skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just found this site not long ago. I like the old youtube feel with new interface.
Most programming languages are like that now.
Nobody said there was a guarantee it would stick to the same percentages as they grow, but brand loyalty is definitely a thing for people that develops in their formative years.

It’s also not just “social pressures to use iPhones” but the fact that parents can:

* give them hand me downs due to longer device lifespans

* the ability to get them more easily serviced when their kid breaks something by going to the Apple Store

* the ability to more easily buy a decent midrange device on a student discount

* the ability to communicate more easily themselves using iMessage

* appealing to privacy and safety in Apple marketing

People over index on social pressure from other teens. There’s lots of reasons teens get devices and many come from parental choices.

Maybe the percentages will vary as they grow but any company worth their salt is paying attention to the possibly high rate of market drop off that they’ll experience
In general inflation helps those with debt and hurts those with savings.

But even if raises and such occur, they don't happen instantaneously, and so people don't like inflation. Gas prices can go up tomorrow, but you won't get a cost-of-living increase for half a year or more.

For those who have the vast majority of their debt in a 30 year fixed loan on a house, inflation is kinda nice once you get past the rough parts.
> Except it wasn't: Amazon--like everyone else filing a patent--had a duty to bring the idea to market within the time frame that US patent law required, which they then did. _That_ is the how.

That's not proof of non-obviousness. And even if it were, it's still not a reason to allow 'what' patents (which the law actually doesn't allow! But they get granted anyway).

> Demanding the patent goes into the specific details

You are arguing a strawman. A patent must describe the invention in sufficient detail for someone skilled in its art to reproduce. Incidental details shouldn't be (and I believe aren't, legally. What the USPTO actually does in practice is a different matter) grounds for calling an alternate implementation non-infringing.

What you're describing is a hideous perversion of the patent system. It allows patenting any obvious [1] idea so long as you are first to file [2]. Alternately, if the idea is novel and non-obvious, it grants patent protection without requiring disclosure of implementation. It basically grants patent protection to trade secrets.

[1] A test for non-obviousness: does an implementor care to look at your patent or reverse-engineer your implementation, or is a description of what the invention does sufficient?

[2] And eventually implement.
What if I told you that formal representation of a kanji glyph is not gibberish
It always bewildered me why kanji are written this way. Even more, why they use these obscure radicals. Well, that was before I started to think this was a metaplay on terms' characteristics.

世 is a glyph for a world, a lifetime, an era. But it looks like a chemical stand. So, why would you use it? Yes, you wouldn't. Until it was by the inner workforce of the world alone. Because it knows that this thing looks like PRECIPITATING which is exactly all of the above described. It's not people, it's God.

Then, we have 亜 for Asia, Argentina and Arabia. Why? Wouldn't you use just one symbol for each? Well, the problem is, this thing looks like an iPhone which goes from being horizontal to stable fixed vertical. Which is gibberish, until you call this act ORIENTING. Asia, Argentina and Arabia both have a eastern-oriented seashore, orient is a term for east.

癶 looks like a bird descending to take something. This is UNDERTAKING. Combined, as in 発, it looks like it descends on upon a submarine which is either goes up or down. So, how would you call that act? An ISSUING. UNDERTAKING ISSUING. 発 is a counter word for blows, besides that, it's a word for scheduled departures, you know, the things that undertake issuing.

This is a prescribed act. And you can decipher it.
What if the sandbox, kernel, device drivers are written in C? Sounds like a good case against C for these uses.
170 lbs 5'4" looks like this: https://height-weight-chart.com/504-170.html

Certainly not an athletic build, and a borderline-obese BMI, but well short of ball chair territory.
you should log in and see all the very non-tech people who have joined
No. There isn't enough liquidity in the market to even sell that amount. They also do these things over the counter, in auctions, which wouldn't have an effect on market pricing at all.
use Linux... it's free and doesn't spy on you
If I were ever in a position to tell investment banks what to do, I would demand every pitch of theirs happen in a jupyter notebook.
What a fascinating story. Very mysterious...

