skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mistake "smart" with "have good memory". Laweyrs are far more about knowing the law and finding the law to apply at given situation + some social skills rather than "smart".

Obviously the good ones, as in any profession, will probably also be "smart", but that's just the top.

> something has gone very bad somewhere in the education and certification pipeline.

Yeah like the fact lawyers earn far more money than people responsible for teaching kids... teaching future generations should be at least as prestigious and well paid job
They couldn’t use the Silmarillion, only LotR, including appendices, which Tolkien had sold the film rights for long ago when he was in financial distress.

Christopher Tolkien, his son and close collaborator, hated the movies and likely was not interested in licensing anything, regardless of price. I think he was right. Since he has passed, I expect that will change sooner or later.

Even so, blaming the licensing is absurd. The writers had carte blanch to write a new, original story set in the Second Age, or flesh out the framework in the Appendices - which, by the way, is almost all Tolkien’s writing on the Second Age anyway, so they’re not missing much. They blew it because they can’t write, not because they couldn’t get all the material they needed. They deviated from all the material they did license anyway, keeping basically only character names and the barest outline of plot (magic rings are made), they changed literally almost everything else they “adapted”. Blaming the Tolkien estate is a ridiculous diversion from the utter mediocrities that are running all these major franchises.
> Now and then I come across a charger that refuses to start, OK, the connector is worn.

Except this is about 50%+ of connectors in my area. Doesn't seem to happen to the Tesla connectors.
Oh I see. Yeah 100% agree the people in the article are garbage lawyers.
Mearsheimer saw it coming and got it basically right.

He predicted "Putin will wreck Ukraine" and this is happening now.
They definitely scraped HN: one of my favorite ways to change the style of an LLM is to ask it to rephrase in the style of a snarky HN comment.
The thread was popping this morning, most threads linger, if you can not see they were eager to make it go away that is okay. All good.
I guess this harkens back to the days when you had to write a compiler in a low-level language because that’s all that the platform that you are targeting supports. Then it sounds weird to talk about writing a compiler in a high-level language in order to target a low-level one, because surely these high-level languages are more platform-dependent than the blessed (guaranteed on the platform) low-level one.

But these days we can access dozens of languages on many platforms. And we can use high-level languages that are good for writing compilers—languages with good string types and algebraic data types—instead of being limited to awfully imperative/procedural ones.

In other words: your perspective sounds way more anachronistic.
There is nothing in HIPAA which prevents doctors from telling patients their results over the phone. They might not be able to leave voice mail with those results unless you specifically consented to that. They can also ask the patient for additional information during a phone call to verify it's really them and not someone else who answered the phone. For particularly sensitive test results, like say an HIV diagnosis, doctors might sometimes ask the patient to come for an in person visit so that they can explain everything in context and arrange an appropriate treatment plan.

Sometimes people blame HIPAA for all sorts of random stuff which has no connection to the actual law.
I know that but tell this to my students. For me it also doesn’t make sense that they prefer watching tictoc for hours instead of tv series on Netflix… but they do.
Virtual desktop is nerdspeak.

Room is normspeak.
oh ok! so if he used gpt-4, still might have been illegal but the output would have been perfect. good to know
A post on HN within the past couple of weeks analyzed the take: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36146111

Order directly from the restaurant (same reason I order mac apps from the developer even when I could use the mac app store).
Say what you want about them, Kristersson is definitely our PM, and I doubt they would lie about him having been the author of the op-ed.
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I mean that's because you consider it harassment.
But if you consider it simple criticisms, suddenly its the person not accepting them, not harassment.

Celebrities deal with much worse, yet they don't consider "Taylor switft is ugly" harassment.
There simply is no shortage to the apps - and now I see, user profiles - that KDE can provide! I love me some KDE, and TIL!
Unrelated to the root post, but I’m so glad that time is over. There was a ~1year period where it was nearly impossible to have a conversation about solving something that didn’t involve someone scheming about how to reframe the problem as an economic model, and then drown out everyone with some half-baked tokenomics concept as a way to “solve it all!”. It really felt like a step backwards in critical thinking for people that I did (and still do, now that they’ve chilled out) respect for their problem solving.
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Although I was tangentially involved in the aforementioned incident, I'm not sure what level the change came from or what the process is but it was an extremely broad order--at least Marine Corps-wide, and possibly for all units in theather (excluding SOCOM/JSOC, I assume). So pretty high up. The incident made some pretty big waves. As far as the turnaround time, it was quick, within a few days I believe.

