skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
except it is.

try to upload to YouTube your birthday party with a barely audible pop music playing in the background.

now which argument can't be taken seriously?

granted, it's not jail. but being removed from the monopoly forum for internet videos could be worse than jail if you're business depends on that.
The only reason I still dual boot win11 is for 3 programs that require windows only drivers. I purchased that laptop specifically because it supported dual ssd.

Win11 offline install and de-dork instructions is a must:

https://github.com/StellarSand/privacy-settings/blob/main/Pr...

Even then, one must assume win11 comes with a telemetry payload every second update.

Linux has its own share of issues, but is far easier to develop on (if you check the hardware support before purchase). The only parts of win11 that are any good was the FOSS they packaged in.

Strange times for sure, MS still chasing a set-top box market 30 years after it flopped =)
> And even when IA temporarily stopped limiting the number of loans to provide emergency access to books during the pandemic—which could be considered a proxy for publishers' fear that IA's lending could pose a greater threat if it became much more widespread—IA's expert "found no evidence of market harm."

I feel that IA erred very badly in lifting the one-to-one correspondence that is at the heart of "controlled digital lending" (https://controlleddigitallending.org). It is frankly annoying that they did that, and then still purport to be doing CDL, even though the CDL website clearly states the 1:1 "owned-to-loaned" ratio is a key part of the CDL platform.

For the record I'm extremely pro CDL, but I feel the IA did not do any favors to the CDL movement with this boneheaded "activist" implementation of CDL
And you need to get bent.

Pardon my French, but someone had to say it and you needed to hear it.
I’m signed in and use a lot of Apple’s stuff so it doesn’t matter to me.

It’s the ads for services or upgrades to service plans or new features of services that I don’t care about that I hate.

IAPs ruined the App Store, services are ruining the OSes.
https://windowsreport.com/windows-recall-spotted-ltsc-server...
Little known fact. He wasn't just an amazing Canadian. He was a Maritimer, born and raised in my home town, Saint John, New Brunswick.
What is the alternative to the access problem? Would you prefer apps be able to access that stuff without permission? I get it’s annoying but at least it’s safe?
I love the irony of how this article is plastered in so many awful video ads that is almost unreadable.
Lets change from "selling" to "assigning".

Could you assign the copyrights to a corporation (that then doesn't die). Would that prevent them from going into the public domain?

If I write some software and assign its copyright to the Apache Foundation or FSF or some other organization through a CLA, what happens to the license if I kick the bucket tomorrow?

For that matter, what happens if I don't assign its copyright to some other organization... does all the GPL software that I write suddenly become public domain?

If no, there is reason for it to remain under the GPL or Apache license so that it can continue on in the spirit of the license it was created under (which copyright enforces) ... then there is equal reason for the works of an author or photographer or singer or song writer to also remain under copyright for some duration.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.en.html

> My work on free software is motivated by an idealistic goal: spreading freedom and cooperation. I want to encourage free software to spread, replacing proprietary software that forbids cooperation, and thus make our society better.

> That's the basic reason why the GNU General Public License is written the way it is—as a copyleft. All code added to a GPL-covered program must be free software, even if it is put in a separate file. I make my code available for use in free software, and not for use in proprietary software, in order to encourage other people who write software to make it free as well. I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage of their own: they can use our code.

If the GPLed project lost all of its teeth upon the untimely death of a contributor, would that be a bad thing?
Not really.

Immigrant visa issuance is discretionary and unreviewable, as this judgment has just confirmed.

Adjustment of status, which is the process to obtain permanent residency within the US, is also discretionary for family-based applicants. The USCIS policy manual[1] lays out what "discretionary" means; roughly, it's a balancing test where the positive factors need to outweigh the negatives, and in the absence of any factors in either direction, the fact that someone meets the minimum requirements for a benefit counts as a positive.

The person in this case thinks they're suspected of being a member of the MS–13 gang, and was denied the visa on the grounds the consular officer believed he sought to "enter the United States to engage [...] in certain specified offenses or any other unlawful activity"[3] (internal quotes removed).

Those facts wouldn't go away if this individual applied for adjustment within the country. USCIS would almost certainly decide this case warrants an unfavorable exercise of discretion and deny the I-485 application for adjustment.

As for the new policy[2]: there's a procedural bar to adjustment of status for people who entered without inspection. The new policy offers a route for some people to apply for parole-in-place--which has been available to undocumented spouses of military members for well over a decade--which removes the procedural bar to adjustment. The discretionary test above would still apply.

The new parole-in-place policy also has a discretionary test, and applicants must not "constitute a threat to national security or public safety".

