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https://www.wipo.int/web-publications/wipo-guide-to-trade-se... is likely a good source for the "what constitutes trade secret" To enjoy trade secret protection, …
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Other coverage: * The Supreme Court doesn't care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art https://www.engadget.com/ai/the-supreme-court-doesnt-care-if... * U.S. Suprem…
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I'm not a lawyer. I believe it's a question of "who is found liable" and then "what is the damages" and then the damages are split between those who are found liable. If …
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There's a footnote in Consider Phlebas at the end... > “The following three passages have been extracted from A Short History of the Idiran War (English language/Christian calendar versio…
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonbruner/2011/10/20/the-high-s... has some interesting data on the Columbia River and its dams. From that https://you…
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While he's the most recent one, it's been a systemic problem that's largely been from congressional budget cuts. 2014 The War on the IRS https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxv…
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That's a success rate that largely is based on suing people who don't have the resources to fight it (no claims made about if they're right or not). However, the IRS has had reductions …
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When this came out a week ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039636 ) I was playing around with some prompts to see what I could do to guide it without giving it the answer.…
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> If most people are not using a tool properly, it is not their fault; it is the tool's fault. I would say that is a reasonable criticism of git ... but I've seen the same thing in svn, p…
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Some states have that as a "you should/need to declare that as a use tax." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_tax It's likely poorly enforced, but it's on…
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This is a confusion about what a "dinosaur" is. It is a particular branch of reptiles, not just an ancient one. The first dinosaurs were in the Triassic (roughly 240 mya). It was likely t…
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https://web.archive.org/web/20080521163217/http://www.time.c... > For Cray, the excavation project is more than a simple diversion. "I work when I'm a…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray > Cray avoided publicity. There are a number of unusual tales about his life away from work, termed "Rollwagenisms", from …
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I recall from my early days of reading the jargon file... maybe DWIM? http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/DWIM.html (that said, someone who used that version would have …
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While playing with some variations on this, it feels like what I am seeing is that the answer is being chosen (e.g. "walk" is being selected) and then the rest of the text is used post-hoc t…
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How about... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithkuil > Ithkuil is an experimental constructed language created by John Quijada. It is designed to express more profound levels of…
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> Maybe in the distant future we'll realize that the most reliable way to prompting LLMs are by using a structured language that eliminates ambiguity, it will probably be rather unnatural and …
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(not disagreeing - commenting on the history of the term) Clanker has a history in Clone Wars. https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Clanker Every time they say "clanker" in…
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While I knew that one off the top of my head... one of the neat "Show HN" that I recall from a bit ago: Show HN: Find the relevant Xkcd comic for your post using RAG https://news.…
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The goal of the fictional societies is to explore what they could be and to challenge existing ideas. I'd suggest giving https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2130 a read.…
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The relevant xkcd is Chat Systems https://xkcd.com/1810/
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10 kW is something that could be household load (a backup generator for a home when there's a power outage). If one could put a DGX in my basement without issue (there's an idea - would you …
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Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25470678 (2020).
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(expanding on this) A little bit old... but not that old in the scale of things... The CPUs of Spacecraft Computers in Space https://www.cpushack.com/space-craft-cpu.html (that is sti…
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How many times can you do that? Consider your own computer... how often does it get hot under a regular load and the fans kick on? That "fans kick on" is transferring the heat to air and je…
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There's very little on JWST that makes it hot . Furthermore, the spacecraft bus where the non-scientific instruments exist) is on the other side of the sunshade so that the waste heat from the …
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What is the power budget for that DGX. The power budget for ISS is 75–90 kW. If your DGX fridge needs more power, it will need similar capacity of solar and radiators. https://www.goldman…
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You're describing cryogenic fuels there and dumping heat into them. Dumping heat (sparks, electricity) into liquid oxygen would not necessarily be the best of ideas. Dumping heat into liquid hyd…