- morpheuskafka parentMy understanding is that you can have such an agreement (basically a kind of NDA) -- but if courts ruled that AI training is fair use, it could never be a copyright violation, only a violation of that contract. Contract violations can only receive economy damages, not the massive statutory penalties that copyright does.
- Indeed, and it can also be free software and under a copyleft license (GPL AGPL etc) and not accept contributions. Otherwise, every project that shut down or was just a one off gist/blog post to begin with couldn't be called open source either!
- As you said, people often continue to drive at full speed through unlit intersections let alone roads. Doesn't that then imply that a Waymo stopping on such a road is not "failing safe"? It's just asking for someone to hit it -- even if they'd be at fault, it's still not safe.
- Yes, it's also an issue when someone posts their bag tag/boarding pass/booking email online.
But that's the "industry standard" for checking a reservation online. Requiring airline login doesn't work because of tickets issued by travel agents or other airlines.
- > stop Joe Lunchbox from copy/pasting a block with a CC number in the middle into ChatGPT. You know what will? A TLS-inspecting proxy with some DLP bits and bobs.
If you are sniffing web traffic for anything that looks like a credit card number, won't you just catch every time the employee/company's own card is entered onto a payment page?
- A few years ago North Korea had some Cisco routers with all ports open to the Internet, wonder if they are vulnerable.
- To be fair, it is a 3mo batch. The better analogy would be a long business trip or on site project, not a remote vs. in office job.
Moreover, for better or worse, the all day every day work culture typical of venture-backed startups isn't really compatible with being a new parent etc. anyway.
- Oracle has this trademark in numerous countries. Even if this USPTO proceeding cancels it in the US, someone will need to cancel it in every other country to be safe for using it for a global software project/company. Because they filed directly in each country, rather than using the Madrid/WIPO process, a US cancellation doesn't affect the others at all.
(Likewise, even if Oracle wins this, they could still have to spend to defend it in other countries or risk losing it there if challenged.)
- For those like me who are not Ruby users/devs, it might be good to explain who exactly Ruby Central is? I assumed they were analogous to Python Soft Foundation or Linux Foundation etc. as the entity of maintainers/owners/whatever of Ruby.
But it seems that they have nothing to do with the ruby-lang.org site where the Ruby binaries itself are distributed. Instead, their own site appears to primarily list them as responsible for organizing an annual conference?
And who owned the RubyGems infrastructure before this takeover? The website (and domain that the client actually calls to get the gems, presumably) seem to have already been part of Ruby Central, so what exactly changed here ownership wise, beyond just kicking the maintainers?
(unrelated -- seeing a mention of DHH here reminded me that I haven't seen anything of the Matt/WP drama in a long time on HN -- time to go Google whatever the resolution of that was)
- IIRC, you have to do something called a "compliance export," which just like any other compliance feature (SSO, HIPAA BAA, audit logs, etc.) usually requires the highest plan. It's designed to add some extra friction so admins can't just add themselves to a DM from the main UI like they could with a channel, but it is possible.
- > you're supposed to be able to squeeze buttons on either side of the phone. But it only works with the volume buttons on the left
I don't recall there ever being any official language about "squeezing both sides of the phone" to make emergency calls. Doesn't the feature description in Settings explicitly reference which buttons to press?
- Federal cases are generally at least partially unsealed once the defendant is arrested. Especially since the charge is supposedly workplace related not terrorism etc, then someone should be able to pull the case in PACER and at least find out the basic details.
- > Plenty of cutting-edge science needs hobbyist-level EE, it's just not work in EE
But aren't there a lot of actual hardware products that are "simple circuit blocks connected to a microcontroller"? Like a toaster, shaver, keyboard, etc. If that's not "work in EE" then what is it classified under? It's not CS either.
- Also, it seems to mistake some definitions as causes.
A coronavirus isn't "claimed" to cause SARS. Rather, SARS is a name given to the disease cause by a certain coronavirus. Or alternatively, the name SARS-nCov-1 is the name given to the virus which causes SARS. Whichever way you want to see it.
For a more obvious example, saying "influenza virus causes influenza" is a tautology, not a causal relationship. If influenza virus doesn't cause influenza disease, then there is no such thing as an influenza virus.
- But some, like Oppo and Vivo are--they ship with a Google-OKed copy of GMS, and redistribute the Play Store on their own app store as a way to install it (ostensibly for use when traveling outside the mainland, though it can also be used with a VPN). So clearly they are on some level Google certified.
