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Windows 11 more or less forces OneDrive onto the machine. It takes active work to get rid of it.
If - to paraphrase the other folks before me - it causes more annoyance than it does good, then the fact that one can spend more effort undoing its damage after the fact is, in fact, a bug rather than a feature.
Ottawa paid nearly $670k for KPMG's advice on cutting consultant costs
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I wish it wasn't limited in quantity. Most places cap it out at 10-20 items. They don't enforce it too strongly, but I'd love it if I could do my weekly bulging-cart 200-item grocery checkouts myself.
Well, they are seemingly allow to hire permanent residents and are not restricted to citizens only. If there was a citizen only requirement this would be a non issue.

You aren't allowed to exclude somebody who would otherwise be eligible because their work permit has an expiry date
Work visas of this type should pretty clearly provide a path to at least permanent residency, otherwise the workers are captive employees, and, in any case, highly educated skilled workers that an employer is arguing they can't replace out of resident populations seem like a population that even people that want restrictions on immigration would consider good candidates for it.
It’s a hype building exercise.
Well I thought that at first, but then why are so many designated 'crew' if not all? (When I said '9 passengers' I meant the 9 passengers stated in the report.)
Apparently you assume that reality is subordinate to reason. But there's no need for that assumption, we have empirical data: every scientific revolution (and some social) featured conflict between reality and contemporary reason, and every time reason changed and adapted to the new picture of reality. New facts just drop and reason adapts to them. Slowly and painfully, but adapts. This means reality is primary and reason is secondary - a reflection of reality, subject to the anthropic principle.
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What’s most frustrating to me is how slapdash One Drive is to this day. It is their easiest way to get consumers to start paying for services, yet the product still has embarrassing limitations.

Two that I hit on my corporate machine:

- struggles with too many files. Last I looked, official Microsoft documentation says to not exceed 100k files. Yet, $WORK wants to dump basically every file I touch inside there. My Teams folder alone is ~20k files.

- has a max file path limit which is less than the allowable on NTFS. I use some software with a heavily nested folder structure which One Drive cannot accommodate. A valid Windows file path cannot be backed up by their promoted solution.
Seeing the exact same character in a single word having two different sizes is way more infuriating to me than a classic monospaced font having "wide" i and "narrow" m. Maybe I'd get used to it over time but right now my eyes get hung up on the differences.
Or "has died"
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> I live in the US, but I absolutely must have sideloading if there is any chance it's possible. What unholy things will I have to do to convince my iPhone I'm in Europe?

You can do this now but you will have to get apple developer license for $99 and add your iPhone/iPad to the account and generate signing certificate that you can use for side-loading apps. A lot of effort and cost though but it is possible. And I don't know if Apple will go after people if this becomes popular.
I think this is a fun innovation and I might try to use it in my terminal, but for coding, the real solution should be obvious: use a proportional font.
I didn't mention it, but yes, I've read the same thing. So two things, SEO and copyrighting :)
The issue is primarily about counterfeiting, which is illegal regardless of the companies involved and the deals between them.

Samsung has an Amazon store, and other companies bid for ad spots shown right on the official store page which link to illegal knockoffs of Samsung products. Samsung complains, and Amazon says "sorry we can't help it, that's just how things work".

Then Apple comes along, and Amazon magically cleans up their store page (demonstrating that they have the ability to do so), but leaves the rest of them as-is.

So now the take away is – if you don't sign an exclusive agreement with Amazon they will give counterfeiters full access to your products and customers, and that can be easily challenged in court (which is exactly what the FTC is doing right now).
Weird way to interpret my reply but you do you.

I didn’t miss those things and I’m really agreeing with you but leaning more heavily into the solar since it’s not nearly as controversial as nuclear and the “land issue” is, in fact, very often cited as the reason that solar won’t scale but it’s a actually a thinly veiled argument for NIMBYism.
4.1.00175-update3: Never buy version x.1 from a company that never ships version x.0 of anything.

This kind of company is often run by people who think "People don't buy x.0 because they're afraid of bugs, so always ship x.1 as though we fixed the bugs." while failing to actually do the QA to earn that version bump.

Which predictably results in customers refusing the company's x.1 because, in their own words, "I'm not going to pay to be their beta tester.".
How does medicine quantify pain well enough to come to any consensus?
Maybe your problem is judging the quality of your life by ”state statistics.” My recommendation is picking up a philosophy book or two and looking at things from a new angle.
> but realized that it had failed before and will fail again because there isn’t enough humanpower to guide the kids in activities

See if you can partner with an high school STEM class to have elder students mentor the younger ones. Things like this are required Service credit at our kid's school, it works wonderfully and also if they're around enough the little's look up to the big's. It helps strengthen the character as community & individual
I'm pretty sympathetic to Apple here. The article makes it sound like they did this for no reason, but the point of these hidden PERM positions is to be escape valves for the bonkers H1B system, which otherwise requires that skilled, valuable employees get booted out of the country after 3-6 years. If the government doesn't want Apple jumping through loopholes they should pass a more reasonable skilled visa program.
> Michael Dell's comment came after Apple had started to develop its online store, but it definitely smarted — as you can see in video of Steve Jobs launching the Apple online store. You can see it, but you can't really hear it. Video survives of the presentation, but it is close to inaudible.