So this person is ineligible for an immigrant visa on security grounds; would also be ineligible on procedural grounds if they crossed the Rio Grande; would still be ineligible on security grounds anyway; and doesn't qualify for the new relief to begin with!

The only benefit they would gain by crossing the Rio Grande would be the ability to spend a lot of money on further court appeals that would ultimately be denied; consular non-reviewability only applies abroad. But the new policy doesn't affect that one way or the other: anyone on US soil is protected by the Constitution and has recourse to the courts.

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-7-part-a-chapter-...

[2] https://www.uscis.gov/keepingfamiliestogether

[3] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-334_e18f.pdf
Have you been following Ladybird browser project?

From an early (2022) post:

https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform...

> Q: Why bother? You can’t make a new browser engine without billions of dollars and hundreds of staff.

> Sure you can. Don’t listen to armchair defeatists who never worked on a browser.

...fast-forward to this month:

https://awesomekling.substack.com/p/forking-ladybird-and-ste...

> Since then, SerenityOS has grown into a large OSS community with over one thousand contributors all over the world.

> Personally, for the past two years, I've been almost entirely focused on Ladybird
Even Armenia didn't want to defend Armenia, making sure that it is explicitly legally and politically "definitely-not-Armenia" that needs defense.
I guess I always assumed all the heads were independent data streams, they were just forced to move physically in parallel.

You’re right that reading or writing the data in parallel across multiple platters might make more sense since the heads are always locked together anyway.

I have no idea how it actually works. That had never occurred to me.
This is their killer app right now. I would have a very difficult time giving up the seamless experience of AirPods moving from device to device.
> are we acting like we don't full-well know that using a condom sucks for everyone involved?

What do you mean "acting"? We all know it reduces the sensitivity. That's the trade off. You feel less pleasure, and your fucking doesn't get to kill you.

> it's like wondering why people didn't like using a face mask during covid: because it sucks.

Similar analogy. It sucked, but that was a similar trade off. It sucks a bit, but there's less chance it'll kill you or you'll kill others.

> it's no surprise when people avoid it, right?

I think those people would have to be fucking morons, but sure, morons exist.
>Rear-ending someone going slower than you is not their fault.

who gives a shit who is at fault when they're in an accident?

the goal is to avoid the event all together, not to have a scapegoat.
> The theory that the removal of lemon laws would result in a more informed consumer base has no basis in reality.

That's not what the paper says. It proposes government intervention and predates many lemon laws.

> Hoping consumers will educate themselves is a solution that doesn't scale; it is unrealistic to expect consumers to become experts on cars, computers, phones, medical devices, and every other complex product just so they can avoid being sold inferior, broken products.

This is the core claim of the original paper. When buyers have information asymmetry relative to sellers, they suffer.

> It is clear that the only solution that works is for experts on products, i.e. the sellers, be held accountable when they knowingly sell low quality products as if they were high quality.

This is literally what a lemon law is and what you're saying is on page 1 of the Market for Lemons paper.

> There are many markets in which buyers use some market
statistic to judge the quality of prospective purchases. In this case
there is incentive for sellers to market poor quality merchandise,
since the returns for good quality accrue mainly to the entire group
whose statistic is affected rather than to the individual seller. As
a result there tends to be a reduction in the average quality of goods
and also in the size of the market. It should also be perceived that
in these markets social and private returns differ, and therefore, in
some cases, governmental intervention may increase the welfare of
all parties
Spotify has a free tier where you can listen to any song for free. YouTube lets you watch almost anything for free. Both of these also pay the creators. There are many more services peddling free content and even covering hosting costs.

Libraries are free.

We have plenty of completely non-hypothetical non-society-overhauling ways to access information for free. Lots of information is free, lots of it is accessible.

> the current system is indeed necessary.

Not all of the current system is equally necessary. Maybe not necessary at all, it just so happens to be the system we have now. There have been plenty of radically different models of society over the years. Yea, they're gone now, but this current one isn't particularly old either.

Just to be more concrete - if you stop using and protecting your trademark, you can lose it. If you just hoard and don't use a copyright, you won't lose it. We already have systems in place that can provide similar info exchange for free.
Singapore has some of the strictest gun control laws in the world regarding ownership and possession. If you want America to be more like Singapore, start by repealing the second amendment, not increasing policing.
Surely there's some point where it ceases being a tool though. We can't both be making AIs out to be comparable to humans while simultaneously calling them tools. Otherwise people who commission art would be considered artists using a tool.
Then Person A needs to haul their butt to the Defense Service Office, call their Member of Congress, and tell the "anonymous" hotline that they've been retaliated against.

