skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They might make "judgements" in the colloquial sense, but from a legal point of view they don't make the final call.

They may not make the final call, but they make judgements, and thus are people who judge such things. Importantly, they do so more than you, so their judgement outweighs yours alone.

And, it's actually the opposite of your analogy, because the patent, having been judged by a person who judges such things, is indeed valid unless convincingly proven otherwise.

Which leads us back on topic: is there any convincing evidence the patent is invalid? I'd like to move beyond your purely semantic meta-argument and back towards substance.
> We’ve done 9/11 type events on other nations for decades

Please name a few examples of US peacetime attacks on civilian populations
iPod Shuffle is the same.
Does it matter? Sounds to me like an apples and oranges comparison.

If I read an article in the NYT then I'm paying for what I took away from it, not for the amount of time that it allowed me to kill.
On the individual topic pages, the [B] buttons allow you to choose a background, one of which is plain white.
Your tax codes aren’t going to update the minute you say your vows. Someone needs to do that on the other side and let you know when it’s been processed.
Mozilla 2023 annual report: CEO pay skyrockets, Firefox market share nosedives
> maybe the minor hurdle of having to require a doc to check on the potential for side-effects really is justified?

Viagra is trivially available on the black market because many people don’t want to put up with that B.S. Antibiotics have a public interest in being gatekept; they harm everyone if abused. A similar argument can be made for addictive substances.

Merely-harmful drugs, on the other hand, can be disclaimed and, where the clinical and fatal doses are close, diluted. Beyond that, we’re manufacturing busywork.
this guy toasts
Or Ctrl+h for history. I'm looking at you Google Docs. I really don't understand why websites are allowed to override browser shortcuts and there is no way to block it.
Another GPU friendly approach is mixing with blue noise. I used it in a display driver with XRGB8888 framebuffer and Y2 pixels, and it worked great.
Firefox has multiple compelling reasons to use it:

Sync
Containers
Tree Style Tabs
uBlock Origin on Android
Open Source since 1998!
Not based on Chromium

Be wary of sync on a fresh Linux install, it might sync the default bookmarks and merge them with your own. Not a huge deal but definitely an annoyance.
> I actually like and use database security features. However, there are generally two problems with them:

> 1. There is a limit to the customization 2. They are generally harder to test and change

Those aren't problems that I have.
How about any company that is found to have engaged in discrimination against any protected class loses their ability to sponsor visas for a decade.
> ; add the next 2...2^32-1 comparisons here

Chatgpt is getting so lazy these days.
Thinking back to growing up, we had an electric stove, washer, dryer, dishwasher, and refrigerator. All were purchased from '79-82 or so.

1. Stove died in about 2007
2. Washer/dryer were replaced with something "better", although they were still running in 2009
3. Dishwasher died in 2011
4. Refrigerator was replaced but still running in 2013

This was not just survivorship bias. Basically all of these appliances lasted at least 30 years. They were from good brands (Washer/dryer and dishwasher were Maytag), but I don't think you can buy an appliance today that you can truly expect to last 30 years. At the least, there will be some sort of control board that will give out after 10-15 years and won't be available anymore.
> The original loaded pretty much instantly. Software of that era didn't have minutes long "Loading ... Please Wait" screens for everything

Huh? Just about everything that didn't come on a cartridge took forever to load, especially on a C64. That's why there were "fast load" extensions. Most games would load once at the beginning, but sometimes you'd "need to insert disk 2" or "flip the disk over" to finish loading.
What was truly impressive is that games like Times of Lore could entirely fit in 64k and only hit the disk when initially loading.

> On the original, the player would keep running whereas this new game is laborious in that you need to hold down keys to keep moving.

The original worked with a joystick, where you'd hold it in the direction to keep running. I'm not sure I ever played the original with the keyboard. You need to be able to stop in loadrunner in order to direct and avoid the movements of the enemies and dig holes in the right spots.
Maybe I'm mis-reading the URI spec [0], but it seems that // is required to separate the scheme from the "authority" part when it's present (as it is for my.domain.com).

