skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if it turns out to be an actual lawyer doing the answer on the other side of the phone?
Nitpick: From a glimpse at the article, I think the defendant will represent himself, the "AI lawyer" running on the defendants smartphone will just give him hints. Not sure how it can be acceptable to have a third party listen into court proceedings in real time through a smartphone, but ok.
I used to do something like that when I was developing b&w photos in my room. I changed the color balance somehow to block green and blue to have a red only display. This way I could use a timer app on the computer for developing photos. (I also had to turn the brightness of the monitor down pretty far, just the red software filter apparently wasn't enough)
More than ten years ago someone here on Hacker News recommended The Divided Mind by John Sarno and my debilitating wrist pain went away shortly after reading it.
I am glad that you’re not involved in this chat! I wish you well and encourage you to look into the facts I’ve brought up.
Wasn't there something on HN frontpage lately about "fake it until you automate it"?
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But then things improved and none of that had to be done to play with friends. We had it better then they ruined it again. I think that's the entire point.

Especially on consoles with limited patch sizes. Compare the experience of playing Call of Duty 4 on Xbox 360 to the experience of playing the newest CoD on a console. I haven't played in a long time but just reading that the first thing you have to do is download dozens of GB to play a disc you just bought is bonkers.
If it's any comfort: Switzerland invented* the quartz watch. But swiss watchmakers were too good for that.

* at least according to how swiss tell this story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_clock#History differs substantially. (but does mention Longines ca. 1966, which may have been how the story I heard arose? In any case, these days Longines has long since been bought by Swatch...)
> Color monitors dropped in price quickly (…)

It wasn't so much about the price, but the picture quality. (Monochrome CRTs do not require shadow masks, but color CRTs do – and were therefor blurry. E.g., dithered color often blended into perfect renditions of the color in question. Well, there was also Trintron, but this is another story.) Also, consumer graphics cards were (originally) mostly for monochrome video, and color often required a dedicated card, as did a graphics mode, which both came at the cost of lower text resolution. (Eventually, these options merged into more general cards, but mode-specific restrictions remained.) Windows may have played a role, though, as it was then all about graphics mode (and color), anyway.

Also, I recall white phosphor as the least favorable option, for its contrast that was considered too high.
Which is why any next-gen nuclear should be doing near-complete fuel consumption. Solid fuel rods aren't going to cut it.

Liquid / molten salts can be reprocessed "online" and the fission products extracted (yeah, handwaves a LOT of chemistry), so you don't get these partially transmuted solid rods.

Even if you have solid rods or solid pebbles doing the primary power, maybe you can have a secondary on-site molten processor to take care of the waste without it shipping.

One of the annoying aspects of arguing with pro-nuclear people is their blind spot for reprocessing/waste. It just gets shrugged/handwaved away, but to the voting public, having a reactor that produces no waste in the traditional solid fuel sense would be a political boon.

The real issue is that nuclear simply isn't price competitive, it barely beats coal. I would like it to be otherwise.
Can we get AI to help us find loopholes in bureaucracy that plutocrats try to exploit in order to keep the working classes down?

Because that's something Ian Banks would smile at, from wherever he is rest his soul.
From what I understand, Australia has a lot of temporary lakes that only fill after extreme rain, then dry out soon after.

So if you could keep lakes such as Lake Eyre (though it's salty) and others full, that would encourage plant growth, and coverage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Eyre

I can't find a link, but there's a theory (and I don't know if it's been discredited), but once again, because humans settled into Australia they displaced mega-fauna and generally ruined the ecosystem in Australia and the Outback now is what it is. Even today, there's a story doing the rounds about how free roaming bison in the US double the plant biodiversity of the plains just by trampling on stuff.

There are all sorts of plans to irrigate Australia such as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradfield_Scheme
Yep, or telemetry.enabled

If you are not going to use the meaning of "opt-in" or "opt-out", you might as well keep things simple.
The AQMD website has tested devices, and any they found accurate is probably a good place to start.

My limited research suggests the most affordable and reliable gaseous measurements like NO2 want a metal oxide sensor, which you don’t see on consumer grade equipment but is available affordably from commercial sources. It’s more hassle though so I gave up on measuring NO2 for now. Particulates seem to be readily measured with suitable accuracy by consumer grade equipment.
Not the OP but personally I'm the same. It's Google I don't like and also the video format, I have no patience for watching videos. Written content is much easier for me to absorb quickly and efficiently. Videos are always so tailored to the slowest viewer (especially training videos, I hate those!!)

There's only a few YouTubers I have time for like ones that don't hide complexity, such as Dave Jones from EEVBlog.
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> You actually have to log a damn lot to actually fill up even a single 16 Tb drive with gzip-compressed logs which typically have something like 50x compression for log data.

