skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The King is only two years younger than Trump, and has cancer. His main interests are watercolor painting, traditional architecture, homeopathy, the Goon Show, and vegetables. He was never likely to do anything confrontational.*

I wonder if a future King William might try something like this, though.

* Come to think of it, Hitler liked three or four of those things too, so this is less demonstrative of character than I imagine.
>That is not what the maintainer said. The maintainer said that for Rust code in the area he is currently maintaining. I think the main issue was, the he was not accepting second maintainer to take care the Rust part on the same area.

The Rust code is not in the area he was currently maintaining. Christoph didn't even look at the patches before objecting to them. Once it was pointed out that they were not in his area, he rejected them anyway.

Note that, because they are not in his area, he does not actually have the authority to do this. He was CC'd in an advisory sense, it's not really his call to accept them or not, and as a longtime kernel maintainer he surely knows this.
But the Tories are not in power. Can't labour just repeal it?
As I recall, the Starliner contract was fixed cost and the X-37 was cost plus. Its not a new observation that the space and defence part of Boeing struggles with the former after decades of the latter.

But also, and obviously, Starliner is crew-rated and X-37 isn't. That introduces a lot of additional design and test complexity, as well as more conservative operational decision-making.
The only way for links to appear in a Google search would be to host a public resource, that is linked from another public resource.

If you have specified in your robots.txt that you do not want the page(s) or directories ingested then only the url is indexed (if it is linked from another page). It does prevent the public display of the content of a page and creation description/summary.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7489871?hl=en
I fail to see how you arrived at GP being a hobbyist criminal based on their suggestion that IP laws need to be modernized.
As this article shows, browsers actually collapse spaces differently based on the specific CSS applied - and this is in fact intended behavior, not some corner case.

Also, the output of HTML parsers is the HTML structure, and changing that to collapse spaces would break numerous tools. So while probably all HTML renderers do some kind of space collapsing, there are many other uses of HTML parsing that don't. Most likely the syntax highlighting in your HTML editor of choice in fact relies on a space-preserving HTML parser, just for one example.
> The UK doesn't have the geopolitical clout it once did, especially not after Brexit.

Aye.

But (1) I don't think the UK government really understands that, and (2) for intelligence operations, they might still have enough.

Everyone else has the exact same dichotomy of simultaneously wanting all the computers safe from other hackers while also hacking everything themselves, and many also want the added extra of guaranteed citizen's right to privacy, so legal fights like this are advantageous to most nations: all the other countries watching this get to have their cake (they can spy on encrypted comms) while eating it too (in this metaphor, when Apple is found out, they get to punish Apple and pretend to be above such things).
Unlike you, I make an effort to know the who, how, when, where, what, and why:

https://github.com/egberts/immigration
> We all fly Boeing at one time or another.

Kayak.com allows you to pick flights based on the aircraft.
It's the same kind of administrative division as Monaco City. It's where the Grand Prix is announced as being held. Las Vegas is also legally a subset of the metropolitan area that it's part of. Americans do call the thing that Las Vegas is a "city" and do not call the thing that Monte Carlo is a "city", but this seems more like a translation artifact than any real difference.
It's safe to assume that anything publicly available on the web is being scraped.
If you can run a shell command, it can do basically anything you want.
It is a mammal which is why it's so fascinating!

The goat bones have a growth pattern only found in reptiles suggesting it had adapted to varying availability of food. Other morpholigic changes (smaller brain, smaller eyes) also suggest that it had at a minimum evolved to withstand low nutrition periods.

The working theory to these observed structures is that this mammal a rare example of a warm blooded creature turning cold blooded.

Stranger things have happened though, the evolutionary path of whales is particularly strange.
I don't consider myself a professional writer, but I want to share some useful information with others. LLMs assist me greatly in various areas. Translation is my top use, followed by solving complex tasks like setting up intricate infrastructure using Kubernetes, Google Cloud, Terraform, and CDKTF, all of which have incredibly extensive APIs.
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia (in that order) will disconnect from grids in Königsberg (Kaliningrad), Belarus and Russia (in this order). After that the area will be working as isolated grid for 33h, after which the grids will be connected to synchronization link between Lithuania and Poland. Königsberg will remain a grid-island. Summary of timeline on page 18 (in Estonian): https://elering.ee/sites/default/files/public/S%C3%BCnkronis...
The difference is that China and Russia have the sense to spy on foreign citizens with hackers, trackers, and other covert means. Somehow the UK feels entitled to Apple doing their espionage for them, and has the gall to ask publicly.

Note that this is not China apologia: they do the same brazen shit locally, but they're an authoritarian regime. I have lower expectations for human rights there.
Touché Touche. I forgot to shit on on AMD, they create their own problems.
Yes. And the problem here isn't that companies get away with doing things like this, the problem is that individuals don't. Attempting to lock information behind a nightmarish legal system is the problem.