I'm not pretending this is some magic ticket to puppy-rainbow-fairy land where retaliation never occurs, but ultimately, how much do you care about your shipmates? I had a CPO once as one of my direct reports committing major misconduct and threatening my shop with retaliation if they reported it. I could have helped crush the bastard if someone had come forward to me, but no one ever did until I'd turned over the division to someone else, after which it blew up. Sure, he eventually got found out, but still. He was a great con artist and he pulled the wool over my eyes, but all I'd have needed is one person cluing me in to that snake.

Speaking from the senior officer level, we're not all some cabal trying to sweep shit under the rug. And the IGs, as much as they're feared, aren't out to nail people to the wall who haven't legitimately done bad things. I'm sorry you've had the experience you've had, but that doesn't mean that everyone above you was some big blue wall willing to protect folks who've done wrong.
I think on-the-floor traders actually do. I can't find the source to back that up, though.
If I build a house and you build a house and we exchange houses, both of us end up with exactly one house each.

If I have an idea and you have an idea and we exchange ideas, both of us end up with two ideas each.

There may be labour in both but there's a fundamental difference between physical property and intellectual property.
People don't switch operating systems at the drop of a hat. There's got to be a pretty good reason for it. All the people switching away from Windows, those are probably users that are lost to Microsoft forever. I get that their money comes from other places, but I bet there's a second-order effect of people who don't use Windows—maybe even people who now hate Windows—not having any desire stick with their other products or services either. It's weird that they don't seem to care about this slow diminution of their brand.
It is funny to me how illegal immigration keeps getting the spotlight while legal immigration is left in the dust.

It is a long and arduous process to get a green card in the US if one is trying to do it by the book. Even a US-educated PhD who has been working and paying taxes in the US for a decade would still have problem getting recognized. Meanwhile, half of the US citizens can't do basic math.

Funny how things work.
Yes, I agree with you about this comment specifically. But on this issue in particular, we do not need to overhaul society so drastically. We have laws about lending out books one has purchased. We have laws about how long copyright should last. We can change these laws but still retain much of their benefit while allowing much more freedom to access knowledge.

There is a line here and we may be walking too far on one edge of it. But the comment you replied to does have a utopian tone far from the pragmatism this case actually revolves around.
The hilarity is the ongoing multi-decade saga about what should be done with the roof now: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8BrUmBjDPzQ
Huh? There are ads on that site? I guess it's on you that you're browsing the web without an adblocker.
TBH the LLM seems worse than useless for a lot of these tasks - entering a netlist from a datasheet is tedious, but CHECKING a netlist that's mostly correct (except for some hallucinated resistors) seems even more tedious.
If you have Pro, you don't even need the Samba server, you can just edit group policy locally.
> If Star Trek Replicators were invented today, we're so stupid we'd outlaw them.

You're so optimistic to think the law would even be this fair. More like limit access to corporations as "the only custodians responsible enough to wield them", while still allowing the developing world to starve and further increasing their profit margins simultaneously to decreasing working wages and employment levels.
Windows is the SF of operating systems. I first moved to SF because I wanted to be there, not because it had a job for me. It was amazing. Regular people lived there and did interesting things and raised the next generation. You could enjoy the city because it was a city built for people and that was amazing. Then tech completely took over. I noticed my friends that had kids move first. They were the canaries in the coal mine. The city stooped being a place that made people want to put roots down, they were just there because of the job, so people have stopped moving there and started moving away. When you can work from anywhere why work in a place you don't want to be? I became one of the people that left and I don't regret it, unfortunately.

Microsoft and their operating systems are exactly the same. I started using MS operating systems with DOS 2.0. I was hooked. Every new version really was an upgrade. I couldn't wait for each new release because they were all amazing and truly 'upgrades'. I used their stuff because it was good, not because I had to. Slowly however things started to change. Each new 'upgrade' came with things that didn't help and didn't improve. One day I realized they were upgrades, just not upgrades targeted at me. My machine slowly but surely became less and less mine. Eventually I couldn't take it anymore and jumped on the Linux bandwagon. The last two machines I have purchased haven't even made it to the windows startup screen before I wiped them and, just like SF, you would have to pay me a lot of money to move back.

I hope SF and Microsoft learn a lesson from this: If you aren't raising the next generation because they love your product then you are creating a group of people that will leave as soon as they get the chance.
The grand parent post said risk _always_ entails a premium.

They post you're replying to merely points out they're wrong, as there are examples of it not _always_ entailing a premium.

No-one's saying that there aren't examples of risks that do entail a premium.
> Copyright should be "use it or lose it."

Which is basically how trademarks are. So we even already have a system in place to manage something like this.
But Microsoft is subsidising cost of the immense infra and development cost by showing you ads in excahnge for a cheaper license.
I'll probably be building a new desktop in the next year or two, and I'll try running Debian on it first. (Or maybe a SteamOS fork.) I don't want to run Windows 11 on anything, and Windows 10 doesn't fully support new CPUs anymore, and official support for everything stops October 2025.

