards[1], partly due to Section 179 of the US tax code[2], and possibly(??) due to contractor demand[3].

[1]: In 2006, the NHTSA adopted a "footprint" approach to CAFE standards, where fuel efficiency standards are set based on the vehicle's wheelbase multiplied by its average track width. I haven't dug into why this is the case, but people seem to agree that this results in less stringent fuel economy targets for larger-sized vehicles. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy

[2] A key piece of U.S. tax code, Section 179 allows businesses to deduct the full purchase price of qualifying equipment up to $1M(!) For trucks, the vehicle must have a Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) over 6000 pounds to qualify for the Section 179 deduction. This incentivizes businesses to purchase larger, heavier trucks. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_179_depreciation_deduc...

[3] A friend told me (citation needed!) that the ability for a truck bed to carry 4x8-foot drywall sheets is often advertised as a selling point (is this true?). I suspect a lot of this is just the US market lusting after "bigger is better", but I'd love to hear anything others know about this.

Anyone have details they could add to this?
Not waterproof, IP55 water resistant. Many 3.5mm jacks can absolutely manage IP55