Even though this article was published today, the video link is dead due to the posting account ("SteveJobsArchive") being terminated. I found a mirror here, though, and the audio seems fine: https://vimeo.com/30998833
If you’re running Linux on a laptop, then yes, that’s even better. However, AFAIK nothing has battery life close to Macs. I’d consider one if they did.

My work Mac is perma-docked, but my personal Air spends most of its time on my lap, and I greatly value the battery life.
> I’ve never heard of this, and the only sources I can find for the claim you made about mother Teresa make claims that the organization that mother Teresa started would refuse patients pain medication out of misguided notions. I’m curious what specifically you’re referring to here.

There's a fair bit of evidence that Mother Theresa had a religious appreciation for suffering that is presumably the basis for the 'sadist' assertion. That does seem like hyperbole but explaining the complicated ways that she or any of the referenced individuals far fall short of their reputations in an accurate and susinct way is hard.
Because those people were able to legally do some of those jobs, but SpaceX chose not to consider them because it would be more administration/bureaucracy for SpaceX. Ergo, discriminating on the basis of their status.

It was the same with disabilities, leading to the creation of the ADA. Companies would argue that they shouldn't have to hire someone in a wheelchair because it would cost them money to build wheelchair ramps and other accessibility aids.
It does take time for the changes to the site to propagate to all the servers in your Content Delivery Network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network
I wonder if apple will benefit from this?
Show HN: Do you trust your website monitoring?
“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or come with me and change the world?”

(Sculley worked for Pepsi at the time.)
I don’t think your experience is invalid, you are just missing out on other experiences that accomplish the same things you like about your disruptive laptop dependent approach for the sake of AI and machines when the humans have so much infrastructure catering exclusively to us… behind reservations
agree, I think it could take 7-10+ years for either (deep geothermal or SMRs) to be viable at scale. But once they are, it should hopefully solve carbon neutral heating for good - in areas with district heating at least.

Steady Energy is a spin-off from VTT (Finnish state technical research centre) - I haven't followed it too closely but they are legit. https://www.ldr-reactor.fi/en/development/

Can't be much worse than building another large scale nuclear plant with the French :D (which is what we did with the last one - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant#... - 4x over budget and 14 years behind schedule)
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I'll agree here. I like self-checkout and use it whenever possible, but if a store actively checks receipts as you leave I'll do everything I can to avoid going to that store again. I've even been known to feebly protest to my wife.
The first can't wholly be true if there was no ill-gotten public data used to feed it in most instances I'd imagine. :P
Pretty sure you're in the minority here, to the point that a restaurant that felt they needed to implement this sort of thing could easily just not care about your business, and be fine. Most people (in the US, don't know where you're from) have at least a state-issued ID if they don't have a driver's license.

Restaurants should of course disclose -- very clearly -- at reservation time that the deposit and slot are not transferable, and that IDs will be checked at the door. If you choose to make that reservation, knowing that, and then show up without an ID, that's on you.

> ... but didn’t notice I would have to bring my ID

That would fall under the category of "that's on you".

Regardless, I would hope that a restaurant would try to find another way to verify you are who you say you are, like perhaps asking for the credit/debit card you used to make the reservation, or even just asking to see something on your person that looks vaguely difficult to forge and has your name on it. We're not talking about a high-security situation here.
I'm already at the home row all the time. The key under discussion is three millimeters to the left of 'a', where my pinky usually already is. If that small a distance is ever a problem, it's a valuable signal that I need to find an orthopedist in a hurry.
> Since 2021, three eruptions have taken place on the Reykjanes peninsula, in March 2021, August 2022 and July 2023. Those three were located far from any infrastructure or populated areas.

Just another Friday in Iceland!

> Also nearby is the Svartsengi geothermal plant, the main supplier of electricity and water to 30,000 residents on the Reykjanes peninsula. It has contingency plans in place to protect the plant and its workers in the event of an eruption.

