skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lawyers can work for a corporate client, but those corporations can't offer legal advice to third parties.

Law firms that take on clients must be lawyer-owned.

"Under Attorney Rule of Professional Conduct 5.4, law firms are barred from offering ownership or other investment/revenue-sharing opportunities to non-lawyers. Some recent developments in several states, however, offer the possibility that these long-standing restrictions could be scaled back, creating potential for dramatic changes in how litigation matters are funded and managed."

https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/posts/legal/practice-in...
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I just don't understand how there can be a profit. TARP was created to pay companies holding toxic mortgages and other worthless assets. How is it that the government pays for worthless assets and makes a profit?

I think the financial masters of the universe have found some way to screw us and it's just hiding in some accounting tricks.
Such modernity. I liked windows better when you had to install your own tcpip stack
I'm more interested in the concept of ViewComponents than just the current library. It's really just starting with Rails adopting ActionCable and Phoenix using LiveView (which I see as both immature proto-concepts of the future of JS frontends).

This blog post (and my linked talk above) opened my eyes on the subject: https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/anycable-actioncable-on-...

Right now the complexity is a bit high on this approach^ and I personally just use a mix of Vue + Turbolinks/Rails at work for legacy/simplicity reasons. But I'm watching the space.
Love this post, great exploration of the nuances of uniqueness validations.

I came here to mention that there is also the https://github.com/toptal/database_validations gem which allows you to handle uniqueness validations in Rails in a similar manner to Ecto.
Yes but if they catch you it cost like 60€ or so and legally counts as uh trespassing I think not that the BVG will bother to sue or anything.

So for locals it's still a grate deal.

And the tickets show how long they have been active, so activating them when you see they check might not pass at all (depending on the person checking, the often let it pass anyway).
Another good alternative is Emptty.
It means the 'current' latest development code, not a release branch.

When FreeBSD cuts a release the code is handed over to a releng team (e.g on GitHub you'll see releng/13.1 atm) who handle security fix back ports and suchlike. Development then continues on master (or whatever the svn equiv is) until they cut another release.

So, this would be building from master. Or main. Whatever. Instead of using a release branch

:}
The optimism around computers in the 1980s is a noteworthy juxtaposition with that site itself. Given the impressively large number of different commercial surveillance companies to which that site is selling out everyone.
Ah, AFAIK that's not actually theirs but: https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax (although I guess they rewrote it in TS, unless that's a different project floating around?), from which Turbolinks took its inspiration as a Rails-native built in solution. Presumably GitHub never saw any reason to rewrite for Turbolinks when the latter appeared.
> Very little about how I interact with the site has ever changed.

GitHub tunes the UI all the time.
Hi - I don’t see an email address in your profile.
I built and installed and repaired a lot of XP machines (tens of thousands, probably), but ran win2k myself until Windows XP x64 Edition came out, and then promptly installed that. Other than in a VM, i've never actually ran windows XP 32 bit myself. win3.11 "wfw" -> 98SE -> 2k -> xp x64 -> 7 'ultimate' -> 10 pro for workstations. In the gaps i used MacOS (7,8,9) and then redhat, then gentoo.

I also ran NT4 as a fileserver because it had the best SCSI controller support. had almost a year of uptime on that before a blackout took it offline.
How much you want to bet Tim laughed? "Oh that'll teach them!", he grinned.
> tags of Archive of Our Own (fanfiction)

On a similar note, Danbooru-style image boards often have highly developed tagging systems, ranging from tags for specific characters or artists to tags for art styles, poses, or even specific features which happen to appear in the artwork (like "hat bow" or "blue eyes").
Why? How? What (TF)?! But wow!!
> Before her surgery, Ms. French signed two service agreements promising to pay “all charges of the hospital.”

> In Centura’s view, the service agreements “were unambiguous and French’s agreement to pay ‘all charges’ ‘could only mean’ the predetermined rates set by Centura’s chargemaster,” the court said.

> But the court found that Ms. French wasn’t responsible for paying those rates because she didn’t know the chargemaster even existed and hadn’t agreed to its terms.

> “Indeed, Centura representatives testified that the chargemaster was not provided to patients, and in this very litigation, Centura refused to produce its chargemaster to French, contending that it was proprietary and a trade secret,” Justice Richard L. Gabriel wrote.

Beyond ludicrous...
Went to g2 from Germany. Got challenge, but was fast. Maybe 0.5secs. No challenge after closing and going there again. Maybe a geolocation thing, because of botnets, ddos, war, whatever?

edit: with FF OFC.
Ports are rolling release. Simply run 'portsnap fetch update' and you'll have the latest available in /usr/ports just one 'portmaster -a' (upgrade) away.

Same goes for packages (pkg), they are rolling release.

