skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows is just plain humiliating and embarrassing to use at this point. MacOS is starting to creep that way with lots of pushing for signing up for additional services, as well. It’s a real shame, but it’s no wonder no one wants to deal with a PC anymore outside of the office where most of the trash is turned off by corporate IT.
You can always make it with blood instead.
Having seen how the sausage is made, a lack of confidence in what the numbers show is not why the information is withheld. The numbers are highly relevant to competitors and anything that could potentially be used to build a negative media narrative is very carefully considered before release.

Cruise had their numbers leaked during the incident last year and they came up in several negative media pieces despite being fairly good overall.
Most financially successful humans only care how to increase their already huge amount of money. they do not give a flying fuck about advancing humanity as a whole.
In the late 90s and early 2000s my company shipped out a Linux distribution on CD monthly, called KRUD. Every month we'd take the latest versions of packages for RedHat, plus some notable additions, and build updated media you could use to update or install Red Hat with. It was really nice to be able to install a new system, which we did a lot of, and have basically the latest packages, with Internet-based "yum update"s being fairly minimal after install.

So every month we'd burn, IIRC, nearly a thousand CDs and ship them out, mostly around the US. We were in a weird size where we had low enough volume and needed quick enough turn around, that going to big CD duplicators weren't really an option.

Anyone remember the Taiyo Yuden CD-R media? We spent a very long time trying various media and eventually settled on it as "the perfect CD-R". We spent years trouble-shooting problems that different people had, even paying people to ship defective media back to us so we could identify if it was burning problems or shipping problems. We had a shelving unit full of SFF PCs with CD-RW drives and some custom software I wrote that would burn, and verify the media.

Our shipped-defect rate went way down when I built some custom verification software. Initially I was just doing an "dd | md5sum" of the CD drive, after ejecting and re-loading the disc. But we eventually tracked user problems down to some drives having sporadic problems reading some sectors, which our drives would try several times and eventually get a good read of.

My new verification used low-level SCSI commands to read every block of data and get timing information, and if any sector took more than X ms to read, or more than Y sectors took more than X/5 ms to read, it would "fail" the disc. At this point we basically never had people reporting issues with the media.

Taiyo Yuden discs seemed to be the sweet spot between low cost and low defect rate.
My friend recently got a new Windows PC. Out of the box, it spent maybe 15-20 minutes updating itself.

"We're getting things ready", reboot, create a Microsoft account, 10 data sharing settings to turn off, "almost ready..."

Iirc, a MacBook is ready to use without any updates.
> A photo of a brain and a statement that imagination was the best graphics anyone could get [...]

Funny enough, that actually applied to computer graphics just as well. Have a look at eg the sprites of Super Maria Bros: there's so little detail, and your imagination fills in the rest.

(In twenty years, we can point at today's graphics and say the same, I guess. It's always easier to see with past works.)
Do they really have double the risk of failure as a combined unit? I'm not sure I see the actuators fail very often in HDDs.
The relevant statute provision is 17 U.S.C. § 501.

On March 24, 2023, the Internet Archive was found liable for copyright infringement under that section by a federal court, in an order granting a motion for a summary judgment.[0] A summary judgment means that there is no genuine dispute about facts, and the plaintiffs (the people suing the Internet Archive) are entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.[1]

It is your prerogative to feel that you're better qualified to interpret federal law than a federal court is, but it is fairly misleading to say that it is not at all clear what the law is here, when a court decision exists on these exact facts.

Should the law be changed? Yes, in my opinion. Is there much dispute over what the law is? No, not really.

[0] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.53...

[1] Other common law jurisdictions use clearer language to describe summary judgments: in the UK and Australia, for example, a summary judgment is granted when a party has "no reasonable prospects of success" and there is no point in going to trial. These exact words aren't used in the US, but they give a reasonable indication of how summary judgments are used in practice.

None of this is legal advice.
I agree with samatman. In what way can a work that has a proprietary work bundled in be called open source? It is different if the the work has a _peer_ dependency on the proprietary work.

As it is, I seriously doubt that anyone wanting a quicker way to implement a language will use this; why would I want to hamper adoption of my language by hobbling it with such a license?
We are communicating on a tech stack that TBL gave away freely.

Copyright is communism, it is the exact opposite of property rights.

Don't take my word for it: do the math yourself.

Or just repeat false slogans.
No one. Copyright infringement is not a criminal court matter; it is a civil one.
In my experience as a Stanford alum, this is not true. The professors interact with undergrad students all the time.
I can't find any news stories about 30K jobs at Google going to AI. The references to the information are false. This leads me to believe this isn't a real story. If it was every news outlet would've reported on it.
Wikipedia has an unsourced allegation that "The UNIX-HATERS Handbook" came with a barf bag in the back cover [1]. The book itself is an amusing glimpse into computing history even if it is rather dated and polemic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook
> Of course the far right cynically take advantage of this issue, and of course they have no intention whatsoever of fixing anything.

