skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I give one example of 18th century misuse (or rather, too broad of a patent granted) in a parallel thread :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33505728

Some decades later, however the (much less broad ?) patents over steam engines able to produce circular motion, seem to have forced Watt to differentiate and improve his "2nd engine" so much that it could be differentiated enough from the other patents :

https://technicshistory.com/2021/10/10/the-steam-revolution/

Note also that Watt was bad at business, and only owned 1/3rd of "his" patents.

Our post-modern issues seem to me to instead stem first from :

- it being too easy to shelter liability (and tax fraud !) behind complex company trees

- a failure of antitrust and lack of goal/duration-limited companies allowing companies to grow waaaay too big to the point where they have enough power to heavily weigh on governments (note though that Watt had already managed to convince the British government to give a 25 year extension on "his" "1rst" steam engine)
That's a call out in the article, too. There's a Stage 2 proposal before TC-39 to add a bunch of useful library functions out of the box to the language. In the mean time there's an itertools.js "port" and also IxJS which mirrors RxJS (and .NET LINQ).

(I've used IxJS to good effect in JS apps.)
How many women's lives are a fair trade for one man's life?
What I'm looking for is effectively a fidonet style federation. I understand Lemmy is bordering on that, but it's not quite there from my observation, and I'm yet to see a suitable implementation that would entice an old fart like me.
You are correct that this will eventually be a licensing issue, with art websites being updated to try to prevent people from downloading with the intent to train models. That approach will probably fail as EULAs have been beaten down in courts repeatedly. There's also a loophole there, in that if you downloaded the images from a pirate site, you aren't bound by the EULA, and if you didn't upload data to others you aren't committing copyright infringement.
Absolutely. It was around 1983, I absolutely loved playing Pac-Man but as a twelve-year-old didn't have enough pocket money to keep feeding the arcade machines or to buy a games console. So I just kept hacking away at that ZX Spectrum until I had a playable version of my favourite game. I never studied CS, but around 20 years later in some random office job I discovered that Excel had some version of Basic built in, and again kept hacking away until I'd automated the most boring parts of my job. Eventually I taught myself the principles of actual software engineering instead of just flinging code together, with the help of some books and online courses, but it was always with a view to solving a specific business problem that was sitting in front of me at the time. I'm glad I learned this way, also approaching the process of software development itself as a real-world requirement rather than just theory; it makes it so much easier to recognize which patterns and techniques actually solve real problems versus those "best practices" which add unnecessary complexity when applied in the wrong context.
When I worked at Toyota, they used "number of Highlanders" equivalence when shaming people for not picking up their large format paper schematic prints.
Fwiw Beethoven was inspired by Schiller, and the finale of Beethoven's 9th symphony is an adaptation of Schiller's poem "Ode to Joy".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode_to_Joy
Most people choose Gmail as their email provider specifically because understanding federation is too much mental overhead. There is no gmail equivalent in the Mastodon space, instead there’s many small instances that are difficult to compare.
The client doesn't run on typical smart speakers, but it can run on Android, or through a web page, or on a Raspberry Pi, amongst other things.
> JAMES ZHONG pled guilty to committing wire fraud in September 2012 ... ZHONG pled guilty on Friday, November 4, 2022, ...

> U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “James Zhong committed wire fraud over a decade ago...."

The statute of limitations for mail fraud and wire fraud prosecutions is five years (18 U.S.C. § 3282), except for mail and wire fraud schemes that affect a financial institution, in which case the statute is ten years (18 U.S.C. § 3293).[1]

Lawyers please explain. Also, who was the victim here, and who reported the crime?

