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Email broken for 3 hours is a serious incident. When everything is down, and the servers are on fire, I still expect email to work.
The longer it's down, the more incoming stuff piles up into various SMTP queues. So they are running from an increasingly larger avalanche.
You have heat exchangers between saltwater and clean freshwater that circulates through the sensitive parts of the plant.
(Note that none of the following is legal advice.)

One tip on reading patent - ignore most of the diagrams and description, and go straight to the claims. The claims are the only valid part of the patent. In this case, all the static/dynamic RAM, signals, memory cache, and malloc stuffs are irrelevant and misdirection.

This patent has only 1 claim [1]. The claim has a series of elements making a number of conditions for the patent. Notice that semicolons separate each claim elements. That means these are AND-conditions. All these conditions need to be met to fit the patent. Also notice the colons. These list the sub-elements or sub-conditions.

Reading the claim. It seems to be a system with a number of processors of different kinds. There's some memory with input/output ports. The memory holds the instructions and data. The input/output ports of the processors connect (coupled) to the input/output ports of the memory to read the instructions and data. Do computation on the data based on the instruction. Spit out the result. The kinds of processors are: multiplier, arithmetic unit, arithmetic logic unit, and a bit manipulation unit. The processors run simultaneously.

To defeat this patent, you can list prior arts. This is the most damaging because it invalidates the whole patent. Or you can go by the claim conditions. You can either claim your product doesn't have any one of the kind of the processors (no bit manipulation), or the processor doesn't read instruction/data from memory (instructions are hard-coded or a processor gets its input from another processor), or the processor doesn't connect to the memory directly (via a bus or via a data switch or via special registers), or the processor doesn't do computation according to the instruction (e.g. a doubler always double the data), or your processors run serially in some fashion, etc.

And then there's the legal definition of the terms in the claim, such as what is a multiplier, an arithmetic unit, an ALU, what's a bit manipulation unit, and what's "coupling." This process is called claim construction and done by the court via precedents and the intents described in the description of the patent. Many times a patent lawsuit falls apart during the claim construction phase because the definition of the terms don't apply to the sued product.

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US6289434B1/en
If I'm reading your comment correctly, you're either misunderstanding or misrepresenting some things.

Car insurance is for your personal liability in an "event"

People cannot sue firearm manufacturers for their use in the crime. Civil suits against individuals are allowed. So if I shoot you, you can sue me for shooting you (or the relevant trauma/stress/hospitalization, etc). But you cannot sue Colt because I shot you. I'm not sure if automobiles have or need the same protections - can you sue Chevrolet if I run you over?
Whoops, I meant prescribe.
There exist countries with simple tax code, inhabited by people who do not want to pay tax. Therefore any valid explanation why US has a comparatively complex tax code must cite something specific about the US. A generic reference to human nature explains nothing.
> Just treat the output like an answer on StackOverflow, and review it before committing it.

Exactly. Has to take another human like the author to review that dangerous StackOverFlow code generated from Copilot. (Hence the name)

The stories and tales of AI replacing humans in this profession of programming has been 'greatly exaggerated' on this site. Especially when for one of the fanatics and early adopters, it took around one in ten times to get it right. [0] While I'm never expecting 'perfect', 'ten times' really is less than average when you can write it yourself anyway. Even then, you probably have to review the generated code yourself regardless.

It's more going to be 'assistive' than 'replacing'. For now. Just like all the other 'AI' projects out there.

Long way to go, AI Doomsayers.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27676845
Yes, I agree with you too :) Government action is definitely needed and I'll be among the first to advocate as such. That notwithstanding, I think we also each have a duty to examine our own lifestyles critically. Like I wrote in a reply to another user - in 2019, 60 flights took off every day from Amsterdam to London (just a 4-hour journey by rail) - someone's taking all those flights.
I remember shipping SP6 and 6a still supporting 4 arch. And we were still testing 2k on x86 and Alpha in my group (NLB). Ages ago, can't hardly remember.
In my experience the Poles seem to think of their pickled herring this way, but it's just genuinely tasty all of the three ways I've had it.
Given the enormous amount of territory you ceded in your retreat to the motte, OP is disincentivized from bothering to attempt gaining any additional ground.
Most of Amazon's profit isn't from retail, but AWS. Thus, believe it or not, it's a much lower priority.

And so many companies from so many industries use them they're effectively boycott proof: https://digitaldimensions.com/blog/big-companies-who-use-aws...
They need big fix
It's fine to like them, but it's hard to say a separate control plane, proxies, etc isn't another layer.
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I've paid close to nothing to Schwab for decades. They even refund my ATM fees. Of course, I assume they take a bit off the top from money market accounts, etc on large balances.

