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by schoen 3y ago
Maybe it should be called something else? "Openly-licensed"? Just because the model weights are not really "source" (either as a matter of intuition or for example following the OSI "preferred form in which a progra
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by schoen 3y ago
Hola ReySigma, En Hacker News se tiene que escribir en Inglés.
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by schoen 3y ago
Definitely not! I play both and Letter Boxed accepts many more words.
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by schoen 3y ago
Doesn't the Carnot engine capture the absolute thermodynamic optimum for extracting usable energy from a hot object? How do you beat it?
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by schoen 3y ago
I remember someone (maybe Tamim Ansary?) writing that states that claimed to be the direct successor of the Roman Empire existed until 1922, at least in the sense that the Ottoman Empire used some titles and administrative terminology of th
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by schoen 3y ago
Probably the Salesforce Transit Center. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transbay_Transit_Center It's a somewhat shiny bus terminal near downtown San Francisco which is now actually used a lot (though it would have b
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by schoen 3y ago
Now I wonder whether a rhythm-based writing system could have been developed ahead of pictographic and alphabetic writing if preliterate people had had a telegraph. They might have started off developing rhythm conventions based on particul
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by schoen 3y ago
That's not impossible, but the pilots' limbs are already largely "spoken for" by other controls and tasks, so it would be a harsh tradeoff.
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by schoen 3y ago
Another thing we hoped for when we started writing Certbot was that there would be official ACME client support in web servers. Caddy does that. There's also an experimental Apache module that does that. https://httpd.apache
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by schoen 3y ago
Also Portuguese, where "né?" is understood as a contraction of "não é?" ("isn't it?"). I don't mean to say that this is a coincidence as far as the European languages go; negation words with N are oft
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by schoen 3y ago
I agree that the U.S. political tradition often regards our rights as recognized or discovered rather than granted, but the "inalienable" language is from the Declaration of Independence, not the Bill of Rights (and in the origina
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by schoen 3y ago
Most explanations I can think of would involve an anxiety, delusional, memory, or cognitive disorder. Or an art project, scientific self-experimentation, or an deliberate effort to experience an adverse reaction in order to qualify for a va
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by schoen 3y ago
I still remember hearing and myself promoting the concept of "idle computing capacity" in the 1990s (because of the idea that computers would consume the same resources whether or not they were actively running jobs). https:&#x2F
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by schoen 3y ago
Compare https://flowingdata.com/2020/01/03/timelines-to-make-you-fee... (with a Wait But Why article and two xkcd links).
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by schoen 3y ago
I think I remember a Trump Shuttle print ad from, presumably, 1989 or 1990, saying that you'd better not show up for a flight at 6:00:01 if the scheduled departure is at 6:00:00. This principle still works for Swiss and Japanese trains
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by schoen 3y ago
Careful, §1201(a)(1) (to which the exemption rulemaking process applies) was delayed, but §1201(a)(2) and §1201(b) (which don't have the exemption rulemaking attached) were not delayed this way. (a)(1) is an "acts" provision
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by schoen 3y ago
Thanks for the correction. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39599019 for a more detailed reply.
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by schoen 3y ago
I mistakenly thought that one of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Games_Corp._v._Nintendo_... . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by schoen 3y ago
I just want to echo what a few people have mentioned here: The legality of emulation was strongly upheld under pre-DMCA copyright law in U.S. court decisions where console makers lost against emulator developers. However, the DMCA gave pl
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by schoen 3y ago
In case anyone doesn't recognize the cognates, I think they'd be "Set the television on." "Where been ye?" "I have hunger, when ere going we eating?" (It would be easier for English speakers to unders
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by schoen 3y ago
Cool, thanks! So, ROP itself is a (frequently very effective) workaround for W^X memory protection features, where executable code itself should be unmodifiable at runtime. I wonder if there's a "next" CFI attack that calls e
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by schoen 3y ago
Interesting! I guess that particular mechanism is ARM-specific?
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by schoen 3y ago
This is an instance of control-flow integrity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-flow_integrity I guess (although it doesn't specifically say) that this is making use of Intel's CET feature?
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by schoen 3y ago
We might find some more good ones in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponyms_(A%E2%80%93K)#... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponyms_(L%E2%80%93Z)#...
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by schoen 3y ago
Whereas boycott is named after the target of one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott
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by schoen 3y ago
The numbers generated by your program are called the triangular numbers: https://oeis.org/A000217 This is because of the relationship between the triangular numbers and the summation formula for integers. Quite a lot is kno
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by schoen 3y ago
A different threat model is that you have web applications with some kind of user-controlled encryption (e.g. keys only in local storage, never uploaded to the server) but an adversary tries to substitute a different version of the web appl
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by schoen 3y ago
Did HM government allow the foreign nations to choose the individual locations of their embassies?
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by schoen 3y ago
Ich glaube, dass auf HN von nicht-englischsprachigen Beiträgen abgeraten wird.
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by schoen 3y ago
I had a summer internship in high school with an AS/400 application development shop. I found the machine and its development environment annoying and unpleasant compared to Unix, but the support from IBM was incredible. Absurdly burea

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