[1] https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual...
Given the mention of "across the pond", it seems the parent commenter was talking about the English law meaning of entrapment. That is where you are enticed to commit a crime by a law agency. Technically it's still a crime and there's no legal defence based on entrapment, but courts will tend not to prosecute if "the police did more than present the defendant with an unexceptional opportunity to commit a crime".
> ...woefully complex...in for more pain.

this is incredibly incredibly hyperbolic if ive ever seen hyperbole.

i just migrated my account the other day (i wanted to move onto a friends server) and it was absolutely not "woefully complex"
They were not just any bitcoin, they were missing silk road bitcoin. The fed had been looking for these 50k btc for awhile.
While it's not an athletic build, the grandparent poster thought it was so high as to call the accuracy of the data into question.

While the kind of Americans whose careers put them in front of cameras are rarely so mighty, from what I've seen of the real American population those photos look about average.
I think you’ve just each used a different sense of the word ‘actual’.

Sense 1) “‘Actual’ mathematics does not consist in notational embodiments”

‘Actual’ as in essence rather than appearance, territory rather than map. Implies platonic reality of an eternal ephemeral mathematics. Conceived of as beyond and beneath all the particulars of any given representation.

Sense 2) “‘Actual’ mathematics consists in notational embodiments”

‘Actual’ as in embodied. Material. That ‘actual’ mathematics is the set of mathematics which has been ‘actually’ done.

You describe the second sense as self evident but with mathematics in particular this is bound to cause trouble. The sense ‘actual as in essence’ is perfectly reasonable and has a particular affinity to a discussion of mathematics.

I find it hard to even write the description of the second sense without tying some linguistic knot. If ‘actual’ mathematics is its embodiments, what is the thing being embodied? Either the notation embodies nothing (what does it mean to describe the characteristics of a thing which doesn’t exist?) or if it does refer to something then according to the designation of embodied mathematics as ‘material’ then it embodies something which exists immaterially. So either mathematics describes the characteristics of a non existing thing, or a thing which exists, but exists immaterially. If ‘actual’ mathematics is the materially existing embodied form of a separate immaterial thing, what is that thing? So that ‘Actual mathematics’ is the embodiment of a separate immaterial thing called ‘not actual mathematics’. I’m not trying to make a watertight argument here just trying to outline the course of thought that your assertions inflame.

From another angle, what does it mean for something to ‘materially exist’ so that it can be considered ‘actual’. I think this concept so nebulous as to make impossible the patching up of all the holes a cursory investigation reveals.

Personally I think the distinction between the two is the root of trouble here. In the sense that anything exists, it exists according to mathematics. The essence of material existence, to the extent that it can be specified, is a structure of formal relational principles. Such formal structures are the domain of mathematics.

Of course ‘material existence’ is used and understood perfectly well in ordinary circumstances but when the topic at hand is “what counts as ‘actual’ mathematics?” it seems shaky ground to build a house.
In parts of the US they still very much burn the plant stubble in the fall. It creates a large amount of smog that irritates the eyes and give off an acrid smell.
Why not both ? Consider for instance 4chan...
That doesn’t work though. I’ve never gotten the touch or the watch unlock or the NFC cards to do anything.
Collusion among judges, lawyers, and prosecutors helps explain this phenomenon. This collusion occurs due to "revolving door". None of these parties (judges, lawyers and prosecutors) receive any bribes--so it is legal. However, the system is set up in a collusive way: lawyers for defendants become judges; prosecutors become a big law partner, representing defendants; etc.
What makes a 'high quality' NFT, in your opinion or experience?
They seem keen on mini classic consoles. I remain hopeful for next year.
>If I described to a lay person that there was a hacker website frequented by lots and lots of people with an active forum community, you’d likely get at least some of them to suggest banning it…

Different things. In this case you have a pathological outcome in the process. "Free real estate" as it were because you've got an organizational structuring that is essentially censure proof by the Court unless you pierce the corporate veil.

Remember, corporations are suffered to exist as a courtesy, and a means to distribute risk, but our Court system is very much tuned to "there is a person, get them in here now, and lets get this sorted."