They were one of the early companies that learned that treating your customer right is a better long-term business than screwing them at every opportunity. Wasn't so common in the 80s and 90s.
I remember capturing a copy of "snake" for analysis and figuring out the exploit.

It wasn't just world exposed NFS shares - it was any share that was exported to itself. You could use portmap as a proxy and get the root file handle.

If you weren't able to patch portmap, the only remedy was to never export a filesystem to yourself.
Another Klein bottle article on HN? Smells like advertising to me.
It’s extremely rare because we take extreme measures to make sure it stays rare. When you dress out your deer or squirrel, make sure to follow current recommendations.
I've had pickled herring before, I find it very tasty. I also like Natto. I have a strong predilection towards food that tastes spicy, bitter, salty and/or umami. Sweet stuff is fine. I like Vodka, so cheers to that.
Ask HN: How to get back into reading fiction/long form content?
I read technical manuscripts (think arxiv.org) pretty frequently, try to emulate new ML papers based on these papers. Also like to read Wikipedia and old newspaper articles - I feel like I "read" a lot but I just constantly get a sense that I'm missing out from an experience that was possible from before computers. Anyone have any advice?
I have never been inspired to participate in the writing of a bill until now, thank you.
It may be possible to use closed source code during training and delete it, leaving just a black box model that is hard to prove was derived from that closed source code.
Lol -

1) Ok, let's say it's not your heyday, but then what are you basing your claim of 'business done at the strip club' off of? Stories you've heard? You said you didn't even experience it second-hand, so how do you have this information?

2) Did you read the article at all?
a) Operating in secret: "but newspapers like the New York Times hid the unflattering reports to continue getting 'spoon-fed stories" - sounds like he dedicated a fair amount of work-time to otherwise needless PR then.
b) Hiring a party planner: "Gates would visit one of Seattle’s all-nude nightclubs and hire dancers to come to his home and swim naked with his friends in his indoor pool" - sounds like he spent a lot of time in strip clubs & would pick his favorites. How likely do you think it is that all-nude strippers willing to go to a John's house are also on-board with cutting said party short so their John can get back to work? As you state, it was the 80's so I'm sure everyone was sober enough to make that decision every time.

3) The literal quote is "I never took a day off in my twenties, not one." He doubles down IN THE QUOTE. I agree he's a hard worker, but it's not good to tell a generation of up and coming entrepreneurs that they should strive to 'always be on call' when Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Eric Schmidt, etc. etc. all have VIBRANT personal lives that REQUIRE TIME OFF. That's the only point I'm trying to make. Time off is important and even an actual psychotic hard-worker like Len Bosack admits it.

4) Kevin Spacey is an actual pedophile (Anthony Rapp was 14), so EXTREMELY weird example. I don't think people shouldn't watch American Beauty (it's the second-best film set in Sacramento!), but to glorify him the way you do IS kind of sus.

5) I was just making a joke about the 'business in strip clubs' thing. I think sex work is great when done right (Evidenced by the fact that I know what a strip club is like on the inside). It's one of the most innately human things we do. I just think you're out way over your skis.
Yeah, that happened. It went from your own tiny cube to an open space with no guaranteed seating. I had already stopped decorating my cube way before this trend, but it seems even more shitty. I am really glad I've been working remotely for the past decade. I have no idea what new offices are like (left offices in 2012).
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You just made me roll my eyes back into my head. If the situations were reversed, you'd be saying "you're expecting a tiny country to compete with the vast resources of the United States?!".

Fact is, there's literally no reason we can't or shouldn't be doing this. My tax returns are super boring, and the IRS already knows what they are. Just send me a damn form that says "this is what we think you owe, if we're correct sign and return it".

The only way your argument has any merit is if we start talking about going back to no income tax. Which is an argument worth having, but your current argument is simply absurd.
Doubt is healthy and free but it doesn't get you anywhere.

If you evaluate the mechanism they explain, your prognosis will be better informed. Really the size of the molecule is neither here nor there. It's the therapeutic application that counts.

> SAK3 enhanced the proteasome activity via CaMKII activation

Consider why that might be effective.

It is explained clearly in their AD paper abstract.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3060144/
That is a deviously excellent thought. :-)
Rocky & Bullwinkle characters. When we ran out we moved on to Underdog and Friends.
The OP assumes that 'victimless' (self-victimized) episodes can't be externalities. False on it's face. When one of your loved ones kills themselves, like your child, or your parents, explain to me why you weren't psychologically harmed and victimized by their act.

The original point is that gun ownership increases collective risk, which has an external cost. It does this through increased crime from stolen guns from legal owners, and it does this through self-harm or family harm.