If you cannot search quickly in the logs, at least the "hot" ones (i.e. most recent) they don't make too much sense. Well, they still make sense but for other reasons, but you lose many interesting feature of logs.
At $DAYJOB we *surely* needs to trim and shave a lot the logs apps are sending to the centralized ELK - which is one of the points of TFA - but we cannot just gzip the text files and be done, we need to be able to search for patterns anbd data in the logs to understand what the app is doing in certain cases (besides having metrics).

P.S. We also store them as gzipped files in an S3 bucket using warm/cold tiers, and it is certainly cheaper than using even magnetic disks.
Furthermore, if he is interested in the _intent_ of what he's doing (making games), the language (both coding, and spoken) should just come as a beneficial byproduct. So I _really_ think you need to forget about the "It must be in French" requirement.

He'll have to learn terminology anyway (loops, buffers, variables) etc. So, instead of calling your buffer variable `tampon`, call it `buffer`.
Pretty much everything from Miele is built to last for decades. But it is expensive.
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Last time I saw this was the Sophos XG web interface some time ago. User changed their password and couldn't sign in, turned out it got truncated somewhere.
Yo sbt, get your ass outta Russia mate.
You just gave away your password to the world…
(this comment was meaningful with the initial HN title, saying that telemetry.optIn was true by default)
> image is more important than security

It's the company that's promoting its product with "Trust us, we're Swiss", even though it's a stupid argument after Crypto AG (and a few other, similar exploits): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG
Thing is, if someone needs a store of value that's not controlled by the bank, gold is already there - and, for most people, it being physical is actually an advantage (easier to secure in a way that they can understand and verify).

Then again, most people who hold crypto today, do so in third-party wallets on platforms like Coinbase. At which point the "gold equivalent" would be to buy gold certificates from your bank of choice.

Thus, the only practical value proposition of Bitcoin is that it can do long-distance transactions outside of the established bank network and its regulations. I'm not saying that dodging regulations is always a bad thing, but regardless of that it's a very niche use case by definition, never mainstream.

The reason why it is so popular outside of that niche is speculation. Which is also why we're seeing those wild swings - if the current price was anything resembling its real utility, it would be a great deal more stable.
What's the problem? There's a large popup with the info after a fresh deploy. They need usage data to shape the product.
> they completely ruin the tension of Ripley and the marines later arriving at the colony (because we already found out about Newt), and spoils the reveal that Burke sent the colonists out to the alien crash site.

Not sure what we found out about Newt? That's she's a character? Who screams?

I also didn't remember Burke being named as the one who sent the colonists to check out the crash site - I thought it was just "the company". Can't believe I never noticed that.

> The sentry guns are just watching a boring ammo counter

There are also a few cool shots of aliens getting shredded by them. But, more importantly IMO, there's the discussion about the aliens intelligently probing the defences they've set up to find a way in. That adds a level of set-up to the aliens later cutting the power which I liked.

> the Ripley daughter retcon is just a lazy way to smash us over the head with the motherhood themes,

Are you sure retcon is the right word there? Not sure what Ripley being a mother changes about anything that came before that reveal? I can't think of anything it recontextualises from the first film - but then I never considered that before.

Yeah, the motherhood bit is a little heavy-handed in the director's cut, but, it's not exactly a subtle film! I still think it adds some value though. For example, after the first firefight with the aliens, Hudson notices that some of the marines they thought were dead actually aren't, and it's suggested they should go back for them. Ripley shoots the idea down, saying there's no point, they can't be saved. But later she decides to go back for Newt? Why? The surrogate daughter aspect gives her a reason - even if Newt is almost certainly beyond saving, she has to try anyway, no matter the odds.

Yeah, the extra runtime those things take does slow the directors cut down slightly, and it's not quite as tight and focussed as the theatrical cut. But I think they do have some merit, and the extra details are worth that for me.
This is a problem of mimicking/learning the cargo cult subject and missing the prerequisite lessons leading up to it. If expertise is defined as knowing the whole stack leading to the top-end subject and it's relationships, then yes it's a problem of incorrect growth and therefore the pool is widened and yet has less actual experts in it.

Jonathan Blow's 'collapse of civilization' talk goes into this quite a bit.
if ((v1.x()-v2.x())*(v1.x()-v2.x())+(v1.y()-v2.y())*(v1.y())-v2.y())+(v1.z()-v2.z())*(v1.z()-v2.z()) > distance*distance) {
// collision
}

Would you like this to fail to compile? Or would you prefer it to silently return the wrong value?
> ...crunch vs Rust...