If the Court has to choose between being ineffectual and exploitable, and piercing the veil in order to get to the bottom of duplicitous behavior, one can only hope the Judge will settle in and push the issue.
That's OK. They stopped being interesting when Steve died and Tim turned the company over to the bean counters anyway.
This! I couldn't really figure out what bothered me so much about Mastodon and it's exactly what you explain in this comment. I wish the local instance wouldn't matter as much as it does, which would also pave the way for single-user self-hosted instances, for people who want to access the fediverse on their own terms.
This is a silly article.

He bought a 44b without due diligence.

He fired some C levels and will more than likely have lawsuits from that.

He fired a lot of frontline workers. And did that so quickly/sloppily that they are already calling some workers back.

His version of free speech apparently does not include making fun of him. So not free speech so much as "speech he approves of."

His misunderstanding of why someone would want a "blue check" is further proof he actually does not understand twitter.

So far at least there is nothing useful here for an MBA other than it is always fun to watch a train wreck.
Database rights are not universal.
I get that it's simple, but at this stage, it's hard for me to suggest that it isn't true? It strikes me as presently generally accurate.
We May Be Approaching Critical Mastodon
I for one would love to see self hosted Docker become the norm. 1:1 and 1:many Docker hosting between the masses.

Decouple IT from corporate monoliths.
Isn't that just admitting that the primary use case of crypto is illegal activity?
The canonical notation is like this:

func(arg1, arg2, arg3)

the first example splits it across multiple lines in a way which maximally preserves the other aspects of the notation.

The argument is already being muddled with the function in the same way.

These conventions are seen in the wild:

func (arg1, arg2, arg3)

and

func( arg1, arg2, arg3 )

The real fix for that muddling is to drop the commas, and move the parenthesis to include the function:

(func arg1 arg2 arg3)

Now func and arg1 are no more or less muddled than are arg1 and arg2. :)
> You also don't want to add self-signed certificates, but grab the traffic _before_ it gets encrypted IMHO.

that would be ideal but self signed + added to trusted store works

> Additionally there are quite a bunch of use-cases where the encryption is not TLS, like e.g. with some WebRTC applications it's not uncommon to have an encrypted channel we could access to a broker server but in that channel E2E encrypted messages are send e.g. using libsodium statically compiled in.

yeah youre right.

In other cases the only options we have are ld_preload to catch encryption lib. If that doesnt work we can still use ptrace to capture syscalls but encryption will be done in userspace so capturing network activity wont help us with encryption.

Like the other guy said, the info we can gather is still useful.

Reverse engineering + modyfing the binary is a possibility too but it gets complicated fast, especially if they intentionally try to protect it. I feel this isnt really an issue with jvm or interpreted langauges but with the others its hard especially if theyre statically linked. C/C++ have good enough decompilers that its still possible, I don't know about Go/Rust tho.
I have no idea as these tools rarely explain how they work. There are a lot of AI patent search tools and I'm sure each of them works differently.

Also, don't underestimate how difficult finding synonyms is. Many examiners, myself included, keep lists of search queries with a lot of synonyms to use later. I've been doing this for nearly two years now and my saved search queries keep growing. I don't expect this to end anytime soon.

(Again, like my other comments here, this is just my opinion, not that of the USPTO or US government.)
I believe this is a reference to: http://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack
Funny how in the uk its the exact opposite. Contractors are usually more productive and more experienced. Recruiters will outright refuse discussing contracts with you unless you have a certain number of years of experience. You usually need to hit the ground running in a matter of days and need to constantly be on your toes, be familiar with loads of concepts and have a good reputation. Contracting is usually seen as a badge of honour. There are of course masked employees posing as contractors for tax avoidance and those are indeed pretty weak.
What indication is there that Microsoft wants to keep this traffic secret? The OP was able to detect and inspect this traffic with standard network monitoring software.
The Peach Without Fuzz
>Do you think this is inevitable? I tend to think languages need major overhauls and backwards-compatibility breaking in order to become "cleaner".