Have you any pejorative memes for "liberal" "democracy", which is what broke it in the first place, or do they get a free pass as usual?
How did he buy and get one so fast? Haven’t they been preselling batches that weren’t supposed to ship for months?

Did he just get moved to the front of the list because he’s notable? Or was getting moved ahead in line a trade for a review?
What software specifically is preventing you from moving, if you don't mind me asking?
The interesting part is that perception is shaped by language. The Ancient Greeks did not have a word for blue, which led to things like the sky being described as "wine-colored" or "bronze". Similarly, the English "blue" is split into two in Russian: light blue (голубой – goluboy) and deep/dark blue (синий – siniy), a speaker has to choose between them when describing something.

The wavelengths may have always existed but colors only become a thing when we draw the arbitrary lines between them.
Hard to say I wasn't really clear minded at that time in my life, I was obsessed with body modification and uncomfortable in my own body. Some people around me and some of the circles I travelled in were into body suspensions and modifications. I still have subdermal implants in my sternum but don't think I'd ever go through something like that again at this point in my life.
It has been an interesting journey to say the least.
I don't understand the chess/poker metaphor; could you elaborate on that, please?
About a year ago I dumped Windows from my personal PC for good. I ran a Linux desktop at work for a decade, but my Steam collection get me with at least a bit of a tether to Microsoft. But Valve finally made Linux gaming a reality. I hope more people can make the switch someday because I'm quite happy with the system (Pop!_OS is my distro of choice these days).
"There is nothing more grotesque than a media pushing for war." -Snowden

Clearly implicating that US-adjacent media is the prime culprit for wanting war, not the 100k Russian troops already stationed on the border, with plans from months before to assault Ukraine and kill thousands. Rather than the media simply announcing, months late, the impending invasion.

"if nobody shows up for the invasion Biden scheduled for tomorrow morning at 3AM"

Clearly implicating Biden as being the one wanting the invasion to happen, instead of accurately warning the world what is going to transpire, and that nothing is going to happen anyway (wrong).

"your journalistic credibility was instrumentalized as part of one of those disinformation campaigns"

The journalism wasn't uncredible! It wasn't disinformation! It was accurately reporting the impending invasion.

Nothing here is ambiguous at all with decent reading comprehension. Snowden himself says "If there's an invasion tomorrow, dunk on me because I have been spectacularly wrong."

You are clearly the one with the "twisting and preconceived notions and contradictions." because you're denying Snowden was wrong when he literally admits it.
You're misunderstanding the point made. Open source Windows and Mac apps do not _bundle_ Windows or Mac.

To understand the argument, consider the difference between a runtime dependency and a peer dependency in Node.js.
Thank God they’re empty at least. You really never know these days with all the weird things people do on the internet for clout.
With ex NSA director joining the board, and now this, there is good chance that openai will head in the direction of Dorsey’s twitter - a cesspool of intel operatives.
Ask HN: The Australian economy has becoming a housing ponzi. Where does it end?
Not sure why this is being downvoted because it is correct.

The product of public domain materials can be copyrighted. For example, if someone were to publish a new book of Tom Sawyer whose text is in the public domain, that book can be copyrighted. Everyone can still publish their own new books of Tom Sawyer using the public domain materials, but noone can copy that book of Tom Sawyer.
NixOS and Guix are in some areas about a decade ahead of Mac and Windows. It's incredible what you can do with those (I can't work on new projects without guix shell anymore). It almost has the same feeling that in the 90s, when distros had package managers and proprietary OSes did not.
> but I thought it was an interesting read. I think we need more open-ended conversations about how people organize and get stuff done. Maybe this can inspire some.

Nice idea. In that spirit, I mention a couple of thoughts which came to mind reading TFA.

Perhaps NTSB, and hospital Morbidity and Mortality conferences, are a form of servant leadership? Of addressing not the immediate problem, but the conditions which insulated it from prevention/solution.

A pre-K science educator has suggested their students have a human right to make sense of their world - "now", not a lifetime in their future. Big hairy audacious goal. So I'd been thinking about sense-making narrative storytelling. And its overlap with work on teaching scientific dialog (eg addressing A:"X is true!" B:"I like you A, so yes, X is true!"). But I'd been thinking large-chunk narrative memes, rather than a sea of fragments in casual conversation, which seem both a likely outcome of attempting the former, and perhaps a hint at a goal. So not learning objectives, however better crafted, but a focus on shaping water-cooler conversation?

The "More like these, fewer like those" reminded me of a suggestion for design collaboration with a client - present more than one prototype, and their differences become a vocabulary for discussing the design space.