Anyone have any idea what those contingency plans would be other than emergency shutdown and hope something is left to save afterwards? Or do they actually go in and put dampers and stuff on turbines to make sure they don't bounce around unnecessarily?
I guess they had a sense of foreboding, as in 2022, a Russian fish trawler damaged that cable link: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43828/undersea-cable-c...
I worked at a company owned by some large banks. When the immigration lawyer came for a meetings roughly once per year, the place got super quiet. Everyone I worked with did basic stuff ... docker, Spring Boot, and I didn't understand how such basic positions needed visas in such a large metro like Phoenix. Yet, the pay was comparable ... there must be some angle I don't understand.
Please don't use throwaway accounts like this. It's against the site guidelines and we ban accounts that do it, and eventually it will get your main account banned as well.

As https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html explains, throwaway accounts are fine for sensitive information but you certainly shouldn't be using multiple ones in the same thread.
My company switched off of perfectly working SMB shares to OneDrive + SharePoint about a year ago and it has been the singlehanded biggest generator of helpdesk tickets since. I'm trying to get corporate to let me use rclone since I can at least tell it to push/pull a specific file instead of waiting for OneDrive to finish "syncing changes".
I suspect that this is more a "certain managers wanted certain types of employees," as opposed to a systemic, companywide decree from Up High (like IBM's ageism).

Apple just makes too damn much money to worry overmuch about salaries. If anything, a lot of managers like H1Bs, because they can drive them like slaves. I've seen exactly that, in front of my own eyes. It's pretty disturbing, if you are a manager like me.
>Apple agreed to pay up to $25 million in back pay

I'm sure that will be devastating for a company with 162 Billion in cash and really make them think twice
Internet tough guy moments should be reserved for reddit, not HN.
Wow, that's bad.

I also think that structurally, universities have academic career advancement problems. It's a very difficult system to to into and out of, in a way that is toxic for everyone but unusually so for women.

It's almost perfectly crafted to disadvantage women. Compare it to law, and imagine someone who moves through the elite path quickly. Graduate college at 22, finish law school at 25, go into heavy debt but start at around $200k a year, work brutally until age 30. Ok, not a great spot for starting a family, but you have now earned well over a mil (you probably started at 200 and are now well above 300k). You don't have much time, but you do at least have money and the ability to buy help. You also (if you're a woman) still have a few years before age related issues in having children manifest.

Now, again, it's not great, but compare this to academic. You finish college at 22, you finis your PhD at 28. That's moving quickly. Next, you do a post-doc or two. Now you're 30. And now, even if you're a winner with a tenure track position (not tenured, just the kind that can lead to it), you're still in grave danger, career-wise. It's do-or-die. You are also, at this point, earning about half of what that law graduate earned at age 26. You have no ability to buy your way out of this.

Now, to me, it's nutty that anyone voluntarily signs up for this, male or female [1]. But it's unusually harsh on women, because taking time off at this junction to have kids derails your career at the worst moment. And academic is unusually bad for on-ramps later in life. There essentially are none. Honestly, in spite of age-related discrimination in tech, I'd rather try my odds finding an on-ramp in tech at age 40 than in academia.

There is a commonly cited study that showed women applying for academic STEM positions received over twice as many offers as similarly qualified men. I actually think the research was good, but people didn't dig into the data. The comparison was for women and men who had achieved a high level position in academics. Yes, I have no trouble believing that women who make it through this gauntlet (which again, I absolutely insist on pointing out is lousy for men too) are very appealing to departments that don't want to change structurally. If a well funded department can hire a group of women who made it despite the odds, they can put a halo up and appear to be one of those virtuous departments even as they participate in the structure that makes it very unlikely women will become one of that small successful group.

[1] indeed, part of the reason universities like worker-visa programs is that it creates a pool of candidates who aren't allowed to live and work in the US with economic freedom.
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The courts will rule on three things:

(1) Whether the legislature has given the FCC sufficient regulatory authority for the policy. (See Comcast v FCC which the FCC lost.)

(2) Whether the legislature or the FCC's actions comply with the Constitution.

(3) Whether the FCC enforcement complies with their rules.
That's pretty much true of most overseas candies and chocolates. Some of the best chocolates from Europe use cocoa butter and real sugar. Not Processed Cocoa Powder, HFCS, additives, colorings, preservatives, and then tempered with plastic.
Do they usually seize the warehouses, or the counterfeit goods? Is it the FBI that is typically doing this, or CBP?
So ... the registers are dynamically allocated from a chunk of cache? Does this mean there, effectively, are no registers? Does this cache have one clock latency?
I remember being really furious that "1 click ordering" was "patentable" when I first learned about it as a young geek.

The longer I stay in this industry, and the more I learn about compliance, customer surprise, and the difficulty in balancing usability/simplicity with flexibility/customizability, the more I realize it absolutely was.
"The Amazon — the lush, tropical basin that holds the world’s biggest river, rainforest and a fifth of its fresh water — is running dry."
I find it interesting that Apple hasn't done what many other large US corporations have done and just open offices in a country like India. Then they essentially get rid of any US based employees. No H1B's needed and you're still paying pennies on the dollar for the work.
I'm a cooking nerd so I have a torch which I find works better than the oven and toasting them does actually make them better!!
Having a solution to an unknown problem and working towards finding a problem the solution fills can be rewritten as: Having a problem and looking for a solution.