I think it's pretty much inevitable when use case and/or feature set significantly changes but there's not a comprehensive overhaul of existing work. I think programming languages, code bases, and even cities all have basically the same issue: if the goal or the environment has significantly changed after a lot of work has been done, you're likely to end up with a final product that isn't what you'd choose if you were starting today.
adults made adult decisions

most lost money, some did not

i don’t see anyone complaining about the millions of people losing their paychecks to state lotteries

and i think that’s cool, they are adults. decisions have consequences.

so to op, grow up and take responsibility for your actions.
> For example, desktop environments are just wonky and buggy most the time, random games don't work, WINE is the worst piece of software on the planet, drivers suck, other random weird issues.

When was the last time you have tried linux? With exception of wine, which on its pure form is indeed annoying, nothing else is true. Gnome/KDE/Cinnamon are just fine (not my cup of tea but far from buggy/wonky). I have no problem gaming even on i3. For driver on many distro you can check a box to install the proprietary Nvidia driver.

You can use lutris to easy the pain of wine, and if you use proton on steam you are just have to click install like windows. You can check here the compatibility:

https://www.protondb.com/

Also let's not pretend that windows is walk in the park. I have had my share of problems with drives/games not working on windows as well. That is just the nature of trying to run games on PC. It ain't never gonna be as easy as on consoles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages

I think I'm not going to like it because I want something that is foundational = works everywhere, is stable everywhere and has all features everywhere (f.ex linux 32-bit on ARM)

But I will give it a fair shoot.
If you work in healthcare you know not to put HIPPA data in PowerPoint slides to begin with.
OK but that's what you friends say.

I want an actual source, an actual study.
I'm a bit surprised that database query pagination isn't directly mentioned as one of the use cases. The (async) generator wraps the paginated calls to the DB and yields pages or individual documents / rows. It's about as vanilla-CRUD-API scenario as I can think of.
I wrote the system for National Grid UK LNG storage and trading in the early 2000s. I think they had 6 sites online now. Milford Haven was in progress I believe. Then they gradually started closing them as not required... Same with coal and nuclear plants! LNG is not so easy to store and there were a lot of safety regulations for site visits.
We are lucky that physics is limiting the latency and bandwidth of the internet, since otherwise local storage could truly disappear.
Fit people also recover faster, which probably gives them a better survival rate over all. Fit people are probably less likely to linger with persistent injuries before perishing. Consider particularly the difficulty diabetics have with infection.
Why is it Alexa, not Alex? A century of hard-coded sexism in tech, experts say
Do you have any citations for this? As far as I'm aware porn companies don't accept credit cards. Pornhub is ach or some sort of crypto currency payments last time I checked. Porn and Weed companies struggle with banking because of the way the US System is set up. I have no idea what it's like outside the US
pf is built into macOS. There is a (paid) frontend - https://www.murusfirewall.com
Castro was sick to the point of being unable to function, right?
People who use Gmail still have to know how to send e-mail to support@apple.com and when asked what their e-mail address is know to tell people someone@gmail.com instead of someone@hotmail.com. You don't get to not understand how e-mail addresses work just because you are using Gmail. There is clearly something else broken about how Mastadon tries to do federation if people are having a hard time with this, but you can't blame federated addresses.
Average can commonly refer to mean, median, or mode depending on context. It's good to use "mean" when precision is important.
Getting Database Connection Draining Right
The lack of liquidity is what would push the price down, since demand is higher at lower prices.
> Sounds like it's running on surprisingly little hardware.

Modern computers (even ones from 2013) are really fast. I implemented PageRank from the original paper: I have about the same size of index as early Google, and what Page and Brin’s server could compute in a week with carefully optimized C code, mine can do in less than 5 minutes (!) with a bit of JavaScript.

> Is the index stored on a separate SSD?

