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No they set legal precedence that Nintendo device emulators are legally okay (as long as they don't do anything additional etc.). And publicity, too.

If you considers how many people in this chat alone just blindly assumed it's illegal, and that's given a "more tech affine audience of HN, then that is a huge deal.
How is it supposed to work, if the UK laws were implemented?

Only phones activated in the UK or with UK set as the activating country have to follow the rule? Only if there's a SIM card? What about iPods or MacBooks? What if you bring a US phone to the UK, does it have to magically detect and suddenly allow backdoors?

If you leave the UK with your UK phone, is it allowed to be encrypted then, or the UK wants the ability no matter where you go?
Wikipedia says he didn't actually blind the victim[0].

If true, this is fitting given the context of the OP.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Wahlberg#Legal_issues.
Yikes, they're really striking out across the board!
We are not living in a Star Trek / MCU multi-verse so.
https://archive.is/cgNcI
Was he vaxxed?
the moderators are checking that the pixel was computed by hand, not that it's correct
These days I would simply let the PC in the sun until it melts all glue.

/s (not so much)
> blank check by-all-means research

Sorry to derail, but I'm utterly confounded that cancer research, life extension research, brain-computer research, etc. haven't been given this "by-all-means" approach. It's one thing to defeat a geopolitical rival, it's quite another to escape annihilation for just a bit longer.

One might assume religiosity is the cause, but atheist nations aren't investing in it either.

If anything was deserving of another moonshot / Manhattan project, I think that would be it.
Essentially, fashion, travel, "entertainment" and such magazines and newspaper sections are essentially paid placement. Sometimes explicitly, but when your book is mostly bought for the ads anyway, big advertisers and freebies (free hotel stays) get you press. Conversely you'll never see a big expose (e.g. sexual abuse in the the world of fashion models) because that would ruin the vibe.

The tech press used to be the same but it has decayed even beyond that.

I'm not even sure I can say that this is a bad thing. It's not like they are even pretending to be journalism.
If we ever reach a point where missions like this can be funded via private enterprise, we'll never actually hear about these objects. The real strategy is to come up with a fictitious "research initiative" then go to another object and secretly exfiltrate the precious metal loot. As to not flood the market on earth or earth bound markets (assuming we aren't trading between planets by then).

The future is exciting.
1 petapound please
Pd-camera: Experimental camera addon for the Playdate handheld console
It's a bit ironic... all this talk about crypto evading government hasn't really changed much. Then you have multinationals like Meta and Apple that really do have more money and power than most governments because of their centralization and scale.
The closet partition stud was bearing enough load to matter, but it wasn't holding up the whole second floor by itself.

I put in a new beam to replace the load bearing wall the preivous-previous owners had removed, with posts down to the basement: https://www.jefftk.com/p/bathroom-construction-framing
Inflated numbers. Also counterfactual reasoning: "had it not been for the space program, we wouldn't have developed these technologies and billions of lives wouldn't have been saved."

Also – billions? Seems like an overreach.
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> I think about it with elections all the time; even in the biggest landslide elections there’s always about a third of the population that wasn’t on board.

You're actually vastly underestimating the amount of the population that wasn't on board.

In 1972, Nixon was reelected with 60.7% of the vote from 56.2% voter turnout, which amounted to only 34% of eligible voters.

In 1984, Reagan was reelected with 58.8% of the vote from 55.2% voter turnout, which amounted to only 32% of eligible voters.

Incidentally, Biden in 2020 was also 34%: 51.3% of the vote from 66.6% voter turnout.
See also the book "Operation Paperclip" for just how morally questionable (yet ultimately necessary) the US was when importing German scientists for their missle expertise.
Hmm, may be biased but don’t feel email address format for bank accounts is a big win. Seems to confuse rather than simplify.

On the other hand routing plus account number is kinda long.
What are its uses?
JSON Editor and Validator
dang these types of website layouts are bad...how can i trust that your app is useful if can't even make a simple easy to read website telling me about your app?
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/The_Slice/Legends
Because it is very easy for them to break down the door, or smash a nearby window, or simply wait for someone to go in or out and demand entry.
Lets see, the US has a big election next year, early fund raising ? Since the Citizens United Ruling, political bribes are now legal in the US.

I believe this system will only support the easiest of tax forms, the type any idiot can fill out.

Have one of these: 401k, pretax medical/college accounts, stock dividends, non-US interest, income other then wages from commercial for-profit companies, you will be SOL.