Crunch is a management problem, programming language details won't help in this regard (and the entire role of programming languages in game development seem way overblown in the comments here anyway - you pick an engine mainly for the artist workflows it provides, and then use whatever programming language that engine supports best).
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> With Christianity we don't have much idea of what Christ wanted, Christ existence has an absolutely terrible historical source base. In fact I found it pretty embracing how little there was. Christ probably existed (I would put it 75%/25%) but if he did he was a insignificant preacher

Still better than what we have for Siddharta Gautama. Buddhist sources can't even agree on which century he lived in. Christian sources are unanimous in dating Jesus of Nazareth to within a decade, and the Jewish historian Josephus (writing approximately 60 years later) also confirms his existence. One of the two references to Jesus in Josephus has obviously been tampered with by Christian copyists, but the majority of scholars believe there was a genuine reference there prior to the tampering; and most scholars believe the second reference is entirely genuine.

Also, the majority of secular scholars believe we can work out roughly what Jesus taught – although it seems likely that what he actually taught was much closer to 1st century Judaism than what Christianity later evolved into

> So pretty much all Christians have a massive problem.

Some Christians are big on arguing for Christianity based on the claimed historical accuracy of the New Testament – an approach called "evidentialist apologetics". You have correctly pointed out the massive problems with that approach. However, not all Christians argue for Christianity in that way – indeed, I think it is historically a minority, despite the huge fad for it in 20th century Anglophone Christianity (and especially evangelical Protestantism). Other Christians put greater emphasis on other arguments – philosophical arguments, arguments from religious experience, historical arguments that rely on the broad sweep of Christian history rather than just its first decade, etc. Maybe all those other arguments have problems too–but not these problems.
The strings generated by password managers are often incompatible with arbitrary requirements imposed by websites. You must use a symbol, but some symbols are forbidden and we're not going to tell you which ones! You can't have more than N consecutive numbers! Your password is too long! It must be exactly 15 characters long! etc. etc.

So I restrict my password manager to use what I consider to be a widely accepted subset of the printable characters, and then some random website will complain about the lack of this or that character. :(
But the problem with law isn't the number of people, it's with the number of laws/binding contracts. If the US government can't even count the number of possible ways you can commit a crime then how is any of it supposed to work?
As a skier, this is my dream :)
Excellent idea for those apps that need that type of protection. For many apps however ability to manually edit the link to get to the different state is actually a free bonus feature. I've built a CRM/Cases management app for the client that stores data filters in the url, and while there's a nice UI to control filters, we observed that lots of users simply go and edit the url directly to quickly get what they need.
> The AI lawyer tells the defendant what to say in real-time, through headphones.

Yeah - and I wonder what will happen if it starts telling the defendant to say things which aren't grounded and rooted in fact, or which contradict things they previously said or submitted in writing.

Not sure a generative model is the best way to keep people clear of obvious cases of perjury/lying under oath etc.
The book, especially chapter 7 seems to say several things completely opposite to what Herb Sutter did in his famous talk a number of years ago.

In the book:

> This means that on ARM64, sequentially consistent operations are exactly as cheap as acquire and release operations. Or, rather, that ARM64 Acquire, Release, and AcqRel operations are as expensive as SeqCst. Unlike x86-64, however, Relaxed operations are relatively cheap, as they don’t result in stronger ordering guarantees than necessary.

However in Herb Sutter's talk (specifically the second half here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeLBd2EJLOU ) he says that ARMv8 Acquire/Release/AcqRel operations are cheaper than SeqCst. This book seems to claim that x64 is somehow superior to ARMv8, which from my understanding is completely wrong.
> Is wearing blue denim jacket and jeans an anti-pattern?

The Canadian tuxedo is clearly a best practice.
When the name is public-facing rather than internal, cute is better because it's better suited for trademarking.
Because it yet lack functionality that consumers would pay for it. I will add those in later stages of development
It’s far more often that I need mixed casing, or special characters. Length limits happen maybe 1 out of 10 times, not enough for me to change my defaults.
The notion that monolithic tech actually scales is not a given. The strategy typically used to disrupt an industry is to provide a convenience for free that actually costs the company something. These costs (and liabilities) are familiar to the incumbent.

That institutional knowledge disappears upon a successful disruption. The startup will now be faced with learning these things over again, “breaking things” in the process.

Once enough growth has happened, monetizing via ads or increased pricing occurs. After this, you may have to squint your eyes a bit to tell if the situation before was all that much worse- or merely consisted of a different set of trade-offs.

Uber comes to mind. Facebook as well.
This looks great and the first time I've come across it.. One thing I notice straight away is the incredible amount and quality of the documentation!
YouTube now provide a setting to change the speed of a video. This means you can decrease or increase the speed to meet your viewing requirements.
And more importantly their model is actually build on currency not being finite. Transactions make only so much money. Making loans that is non-finite money scales much higher.
Type 2 diabetes is strongly associated with being overweight, and it it is well-known that weight loss can reverse it, so my first thought was “how did they control for weight loss?”.

