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Silverman vs. OpenAI: Statement of Interest of the United States [pdf](storage.courtlistener.com)
3 points by r3trohack3r 24d ago|0 comments
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by r3trohack3r 24d ago
If you define the entity as “all institutions that are allowed to create and enforce laws” and then say “that entity has a monopoly on creating and enforcing laws” you’ve created a tautology. There are clear counter examples to your stateme
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by r3trohack3r 24d ago
I know it’s not new, thus why I said I’ve never seen a definition that is both true and useful. In the U.S. I can lawfully use violence in many ways under many circumstances. I.E. if you’re in my house and I didn’t invite you there, I can s
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by r3trohack3r 24d ago
> they have a monopoly on violence in the country I have not seen a definition of this that is simultaneously true and useful The sole provider of violence in the U.S. is not the government.
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by r3trohack3r 29d ago
I mean, I think it entirely depends on the nature of the groups they support?
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Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming(web.archive.org)
19 points by r3trohack3r 1mo ago|0 comments
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by r3trohack3r 1mo ago
Rob Pikes 5 Rules of Programming: Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you've proven that's
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by r3trohack3r 1mo ago
I was surprised by this number too - and I’m pretty sure it’s a clever wording trick to inflate the percentage: > equivalent of a 26% higher sales tax than premium credit card users shopping at the same store. I do not think the sale pri
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by r3trohack3r 1mo ago
If you are a believer in projects like IPFS and want to work on it full time, email me. We are building systems that live in the same space as projects like IPFS, Secure Scuttlebutt, Automerge, Tailscale, etc. For folks who are already expe
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by r3trohack3r 1mo ago
America does it with 50 states
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by r3trohack3r 1mo ago
(1) just to clarify isn’t meant to be polite, I’m trying to get GP to clarify his belief (2) I don’t care about citations - I want GP to clarify his belief (3) GP is using something similar to a Motte and Bailey to make a generalized statem
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by r3trohack3r 1mo ago
I’d take this even further and say most programmers are incapable of building authoritarian software; where the client is subservient to the server by default. The tyranny of the system administrator.
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by r3trohack3r 1mo ago
Just to clarify. What percentage of wealthy people do you believe think this? Is 10% too high of an estimate for wealthy people that believe this? 50%? 75%? 90%? Where would you throw the dart of your estimate and how wide do you think your
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by r3trohack3r 1mo ago
I think it’s self evidently true that hard work is not equal to wealth and I don’t know how that meme became a thing. You can exert extreme effort in unproductive directions and provide marginal, even extremely negative, value. You can work
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Micropayments and Mental Transaction Costs(nakamotoinstitute.org)
6 points by r3trohack3r 1mo ago|0 comments
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by r3trohack3r 1mo ago
Have experienced it, but didn’t document. Downstream database of our edge serverless platform went down. A tonne of requests failed all at once. Every service in the microservice request path, and the client, had their own retry policy. Cli
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by r3trohack3r 1mo ago
Don’t forget jitter!
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by r3trohack3r 1mo ago
I’m interested in the rest of the document, is it something that can be shared publicly?
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by r3trohack3r 1mo ago
I genuinely don’t understand how this is possible. If I didn’t know what these were, I’d say they were just black and white photos of a Big Mac and shoe. https://coca11272000.wixsite.com/manabukosaka/works-2023-202...
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by r3trohack3r 1mo ago
I think it’s nuanced I can see an argument that Google is requiring you to enter into a separate agreement with them (the terms they require you to agree to when using Google Forms) to request access to the GPL licensed source. You do not e
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by r3trohack3r 1mo ago
Also, things that used to be a luxury are now normal.
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by r3trohack3r 1mo ago
> HN hasn't been Bay Area centric in years. >> HN remains very US-centric Bay Area != US The Bay Area is its own microcosm of culture and philosophy that diverges significantly from much of the US. Not making a statement on ho
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by r3trohack3r 1mo ago
I’ve struggled with this line of thought. In a strict sense, it’s true; an AI model doesn’t actually know why it fired the way it did. But I don’t know how practically useful that observation is because, using that strict definition of “kno
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by r3trohack3r 1mo ago
> dinosaurs True for Scientific American today, not true for Galileo. “Dinosaur” wasn’t a thing we started knowing about until the early 1800s. Benjamin Franklin died not knowing Dinosaurs were a thing. But Galileo would have certainly k
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by r3trohack3r 1mo ago
Does this also solve provable compute as a side effect? Since the compute is fully encrypted end-to-end, the host wouldn’t be able to modify the program and still give valid results? So a caller could run a program on untrusted hardware and
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by r3trohack3r 1mo ago
My first reaction to this before clicking the link: why would anyone want a programmable timer? After clicking the link and seeing the demo: man, I’ve always wanted a programmable timer. This is awesome, can see myself using this for workou
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by r3trohack3r 2mo ago
> The user without empathy has managed to save 30 minutes on a task One supplier ended up with a direct sale they wouldn’t have otherwise
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by r3trohack3r 2mo ago
> batteries Not exclusively. A few power companies (like SRP) innovated here with TOU plans that have variable costs throughout the day. You can save huge amounts of monthly spend by moving energy intensive work to off-peak hours and by
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by r3trohack3r 2mo ago
> Today’s best atomic clocks are billions of times more accurate and precise than any other type of clock. If they had been running since the Big Bang, 13.8 billion years ago, they would have lost or gained less than a second. Absolutely
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by r3trohack3r 2mo ago
Fascinating! Do you still have any of the code or datasets/datasources laying around?

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