And I am sure many people can add to the list of these items. These are the items that make Tax Accountants the real money.
This is grandstanding. The Federal government will have law enforcement and tax collection arms, whether you call them the FBI and IRS or something else.
> The ROI for R&D isn't exclusive to space programs […]

Cold War spending probably kickstarted Silicon Valley:

* https://steveblank.com/secret-history/
I think folks have a harder time recognizing "that's not real life" on something like a TikTok video or a Instagram Reel than they might for a movie, TV show, or advertisement.
Not my argument. Just saying it's different when it's taxpayer money and there is no popular support.
Alas, free would still win enough marketshare for it to make sense to spend on lobbyists to delay this. :-(
The Soviet Union was actually so wealthy, in the early 1960s, to make these bankruptcy-based conspiracies look really silly. I mean, the West perceived it as a threat largely because their economic system appeared superior for a pretty long time. It wasn't until the late '70s that the Soviets really started to sputter.
what? your two sentences are inconsistent, and the starting premise i disagree with.

1) if its easy to hack the system prompt its easy to prove humanity

2) its actually NOT a big deal that its easy to obtain system prompts. all the material IP is in the weights. https://www.latent.space/p/reverse-prompt-eng
The research was a side effect of a very well defined goal, which was achievable albeit extremely hard. Investing in achieving a goal (with the research being a side benefit) is different from just investing in research because it changes the motivations of the researchers (from "how do we get our next research grant" to "how do we solve this problem").

That's not to say you shouldn't invest in abstract research with no obvious goal at all, but probably you should consider it a much higher risk investment and not fund all your research that way...

There's also the fact that money now is more valuable that money later even if you adjust for inflation (one of the reason countries run a deficit) so the expected return should be much higher than $1 to be worth investing in.

Next, there's the fact that investment is finite, so the expected return has to be higher than the expected return you would get elsewhere.

Finally there's the fact that as you invest more, the effects of all three of those factors increase, so it has diminishing returns.
For anyone with Apple TV+, For All Mankind is a great series predicated on the idea that the Soviet N1 rocket was successful.
Nintendo literally has a history of this. If you did anything to try and get around their extremely restrictive game selling rules in the 80s to sell more games than you were allowed or games that weren't "licensed" or anything like that, Nintendo would just stop sending you any games.

Nintendo is straight up evil. US courts have told them in direct language that they are wrong and emulation is fine, but they don't give a fuck and the US seems against preventing big money entities from harassing people with lawsuits or fixing the goddamn court system to not cost you a million dollars when you are unambiguously in the right.
Its not even that. Look at the job description for any managerial position in programming and they almost never ask for programming experience.

Imagine two cvs. One has 10 years of experience programming and 2 "managing" a team of software devs. The other 10 years of experience "managing" and knows nothing about programming. Guess who they would hire?

This is because the system is top down. More often than not top directors are old and understand nothing about technology. So they see engineers as threatening and scary and they prefer to hire people they "understand".

Most people managing a software developer team can't read code so everything eventually becomes super political because the manager is guided by impressions and things like the name of the PR ans such.

Its like hiring a blind man to supervise a group of painters. Then managers feel super insecure because they don't understand things very well even if they try with metaphors. Insecure managers tend to be very aggressive and toxic

This is such a sad industry.
The world is running out of children:

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr...

And soon, the world will run out of people:

https://twitter.com/dylanmatt/status/1676590258857603076
I suspect, as always, the bad guys would find ways around any such measures. Leaving, normal, law abiding, tax paying citizens with diminished rights and freedoms.
I'm not arguing one way or another but one point the tax software companies do have is who pays the cost. In the commercial product arena, the products are bought by people who make over median wage. The lower income folks have simpler taxes usually. The free products cover them generally. I may be wrong but that's how I see it. I didn't feel the need to pay for any software until I was making a lot of money (relative to median) and managing a lot of assets.
What risks does FedNow have that FedACH doesn't have?
https://archive.is/qsBXx
I share the same sentiment as other commenters, my issue is that web3 got inextricably attached to blockchain-something. Even IPFS which I think is a very interesting idea got a "Filecoin" attached to it under the same company, while the idea of decentralisation is appealing, the blockchain side got a bad rap after multiple years of large scams being pulled using the platform.