I'm pretty much at the point now where I don't buy the "copyright incentivizes creation" argument any more. Copyright, like advertising, incentivizes creation by enormous corporations, but also like advertising it incentivizes creations that overwhelmingly have little value.

Creative individuals don't need copyright to be incentivized to create—they need a safety net that gives them the freedom to spend time on the creativity that naturally wants to bubble out. If the goal is to encourage creativity, copyright is a lousy and enormously expensive substitute for Universal Basic Income.
My takeaway is it's much easier to embark on huge side projects as a tenured professor.
VSCode cpptools extension drops debug support on CentOS 7 and RHEL 7
I meant to type 1895! *ugh.
The Overton Window has shifted.
We're sick of the double standards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#United_States_v._...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#Death

While Aaron Swartz was bullied to suicide, these corporations will walk free and make billions. I say give every tech CEO the Swartz treatment, then change the law.
You said it.

I can only lead a horse to the watering hole.

https://github.com/egberts/immigration
The reason there was no political will to punish Airbnb and Uber for violating the law was that initially they were subsidized with VC money and so were able to undercut traditional hotels and taxis on price. In the world of tradable goods, pricing below cost with the intent of putting competition out of business so you can raise prices later is known as "dumping" and is itself illegal.
"We" don't necessarily want censorship. But companies who own the models don't want another Microsoft Tay.
It would be no different from how multiple devices and users access the same content (chat, shared data, etc.). The government’s keys would always be included in set which encrypts the real key. They don’t need the users’ key, Apple doesn’t need their private keys. So technically still end to end encrypted, just with a hidden party involved. Users have no way of knowing this doesn’t already happen.

And when their key leaks, it’s as good as no encryption, but still end-to-end encrypted.
That did it. Thanks.
You're conflating different problems.

Big corporations are too big, they should just not exist. When you have corporations more powerful than the government of the biggest states, it's a bug, not a feature.

The IP laws may need rethinking. Saying that they should disappear because big corporations are above the law doesn't help, though. First kill the big corporations, then think about fair laws. Changing the law now would not change anything since those corporations are already above the law.
Sure, yes, I had meant in the US. I know it's possible, we just tend to make these things impossible via incompetent implementation.
Doge: Getting two emails in one day – deadline TODAY and Monday
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42970412
Are you sure that everything should be in the public domain? Say you spend a year writing a book, shouldn't you be able to sell it?
is this just weird religious adherence to the belief that a multi-language codebase will be harder to maintain? what's the rationale, exactly?
> why do we want to then censor LLMs differently?

If I make a word processor, it doesn't need any stance on the Israel/Palestine conflict. It's just a word processor.

But if I make an LLM, and you prompt it to tell you about the Israel/Palestine conflict? The output will be deeply political, and if it refuses to answer that will also be political

The technology industry does not know what to do because unlike industries like journalism and publishing who are used to engaging with politics, a lot of norms, power structures and people in tech think we're still in the 1990s making word processors, no politics here.
This is a good point that should be taken into account, but also i'm not a Meta user or shareholder (outside of ETFs etc.) so i don't care what they do with their money. Boeing is lighting our tax payments on fire and literally killing people
Same, that'd be my worry. I'd rather have my state or municipality implement this than choose some terrible Sysco style vendor and just feed them slop
One undervalued aspect of Go is that it is the simplest concurrent language that can be thrown at Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Ruby devs when they hit a wall caused by their primary language's lack of good concurrency.
I looked for my family's businesses and other old friends and didn't find any of them. Texted my parents about this and they sound as surprised as me, and they have had a small local business for about a decade before Covid. My mom wasn't even aware that they would be eligible. And yet I see individuals, and others in my hometown whose businesses consist of only them and possibly one other person (likely part-time) made out with tens of thousands of dollars, all forgiven. Self-employed and sole proprietorships even. One family who I was always suspicious about how they always had whatever disposable money was needed for anything (the primary income was a local vending machine business) got $187k in this, according to this site. All forgiven.
Exciting. For folks in the states who are so insulated from fundamental dangers, at least non-home-grown dangers, it's wonderful to see folks with the conviction and drive to do what they must do for their own destiny
I strongly urge people to read Thomas Babington Macaulay's speeches on copyright, its aims, terms, and hazards. Very well reasoned and explained.

In particular, people often cited the case of authors who had died leaving a family in destitution, and claimed that copyright extension would be a fair way of preventing this, but in most cases the remaining family had never held the copyright; the author had initally sold the reproduction rights to a publisher who had then sat on the work without publishing it. The author, driven into penury, was then induced to sell the copyright to the publisher outright for a pittance. So in such cases a copyright extension only benefited the publisher, and indeed increased their incentive to extort the copyright.
Check out HackerRank?
Frankly I immediately knew incidents like these would increase when it was added.