From what I can find online, I’m. It convinced they did that. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36515429/ says:

“The mean body weight of participants in the CMNT group was reduced by 5.93 kg (SD 2.47) compared to 0.27 kg (1.43) in the control group”

I also found https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-study-..., which says (cherry-picking a bit rom that page, but IMO, that’s not a problem for this argument):

“This is a relatively small study and the main problem is that weight loss was much greater in those allocated to intermittent fasting. This is not surprising but a proper comparison would be with individuals who reduced their food intake uniformly over time to the same degree as those doing intermittent fasting. The bottom line is that if obese/overweight persons with diabetes lose substantial amounts of weight their diabetes is likely to go into remission. This study does not show that intermittent fasting is superior to uniform caloric restriction.“

and

“So, this study did not compare two diets with the same energy intake as the intermittent diet was about 75% of energy intake compared to normal intake. Therefore there is no surprise that the intermittent diet group lost weight (almost 6kg on average or about 10% of starting body weight). As one of the best predictors of achieving remission in type 2 diabetes is weight loss, it is impossible to say if it is intermittent fasting which is helping to induce remission as it is most likely to be the result of the weight loss”

(It surprised me to read “almost 6kg on average or about 10% of starting body weight”. I know not all Chinese are large, but 60kg and (from the pubmed link “body mass index (BMI) of 19.1 to 30.4”?)

Because of that, I doubt the conclusion is correct, and it wasn’t the intermittent fasting but the weight loss that was the main factor.

(That page also gives some info about the experiment:

“for five days people ate only 840kcal per day and for the following 10 days they ate according to their appetite following the Chinese dietary guidelines for a total of 3 months”)
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They have a nested structure, it's a pain to encode that in query parameters.
Just circling back on the topic of "good enough work" from a few days ago. Spain rolled out 93% of fiber coverage in a relatively short period of time, but that meant tearing up sides of streets in most cases, and/or air cables.
Yeah, the air cables are unsightly, and the roads have a different-colored "strip" on one side. But we have good internet.
If they wanted to do it "perfect, and polished" then we would still have ISDN/satellite internet for many years to come.
Unless you investigate this, and keep investigating it continuously, you can't know what information they are exfiltrating from your system intentionally or unintentionally. "Shaping the product" should not require this kind of behavior.
Bastillion – web-based SSH console that to manage access to systems
By that definition, Japan has its own software companies too. They are also big in the gaming world. I didn't check the numbers, but I'd bet it's bigger than France.

The US has won the Software (ie: not the games, but the core Software market) because it had pocket deep VCs that understood tech. Everything else is secondary. This is of course, my opinion.
Pretty sure I've seen multiple people doing step sequencing like this in software with the Monome Grid and similar software-driven grids. No idea which application or plugin were they using, though.
I think that's utopian, all i see in this story is a future where some people can afford expert defendants (who'll be assisted by AI but much more effective than AI alone), while poor people are stuck with representing themselves with an app - and the government deems the problem solved, further eroding laws that guarantee legal support.
Did you try with different usernames? Maybe there is a slim chance someone already used your preferred username.
Keurig is a blight on coffee; here's why: https://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/why-the-keur...
Also we should not forget the history of the MSX platform that is tied to the ASCII Corp. in Tokyo. It was an early 80s startup led by Kazuhiko Nishi who licensed MS Basic and introduced MS products to Japan for the first time. Later it became the de facto Basic standard for the MSX platform that kind of dominated personal computing in the 80s (similar to how Commodore and Spectrum dominated that market in Europe during the same time).

There is this cute photo of Nishi-san posing next to the young Bill Gates:

https://ozeidi.wordpress.com/2015/10/10/my-first-personal-co...

This gives a good overview on Ascii Corp:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_Corporation
No it won't since it's illegal.

"At no time at any location within the courthouse may any electronic device be used to make a photograph or recording in any fashion, whether audio, video or otherwise."

https://www.lawd.uscourts.gov/possession-and-use-electronic-...
We asked ChatGPT to write a Sherlock Holmes mystery
IMHO you should never store the data itself in the url, only the params that you use to fetch the data. So if the page is the list of the latest 10 posts in a category, you'll store the category in the url and the sorting criteria, not the IDs of the posts themselves. On the refresh you always get the fresh data.
In addition the early reward for mining a block was 50 bitcoins, there was no way to "mint" a smaller number.
Yes, I read the book and it is quite good. That is not the merit of the publisher, but the merit of the author. You can buy the book (more or less) directly from the author on https://leanpub.com/get-your-hands-dirty-on-clean-architectu... , so PacktPub seems only to be the printing partner.
Thank you dang for the context, appreciate it.
The problem with messengers: The more secure and privacy centered they are, the less likely it is that any of your friends and relatives use them.
FYI This is not a good one. You can try listing it on godaddy auctions, sedo, afternic simultaneously but don't expect much.