No matter how you slice it, you increase gun owners, you increase the suicides, the gun thefts eventually showing up in other crimes, the murder-suicides, and there is scant evidence that the trade off, a hypothetic stoppage of crime by gun ownership, is worth it, especially since the statistics are in dispute with the NRA claiming 2.5 million crimes per year, and scientific authorities saying it's more like 60,000.
What is stale is your knowledge of whatever tech peaked five years ago. Wasn't Flash still a thing in 2015? Ruby on Rails had already peaked. Scala was hot. The most popular tool for infrastructure sysadmin was Puppet, and a guy playing a flamethrower guitar stole the show in Mad Max: Fury Road
Just an anecdote but my experience has been diametrically opposite to yours. My last role was in an office 365 shop and I miss it every single day. Most of the pain in Google-land comes from meet/chat and everything being in the browser.
> Insurance companies simply aren't in the business of solving the root-cause of any given problem. They're in the business of risk analysis & pooled risk & selling financial risk mitigation on that basis.

Insurance companies generally hold vast amounts of assets - and some already shift their investment strategy based on policy, e.g. climate change and other sustainability goals (see https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-i...), work with large customers to reduce their risk exposure or indirectly go after the root causes, e.g. by exiting risk-prone markets (basically, no insurance any more for flood or fire prone areas).
Unfortunately it would basically be an ongoing DDoS on the court system to try to get declaratory relief for existing garbage patents and the never ending stream if them created every day.
Well if the general trends hold true, my area has more violent crime total, more violent crime per capita, more unsolved / "justice not served" cases, and a larger amount of "small crimes" that the police don't even respond to than you, so I think your fears are less founded than if you were to move to the tenderloin, which I suspect you have never spent any real time in.
> Do children today have useful childhoods?

Well articulated. I always felt a visceral sense that childhood, the school world, and even arguably college for many feels like we're being kept in some weird pin sequestered from the real world.

As the author shows with early examples, this is not how it's ever been in human societies (as a default for everyone) prior to the last 100 years.

Could this be thought of as a massive experiment the Western first world is undertaking?
And potentially changing the contents of processor caches.
$300k at 5-10hrs/week is likely to be obscenely obscure and not a good reference point for anyone.

Yours would be way more desirable than the FAANG stuff. People could moonlight for your job easily…
Absolute military spending is a ridiculous metric because inflation is a thing. Spending by percent of GDP is much more reasonable. For example, the US spent something like $75 billion in 1943, but no one would argue were putting 10xs as much effort in the military in 2019 when we spent ~750 billion. Looking at absolute values instead of either ones adjusted for inflation or by percent of GDP is cherrypicking to support your argument and is a bad thing.
Despite the lack of fanfare, this is the biggest news on HN today, much bigger than, say Robinhood paying a fine.

Historically, Malaria was the single greatest killer of human beings. It is even possible that Malaria killed the majority of all people that ever lived. Even today, Malaria kills hundreds of thousands every year. The eradication of Malaria from the largest country in the world, one that had 40 million cases a year in the 1940's, is a testament to the power of human ingenuity and coordination. We should celebrate.
Apparently two of the nine justices agree with you. However, since it might take them as long to rule on it as there is time left before the MA policy expires, there is an extra reason for them to ignore this one.
go outside, leave your devices behind, read.
Note that discouraging car ownership—and instead encouraging cycling with safe infrastructure, like the Netherlands has been doing for the last 50 years—actually dramatically increases independence for both children and adults: https://thecityateyelevel.com/stories/biking-the-streets-to-...
> No. We both aren't

You say I'm not ... but then you say, explicitly in so many words, that I am:

> You are speculating how copyright law should handle ML code synthesis.

I don't get it. Am I, or aren't I? Which is it? I mean, not that you get to tell me what I am talking about, but it seems like something we should get cleared up.

edit: Maybe you mean I am, and you aren't?

Beyond that, I skimmed the Github link, and my takeaway was that this is a small problem (statistically, in terms of occurrence rate) that they have concrete approaches to fixing before full launch. I never disputed that "recitation" is currently an issue, but honestly that link seems to back up my position more than it does yours (to the extent that yours is coherent, which (as above) I would dispute).
Cool, makes sense. Thanks for taking the time to reply! Really big fan of fly, run a few apps on it now and the experience has been fantastic.
"Why can't we design a computer that does everything we do... only faster?"

I think the key word in that sentence might be "we". That is, you could hypothesize that while it's possible in principle for such a computer to exist, it might be beyond what humans and human civilization are capable of in this era. I don't know if this is true or not, but it's kind of intuitively plausible that it's difficult for a designer to design something as complex as the designer themselves, and the space of AI we can design is smaller than the space of theoretically conceivable AI.
From conversations I've had with East Asians, I think many think of cheese in general as a pretty gross food.
The most basic scenario. I bought X shares of a stock for the first time ever, and sold it < 30 days later for a loss. That loss should not be a disallowed wash sale, but Robinhood claims it is. facepalm
I'm not saying the US doesn't spend a lot, just the way the op characterized the budget process is factually incorrect.
This article did a great job of articulating something I've always felt strongly about but haven't been able to put into words.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who felt like my schooling was mostly a giant waste of my time and energy.