Not possible to have rust without the "" community"", it seems.
> 5 years later, it's still not there. It was just a one-liner, and I'm not really sure why it never got added.

I think they expect people who want things to advocate harder than just mentioning it once. If no one brings it up again, then they assume that no one cares.
They are getting shittier and shittier
We may in retrospect find that the moment may have passed where "big corporations" have become more powerful and impactful on our lives than the IP laws on the books. After all, we can already plainly see they only come into effect when useful by the powerful
1. We are not talking about physical books.

2. DRM is built in to most purchased ebooks, which means you can’t consume the book on any device. “Illegal” tools exist to circumvent this.

3. Large ebook stores - like other digital stores - essentially lend you a copy of the book. So when they are forced to pull a book, they’ll pull your access too.

Of course, now that the big players have consumed/archived the entire book dump, they can go ahead and kill it to prevent others from doing the same thing.
I couldn't work out from the story whether it was really set in the 1920s, or whether that was a delusion on the part of the main character.
> I think they're racing against the mid-terms next year.

This is the race. Historically the party in power loses the mid-terms, and I think we're already seeing huge portions of the population having buyers remorse. But, Trumps team knows this. I was waiting for them to attack the FEC, and here we are.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/us/politics/federal-elect...
To what extent is a country's relevance (whatever that even means) the decisive factor in determining what it is allowed to demand?
specifically https://annas-archive.se/torrents - this is a meta-project which aggregates illegal copyrighted material from other illegal projects. You absolutely should not download any material this page links to, although you can use it for the purpose of researching about shadow libraries.
I am sorry.
I didn't mean it as a negative.
In fact, when I read the post,
it felt like the vice president was stringing the individual contributor along
dangling a promotion to the individual contributor but never granting it.

Yes,
I agree a move could be upward or sideways
but basically what I understood from the OP is
the VP is either malicious or incompetent.

I would love to learn why a VP would string along ICs like this...
why not speak the truth?
Do they think we are idiots?
If that is true, why he was the one that was asked to review/ or why his opinion even matters here? The must be some sort of correlation to his code or this does not make sense at all..
https://periscope.corsfix.com/?https://www.nytimes.com/2025/...
One side wants to purge large parts of the population and the other one doesn't. Yes, all parties can abuse data, but their policies do actually matter.
Companies often don't do what they're obligated to. As long as they can keep plausible deniability.
i know of a company that poisoned an entire town! thats terrorism if done by an individual. the company still exists, just paid a settlement and carried on...
I'm all for chopping up copyright law. But until we do so, companies like Meta need to be treated just like everyone else.

That means lawsuits, prison sentences, and millions in fines. And that's just the piracy part, there's also the lying/fraud part.

Interestingly, a Dutch LLM project was sent a cease and desist after the local copyright lobby caught wind of it being trained on a bunch of pirated eBooks. The case unfortunately wasn't fought out in court, because I would be very interested to see if this could make that copyright lobby take down ChatGPT and the other AI companies for doing the same.
Yeah totally see your point, i'm just not ready to give up yet
Looks like @marcan deleted his existence on mastodon? Does anyone have a copy of what he said on there?
Ringworlds and Dyson spheres can be stable
You cannot have a meaningful debate if the other party isn’t arguing in good faith. I think OP actually gave a good example with sports. I’ve seen people argue about sports for both fun and because they tossed back a too few many. Being exposed to sports fans in my 20s really helped me understand alot about what can drive people to do all sorts of things.
It's just in his area where he has the power to say no, and it's important enough to be a big impediment to the whole project.
Yes, you need to read the docs. Yes.

And yet...

Do people read the docs? Often, no, they don't. So, are you creating tools for the people we have, or for the people you think we should have? If the latter, you are likely to find that your tool makes less impact than you think it should.

Computer languages are not tools for illiterates. You need to learn what you're doing. And yet, programmers do so less than we think they should. If we don't license programmers (to weed out the under-trained), then we're going to have to deal with languages being used by people who didn't read the docs. We should give at least some thought to having them degrade gracefully in that situation.
My layman’s understanding is that a user’s private key is used to decrypt a random key, which is then used to protect data. Shared files then only require adding key access to that small secret by someone who knows the original key. If one of the original public keys is always one held by authorities, Google never needs to have custody of the private key and can’t access the data themselves making the statement true, but misleading.
With C#, VB.NET, and F#?

Anyways, to each their own.
> Spotify's music library was also pirated in the early days.