I think of groupthink as an underappreciated phenomena, so while some TFA bits addressed it indirectly, I got a feeling of unacknowledged pachyderm.

The robust systems and context-free ideas reminded me of an IMF research talk, which pointed out that it had taken years for the international development community to appreciate that you couldn't simply pick up an intervention that worked in one place, and cookie-cutter drop it in somewhere else entirely, with any likelihood of it working. I wondered where robust systems ideas are now on the getting-to-"well, duh" community education curve. And what other ideas might be plotted there.
The phrasing here is due to the CPRA which specifically requires that the link be titled "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" even for ad targeting.

As far as I understand the advertising model is the same as with Google Ads - Google builds profiles and lets advertisers target users based on profiles. They do not sell user data, and I'm not personally aware of a case where Google has even been alleged to be selling user data.
But it's not hectoring (and was not intended to be rude). Authors build things. Just like people who build companies, houses, inventions, etc. There are a lot of theories of how ownership happen, but many (at least in the US and Europe) come from some for of the labor theory of ownership. We own the things we put labor into and create. Unless you have a competing theory of ownership that explains why other assets can benefit the family of those who create things of value after death but not works of art, music, writing, etc., you haven't really made a cogent argument. Calling me rude is just an ad hominem argument, which we shouldn't entertain as serious.
I got a Kobo Libra Colour on its release and I also could not be happier. It is my first eink device so I've no experience with other devices. I was reading digitally on my phone prior. The kobo is pretty bomb proof and is repairable as well as being pretty open. I don't know what other readers look like IRL but the libra colour looks great. It apparently only uses the colour rendering when there is colour which would help? Idk, I love the thing. I've been taking notes on it, too, which has rendered my fountain pens rather neglected since I got it. It's the furthest I've ever gotten into digital note taking lol
There is another species of malaprop, one that has no name as far as I know, that I was made aware of by someone who was writing a character for a game who would use them copiously.

They are the intersection of an idiom or colloquialism and a mixed metaphor. Examples include “I'm running a little behind the eight ball” or “really went the extra mile in his shoes.”
The author chooses the publisher.
Because they don't want to be dependent on another country for energy infrastructure.
Im admitting myself to a residential mental hospital
So there is a pretty obvious analogy in chemistry: activation energy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activation_energy

The ELI5 version is that atoms are all trying to find a comfy place to be. Typically, they make some friends and hang out together, which makes them very comfy, and we call the group of friend-atoms a molecule. Sometimes there are groups of friendly atoms that would be even comfier if they swapped a few friends around, but losing friends and making new friends can be scary and seem like it won't be comfy, so it takes a bit of a push to convince the atoms to do it. That push is precisely activation energy, and the rearrangement won't happen without it (modulo quantum tunneling but this is the ELI5 version.)

In the software world, everyone is trying to make "good" software. Just like atoms in molecules, our ideas and systems form bonds with other ideas and systems where those bonds seem beneficial. But sometimes we realize there are better arrangements that weren't obvious at the outset, so we have to break apart the groupings that formed originally. That act of breakage and reforming takes energy, and is messy, and is exactly what this author is writing about.
For the past few years I've had this thought in the back of my head . If I use a Samba server as a domain controller, how much cruft and hostility can I shave off a standard Windows 11 Pro installation with GPOs. I keep kicking around the idea of trying to do it as an exercise in absurdity.
Discussion (20 points, 12 hours ago, 24 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40750182
The demographics of the apprehended offenders would lead one to believe that the problem may have its roots in displaced persons, who often suffer from social and economic pressures that lead to increased crime.

Of course this only includes -apprehended- people, so we might also consider that perhaps non-displaced persons are more successful at evading identification, or perhaps that police mainly prosecute crimes committed by displaced populations.

But nah, really, it’s more a factor of importing cultures that are less oriented toward civic behaviour because they see their hosts as “others”, as they are also seen, and are under extreme socioeconomic pressure.

You will typically see a sharp increase in crime wherever large volumes of displaced persons flow. It’s a natural consequence of human, cultural, social, and economic factors. It has nothing to do with race.
> "I understand that publishers and authors have to make a profit, but most of the material I am trying to access is written by people who are dead and whose publishers have stopped printing the material," wrote one IA fan from Boston.

This really is the crux of the problem. Copyright should be "use it or lose it." If you don't make your books readily available, then you should have no right to demand copies of your book be removed from places like IA. It's not like these publishers are losing any money from books that literally nobody can purchase.
This only increases speed if the data you want is on the opposite side of the drive.
Hipparchus must have been the greatest accountant of ancient times

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6der%E2%80%93Hipparch...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipparchus
This looks like nothing more than a government bailout for NuScale to save it from collapse.
Last time I checked, Israel wasn't waging a war with the US or any of the countries US allies or partners with for security.