I was waaaay ahead in subjects I liked, because those things I learned myself out of innate interest. Rather than the system accommodating and encouraging being ahead, in those subjects I was held back and forced to sit through material I already knew, because "in year x we learn this and in year y we learn that". Don't get ahead. Zero agency.

In other subjects that didn't interest me, I was forced to sit through stuff only to forget everything I "learned" soon after.

It really begs the question, what's the point? And while I'm no genius at anything, surely a system like this will kill many, many actual geniuses, just like the article says.
Maybe. I’m not sure anyone has tried it. It wouldn’t work against a party like Intellectual Ventures but in theory you might be able to take out a nascent troll with a smaller war chest, and if you win they might have a tough time selling off their portfolio.
The original Ares 1 dumped also an expensive hydrogen upper stage, all that while barely bringing the crew capsule into orbit, ideally not shaking the crew to death (IIRC the main reason for it bring canceled in the end).

But maybe the society in The Martian universe is just so unimaginably rich they can pull that all off even using those super inefficient expendable rockets. :)
They are called dynasty trusts and the IRS allows shelter for up to only $11.7m per individual. After a google search I see there are many more states that allow them these days.
Thanks Russell. In our experience a lot of QA improvements require automation which is more of a software engineering job than a product management one.
I think it's not a bad metric if you have hired someone fitting right into your current stack.

Now I am sure you had cases where you hired someone that didn't quite fit, but seemed interesting, and you were confident they'd get up to speed and pull their weight in a reasonable time frame (3 weeks ~ a month ?).

I'd argue focusing on the second category of hires as a target, and consider it a lucky event when someone exactly matches what you're doing, can lead to a more stable/less homogeneous team.
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In a very real sense, we are all just using assembly with code generation.

I really like your point on symptoms of insufficient abstraction. I do worry that we always see abstraction as belonging in language. Which in turn we treat as a precious singleton, and fight about.

At least in my own hacking, I'm surprised how infrequently I see programmers write programs that write programs. I'm surprised how infrequently I see programmers programming their shell, editor, or IDE.
I worked as a SWE for 6 years, then DevRel for 2, and it became a huge hassle to get back to plain SWE. This was true even though in DevRel I spent almost all my time coding on demo apps and client libraries. Recruiters just see something other than SWE and assume you forgot how to do real engineering in 6 months and push you towards roles like partner engineering. Ridiculous but true. I eventually got back to SWE but I just wanted to offer a counterpoint that it’s easy to go back because that can vary.
10.0 was effectively a beta OS, which was probably why Apple felt compelled at that time to offer the 10.1 update for as close to free as they could to those who had suffered through the developer previews. 10.1 still had plenty of issues too.

IIRC the next paid upgrade 10.2 was the more typical for the period 129 dollars. I was in a line of three people at my local Apple store for the free disc back in 2001.
> Ostensibly, it's so that you can isolate those fucking jobs so that different teams can run different tasks in the same cluster without interfering with each other.

I think the point is so the teams can run services at all. Isolation isn’t the point, it’s breaking a dependency on an ops team (Kubernetes in a sense is ops as a service).
What chance does our legal system have of gauging the validity of these patents when we can't even get a forum of technical people, with no horse in the race, to agree on what these things mean?
Law makers in the US can make laws that aren't legit. They do it to appeal their voters. So in deep blue states, law makers circle around gun control, and in deep red states law makers do the same about abortions. Neutral/centrist law makers don't exist because they would be ousted by both blue and red, who together constitute the majority. Judges are the only adults in the room who have to clean the mess.
It's partly JS, it's partly the data populating the tables.

I must say that the FCC really messed up by redefining broadband when they were the ones that had originally defined it in terms of RF spectrum usage. Here in Canada, the telecom regulatory body set the Basic Service Objective to be 50 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload. They didn't try to redefine what broadband is and overload a term that already had meaning in the telecommunications space.

Personally I think latency is more important with modern internet connections. 10 Mbps is still quite usable for a lot of things, but not if it's 500ms RTT via a satellite. Sadly most telecom regulators ignore latency.
There was that kid who donated a kidney for an iPhone 4.
I'm curious why they forbid full 3D games.
Maybe not directly related but this reminds of a paper[1] by Microsoft Research where they replicate state with DMA (Direct Memory Access) across the network and battery backups that have just enough power to flush memory to disk if the power goes out. you might find it interesting

[1] https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/papers/farm-2015.pdf
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