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-3.2
Downvoted? Isn't it curriculum?
FYI that is exactly what Microsoft proclaimed back in the day.

Doesn't sound better today does it?

At least on Windows they didn't prevent you from installing a different browser.
Yeah, it's a pain. One workaround is to go to the menu and select Find
with enough market share, if Google did this they would be cursed with numerous lawsuits for preferential selection and sued successfully
I was honestly asking about the intersection of app store code signing and the anti-tivoization clause in 3.0 (I assumed everyone knew that was the major change or 3.0), but I guess I touched a nerve.
> you get a work visa for 3-5 years that's tied to your employer

Time spent getting a degree at an accredited American university should count as the same.
I guess my question is can you please fix your braindead blacklisting?

Several times per year—I can practically guarantee it’ll happen sometime in December, and indeed had to deal with this just five days ago—I end up with a bunch of users whose email notifications stop working because Microsoft have started blocking the entire netrange where my server lives. I don’t have control over other Linode customers, guys! I even wrote extra code to stop sending mail to addresses that start bouncing specifically to avoid blacklisting, so after MS finally processes a blacklist mitigation request, someone also has to go in and re-enable those accounts.

SPF, DKIM, DMARC are all configured; I’ve sent from the same IP address for about a decade; I’ve not once received an email abuse report; mail volume is low (most days, volume does not reach the minimum threshold for SNDS to report data[0]). I’ve never had any other mail provider blacklist my server. SNDS always says everything is OK as I am S3150s. What is even the purpose of SNDS at this point when it lies about what is going on?

[0] P.S. The janky SNDS calendar widget resets the month to the current month every time you click on a date, even if the date being viewed is in a previous month. I don’t have any hope that anyone will ever touch SNDS code again since it was clearly designed in the early 2000s and the copyright on the site is now ten years old, but this is a pretty silly bug.
I like the gist and spirit of this, of course, but isn’t this basically impossible in today’s day and age? For instance, if I want to host a small web server running in my closet to serve cat memes to a small number of users, I still am beholden to my ISP who 1) must allow me to host a web server in its TOS and 2) provide me a static address.

I don’t really see any way to get around corporations on the internet, unless I’m missing something.
> Now they'll make contributions to India, Eastern Europe

Good! There’s a billion people in India and plenty of opportunities for growth. The net benefit for all of humanity is larger if they stay there.

Put another way, is it really all that great that the US drains the top talent out of India and Eastern Europe?
I hope the world can rally and move past these anachronistic ideas of intellectual property.
For some symptoms it may be true, for others not? Some hypothyroidism can be fixed by supplementing iodine. Some are due to other causes. Also, some of the things thyroid hormone seems to do can also be achieved by iodine supplements, and some not. It's very complicated.
> Books are a "desert of letters", with little to break the text up outside of chapters, sections, and paragraphs.

You're forgetting pages. The fact pages physically limit the visual bounds of all the letters helps people read them. The words from page 6 aren't going to come into view while you're reading page 4 but scrolled down a little too far.
So it is either that US company got better work done at cheaper price. Means win for US as it got a tiny bit competitive. That'd be pro-market argument.

Or another way that if US company has decided to not employ US born local at least those got employed overseas will not compete for housing, schools and other services for which they easily out compete locals if they are employed in US. Means another win. That would be pro-nativist argument. I know they are not much loved here but that's that.
Arc[0] does this really well for me - across computers and even my phone.

Its chromium under the hood but the UX and sync story is impeccable.

[0] https://arc.net/
> that attract the best talent

I've seen hugely talented folk on vim/emacs/emacs+evil, and on VSCode/JB. I think was the latter tools do, it make some of the advantages of being proficient in vim/emacs/regex available with less learning curve.