> The Financial Times also reported that the two suspects "had been released" by Italian authorities.

I guess they helped direct the police to the actual counterfeiters.

> An earlier billion-dollar bond case was recorded in 2002, when the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, located in Chicago, heard a case from two men who sought $100 billion from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

So two guys tried to bring a fake bearer bond worth $100B and tried to cash it out? That's hilarious. It also sounds like they didn't even get in trouble.
Isn’t that what I said? I don’t see any difference.
Uncompressed 2ch 44.1kHz 16bit PCM is only 1.4Mbps. Even 7.1ch 96khz 24bit is only 18.4Mbps. Should be plenty of headroom even on "only" 100Mbps.
https://www.trademarklawyerfirm.com/what-is-trademark-fair-u...

Yeah, it does. This isn’t a traditional parody on the surface, but IKEA being a labyrinth of horrors can pretty clearly be read as a parody on their unorthodox store design (no one’s making a horror game about being trapped in a Best Buy lmao). The Creative Commons horror story this is ripped off of is officially named “A Perfectly Normal, Regular Old IKEA” on the site (although no one uses the names of SCPs), which adds to that.
I remember golf courses being designated essential businesses.
Well presumably if there is a significant penalty for making a false patent assertion, then placing the assertion in the hands of a very small company would simply bankrupt that company in the case of the penalty coming due, and the real owner wouldn't be liable.

So essentially the scam removes liability from the (dubious) patent owner - it removes the downside to (allegedly) abusing the law, and subverts the intent of the legislation.
One can readily argue that it is simultaneously the most-important part to decentralize. Identity and personal-network are essential to a person's function in modern society.
That's pretty limited way to look at it. You don't need to escape the sandbox to do harm.

You can have your app in perfect sandbox where nothing can escape then have a memory safety bug inside allowing user to get to the stuff of another user (because your sandboxed app talking with sandboxed database still have one set of credentials to do everything)

There is of course https://xkcd.com/1200/ for that.

And no "move that separation to DB" also isn't a solution.
Abstraction is probably the most expensive (and bug-ridden) thing we do in computing. For OS writers and users, it is not a good idea to add any more abstraction than you absolutely need.
From the affidavit (https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1549821...):

> The metal items consisted of four one-ounce silver-colored bars, three one-ounce gold-colored bars, four 10-ounce silver-colored bars, and one gold-colored coin, all seized from Individual-1’s home on November 9, 2021.
Interesting that you view the patent as a sword. Depending on your view of mutually assured destruction, you could also view the patent as a shield.

Certainly this is what I was told when I started filing them at my mega corp. 3K for filing, 10K bonus if granted and helping shield the product in case we are served. Our patents can be horse traded to settle a dispute. Because I believed in our team, product etc. it was easy to think we should be capable to defend ourselves; we were the best and that meant the stragglers would come for us using any means available, including patent trolling.
Shameless (related) plug: Check out broader cellular-automata sim with custom update rules you can define in json (and run the game on the page itself).

https://aperocky.com/cellular-automata/

This allows for more "block state" too in addition to just the black and white for GOL. Also allows some time based rules (i.e. change based off block age that it stayed unchanged).

I've gravitated to essentially a file description (and the corresponding parser) to set up the rules - this makes making and adding rules easier.
Although the "LendingIterator" example is apparently done to death, I'm going to try to explain it in a way that is actually appropriate for "ELI5".

In Rust, there are many different ways to have a list of things that come one after another. But sometimes we want to write some code that doesn't care about the details like whether the list is a list of words, or a list of numbers, it just cares about the fact that there are a list of things in order.

Right now, we call these general lists of things in order "Iterators", with code like this:

trait Iterator {
type Item;
fn next(&mut self) -> Self::Item;
}

This tells us what an "Iterator" means. "Item" is the type of thing that is in the list, for example it could be "number" or "word". "next" is a function, which means it is something we can do. When we do the "next" function, we get the next thing in the list. So if we keep doing the "next" function over and over, we can get everything in the Iterator one by one.