Conversely, the US and Israel are security partners.

How much mental gymnastics does one have to do to ignore the fact that the entire thing is about Russia waging a war in which the US is on the other side?
Any top-tier C compiler will optimize modular division by a constant into a more efficient operation(s). It is better to keep the intent of the code clear rather than devolve it into increasingly obtuse bit-twiddling tricks the compiler can figure out on its own.
> Should it be legal for IA to offer this, especially for older and out of print books? Yes, almost certainly

No, not “almost certainly.”

I think they pushed the limit of what should be legal, especially since they were digitizing print books and lending those out as ebooks.
In Danny Hillis' lecture on the architecture of the CM-5 [1], he talks about some of the historical motivation behind the CM-2 described in his thesis paper turned into a book "The Connection Machine" [2] which goes into some detail on the alpha, beta, and dot operators and the xapping data type (the book calls it a "xector") described in detail in this paper.

Years ago I attempted to take a stab at implementing this language on CUDA I called hillisp [3] but at the time Dynamic Parallelism didn't exist yet and my available hardware was pretty weak, but it was fun to learn more about CUDA which was relatively early technology at the time.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua-swPZTeX4

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Connection-Machine-Press-Artificial-I...

[3] https://github.com/michelp/hillisp
Huh. I assumed that it would have two columns of heads on opposing corners. Twice the throughput, half the seek time.

Instead it still only has one column, but it’s divided in vertically to give more flexibility in positioning. I understand how that could help with random access iops, but how does it double the max bandwidth as they claim?

It’s still the same number of heads isn’t? When doing sequential reads isn’t that the limiting factor?
Isn’t this Simulated Annealing?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing
Regardless, Waymo is under the spotlight and they can't risk the regulatory hit of openly breaking laws, even if it's a perfectly normal thing for a human to do.
I can't even remove 'Recommended' from the start menu, not even on a Pro for Workstations.

Every time I search on the start menu there is a web search, impossible to turn off. How is that acceptable?

I install Edge Beta to test something, and the I uninstall it. All of the sudden my search provider in my normal Edge is reset.

And the nagging everywhere. No I don't want 'back-up' my files (OneDrive is not backup, it's sync). And I don't want to be reminded later. I don't want to be reminded ever. All this fuzzy language makes me feel like I'm dealing with a kindergarden teacher addressing his/her pupils.

It's not my computer any more.

Oh, I update a driver. And 2 days later Windows installs an older version. Since when is 6.6.1.40 better than 6.6.1.72? Why would you do that?
The books are still there, and if you're disabled you can even read them. They don't delete anything, even when they say they do. They "dark" it and let it sit, waiting for changes in the law, or for it to fall out of copyright, or some admin on an information-wants-to-be-free bender to push a button assuming nobody will notice.
Yeah the readme claims you can use this in an open source project. This is weird. An open source project that bundles this software (as a language implementation necessarily must) will _not_ remain open source. The only way a related work remains open source is if it depends on this project as a _peer_ dependency.

So as it is, I seriously doubt that anyone wanting a quicker way to implement a language will use this; why would I want to hamper adoption of my language by hobbling it with such a license?
Shameless plug: Have you considered Racket? I'm runing a small website for internal use in the univeristy, like 500 users, probaly like 100 dayly, I'm not sure how it escales. (Also, HN runs in Arc that is written on top of Racket, and HN has a big userbase.)
I disagree. Brewster demonstrated real courage.

The world locked down u necessarily precisely because the population has not been getting smarter the past 50 years because copyright has poisoned our information wells.

This is a fight worth having.

It's time to abolish copyright.
When I was a kid in the '90s, I looked forward to every issue of CD-ROM Today because it always came with a disc that was loaded with games, software demos, icon packs, and more.

I had so much fun with those discs, even fired up Basilisk II and tracked down the ISOs a few years ago to recapture some of that joy.
I did this about three months ago in response to Windows insisting again that I must link my desktop user with my Live account. I'm blown away by how viable Linux gaming is now, entirely because of money dumped in by Valve. It's only looking better, too, the deck means people are motivated to at least make sure it boots in Wine, and if they support Vulkan the perf will likely work out well.
> That’s not really true in traditional HFT because resting orders no matter how slowly placed will take precedence over orders that are new.

No. Not everything is FIFO.

You can be last to place a passive resting/limit order at a price and still be the first to receive a fill at that price. And yes, you had the advantage of seeing all the other passive orders at that price.

Examples: Pro-rata markets (SOFR interest rates, some US treasuries), designated market makers (futures, equities), etc.

Source: I work in HFT.
We could make little USB gyros that simulate that.