Currently there are some combinations that simply best-in-class: VSCode+TS, JetBrainsIDEA+Java/Kotlin, VisualStudio+MicrosoftGuiStuff. vim/emacs may come a long way in these areas, but cannot beat the integration level offered in these combinations.

Also, you mention "proprietary", but JetBrainsIDEA and VSC are opensource to some extend, which does improve community imho. But, the fact that they are less "open access innovation" projects, and more company owned is clear to everyone.

Finally: AI will come to software devt, and I wonder if AI tools will ever be available on true open access innovated IDEs.
That style of journalism is nearly dead. True on the ground investigative journalism is hardly done today, most is just reporting existing public information releases. You don’t have to be at the presser when everything the police chief says will be put in an online transcript.
Who creates the occupation shortage list and how is it protected from companies who want their jobs included on it to drive down wages and suppress workers' rights?
quality control issue, dead simple to avoid that and the stasi on Steam

"woah red flag, here is some text that the developer added manually that doesn't fit the aesthetic" that's clearly a sign of laziness that is easily avoided

this is no better than those professors that tried to use an AI detector on their students
Software licensing has almost nothing to do with monopolies you mentioned. Google's monopoly comes from the position of power it has entrenched itself in by controlling search and using that control to make its advertising platform ubiquitous while buying up competitors in the online advertising space.

In fact, I would argue that open source licenses makes it easier to compete against the cloud platforms you listed. Smaller companies like Hetzner can build their own private cloud platforms using virtualization software like QEMU (another very healthy project licensed under the GPL) and open source orchestration software. They can obtain and build on this software because it is open source and freely available (free as in both beer and money). "Source available" licenses aren't an improvement on this.
Generally, I only want passwords, and I want a workflow that can be scripted 100%.
Fair use is specific to the US, as far as I'm aware. Moreover, Congress had to codify fair use (turn fair use common into statutory law in the form of 17 U.S. Code § 107) in order to make copyright statutes compatible with the First Amendment. Most other countries don't have freedom of expression and freedom of the press, so copyright law in a different country usually lacks a unifying exception test like fair use to supplement the specific enumerated exceptions.
> (...) that prediction isn't as absurd as you intended.

These predictions may seem absurd at first glance, but I assure you, they're not, to me at least.
This reminds me of an internet phenomenon I learnt about recently: the Backrooms [1]. The concept instantly reminded me of some psychedelic horrors from the 80s in terms of emotional response. I think this game might trigger a similar response.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Backrooms
I haven't hear about these problems at Walmart and would think the scale of stuff sold is comparable. I think the main problem, as others have mentioned, is that Amazon commingles products from various suppliers (so everything that comes in from a manufacturer or a true vetted wholesaler + 1000's of "flip stuff from china" garage operations get mixed up at Amazon warehouses before being sold).
Or… convincingly blame the poor performance on you to your supervisors & double down on the lie when pressed.

A whole new spin on the AI putting someone out of a job.
And a uniform random shuffle chooses any of the N! orderings with equal probability. One is looking at a single element as the output of the process, and another is looking at the entire list as the output of the process.

Also, there are plenty of non-uniform random distributions.
FunASR: End-to-End Speech Recognition Toolkit and SOTA Pretrained Models
Personally I find mobile browser plugins to be the most compelling reason, it's certainly the reason that FF is my main browser in conjunction with working browser sync across devices.
Did you take any action at all? Sounds serious enough for legal action.
> How does that benefit the author?

You speak of "the author". But the current system does not benefit "the author". 1% of authors profit off copyright. 99% lose money on copyright (they pay more for copyrighted media than they earn from it).

Your question should be "How does that benefit monopolist authors"?

I agree, my idea would not benefit monopolist authors. They would lose the bulk of their revenue stream.

But it would benefit the average author whose cost of living would fall and information would start serving them more than serving business.