However, sometimes we want to have more complicated lists, where the "next" function doesn't actually get us the next thing in the list, it just tells us the address of the next thing inside the computer. We would write this code like this:

trait StaticIterator {
type Item;
fn next(&mut self) -> &'static Self::Item;
}

However, this requires the thing in the list to always be at the address (that's what "&'static" means). But a lot of the time the thing stays at the address while we are looking at the list, and later it will go away.

We could write code saying that the things only have to be at the address for a certain period of time. It would look like this:

trait ReferenceIterator<'a> {
type Item;
fn next(&mut self) -> &'a Self::Item;
}

This solves that problem, because now we are saying the address only has to have the thing at it for the the time period "a" (we call "a" the lifetime, because it tells us how long the things will live at the address). The problem is, that when we write "Iterator<'a>" we have to decide up front what the lifetime will be. So we can't use the same code for lists with different lifetimes, we would need to write the same code twice, once for each lifetime.

This problem is what GATs help us with. GATs are a way to say that we are going to have a list of addresses, where the lifetimes could be different for each list. We would write the code like this:

trait LendingIterator {
type Item<'a> where Self: 'a;
fn next(&mut self) -> Self::Item<'_>;
}

This allows us to write code which doesn't decide up front what the lifetime of the addresses will be. Instead, the same code can happily work with lists of addresses with any lifetime. GATs may seem scary at first, but as you can see, they are not doing anything fancy, just allowing us to do what we should be able to do: write one piece of code that can work with lists of addresses with different lifetimes.
This is very sad news for all Swedes. Here is an article in english:
https://sweden.postsen.com/trends/49453/The-YouTube-channel-...

And for Swedes you can watch a short interview with him on Swedish Televison in the first 8 minutes of this program:
https://www.svtplay.se/video/33989650/sverige/sverige-sasong...

The program above is from the last shutdown and the example given there about his most popular clip was a very old show of Bonnie Tyler. SVT, at the time, made the clip available officially via SVT Play again but has since disappeared from their service almost as a reminder that culture will disappear from the public unless enthusiast like Rosa Mannen can make them available somewhere.
Sure, I wasn't trying to defend whatever Ms. Truss tried to do in her 40 days. It was terrible on all accounts.
Brian Eno Has Some Actual Good News
> so they either need to take on the financial burden of flying to wherever their blood is needed or refusing to take on the financial burden and knowingly allowing someone to die.

Is that a real case or hypothetical? If real, I would like to explore further as it does seem rather inappropriate.

In my experience, the blood can be drawn locally and then sent to the recipient. That's also true for bone marrow & peripheral blood stem cell donations.

Source: I am a transfusion medicine physician.
It is actually pretty amusing to know that even as an absolute nobody you can and will easily, and even completely unintentionally, hurt the feelings of the richest man on earth to such a degree that he will think more about you than you have ever thought about him.

Update: And he even deleted the Tweet now!
I think a better analogy may be nuclear power, than asbestos, because of the labor side of the tech.

Using nuclear power correctly takes a ton of engineering prowess, lots of additional construction. If done well, it works great. When it goes bad, it goes really bad.

So if it's 1982, maybe nuclear power or C is a good option. If it's 2022, new technology may provide a cheaper way of getting to the same end point, with less engineering and construction, and probably even less cost.
I actually enjoy programming in C. I don't get to use it as much as I'd like to though. Almost all the work I do these days has some other language that makes more practical sense to use: JavaScript, Golang, Rust, etc. But coming from an ECE background I enjoy the low level nature of C.
I think we’re violently agreeing?

If TypeScript isn’t the bundler, it shouldn’t complain (as it currently does) when you import a “.ts” file. It shouldn’t care at all!
> You can't even install Windows 11 without a Microsoft account (so they obviously have a way to identify you).