No idea where you're getting this 90 days release stuff from :) (Perhaps there's a LTS 'release' for ports? I don't think many people use it if there is. Trust me, you're safe enough with rolling ports).
> it's hard to see how FB got a return on that 20 billion investment for that particular acquisition.

In many many countries you can't live without WhatsApp. That can't be said about the rest of their apps.
They are supposedly nominated by the Huawei Trade Union and can be vetoed by Ren Zhengfei, according to this : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_9ncG_yCHKeRPDEkZ5zxxnAJGEk...
pretty sure that's done? I used to distribute my own little hacked together bit of kit called TurboXP that used volume key
The Roots of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers
The real loss is in the lower rates at which the financial companies with a now-explicit government backstop are able to borrow money. That's a subsidy worth hundreds of billions of dollars per year which is never included in this sort of accounting.
I was expecting a discussion of native, cross-platform or hybrid apps. Single or multi-page application/site barely registers as a distinction to me like it once did with faster mobile networks and devices.

I'd venture to guess that even an MPA comprising multiple SPA 'pages' is an unsurprising composition especially for captive audience apps like internal, or government etc.
No way. Teach them both!

No limit hold 'em skills are high value in my view. Having learned the game from my wife, who we found out has real talent, has had a positive impact on how I view and price risks and value.

Currently, I have idea how to play bridge. I can learn with the young ones.
The holotypes that are best expressed as SPAs don't belong on the web.
For sure it's a terrible name (sorry, Jason ;P). In my other comment I talk about my experiences pitching this idea when I was https://web.dev content lead. There's something about this word that is an immediate turnoff and prevents people from really looking deeply at it. Which is a shame because it's such a useful mental model.

Names are important!
You mean an ax to grind against all of the atrocities they've committed[1]? I'm not sure what you're saying...

1. https://github.com/binka/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md
I wanna get on this list but it seems like founding one of these is the most plaussible way to do it.
This account seems to be more detailed : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_9ncG_yCHKeRPDEkZ5zxxnAJGEk...

It seems that Huawei is a mix between a cooperative and a private company owned by its founder.
Definitely happening in my little corner of humanity. Not happening as in usage of the Meta messengers has dropped to zero, but it's becoming more and more like "funny how this group is still on WhatsApp, do they
live under a rock?" At least FB messenger has a tiny niche left as the way to communicate if you are connected on FB but haven't shared phone numbers.
This NYT article is being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31457072
What's the difference if you're detaining them anyway? If you're going to be supervising them in detention regardless, giving them the benefit of the doubt seems much more humane while you're sorting all of it out? Just because they won't be granted asylum doesn't mean you can treat them poorly in detention while their request for asylum is being processed.
They can be found quite easily in Austin and New Orleans.
I work on multiple machines over SSH. Now with many program distributed as a single binary (e.g., Miller), I tried to find a "package-manager" for that. I don't have admin access on these machines. So I cannot use a normal package manager. eget download from GitHub's release section and extract the executable binary using a single command. So at least it does half of what I want. (The other half is tracking the version and upgrade them all in a command, probably unnecessary.
Anything other than one person's video? Videos take a long time to watch, and longer still to ferret out and check out cited evidence for the claims (if there is any).
One of my earlier memories was sitting on my Dad's lap playing some Infocom game on his brand-new PC-AT. I didn't get to go into the study that much so it was big deal.

I still have the F series keyboard from that computer, which ended up housing my first three motherboards as well.
I always just thought of this as a games machine because of the cartridges so I never really learned to program it. But I loved things like Submarine Commander and I still think of the version of Centipede on these machines as canonical. Good times.
380K Kubernetes API Servers Exposed to Public Internet
This is just question begging. You're assuming that they don't, which is false.
A very long term plan is to have some sort of cloud offering, although it's quite far out there at this point. The main goal generally is to be a very-easy-to-use, pure python database with minimal third party library dependency (or none if possible) for "micro"/embedded workloads, the database being free and open source as it is currently. Quite a few people have found it useful to use CogDB in Jupyter/Colab notebooks- so that is one area of focus currently. There are some creative ways you can use CogDB as a storage library in web applications that could make it scale for some "reasonable" workloads- this is another area of future exploration. And lastly, GraphQL support is another area of focus.

There is at least one implementation of a graph database (in Python universe) on top of SQLite that I have come across, although I think it was a bit different in terms of features, query language etc
It occurred to me that civil forfeiture in the US may have been an attempt to regulate highway robbery. The US traditionally had giant swaths of lightly populated territory between population centers. Most other regions of the world with similar dynamics have struggled with lawmen or other highwaymen illegally confiscating property in such situations.

Did we simply make highway robbery legal if it’s done with a badge?
While the problem has been around for some time, the current manifestation can be traced to the Powell memo of 1971.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell_Jr.#Powell_Mem...
If you perform a transaction using your own wallet, for which you control the private key, that transaction is now public knowledge on the blockchain.