It's worth noting that this was one of many incremental changes. When I started that deployment in 2009, snipers were going out in 5-man teams. The team that got hit actually did technically consist of 8 men (as was already the SOP), but they were split into two four-man elements that took different positions about a kilometer apart. The mandate going forward was that all 8 team members had to be within earshot of each other at all times. It was the latest of many orders in the trend of ratcheting up firepower at the cost of concealability.
I hate to break it to you but neither is particularly valuable.
I haven't heard of this before, but a web search brought up this: https://ahrp.org/a-national-scandal-aids-drug-experiments-on...
I get your point, but looking back over the last 30 years of my commenting on various internet fora (and more than that if we count BBSes), I honestly don't think I've ever said anything then that would upset anyone in that way now.

Things haven't changed that much.
I cannot fathom why killing third party apps is the only solution. As if there cant be an ads api or api access allowed to paying accounts. If I were going to pay a reddit subscription, I want to be allowed to sign into any third party app, vs paying one developer for a portion of their api usage.
I looked into this a bit more and I'm somewhat doubtful of this justification. There's at least been discussion within SO about charging access: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/388551/is-se-going-...

> First, I'd like to say that the intent of what Prashanth is saying is very simple: to return value to the community for the work that you have put in. The money that we raise from charging these huge companies that have billions of dollars on their balance sheet will be used for projects that directly benefit the community.

This is worded very specifically. Is SO planning to give money to users? They don't say anything like that; instead they say that they'll be "spending that money on the platform."

Well what does that actually mean? Every feature that SO builds could be characterized as "for the benefit of the community." It's hard not to read that response as just another way of saying "we're going to profit from this as a company, but don't worry because we use our profits to fund product development."

Heck, Reddit could make exactly the same claim, and in fact the linked Wired article actually makes that comparison:

> "Community platforms that fuel LLMs absolutely should be compensated for their contributions so that companies like us can reinvest back into our communities to continue to make them thrive," Stack Overflow’s Chandrasekar says. "We're very supportive of Reddit’s approach."
Since the output of nix is typically hashed it seems ripe for rsync based mirroring? Is there something particularly difficult for nixos over a typical arch Linux mirror for example?
For what it's worth, as someone who has put a lot of writing online, I'm not bothered by having my writing including in the training sets of these LLMs. I write because I want to share knowledge, and it isn't important whether people get the knowledge directly from me versus mediated by friends, LLMs, etc.
I love both python and functional programming and I do write functional style python routinely. One barrier I hit is there is no immutable dict type. There is MappingProxyType but it's insufficient. I prefer using custom dataclass like objects built with pydantic and type checked with mypy. It's better than dict and can be made immutable but requires tons of boilerplate code which is a bit unpythonic.
I think at best, if we teach AI how to cite the laws it is talking about, it would be good for answering some basic law-related questions.
There's also an optional usb-pd PPS (programmable power supply) where the device can ask for a specific voltage with 20mV granularity & adjust the ask on the fly. This let's devices just pass through power directly to battery while still letting them finely control charge curves. Neat stuff.

But even just adjusting between, I to make up an example, 15V while charging battery, down to 9V after charged, is quite possible. I forget specifics but I almost think I remember there being a minimum amperage draw, so devices canr just ask for 20V then just sip 0.01 amps... They are required to step down to lower voltages if they need so little power. I'm not sure about this though!
They seem to have used them on the Steam Deck, so maybe they'll use them again in future projects.
If you open it up to include LIRR, NJT and Metro North, Penn Station / Times Square / Grand Central is probably the winner. :)
It's an optional thing controlled by a kernel parameter you pass only at boot time. The reality is a modern server, where most Linux installations are, is going to be running only 64-bit processes; there should be no 32-bit processes present. In fact, the presence of one may indicate a compromised (32-bit malware/botnet stub) server!

On the desktop, it's not like it'll be enabled by default, so you can still run 32-bit apps without issue such as Steam and Windows applications via WINE.
Which is usually the case tbh.
Yeah, i am confused too. Are airports known for high death rates or something? I don't even remember the last time I heard about someone dying at an airport outside of a warzone.
People write in bash because you can expect bash to be forward compatible with how people write bash. A bash script written by the average person today will run on a bash interpreter from 2006 (or 2023). Very few languages have the developer culture to achieve this in practice even if it might be possible in theory. And it's not like Bash doesn't get new features. It does constantly. But unlike, say, Rust or JS, the developers don't instantly start using forwards incompatible features. It's a different mindset. If you're writing in shell you're writing for longevity and compatibility.

Unfortunately requiring approval and authentication from a random incorporated entity running a CA every 90 days is inherently complex. And all the ACME protocol implementations do is hide that inherent complexity by adding even more. CA TLS HTTP is very fragile but it could be made less so if corporate browsers didn't demand short lifetime certs-- a demand reasonable for businesses but not for human people or things expected to last longer than a few years without being touched.
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>https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/michael-arndt-re...