Unfortunately most people require trust to get into something new and unknown, and the "web3" moniker has lost that ages ago. Sometimes a rebrand of the best of the crop is not a bad idea, we need a filter to all the bullshit that was bombarded around this the past decade... I was excited by it in 2012, I'm exhausted to wade through all the bullshit by now, so I simply ignore it until the signal to noise ratio gets better.
Our R&D today will go towards items that are today’s equivalent of 1950-60s rocketry. You clearly recognize the giant leap in hind sight. Now imagine the next giant leap and corresponding benefits. That is why it’s worth it both in advancements and ROI.
> freeze-dried food

The modern process was invented in 1890, and used extensively in WW2.
Haha. Sorry, I was reading some of the links posted here where they talked about using slightly warmer air and must have gotten lost.
this is like amish folding@home
I feel like Apple came to support JPEG XL too late, it will never take over like JPEG did, because Google dropped support for it in Chrome to support their own webps and avifs.
I don’t think global democracy (nor the current democracy of Canada) would have been the same without the American Revolution
It's tricky.

I can definitely foresee a future, based on governmental record in publicly-facing IT systems, where every single word of that statement is technically 100% true.

First part is all but tautological - Of course it won't s not free to build or operate; and thus it wouldn't be "free for taxpayers" in the most technical sense (this doesn't mean it wouldn't be excellent value or save money overall or even cost more money but save it where it counts).

It's the last sentence (unnecessarily cost taxpayers billions) that could go either way. This could in principle end up an efficient and effective, easy to use and helpful well performing system that's a brilliant investment of public money.

I hate to say it though, but it's also extremely possible it would cost a lot of money with nobody using it because it sucks.

Besides, it feels like in the USA, IT systems are only a part of issue with tax system. Actual tax code and submission options are the bigger part.
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Old certificate, new signature: forging signature timestamps on Windows drivers
Those are two completely different skill sets. One focuses on the product and one focuses on the data. Unless, the data IS the product, but that's sort of rare, isn't it?
JPEG DX2/66?
> I could easily tell why it was there: it was part of a partition for a closet.

> Except that over time it had become accidentally load bearing

> through other (ill conceived) changes to the structure this stud was now helping hold up the second floor of the house

Evidently, you couldn't easily tell why it was there. Moreover, I'm not persuaded that it accidentally became load bearing. It seems quite plausible that it deliberately became load bearing, for reasons which are ill conceived to you but not to the people who had them.
I don't really care if any of these things originated in NASA or had previously been invented—the bigger question for me is if they would have been widely used if NASA had not put the effort into making them practical. If NASA's moon mission caused them to go deep in the archives of forgotten technology and resurrect ideas that had long been discarded, they deserve credit for that.

(I'm not saying this is the case, but you're also not saying that it's not.)
Perhaps the UK government is tractable and may adjust itself to the will of the people, unlike, say, the PRC.
Electric cars also existed 100 years ago, but that doesn't mean Tesla doesn't deserve credit for completely reestablishing the category.
> There's a big difference between checking passports before onboarding a customer, and sending every transaction to the federal government in real time.

I guess there's technically a difference between "sending every transaction to the federal government in real-time" (FedNow) and "sending every transaction to the federal government, in batches three times per day" (the status quo).

But from a privacy standpoint, the two are functionally identical.
I can’t wait to tell it to stop applying warning labels to every response
Did I say anything about hiring or arcane code exams?

This fresh grad happens to already be working for us and I was mentoring him.
Self-documenting code is perfectly capable of expressing the "why" in addition to the "what". It's just that often the extra effort and/or complexity required to express the "why" through code is not worth it when a simple comment would suffice.
Two-faced white dwarf with helium and hydrogen sides baffles astronomers
MemoFlow: An AI-powered social media platform
C. Hoare: Hints on programming language design (1973) [pdf]
> It is extremely probable that we have overlooked some whole aspect of the question

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/q9x1d2/ask...
It's way more than just profits, look at all the loved games from their past that they continue to not release on digital storefronts or "Nintendo Plus" or whatever they call it now.

Nintendo has an ideological position that essentially the first sale doctrine is wrong and they have privilege over you for things you legally purchased.
This is usually never the way it happens. The government does not make market ending decisions on a whim. It would have already met with the biggest stakeholders and fedNow is likely the result of many considerations and compromises. Visa will likely not be threatened any time soon.
> [...] any battle on the subject is lost before it has a chance to begin

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." -- Alice Walker
Well not Charles. If America didn't become a model Republic, Edward VIII quite likely would not have abdicated to marry American Wallis Simpson, and so George VI would likely have never taken the throne.
Could you explain how it works?
We talk about the ppm of co2 in effect on climate. I was even thinking of releasing additional o2 in that above comment. Or similar -“dissolve“ the carbon in additional atmosphere. But no ideas on secondary effects.
It lowers the cost of the government performing wide surveillance of financial activity; the fear is that lowering this cost will enable more advanced forms of detection and enforcement that ultimately look and feel like harassment.
Where’s the source code for the binary file called “unshackle” which is used in the solution? (This one: https://github.com/Fadi002/unshackle/raw/main/unshackle)
Looks like it just runs the LLM in a loop until it spits out something that type checks, prompting with the error message.