Actually you can, just don't connect to the Internet during your initial setup.

The fact that remaining anonymous requires this trick is 100% a dark pattern on MSFT's part.

While we're at it: to avoid being forced to fill in the "security questions" during set up, the trick is keep your password blank during set up (add it after set up is done).

I recently set up Windows and it requires SO many workarounds to keep your privacy. I recommend setting up OOSU10 before even connecting to the Internet to avoid the Telemetry and Windows sneakily installing helper apps related to your hardware (and I don't mean Drivers) without your consent or knowledge.
Every year is the year of the Linux desktop because the marketshare is ever growing. Linux is not a one-hit wonder.
That doesn't stop bugs, that just makes them less likely. VS making them impossible on accident
Musk's Superpowers Are Being Ignored in His Twitter Takeover
> I for one don't care about privacy that much, and that's how most consumers are.

So you would not mind sharing your credit card infos. Or your social security number if you're in the US?

Also I bet you like going around naked outside when the weather is right.
Random Rust Impressions
The heavier a person is, the more kinetic energy they have. Moreover, seatbelts don't really stop a person until flesh is sufficiently compressed against bone. From that, I'd reason that skinny people should have a higher survival rate. Intuition be damned, data is important.

It shouldn't be hard to spec and built crash test dummies with simulated fat.
OP is not claiming that it would reduce _all_ software security problems though, so this is a straw man (intentional or not).

Even the analogy holds up in this regard: using other materials instead of asbestos does not remove all the construction problems.

I think C has other things going for it (simplicity of the compiler), just wanted to point that out.
Why bother? If you make a CD drive to go into a computer (and not a stereo cabinet), why bother to have a lossy error correction method, when you must have a lossless one sitting right beside it?
An economic breakdown is not the same thing as an "end of civilization" event. As much as the finance bros want you to believe that the world can't exist without debt and bonds and all of the modern machinations built on top of those things, a breakdown in those systems merely means that those systems stop working.

Obviously the finance system is completely entangled with modern supply chains and a million other things that more directly effect our daily lives. But lets not pretend that life as we know it would cease to be if a couple of banks had failed in 2008. I've read plenty on the subject and it's very clear to me that 2008's "financial crisis" represents an almost complete failure of government duty to the common man in favor of a few very rich individuals made even richer by the bailout.

Please, for a moment, try to engage politely with others on the forum. Just because someone believes differently from you doesn't mean they aren't well read. Sometimes we've just read different things than you. If you engage politely, you might be able to convince me that your worldview makes more sense! But if you act like a jerk and break the civil communication rules in place on this forum, there's not a snowball's chance in hell that I'll come around to your way of thinking.
Are these folders actual folders on your disk, though? Last time I checked I could use Navidrome to browse folders, but it would actually be browsing through albums instead.
Maybe a language with the checking by default in the compiler would be a good idea, like Ada or SPARK.
He follows up with a comment about a screenshot being so dirty. This is just gross coming from a CEO.

I'm starting to really wonder about a tin-foil theory that he wants to kill Twitter and have it file bankruptcy, then he can somehow write-off his investment and discharge the bank loans. Maybe that is actually plan B since plan A (back out of the deal, keep the $8B from selling his Tesla stock) didn't work out the way he expected.
This is quite interesting, thanks for sharing. I had written off ethanol because of how gunked up it got with the American corn industry and the stupid fact that Iowa votes first in the US primary elections. Maybe there's something to this.
I agree that judicial candidates draw bipartisan support more often than most would realize, but you might be overstating how often this happens. In our current political era, Connolly falls into a minority.