If instead you perform the transaction using a cryptocurrency exchange it won't be public. However, you can't perform transactions if that exchange is down, making the argument that "bitcoin fixes this" a moot point.
Critical Vulnerability in Premium WordPress Themes Allows for Site Takeover
Check out Sleeping Queens, which looks like it's all chance but is really excellent for sneaking in some simple integer maths practice. Virus! is also a great card game for younger kids. When you get there, outsourcing (adult) scrabble scoring to your kid is also a sneaky way to get some extra maths in.
It seems you have to be logged in to Google to read this?
Does this really matter? Bitcoin is freely available on the market, there's is nothing stopping someone with enough money from acquiring an arbitrary share of the existing bitcoins.
Google Cloud Console works only in Chrome for me. I've been accessing it with Vivaldi for years, then I got the you broke my internet sad robot icon since a few months ago. Firefox loads the page but most of it is blank. I played with the controls of my privacy plugin with no benefit. It could be my configuration.
Just in the last month Firefox didn't work for me on my health insurer's site, my bank's site as well as when trying to request a mail-in ballot for a regional election. Obviously not Mozilla's fault, but for me at this point the browser isn't that usable any more because that's important services I need to have access to.

On large international sites the likelihood that Firefox works flawlessly is pretty high. But a lot of regional service providers appear to kind of have given up on it.
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The shift to a focus on power consumption was already happening anyway without the iphone even on desktop. CPUs were already in the nuclear reactor territory as far as being able to produce as much heat per unit area
> only influence and power matter.

Can I suggest "interests and power" instead. Influence is a form of power and it's important to pay attention to interests, which drive the use of power. I should also highlight that cost vs. benefit is the other determining factor.
There's an easy way to distinguish "game of skill" from "game of chance" - just ask yourself: "Is there a World Championship for that game?"

Championships are organized only for games of skill, where you can have at least some chance of predicting the game outcome, make spectators care about this or that player. No one in their right mind would organize the championship in coin flip, or in MegaMillions lottery, because those game are pure chance, you can play them for decades and your chance of winning will be no better than that of a beginner. It would be hard to promote someone as "MegaMillions champion".
FTC signals crackdown on ed-tech harvesting kid's data
And pineapple?
The thing with bridge is that, like poker, the game itself is unbiased. There is often an element of probability, but stronger players will tend to play lines that are more likely to succeed, so over time they have a better average performance.

It’s also true in both games that as you improve you develop a deeper understanding to the point where you’re almost playing a different game. Where a beginner might be happy to play 100% lines, an improving player will consider the cards they can see but also what might be happening with the others and they will play lines that get better results on average by looking at the probabilities. A good player will see a bigger picture still, not only considering a priori possibilities for the hidden cards but also drawing inferences from what every other player does or doesn’t do and what each player would have known at the time.

That means a lot of “lucky” decisions that good players make actually had a much higher probability of success than an intermediate player’s calculations would suggest. At this level, both games also have an element of not just playing your own cards well but also painting a credible but incorrect picture for one or more opponents to trick them into doing something that helps you. That certainly does need an excellent understanding of the probabilities, but the final result is mostly due to the skill of the players in setting the trap and then either avoiding or falling into it.
> It's not hiring difficulties, people have limited time and energy to specialise.

I never claimed otherwise.

> but that's just extra work and higher data transfers

Not necessarily. For example, when compression is being employed, I doubt that something like Rails' Turbo will transfer measurably more data in a page update than sending a JSON or XML representation of the very same data.

> But you are keeping dismissing the interoperability part. Since you are now sending fully rendered browser specific output you loose your chance to use the same backend for different type of clients

No, I'm not! In a single address space, you can generate outputs for multiple clients just as easily as for one client. Literally nothing prevents you from doing that.
> The user is the person who consumes your product and gives you money for it. 'End users' are hostages. The real user is the ad-company. Once your product is feature complete, your ability to make money from the product doesn't scale with the technical quality of the product itself.

Clearly this is not what society wants, and it would be great if there was a law against this business model (at least until there are plenty of competitors who behave better).
I'd disagree with the characterization that Facebook is maximizing user engagement with messenger. Rather, they wanted messenger to

1. Be the de facto protocol used by companies

2. Let people spend less time on messenger, and render planning of events efficient

For point 1, this is evident with the mention of the Facebook SDK being used by many apps, thereby rendering the adoption of a messenger API easy. I find the timing of these emails __very coincidental__ since Facebook recently announced an API for WhatsApp that effectively achieves "app-to-person messages" [1]. Based off rapper Ryan Leslie's great success with automating consumer engagement [2], I think this will succeed given a right signal-to-noise balance (also mentioned in the emails!). That said, interesting __anti-trust questions__ also arise, see Twilio, SuperPhone, etc.