Forcing ads into something is a sure fire way to get me to stop using a product.
https://privacy.sexy is what you want/need!

Works well to disable various telemetry, bloat and other baddies.
Windows updates can be disabled on any edition with my "I wasn't asking" approach of moving C:/Windows/system32/wua*.dll somewhere else. You can put these dlls back when and if you want to install updates.
That's a fair point. I just find that Windows is far more aggressive in throwing their latest feature or "desired user behavior" (example #2 below) in your face. Examples include:

* Cortana. Nobody should have been forced to use a modern version of Clippy, but at the OS level, and one named after a video game (AI) character. It made the whole OS feel like a joke - to me, at least.

* Tricking/forcing people to sign in with Microsoft/Outlook credentials, so their Windows account would now be tied to MS online credentials.

* Tricking/forcing users to upgrade into Windows 10. This happened to countless people, including to someone in my family.

* Displaying literal ads in the Start Menu
Remember windows 7? Holy moly it was so good. It was like Jesus came down and designed an operating system.

Been on macOS for nearly a decade now. Ironically it still has some things that are objectively worse. Looking at you, lack of alt tabbing.
> If they can’t use the lightweight concrete they used in the 60s…

Was there something about lightweight concrete from the 1960s that would preclude its use today? Asbestos fibres?
>i should do a minesweeper, eh?

Go for it. I just finished a lazy port to C and SDL. Not counting SDL and the spritesheet it's 42Kb. It's a fun weekend hack.
A "Muslim" must be wealthy enough to pay for their own pilgrimage. That includes everything.

Either that or pilgrimage isnt due on them if they cant afford it
I believe it helps but not the sole reason. Because there are also autoregressive models that perform slightly worse. Unsupervised learning + Diffusion + Neural Search is the way to go in my opinion. However, currently, the literature lacks efficient Neural search space exploration. The diffusion process is a good starting point for neural search space exploration, especially when it is used not just to create a solution from scratch but also as a local search method. Still, there is no clear exploration and exploration control in current papers. We need to incorporate more ideas from heuristic search paradigms to neural network CO pipelines to take it to the next step.
Palestine is not a country according to Israel and they do not treat anyone living there as a citizen of a separate country.

No country in the world has total control of any other country's electricity, food rationing, water rationing, import / export, ability to work, ability to depart and arrive from the country.

You constantly mention Egypt as if it somehow makes all the facts I've stated false. But it does not. If they cooperate to create the same situation the situation does not change. There are still 2 million stateless people whose electricity, food, water, internet, and basically all access to the outside world is controlled by governments they are not citizens of.
I have a smart plug configured to power plugged into it charger for 40min or so during the night. It takes it to ~80-85% and it's automatic.
Update: This Debloating tool seems promising: https://github.com/LeDragoX/Win-Debloat-Tools

It’s one of many I was able to find!

My favourite version of windows was Windows 2000. It was a true get shit done and stay out of the way experience. I believe the enterprise server versions retained some of that appeal (might still).
Florida school district bans book called 'Ban This Book'
> McDonald said the title and theme of Gratz’s novel “challenges our authority” and refers to other works deemed inappropriate by school boards

This is brazen 1984-level dystopian behavior by the government, happening in the open.
The Rock Star will say, “I will do these 10 things by next Friday.” And then next Friday rolls around and 8 of them are done. This repeats week after week, but I can never tell which 8 will get done. They’re boastful and proud that they got a lot done but the rest of the team can never count on them to get any specific thing done.

The other person will say “I will do these 5 things by next Friday.” And then next Friday all 5 are done. And they repeat this week after week after week.

Give me the second person every time.
its necessary to make sure dead authors have an incentive to keep on writing great books
Are we sure this is an appropriate "ask HN" question?
You've found "the pretentious CS undergrad/junior dev" and I've found somebody who has no fucking clue what they're talking about. So we are even.

I design and implement software products from scratch for various clients. Some I own and it brings me some extra money. Been doing it since 80s. Products range - various middleware, enterprise backends, desktop multimedia applications, deep sea scanning, firmware for microcontrollers, device control and real time data processing etc. etc.
https://annas-archive.org/datasets/ia
I also use Heroic Launcher with Epic Games as well on Pop_OS, check it out!
Until it doesn't.

I shouldn't have to run on a privacy treadmill to stay in the same place.
In a traditional drive, only one head is active at a time. In these drives only two heads are active. I don't think multiple heads on the same arm can be used at the same time due to micro-misalignment of the tracks.
Look around and see what big corporations are doing. You woll be flooded.