This is a cute idea and it looks like it should work, but I could see this getting expensive with larger models and input prompts. Probably not a fix for all scenarios.
I'm generally supportive of this type of spending, but it's important to realise opportunity costs and the fact they are both invisible yet very real.

Invisible in rich coutnries like the US, I mean. The USSR space raced itself into recession.
Tech Evangelist strikes me as a job where you need to know someone in order to get it. There are too many programmers who would love to talk all day, every day about their favorite language or tool and why it's awesome.
Zelle isn't a good comparison because it's not made for things like paying employees or other businesses. It was made specifically for payments between individuals and in fact, the big banks that run Zelle could very well change the terms to specifically forbid using it for things like payroll (actually, they might already forbid it but I'm not sure).

FedNow is good for basically everything: Payments between individuals, employeers/employees, B2B, etc. More importantly, the fees are so low it might as well be considered free ($0.045/transfer) which is HUGE.
Very useful. "No need to apologise all the time" will be a handy pre-command.

On a more specific note, I have frequently tutted at having to type out the context I am coding in every time I start a new chat (which is normally the same at least for specific projects and tasks); this is clearly a good example of listening to user feedback.
What if we failed and we could only cure half the people who would have otherwise died?

Of course that’s half of people going forward…forever
Are you under the impression that ACH, the thing FedNow is replacing, is free from government influence?

This is what's bizarre to me about the FedNow hysteria. It's not a government system replacing a private market system. It's a government system replacing an older, worse government system. It's like having a panic attack because the Federal Reserve is updating their PCs to from Windows XP to Windows 10.
ChatGPT writes better and takes feedback better than many real people. I would rather fine-tune and LLM on my won writing and a collection of source documents. That way I could focus on information-gathering, write an extremely terse summary of what I consider to be the key points, and save myself many hours of misery writing boilerplate.
No. This is an interface for banks to settle between themselves.

A bank does not want to interact with you in the same channel as it interacts with another bank.

What there will be are services provided by banks which utilize this for instant transfers.

The middle companies between transfers you want. Most of the actual work is fraud prevention and dispute resolution... unless you want the only means of settling a dispute is through the courts.
It would be very easy to block with something that just watched the output and ended any sessions where the secret text was about to be leaked. They could even modify the sampler so this sequence of tokens is never selected. On the input side, they could check that the embedding of the input is not within some threshold of meaning of a jailbreak.
I know LLMs aren’t a magic bullet for everything, but this seems like exactly the kind of problem they could solve well as they become more cost effective. Dramatically shrink the pool of real people required to keep an eye on this, and sub in virtual agents adept at detecting CP patterns.

Security back doors also carry the risk of having the opposite effect. We’ve seen many examples of powerful, nation state developed tools being leaked online.

There may be a rise in scenarios where people (including children) have their personal devices breached and are extorted for the exact thing the security backdoors were created to prevent.
The gaming industry is an unmitigated disaster, an embarrassment, and a stain on software engineering.

You have your pick! Sexually harass your colleagues into committing suicide (Blizzard) or get farted on by the CEO (Riot).
* Astronomer.

If you were an Astrologer, it would likely lend less credence to your comment. :)
“Cecil Graham: What is a cynic?

Lord Darlington: A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Cecil Graham: And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn’t know the market price of any single thing.”

The cost of Apollo program is $178 billion in today's money. I personally don't think NASA would've survived to today if Apollo program wasn't successful.
It's dry, weather is consistent(though hot), has a robust power grid, has an engineering school who produces semiconductor grads, has a large pre-existing industrial base and has ready access to water (the plant is literally next to a 340 mile water canal that runs from the Colorado river and sits atop a water basin that has had water levels rising since the 80s).

I'm not sure there are many better places outside Oregon, California or Texas...
We had a blackout (seemed to happen every fall when the students arrived - the university had a power station), the NFS server needed NIS to boot, and NIS server required NFS. We managed to manually get the NIS service running in single user mode, brought up everything else, and then rebooted NIS.
$25 trillion!

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp
There's a good chance you're somehow tied to technology, though, and America pays its software engineers a frankly bonkers amount compared to much of Europe. That may way outweigh a lot of other considerations for you.

But I also agree, I'd prefer to stay in the US than move to Europe. But I'd even more prefer to have some universal healthcare and also live in the US.
Ukraine in NATO Would Be a Disaster