However, they also contain switches to disable background GMS, which makes them almost de-googled. All of them, not just Huawei, have their own app store/updater, and have some sort of push notification to replace Firebase Cloud Messaging (as I understand, Tencent provides a one touch service so devs don't need to hardcode each OEMs notifications). Otherwise, it would be impossible to get apps or notifications without a VPN/proxy.
- Presumably this won't apply to Chinese OEMs, since even though their devices do ship a disabled by default Google Mobile Services (without the user facing Play Store APK), it obviously would not be suitable to require Google involvement for developing internal apps. The OEMs could set up such a debug licensing service themselves, but each of them would have to do it themselves, and then it would be impossible to debug Google-based apps on the devices.
- But ethics class doesn't tell you what is ethical. If it was universally agreed what was ethical, there wouldn't be a class in the first place. There are a variety of theories and frameworks that themselves are based on different assumptions and beliefs, before you even get in to how to apply them.
- Most reddit comments are rather sarcastic though, certainly not sycophantically answering the OP like the way the GPT model has become over time.
- But Chrome is paying more as a percentage of their browser units' income, no?
Virtually all of Mozilla's income comes from the browser (via the Google search agreement). The vast majority of Google's revenue comes from ad revenue on search, YouTube, and Adsense. Not from Chrome directly. So they had less incentive to reward its security, but did so anyway. And they also do some of the best work in the industry, free, for competitors via Project Zero.
- You can't put the lithium itself out with water, but presumably water would still keep everything around it from burning?
- > I've erred on the side of caution and trashed the batteries
How is throwing a potentially damaged lithium battery into the trash, where no batteries of any kind should go, cautious?
- Hmm, so it looks like no on really knows when it takes effect, the law itself specified a cost for the current fiscal year, but in addition to the usual time to implement the fee in the IT systems, there appear to be two issues: what rulemaking notices/approvals are needed to decide and impose it (the law allows the executive to decide the fee, it just sets a minimum), and the fact that DHS not State is supposed to collect it, which would greatly complicate processing.
State already has a global cashiering system for visa fees that would have been easier to use, although DHS collecting fees is not without precedent. For one, the SEVIS fee (a surcharge on student visas) is paid directly to DHS by credit card. For two, the surcharge on green cards is paid to USCIS, but this one is not actually enforced before visa issuance or arrival (they will not mail you the card if you don't pay, but you still have the status).
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/visa-integrity-fee-what-to-k...
- It's open to things like sport and entertainment, so definitely not everyone has many (or any) degrees. Assuming your field is somewhat science based I don't know how realistic it would be with no degree, but you can search some blogs about it, people have covered what they did to rack up publications and stuff to check all the boxes (if their work/field wouldn't have otherwise needed them).
If you are starting your own business, the treaty investor visa could also be a good route. It doesn't require as much investment as the investor green card; it is a nonimmigrant visa similar to the O-1.
- Since it was coincidentally posted as a news thread today, it might be nice to clarify here when the new $250 nonimmigrant visa fee takes effect and who it applies to?
- 1) you don’t need any immigration permission to found a company, you can do that remotely via a lawyer or in person on a visa waiver.
2) if you aren’t working in the US, you don’t need to do any US tax paperwork to hire yourself. You need to register your foreign company under Spanish law and follow their procedures.
- That makes sense. The laws about removal creating an entry ban were written before preclearance was a thing. Withdrawal is a think at normal ports to, but since you’re already they, they can force “expedited removal” instead if they want to generate a ban. But preclearance isn’t US territory so removal isn’t applicable.
- It’s doubtful you’ll get any answers. Lawyers are of little help due to “consular nonreviewability” and your case clearly has hit some sort of national security flag. Since this was pre Trump II, it likely was a real human review not their new approach of automated revocations for poorly designed queries (a student was recently revoked due to fishing license citations).
As I understand, AP generally means Washington and not the consulate is actually the block/decision maker now, but they wouldn’t even officially tell you that. It could be with State or they could be waiting an opinion from someone. Picture some CIA agent who got stuck with a boring desk job and has a stack of thousands of visas to research.
- A TN visa is a visa, but what someone is “on” is a status, not a visa. Visas are only relevant to the moment of entry. You need a visa of type X to ask to enter with status X.
The exception to that is Canadians like OP, they don’t need most visa types (the E investor/trader visa is the exception—but TN, H1B, etc., don’t need).
- As an example, US has Uber and Lyft and Mexico has Uber and Didi. When someone from Mexico goes to US, they probably wont have Lyft, and someone from the US won’t have Didi. So Uber gets most travellers’ business automatically.
Likewise even though Uber in Japan is (almost) all taxis and not actual Uber drivers, most global tourists have Uber and not something like Go that’s specific to Japan. So they are profiting off almost all the taxi rides from Western visitors.