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by dpifke 3y ago
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36092509
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ChatGPT-Authored Legal Filing “Replete with Citations to Non-Existent Cases"(reason.com)
62 points by dpifke 3y ago|71 comments
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by dpifke 3y ago
I misrembered the PyPI mirror system (pre-Fastly) being more similiar to Debian[0], I didn't realize it had so many problems. Debian managed to solve all of the concerns you listed, what makes PyPI unique? [0]: https://www.d
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by dpifke 3y ago
My comment was not meant to imply that PyPI admins would be OK with this, but the sad situation in the U.S. (and Australia, and other places) is that they'd probably face jail time if they refused to comply. You can't avoid compl
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by dpifke 3y ago
Yes. Google recommends using reverse DNS to verify whether a visitor claiming to be Googlebot is legitimate or not: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/... You can also verify IP owner
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by dpifke 3y ago
PyPI used to be somewhat decentralized, with multiple independent organizations (in multiple legal jurisdictions) running mirrors. For $REASONS they've decided Fastly should be the only official mirror. This makes it a one-stop shop f
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by dpifke 3y ago
Being reminded that PyPI is a target for law enforcement makes me even more irked that they've removed end-to-end package signing without providing a replacement[0]. PGP signatures—even though rarely used—would allow someone to verify
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by dpifke 3y ago
For those that aren't familiar: https://www.agner.org/optimize/#manuals Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17845252
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by dpifke 3y ago
We have his lawyers' word for it as well: https://www.thefire.org/news/professor-suspended-reasons-unk... The university is also refusing to tell them the nature of their "investigation." (The non-profit
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by dpifke 3y ago
If your business is incorporated, you might not be able to take the small claims court route. You need to double-check the rules for your state; some only allow natural persons as small claims plaintiffs. What would otherwise be a slam-dun
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by dpifke 3y ago
Here's the Petition for Mandamus: https://assets.ctfassets.net/c5bd0wqjc7v0/5PWsXaPsqQ61gA9wlF... [PDF] Key quote: Coinbase brings this mandamus action to seek modest, but meaningful and time-sensitive, relief: a
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by dpifke 3y ago
IPv6 actually makes it easier to block spammy providers, because IPv6 address space is less fragmented. Digital Ocean (like most providers) has fewer, larger IPv6 blocks than they do IPv4 blocks: https://bgp.he.net/AS14061
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by dpifke 3y ago
It's not "your" IP address, it's DigitalOcean's IP address. And DigitalOcean is unwilling or unable to police their IP address space, so you've been lumped in with the other bad actors inside 45.55.0.0/16
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by dpifke 4y ago
Even worse: amortization under § 174 begins at the mid-point in the year in which the expense was incurred, so it's actually 1/10th salary expense in the first year (6/60 months). I have a favor to ask HN: is there anyone goi
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by dpifke 4y ago
There's a link at the bottom of every page page which answers this, as well as other frequently asked questions: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html (It's also the first hit for me if I Google [Hacker News g
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by dpifke 4y ago
We saw your comment the first time. No need to keep cutting and pasting the same reply to different threads.
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by dpifke 4y ago
For some reasons why this won't work, might I suggest you skim through the other 1,526 comments on HN that have made the exact same suggestion: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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by dpifke 4y ago
What is up with comments that go against the guidelines? From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or ba
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by dpifke 4y ago
As someone who was on Twitter long before Oprah, or Elon, or Obama, or most other celebrities and politicians: I strongly disagree. (Speaking about Twitter the product, not necessarily Twitter the company.)
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by dpifke 4y ago
Firefox (desktop and Android) with uBlock Origin list that hides the tee-vee news, blogspam, and off-topic garbage: https://pifke.org/hn.txt
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by dpifke 4y ago
I worked in a building on the Mountain View campus where they brought in porta-potties to "solve" the bathroom problem. (They were very nice porta-potties, but still...) For anyone who's curious, OSHA does require a minimum
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by dpifke 4y ago
Is your title, "YC co-founder matching is bad", saying that https://www.ycombinator.com/cofounder-matching is bad? Or is it meant as a general complaint about finding a co-founder for YC? If you've had a bad
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by dpifke 4y ago
Trials are necessary when facts are in dispute. (Juries are traditionally the arbiter of facts, and judges the arbiters of law.) If there are no facts in dispute, and the case is only about what the law says, it's a more efficient use
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by dpifke 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that
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by dpifke 4y ago
It's being downvoted because comments like these are against the guidelines[0]: Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common
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by dpifke 4y ago
Quoting https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be inte
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by dpifke 4y ago
Why do you think CGo is not feasible?
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by dpifke 4y ago
In the era before cell-phone internet, being able to call the automated weather reporting station at the nearest airport and have it read out conditions was hugely useful. For folks who haven't seen what's in a METAR/TAF: ht
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by dpifke 4y ago
If they cared about serving ads, they could rehost the document. Then they'd get more clicks, from the folks interested in reading the primary source material. (Court filings are public domain, so there are no copyright concerns with
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by dpifke 4y ago
A <title> tag on that page would also go a long ways towards making it password manager friendly.

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