No, it’s just on the same disk with the rest of the system. My experience has been that pretty much everything that Feep! search does is CPU-bound on this machine; in fact I suspect (though I haven’t tried it) that the index could even be on the HDD and the only difference would be a few extra milliseconds when serving search results.
Judge "Walrath argued that the majority of women who supported the deal might receive nothing in a settlement if she denied the legal shields because insurers refused to pay without them and the studio had only $3 million to dispense to all creditors. The settlement’s collapse would leave Weinstein’s accusers with only the dicey prospect of pursuing further litigation."

This is a story about insurance claims in bankruptcy. To the degree there is scope for reform, it's in exempting insurers from liability in cases of sexual misconduct. The downside: there will be less cash and a longer route to settlement for victims.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31727293
My workflow involves photobashing to define the composition of the image, then a combination of img2img, inpainting and manual editing repeatedly until I achieve the desired results.

AI images with zero modifications have already had their copyright shot down, though that's effectively unenforceable unless someone freely admits the image was AI generated and not modified in any way.
I've just started playing around with CSS after a seven year break from web programming and have the opposite impression. The two biggest additions I've seen are flexbox and grid both of which massively decrease the cognitive load—compared to past options, it almost feels like cheating. Moreover, they do this by consciously not building on top of past layout features but instead doing their own thing.

CSS is still a mess of random features that can't be cleanly composed or extended—it's the complete opposite of a language that can grow[1]—but it's a more usable mess than it used to be.

[1]: Wonderful talk on language design by Guy Steele: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0
What argument? I don't see an argument, I see a genuine question made in earnest.
TFA is a bout civil immunity though, not criminal immunity.

The first paragraph talks about the board of TWC allegedly knowing about Weinstein paying off people accusing him. One could make the argument that not acting on this knowledge to protect the value of the is an abrogation of their duties as board members.

However the board was granted immunity in Chapter 11, so no such arguments can be advanced in court now.
No: music ushered in the Romantic age, earlier than Goethe and Schiller in literature.

The musical style, a decisive break from the High Baroque, was initially called "Sturm und Drang." It appeared in the work of Gluck and Haydn in the 1760s.

By the first decade of the 19th century, Goethe and Schiller had retreated from Romanticism. In the same decade, middle-period Beethoven had already made Romanticism immortal.

Immortal is not an exaggeration. To this day, orchestral film music remains utterly derivative of late Romantic composers like Richard Strauss.

The most famous example of musical Romanticism's enduring dominion is probably the opening of Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey." Everybody knows the fanfare and the ecstatic harmonic progression that follows in full tutti; few know it was written by Strauss in 1894.

The rip-offs of Academy Award winner John Williams would be impossible without the much better music of the 19th century.

Corresponding data point: in 1822, Beethoven chose Schiller's "Ode to Joy" (1785) to provide the lyrics for the final movement of the 9th Symphony.
Being a backend web developer, for the longest time I felt I could get by using CSS frameworks but now it's so bloody complicated even with the framework.

While I'm glad that CSS is more expressive and hacks are becoming a thing of the past I feel that it is a discipline that I can no longer half ass.
I don't want to add/remove &, * and sometimes *& everywhere until it compiles... I don't care about memory in that way.
A lot of people here saying consultants are cut first.

I am not an expert, but my understanding is that sometimes accounting makes it so cutting headcount looks great, lower overhead, but stuff still needs to get done so consultants are brought in to actually do it.
Wouldn't it be easier to ban putting HIPAA protected information into a PowerPoint? We don't ban telephones just because an employee can read patient records over the phone.
You can still inspect whether you’re having packets sent when you add text or just when you click on certain options

You could add large amounts of text and see if the packets increase proportionally.

You can perhaps analyze which apps or extensions are sending packets.

This post doesn’t provide enough information of value
Well of course they makes record profits, something they have increased in value (storage, stock, permits...) But they cannot buy more gas now and sell in the future than they already do - as we can see from the prices.