Calling that grifting is strange.
> Yes, but it makes it all the more complicated because the scalper has to figure out how to process the rebate, which opens up all sorts of issues.

Not really. Restaurant charges 50 dollars for reservation, which gets added as credit at bill. Scalper pays the 50 dollars and charges customer 60 dollars for the reservation. Customer gets the 50 dollars from the restaurant. Scalper keeps the 10 dollars of profit. No rebate is needed for the scalper, they already took the customer money with the deposit included.

Now, for unsold reservations, yes, it helps by adding some risk to the scalper.
Back when they used a third party CDN, I have to assume they were paranoid about uploading the details of new products to servers controlled by a third party until the keynote was already in progress.
Why would that require fuses? You store the firmware in flash, which can be updated to a newer version, restored to the original version or replaced entirely with third party firmware by the device's owner if the OEM fails to patch it, e.g. because they go out of business.
I don't know about Iceland in particular, but often state of emergency makes it easier to...

* shut off roads or regions

* use the military for aid

* access emergency funds

* quickly do things that otherwise require lots of bureaucracy

* signal to others that shit is dire
Syncthing is so good. I wish more people would use it. Onboarding is certainly more complex than just using Onedrive or installing Dropbox, but once it's set up it just stays out of the way and works.
Ask HN: Does it matter if a masterpiece is created by human or AI?
Hypothetical: a new novel appears by "Anonymous" that receives universal acclaim as a great work of art. Only later do we learn it was "written" by an AI. Does that mean it is no longer a great work of art?
People can be in a higher state of preparedness, such as packing food and water in a vehicle and be ready to get outta Dodge. And I'm just guessing but in some places that means local governments can call more emergency responders to active duty but no idea if that applies here.
it's terrible, but it's the system we have.
Love table tennis! I used to play and compete as a kid and picked it up again 15 years later, that was 6 years ago. I've played 3 tournaments since then and went from 1200 to 1600 and 1800 usatt rating. I'm hoping to reach 2000 one day. There's something about it that's highly addictive, you can't think of anything else while playing, that somehow gives me peace of mind and a way to shut down my mind, in a healthy way.
Why can't they figure out a paid version for Professionals without any BS?
WSL2 works fine, docker, Steam, multiple monitors, etc. Just remove the BS.
Because twitter is broken. This is surely not news, a year in. You may want to submit a nitter link instead.
Where did you order from?
I was leaning towards the opposite and thinking about some way to support many email clients by perhaps leveraging IMAP to store drafts generated by the AI backend.

Another idea I had was to output it’s results into a ticketing system and allowing it to attach related documents and information it finds to be reviewed by a human and provide optional pre-configured actions.
Those tricks definitely occur, but they are also not required in most cases: the relevant obligations only apply when (1) the employer falls under the regulatory definition of either an H-1B dependent employer or a willful violator , BUT NOT IF (2) the candidate is paid at least $60k per year or has a relevant master’s degree.

In our industry it’s rare for condition 2 to be false, even when condition 1 is true. So usually they can just be brazen about not trying to find American candidates. Regardless, non-discrimination rules still apply.
>I don't understand why people invite an adversarial entity onto their computer just for the convenience of syncing files.

Most dont invite it. MS sneaks it in the backdoor

I recently bought a new PC and only found out it was syncing my desktop and user files to OneDrive (which I never signed up for) unbeknownst to me when it started having problems.

Then I had to find and wade through a few pathetic prompts to disable it. "are you suuure you want to disable cloud backup?" "Are you suure you want to delete your tax filings and financial docs we copied without asking?"
Oh, I didn't realize you used AI tools as well. Sure, that would be interesting to see!
I thought an H1B is a dual-intent visa and has a documented path towards permanent residency. Does it not?
How do you plan on stopping people from using this tool maliciously?
https://www.netflix.com/title/80092654
I did not say black swan nuclear disasters are a civilization-ending danger. I said people are afraid of them much more than of climate change.

Nuclear experts consider it safe because of existing regulations and because it is hard for sketchy company to launch a new plant.
Looks like this one is rented by Heywood Jablome, man that dude rents a lot of boxes!
Can you elaborate on the difficulty?
This reads like there is an opportunity for a YC company to create an authenticated freight dispatching service. Sort of "uber for freight" where you sign up owner/operators and connect them with freight loads that need to move from one place to another. If the company does the vetting and works with an insurance company to cover liabilities both ways (o/o is at fault, shipper is at fault) it seems they could capture some value from creating a safer market.