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R45622

See pages 30-33:

> during the Trump presidency, with 81.0% of district court nominees confirmed by roll call vote

> During the Trump presidency, in contrast to the two immediately preceding presidencies, only 15 (10.6%) of 141 district court nominees confirmed by roll call vote received zero nay votes at the time of confirmation. A plurality of nominees (36, or 25.5%, of 141) received more than 40 nay votes when confirmed by the Senate, while another 20 nominees, or 14.2%, received 31 to 40 nay votes at the time of confirmation.
> unless you can start the civil case for damages first to find the fraud that then becomes criminal

Someone can correct me if I am wrong, but when you go to bankruptcy court, you actually have to reveal all of your finances and justify why you need to declare bankruptcy? You can't just preliminarily declare bankruptcy in anticipation of damages - you actually have to damages assigned by a court.

And it seems like a huge waste of everyone's time in the bankruptcy process if the judge says "oh yeah - anyone can now tack on a lawsuit and I'll see you back here every single time".
100s of Billions are needed to just upgrade existing rail to being electric and reliable. Even just upgrading the speed slightly and making rail reliable would be helpful.

Most roads, and highways, can be retrofitted with some type of passenger rail. To run alongside cars. No need to build in a greenfield.

It's amazing the environmentalists don't report how many new miles of road are put down every year.
I think 90% of the reason why people have a hard time with GAT is because there aren't a ton of use cases. From what I can tell, GAT is quite simple - it is just like all other Rust generics except that now the generic can be in a new place.

Rust has made it years without needing this (granted, a few things have been less than ideal because of it) because, for the most part, people have not needed to reach for this type of abstraction. But it's really just "Generics in a new place".

Personally, I've accidentally written the GAT syntax years before I ever heard the term GAT because I thought a generic could go there.
Nice, I had not see that option before. Another method that stops some phoning home and can remove some cruft is O&O's ShutUp10 freeware [1]. There are powershell scripts that do all the same things but this has a happy-clicky GUI that prompts the person to make a restore-point and displays which options are known to work, which may have limited efficacy and which are unlikely to work after updates. It will also show what has changed since the last time it was run. i.e. after OS updates

[1] - https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
What? What you are proposing has nothing to do with the perfect vs the good, it is a massive fantasy completely ignorant of how things actually work.

Fees are merely a rounding error in the overall cost of patents, prosecuting (obtaining) them, pursuing cases against "violators" or defending them. The fees are in the $hundreds to small $thousands of dollars [0]. It typically costs $20,000 to $50,000 in patent lawyer fees to get a patent. A company I was personally involved with ran up over $350K in attny bills to obtain only a handful of patents. The fees were a rounding error.

Fees for prosecuting a "violator" or defending a suit? Again, court fees are in the $100 range. Just the opening motions would be in the $20,000 range easily. And that does not even begin to account for the technical and executive time to understand and mount a defense.

I've been directly involved, and one thing that is absolutely the opposite of scalable is the court system. It is massively time-consuming and money-consuming. Worse yet, it takes many years for any case to wind it's way through the system, often more than a decade.

Yet, you are proposing dumping the entire issue on the courts and attorney system. How are you proposing to mitigate those costs?

Seriously, not to be rude, but you should stop positing about stuff of which you are clearly massive ignorant (or actually explain how your proposed solution would actually work among all the factors).

Sheesh

[0] https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/fees-and-paymen...
I disagree. What's a worse look: not having this OR having this and being discovered subverting their own security?
Sorry, I was a bit too vague. Negative effects. For example, my depression got worse and my ability to cope with social contacts elsewhere in my life got worse (such as becoming more sensitive to perceived rejection, and consequently turning more to TikTok to counteract the negative feelings, leading to my reducing maintenance of real relationships).
On a tangent, how does the rest of the world do this? Is it just machinery that tills the soil to bury the old plants?

Also, what are the downsides to just leaving the stubble on the land?
> (no one’s making a horror game about being trapped in a Best Buy lmao)

I know of at least one horror movie made about a supermarket [0], so it's not unprecedented. The IKEA-like aspect here is less "big store after dark" and more of the seemingly infinite maze, which at this point is pretty much a trademark for the brand...

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[0] - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2282989/