I am not downplaying the talent and hard work of successful monopolist authors. But I do not think the works they create are worth everyone giving up their rights to reshare and remix information. I believe the world would look very different post-IP. You'd probably have a new profession--small independent librarians (similar to data hoarders today)--who would help their local communities maximize the value they got from humanity's best information.

Maybe I'm wrong! Maybe the information ecosystem is better controlled and the genetic differences of monopolist authors are so stark that without the subsidies to this gifted class we'd all be worse off. But that's an argument based on outcomes and not principles.

> without their permission

The oxygen I'm breathing right now mostly was created by trees on land owned by others. But I don't ask for their permission to breath. Some things are just not natural.

I am not saying plagiarize. It is always the right thing to do to link back and/or credit the source. But needing to ask permission to republish something seems to go against natural laws.
For India alone, Wikipedia says ~8% or ~100 million have a BS. I was more focused on PR/citizenship in my post. I do not know what qualifies you for an H1-B.

In the second point, I only have an imprecise opinion which is that I’d rather suffer some loss of quality of life personally if the median human experience is raised.

Would you support kicking out someone who doesn’t qualify for an EB or H1-B (in practice, you’re kicking out non degree holders) for a foreign born person who does qualify? If not, it seems to me we are embracing a lottery of birth place. To be clear, I’d like to see substantially more freedom of movement even if it means reducing my quality of life.
I was thinking of 'pure' Windows (including cygwin, mingw, gitpython etc. things I vaguely recall) - though I have struggled with and given up installing and using WSL in the past after I thought perhaps it would be fine with that.

Basically my main annoyances with macOS are window management & the way settings/preferences work and are stored. Windows is just worse in that sense to me I suppose.
Why? Does anything change after it's been processed? What are you going to do differently at that point?
FYI, there will be a FOSDEM devroom specifically on the European Legislative Landscape, where a number of people involved in drafting this and similar regulations are expected to be present.

The deadline for submitting presentation proposals has passed, but the schedule should be available shortly at https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/eu-policy/
The process of looking at an image online produces many identical and nearly identical copies of it. The DMCA just declared that those copies don't count for the purposes of copyright law, because it would not otherwise be feasible for any copyrighted material to live on the Internet. If you think LLMs are valuable and can't avoid this kind of thing fully, it seems reasonable to argue they do or should fall under a similar exemption.
Glad we agree that so far there was no nuclear build out, anywhere!

Edit: COP28 agreed on triplong renewable capacity to 11 TW by 2030. If we consider pledges for future NPPs, I think it is just fair to do the same when it comes to renewables, right?
Personal injury is serious business, and many personal injury attorneys work on contingency. Amazon has "deep pockets," so I doubt this is the reason.
My experience is that GA engines also “just work”, particularly if you reference them back to the automobile equivalent of total motive energy produced per mid-trip breakdown.

My airplane makes about 225 horsepower during cruise flight, for 3-4 hours on a typical leg. My car makes 25-30 horsepower in cruise.

Take the airplane engine that has done 1950 hours of weight-off-wheels time so far (including some takeoff/climb, but also some descent), turn that into x8 the auto hours and give an average speed of 40 mph and you get an implied 600K miles worth of total cumulative motive energy produced.

Most cars will need significant maintenance on the road to 600K miles or on their way to 2000 hours of operation at 75% of rated power (as do airplanes on their way to 2000+ hours of operation, of course).

Airplane engines are quite reliable. As easy to operate as a modern auto? No, but I’m not sure they need to be that easy, since pilot training and certification is quite a bit more rigorous than it is for autos.
As of a couple years ago the NFLPA doesn’t comply with WADA (the current CBA runs until 2030)