Which the paying subscriber is paying to avoid.
Oh god, I suppose a part of the reason why those lawyers are well paid is because if something goes wrong then they're going to be responsible...
Frankly a many companies wouldn't need something like that for a while, if ever. If you're really doing compute intensive stuff sure, otherwise for your average webapp what would be the advantage of rolling your own infra?
I think a language that just transpiled to the equivalent C would be pretty awesome. I know Google is building Carbon, but it is more focused on C++. They pitch it as Typescript to JavaScript, Scala to Java, Carbon to C++.

Instead of Rust or Zig trying to replace C++ or Java, is seems better to just integrate with it without linking through some FFI.

I'm working on some C code for some microcontroller since it was too difficult to use Rust.
This is the point that Robert Kennedy Jr has been making, very eloquently. Regardless of how heinous Putin may be, how nasty the Russian invasion has been, it was not unprovoked. The USA put missiles in Turkey in 1961, and the Soviets responded by puting missiles in Cuba. The Soviets felt threatened by missiles that could hit Moscow in 30 minutes, and they responded in kind. What did the USA do? They blockaded Cuba, and the Soviets backed down, seemingly cowed. But secretly JFK had made a pact with Krushschev, and withdrew missiles from Turkey shortly after.

In other words, the USA acknowledged that they had provoked the Soviets.

But somehow bringing NATO to Russia's doorstep should not be seen as provocation?

It's very tempting to paint your military enemies as cartoon villains. In fact, painting Putin as a cleptocratic thug is easy. It gets you reelected at home. But openly humiliating him is bad foreign policy.

RFK Jr's message is that Ukraine did not benefit from this war. Their young men are being sacrificed to an American plan to wear down the Russian army.

Why provoke the war when realpolitik says it's better to compromise?

Cui bono? Who benefits from this conflict? American military contractors, and American exporters of natural gas.
What does the config for doing that look like?
Great choice! Far away points in time will be less precise, but really: how good is anyone at predicting the future anyway?

(in other words a terrible choice, though not for the reason above).
People did that with googling symptoms for a long time now
regular 1-1 meetings may be necessary for those who need close supervision (juniors, newcomers) or for those who need "a form of organizational liturgy, offering them a rhythm and structure to their working lives".

They can also be "an opportunity to subtly shake up the conventional wisdom in the course of a regular corporate ceremony".
The Netherlands headline is alarmist and the full facts are not in yet: they did not say "all residents' data had been leaked; the number affected estimated at is 2+ million (population 17.5m). [0]
. The Dutch DPA did say they should use a different password everywhere, use secure login, request organizations to delete their data... "Citizens must assume that their personal data has already leaked or that this will happen at some point".

Meanwhile: back in May 2020 a Dutch hacker obtained virtually all Austrians' personal data (full name, gender, address, DOB), police say [1]

[0]: https://www.iamexpat.nl/expat-info/dutch-expat-news/millions...

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/dutch-hacker-obtained-v...
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Didn't you see the other submission today?

Clearly it's to keep their customers alive longer, and purchasing.
>If you’re on a Mac, you can open up a program called Terminal and, with just a few lines of code, ruin your computer. You’re not supposed to screw around in there unless you really know what you’re doing.

This is what they told us in computer class back then to make sure we don't learn anything wortwhile. Reading it on HN of all place makes me very sad.
> He comes off very defensive to me.

I don't think the notion that "If Apple's price is too high for a given consumer, maybe interest in this space will lead them to buy one of our less expensive products" is unreasonable.

However, if what you're interested in AR and not VR, Meta's products are just vastly inferior.

Of the other roughly comparable products, Magic Leap is just as expensive, and Microsoft's Hololens is just as expensive, AND team behind the product was recently laid off.
Though perhaps an unwise comment to make while preparing for an IPO. Feels like a bit of a 'Ratner moment' if you ask me.
There are lots of ways to do this; pre-flakes e.g. you might have a root configuration file for each host which only includes other files, or have if statements.

Nix flakes lets you define as many configurations as you want, and (if you don't specify one) will select based on the hostname.
"“If they had broadcast and implemented these changes at the beginning, there never would have been a pandemic,” Prather said."

What a load of shit.

The best preventive measure was not letting it leak out of your bio weapons lab.
X11 and VNC are still too inefficient for today's internet cafes. Take a look at: https://kasmweb.com/kasmvnc
They didn't say they were driving, they said the drive was long. My personal assumption was that they either got a taxi/rideshare or got someone they know pick them up.
Reddit has a lot of good info. This is to the credit of the people posting there. But I hate it when good helpful info or part of a conversation that was going to answer my problem becomes a deleted post because Im GoNnA dElEtE aLl My ReDdIt DaTa
If I worked at Reddit and wanted to do something about it though (and was a programmer), I'd add an option under individual deleted comments for viewers to click to view the comment (and any versions).

That could still backfire. Users may be very unhappy that their unedited comments are accessible forever. This may drive them away from commenting and participating in general.