For point 2, I frankly welcome messenger facilitating the planning of vacations/outings. It's very common for people my age to say "let's hang out" or "let's go to this concert", yet no one wants to spend the time to plan it. If my non-vacation-planning messages can be hermetically demarcated from every advertiser's eyes, then I wouldn't mind this addition.

Relevant Note: This comes from the perspective of a Gen-Z denizen.

[1] - https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/pfbid0TGYGr4hijxJdL9CawU...

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PtyXnFVNDw

P.S. As an aside, it would be interesting to see the implementation of a cryptocurrency to reward users for engaging with ads. I conjectured this was the purpose behind the ill-fated Libra coin. That said, it's not immediately clear how proof-of-work would be implemented, or if blockchain would be needed at all.
From the title only, I can deduce why US has to import so many programmers from China and India.
> That requires protected memory

I know. I was so happy to see real mode DOS go away.

> an implementation _could_ hide the “it’s not a Foo” bit in any unused bit

Yes, it could. But it requires extra instructions to check it. Null gets checked for free (no extra instructions or time) by the hardware. A seg fault isn't any more dangerous than an assert failure.
Vad...? I would have no idea what you intend by calling yourself that if I hadn't read your comment.

What's the problem with having a computer science education and writing JS? There are ample situations to utilize CS in browser code.
Windows Media team made a lot of bone-headed decisions. This was at a time when WinAmp was taking off. WinowsMedia could have leaned into MP3 culture while giving a very basic nod to DRM, instead they created a bunch of confusion. At the time Microsoft was considered the "evil empire" so being considered not one of the good guys would have made the marketing team proud at the time.
If all that stuff is easy then why avoid the discussion? You would think you could just tell us why the papers are irrelevant to current tech discussion, instead of just dismissing it with secondary arguments?
> Becoming an academic and pushing policy is inaccessible to most working people.

What... he's famous precisely for turning many people into progressives and socialists. Nobody would even know he's a linguist or geopolitical theorist otherwise. He's literally a popularizer for the left.

> We need a Fifth International where we can all come together and agree once and for all that state capitalism is not socialism, and China and Russia are officially capitalist countries with absurd levels of communist propaganda.

This I can get behind though. I don't think it will succeed though, Russia and China have paid a lot for their lackeys on the left.
I created one note, deleted it, scrolled to the bottom, and tried to create another.

From then on, everything was broken. Taps didn't create cards, scrolling became janky, sometimes I'd see the pink circle of a tap from something I did 10 seconds previous, and in the wrong place.

The was repeatable when I exited the site and came back in.

Android Pixel 6 Firefox 100.2.0
An unlucky man falls down the stairs and breaks his leg. "Oh, I'm so unlucky, I just broke my leg!"

A lucky man falls down the stairs and breaks his leg. "Phew, I'm so lucky I didn't break my skull!"
Pinochle has these characteristics, and team play definitely improves with understanding your team mate better.

One time, for a bit of fun, my team mate and I were looking for a bit of an edge. 4 suits = 2 bits = two eyes open or closed, one combination for each suit.

We triggered reading the eye lid states as particular points in the game were happening. A query was triggered by a shared set of words.

The opposing players were quite adept and we had to take measures or we would be caught!

We confessed it after a modest but fun string of great games and the opposition, who are good friends, thought it clever and pretty funny for us to end up wanting wins badly enough to develop the scheme!
These are the extreme cases but this happens all the time, including to myself (albeit only for a few hundred dollars).

It’s shocking that somehow the system we’ve come to amounts to “we don’t know the cost, we’ll talk to your insurance after and bill you some amount.”
This is just experience over the years. I started to notice what caused it.
Haiti has been an independent country for 218 years.

While it's true that after independence neighbouring countries, including the US, did not want them to succeed, the reality of that Haiti's current situation is down to Haitians and therefore the future is also down to them.
This is on the long list of reasons why the US sometimes seems to be hostile to its own citizens.
Small? Basically everyone born in the late-80s/early-90s used AIM, ICQ, or MSN Messenger when they got into high school or college.

That's an entire generation!

I agree that classic IM was best IM, though. Unfortunately you can't make money on IM alone, and AOL isn't the portal of choice anymore. (Google was so close with Hangouts!)
On the contrary. I think surveillance has progressed considerably and our transition into a full blown global dystopia is on track
You're saying there's not a simplistic "block Firefox rule" right? But, the user agent is surely one of the weighted features going into your ML stew. So it's plausible the poster is seeing that Firefox sends some calculation over the edge and causes blocking for them.

That is, you're not saying "Firefox doesn't change the scoring at all", right?