I want to know more, please enlighten me (anyone who knows). I read the book "The Spotify Play" and it made it seem like the pirated music was an internal-only thing and not something available to customers. Is that true?
Maintainers come and go, languages come and go. C will never go away and everyone working on kernels knows C, so there's a certain labour pool and skillset that will always be available that doesn't necessarily apply to Rust. That's even setting aside any technical issues, like bugs creeping up in the language interoperability layer, which obviously doesn't really happen if you're only using one compiler.
The Rust drama is an uncommon failure of leadership for Torvalds. Instead of decisively saying "no, never" or "yes, make it so," he has consistently equivocated on the Rust issue. Given the crisis of confidence among a sizeable (and very vocal) contingent of the Linux community, that decision has backfired horribly. And it's quite out of character for Linus not to have a blazingly clear opinion. (We all know his stance on C++, for instance.)

As a pilot program, R4L should have graduated or ended a long time ago. After several years of active development, its status remains unclear. Instead of cracking heads to get everyone on the same page, Linus has instead spent all this time sitting back and watching his subordinates fight amongst themselves, only to then place responsibility for the drama on Martin's shoulders. Poor form.

Arguably his reprimand of Martin is a clear signal that he will never show Rust any favor, but he hasn't said anything explicitly. Maybe he knows he should, but he fears the shitstorm it will cause. Maybe it's time for him to rip off the band-aid, though.

And again, all of this could have been avoided if he'd just put his foot down one way or the other. Imagine how much time and energy (even just Martin's alone) could have been saved if Linus had just said "no, keep it downstream".
Fuck the UK and their creepy nanny state.
It's certainly a brilliant app if it existed.

I'd suggest the decluttering movement, inventory, allergens, tracking lost stuff, would also find it a useful tool.

Decluttering passes Larry Page's "toothbrush test" FWIW

Sorry, can't answer your question.
Microsoft Tay:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)
Rapid movement of key employees should be a sign that they don't believe there is a moat in this space either. If there was a moat, then they would be stuck where they are for lack of opportunity.
>You think the whole world is about meta comments?

Sentiment in the media, all media, including social media, turns into dead bodies if the rhetoric is allowed to get extreme enough.

It's been this way since the invention of public speaking.
In a broader sense censorship is a built in and from a user perspective, a desirable feature for most internet social networks ...

Almost every "everything goes" type forum becomes undesirable to almost everyone for a variety of reasons.

Users might complain about it, but they also don't want "no censorship" even if that's what they say.
> browsers actually collapse spaces differently based on the specific CSS applied

Sure. But they do all collapse spaces. I don't think anyone wants their browser to always preserve all the spaces that are in the source.

> and this is in fact intended behavior, not some corner case.

Eh maybe. They collapse the spaces of block elements like block elements and the spaces of inline elements like inline elements; that seems like the obvious thing that your renderer would do if you didn't make any deliberate design decision.

> So while probably all HTML renderers do some kind of space collapsing, there are many other uses of HTML parsing that don't. Most likely the syntax highlighting in your HTML editor of choice in fact relies on a space-preserving HTML parser, just for one example.

I very much doubt it. And even if it did, that would be an incredibly backwards reason to keep that behaviour - "we've spent all this effort working around our bad standard, that would be wasted if we fixed the standard".
Simply because not enough anti-malware vendors are willing to let US government know that one of their favorite hoard of malware has lost "its edge".

So, either they form a department of viability or they lose it all.
Beyond the absurdity of those amounts, the funny thing is that the authors wouldn’t ever see a dime of that money. Not in the music case, not in this one either. Fairness?
Generally speaking it is worse if a party who is ideologically inclined to do something bad to you reads it, yes.
He wasn't asked, he was CC'd on the patchset because it wraps his subsystem. If he was interested in doing a driveby review in good faith, or taking interest in what was going on, then he could have done so.
Yeah they will still learn something even if it is overnight. So will the listeners. After all, what really is the point of debate? To visibly win?
Big corporations don't have morale or ethics. They'll break any laws as long as it's profitable. There's no point complaining about Meta or Zuck. Meta does what it's designed to do. If people aren't happy, they should vote for more regulations.
Wonderful memories.
Plenty of the existing laws are insane and indefensible. Copyright duration of life of the author plus 70 years? Patents on videogame mechanics?

We need to both reform the laws and enforce them. Otherwise...

>The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
The key thing with crypto is not the source of the seed, but the algorithm. Throwing true randomness into a random number generator that isn't mean to provide cryptographic hardness won't save you and a cryptographically secure pseudo random number generator is often just fine when seeded without true randomness.
Rocm is kind of injury in general. Many people in the past have gotten burned by assuming that AMD would support some of their most popular and powerful new hardware, and then they just don't.

It seems like they're getting better at it, somewhat.