The goal of mass-deleters is to drive down engagement. If Reddit makes the entire edit history of each comment accessible, then mass deleters could flood that history with bogus, AI-generated crap. Although it may still be possible to determine which edit was the last real one, the effort to do so goes way up, and engagement goes down as a result.
What difference does it make? They're conceptually the same thing. You're mapping immutable data to map/reduce/filter like pure functions to get new data.
They are efforts underway. Look in to content-addressed-nix and Trustix.

But the way I understand it, the current trust model is no different than any other package manager, so this hardly seems like a fair criticism.
One of my playthroughs of Oblivion I did at level 1 without levelling. It made everything much easier (oh, and Umbra's sword). Unfortunately it also meant that you there was much less monster diversity since some monsters only appeared at higher levels. https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Under_Leveling

Still something interesting to try.
>[to the judge on behalf of Schwartz] Mr. Schwartz, someone who barely does federal research, chose to use this new technology.

That’s a horrible excuse. I’m not a lawyer and don’t do caselaw research on any sort of regular basis but I have still poked around a bit when something strikes my interest. Compared to google they’re clunky and have poor matching, but I don’t remember it taking me more than half an hour or so to figure out which system would have the case I want and have to drill down to find it. ChatGPT was giving the the lawyer the (made up) case. It should really be a trivial task to find it in a caselaw database. Heck if I was the lawyer I would really really want to find the full text case! Who knows what broader context or additional nuggets of useful information it might have for my current client’s issue?

I would not be surprised if he went looking, couldn’t find it easily, and just said “whatever it has to be there somewhere and I can get by without the entire thing”
See also: askchadgpt.com
What a lackluster story. No mention of Lipovitan, the Japanese drink/medicine that first contained taurine. That drink likely inspired Krating Daeng in Thailand, which in turn led to the creation of Red Bull.

Or any mention of truckers and factory workers which were the original target market, and validated the effectiveness of these drinks over decades - before it became a trend for young people.
Hacking devices similar to Flipper have been banned. It's a crime to possess a device like that without a licence.
Makes me think of the pizza app in Silicon Valley. I just realized they were likely satirizing this very model. Who knew it could become so entrenched...
Major props and thanks to the HiCA person for engaging on the thread even though they were getting hammered. Yes they made some really (damn clever but) bad implementation decisions to use an RCE in the client to basically hack around the entire system, and then compounded it with other bad decisions to redirect to the US White House website to stop a DDoS, but the fact that they engaged, admitted, and explained what was going on I thought was really big of them.

Everybody makes mistakes people. If this person was trying to be malicious they would have disappeared, not come straight clean about it on the thread.
My nostalgia for the ancien internet is deep and abiding, but it does not extend to actually wanting to use Usenet again. Usenet was never a good solution, it was just the only solution for a long time. So, to the extent that the proposition is for something that is Usenet-like, my vote is no. If you're saying "should there be a better, decentralized Reddit that is not garbage like Usenet" the answer flips instantaneously to yes!
great writeup
For me it was perfectly willing to:

"produce fake technical language in the style of star trek"
Because I've already heard all of that, the victim they mentioned stuck in my mind though:

> “Losing this money with no end in sight has been unbearable for my family,” wrote one investor who had $30,000 stored on Voyager. “I wake up most nights and just walk up and down the stairs contemplating on my own mistakes.”

That's a powerful image. Pacing the stairs restlessly.
As I said - it gives me very good initial approximation, so I can go to docs with an example that I'm trying to figure.
> times before 1970 exist

mmm I don’t think that’s true.

- your computer
I am not a lawyer, but here is a decent summary [1]. The legal term you would be looking for is "successor liability".

Liability can be servered from a operational buisness unit, but it basically requires the court intervention to formalize the seperation. Liability follows the functional business so that sale can't be used to evade liability.

Imagine if this wasnt the case. 3M could take on 100B debt, sell the bussness & assets to "4M" , leaving "3M" with no funds or assets for the creditors to go after.

https://www.ballardspahr.com/insights/alerts-and-articles/20....
Hmm, I've never seen code like the latter so it's unclear what problem this solves. I'd just write the pandas code snippet given below. Possibly with polars to make it lazy.
> OP gives sober perspective of regular Joe, who didn't have VR as a wet dream since early childhood

Yes, the average Joe doesn't care about this stuff. That's why Ready Player One grossed 600 million dollars at the box office[0]. And why we've had movies like Tron since the 80's. And hypothetical tech in movies like Iron Man display AR/VR capabilities we dream about. Clearly the average Joe doesn't concern themselves with AR/VR or care about it becoming a reality. /s

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_Player_One_(film)#:~:t....
Now take off your nitpick hat and ignore that detail. Its what makes it a thought experiment.