https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/lawandarts/a...
really, how much do large companies pay per patent? any data points?
Can you elaborate about counterfeit products being sold under "sold by amazon.com"? That's surprising to me, I treat that as a sign of something being non-counterfeit.
It’s unclear how many tokens you have and how many are using as you use the app. It’s also easy to “waste” them as you type a prompt but aren’t finished yet.
Dunno, I’ve been using Firefox since before it was Firefox as my primary browser and I’ve never used sync. I don’t think that’s the most compelling feature.
Julia was meant to be a better Fortran/C++
The problem is that instead of building a domestic talent pipeline for high demand skills we take the easy route and grab immigrants for it. So the talent pipeline never gets built, and then we continue to be dependent on immigration. This is obviously not your company's fault because they are not policy makers, but if companies like yours were told "too bad, hire and train locally" you would get it done. e.g. I am a software engineer that currently has a TC of around $200K, and none of the skills you need, but I could easily be trained and learn any of that for a 300-750K TC at the end.
How many times have I recommended specific reading in this thread that answers that? At least twice.

Go read the books
Debian Statement on EU Cyber Resilience Act and the Product Liability Directive
When generating images also mix in a little blue noise to avoid banding effects. A simple lookup table goes a long way. I found it worked much better than adding uniformly random noise (white noise) to each pixel.
> There's plenty of ready clients and servers.

Sure, but being smart enough to implement one usually also means being smart enough to use something of the shelf. But few of the available clients are very accessible to a non-programming audience. It is basically a "natural" filter mechanism.

> What it's generally sacrificing is interactivity. That seems like it's shooting more for the early internet.

There is a very rudimentary form mechanism, resembling a bit HTTP 0.9, where you could only do get requests with query parameters, which might allow to simulate a bit of interactivity, but I with the protocol being set in stone that would forever remain a hacky simulation (if you only have a hammer...)
An artist producing it from memory, and then distributing the copy without permission, is clearly a copyright violation.
All non-safe integers are even, yes?
SliTaz GNU/Linux
without regulations the next differently branded unregulated cable might also burn your house down.
How DeFi works: Understanding protocols trilemma
Seems odd that burnt out devs would be regularly spending weekend time coding for fun.

I guess for some people time spent on personal projects might be restorative, but personally, at the height of my burnout I certainly was not doing any extra coding.
This seems to be a KVM switch, not a boundless/roaming KM switch?

Note no "V"; it's to have the mouse seamlessly move from one desktop to the other when the machines are each connected to their own screen. Browser-based is also a non-starter for that use.

I'll definitely have a look if/when I need a KVM over IP switch, though.
> I think the main benefit is community involvement in submitting bugs, contributing changes, writing docs, and being part of the project.

Imho the main benefit of FOSS is that it becomes a shared good forever. Which includes those community aspects.

No vendor can close it back up. If vendor goes under or stops supporting the community, the community can go on regardless. That keeps the FOSS available to all until the last copy bitrotted away.
I believe this issue is pre-dated even further, back when iPod users didn't like that occasionally a random shuffle would play the same song back-to-back. So the 'random' shuffle was made a bit less random.
Immediately dove in to the Foc and Foneria stations in Barcelona. I thought we had some long escalators here in Washington DC but after exiting there and taking escalator after escalator after escalator (repeating) to exit the station, my mind was sufficiently blown. http://estacions.albertguillaumes.cat/img/barcelona/foneria....
It’s a 2017 Highlander.
Well, the government owned physical mail service worked pretty well for a few centuries, so... Not much?

Now, of course, you shouldn't be organizing a criminal conspiracy or in general much anti-government protests over the mail or government-downed email. But the majority of communication is quite benign, and so having a government email for the 80% use case (bills, party invites, holiday wishes, etc) would be great. You can use a separate service for your more sensitive communication.
That was just as the turnaround began, in fact. That particular period was difficult because it was preceded by significant income from commercial sponsors. Dealing with an 80% income reduction wasn't that easy, psychologically, even if the previous situation had barely lasted a year.
The obvious solution here is to use the lower part of the screen as working memory while drawing the upper part. By the time you get to the bottom you shouldn't have many calculations left anyway. This has the benefit of using fast gpu ram and is therefore cuda and very ai.