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> Both parties have failed to act, but now that one party has finally caught up to reality in this one area

Just like card check. You'll get tax rebates on medical procedures following officer involved incidents if your lucky.
You could just write Actionscript .

It was quite a pleasant and consistent experience compared to writing browser JS at the time(10+ years ago).
That's what Vista felt like too, compared to XP. And then it only got worse with Win 8+ and Win 10. Huge increases in bloat, for not much actual function.
Redshift does a lot of that. Is there something unique to a "time series" database that Redshift does not do? Is it the inclusion of some ETL capabilities? I'm not sure what makes a database truly time-series. It sounds like there is some compromise made that requires a time dimension. I'm not sure what that compromise would be beyond the general case of a columnar database.
I think most tech oriented people can appreciate the downsides of Flash. But in retrospect it no doubt enabled a level of creativity that any replacement technology hasn't achieved to nearly the same degree. Some creators seemed to have moved away with Flash's decline.
Well there is probably more to the story then just this. For example there are places in France where you can buy a house and a small piece of land for 1 euro. While this may sound strange the reason the government does this is because those houses where left abandoned. So when you buy it you sign a contract with special rules that say that you need to refurbish it or rebuild it within a few years.
I sometimes work with transliterations of cuneiform. I don't want s to match š, h to match ḫ, g to match g̃, r to match ř, or any accented vowels matching any differently accented or unaccented vowels. They mean drastically different things.

If you're going to have a "smart" search that decides to mesh these together, the option to turn off the "smartness" should be right there.
The leases mentioned in the article as specifically for oil and gas development as are handled by the "National Fluids Lease Sale System": https://nflss.blm.gov/

Mining gold on federal lands seems to go through a different (and easier) process (involving staking a mining claim as opposed to nominating land and then bidding on it in an auction): https://www.blm.gov/programs/energy-and-minerals/mining-and-...
You can get a loan from a normal bank.
On point 2: socket programming hasn't caught up to the same level of performance as Flash had. Try sending or receiving gigabits per second with WebSockets. In my own tests last year on reasonably modern hardware with a 10Gbps Intel NIC, Chrome was the worst performer (around 3Gbps before the CPU was completely saturated), and Edge was the best at around 5.5Gbps. I didn't compare with Flash last year to be fair, but historically it was much better. A native app on the same hardware was generating 10Gbps over the network at <20% CPU usage.
> I'd place a $1000 bet that you are either a Republican, or you have a close friend or family member in law enforcement.

You lost that bet.
> and the only reason he got caught

Got caught doing what exactly? Booking tickets on a flight?

If he wasn't using fake names or anything, it sounds like he was just trading his time for free airfare.
Container escape vulnerabilities are always a concern. A nonzero amount of those have occurred.

In this area, spectre and meltdown have caused huge shockwaves (no pun intended) in terms of things commonly assumed to be safe turning out not to be.

That's not to say it's not a good approach, just that it doesn't bring security concerns to zero.
I have 2 "robots" I bought last year to try to get my daughter (7) into coding.

One of them is Dash, from Wonder Workshop. The other is a Jimu BuzzBot from UBTECH.

It's incredible how fast the novelty of these wears off.

The BuzzBox we used it exactly once. Dash has seen a lot more action, but only because there are several apps with different ways of using them (One of them is a Scratch based app) and my daughter likes to use it as an RC car, plus some other fun things like sound recording.

Anything that doesn't have an open way to program them, in my opinion, are not more than rather complex toys, that do not give more entertaining that a box of Legos (As a matter of fact, I think there are not that many toys that can give as much fun and entertainment as a box of Legos - unless there's fire involved).
Much worse. I encourage you to try some properly sandboxed Flatpak apps. Here's a fun one:

https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.maoschanz.drawin...

Note that the app has no access to your home directory by default, and this fact is invisible to the end user. The file open and save dialog is handled out of process by a portal, which is a service that allows an application to (with permission) poke holes in its sandbox. By tying a few different things together, this is seamless: the user gets a file chooser dialog and chooses a file, as usual. (As a bonus, it's always a native dialog). Behind the scenes, the application is granted access to read or write to that file.

I don't think this would be easy to manage if Flatpak was split into a bunch of different moving parts, and I can't imagine it providing any meaningful benefit.

With that said, it isn't as monolithic as folks seem to think. It's built on bubblewrap and ostree and a whole bunch of freedesktop specifications.
Is heightened clickbait and outrage porn Facebook's fault?

I see this as roughly equivalent. IMO, Robinhood is being socially irresponsible if they are making design choices intended to increase engagement.
> I wonder if you would have had the same preference if you had had to send your kids to separate schools, drink from separate water fountains, give up your seat on a bus for someone who was the right color or be forbidden to marry the person you love because they were a different color?

Regarding having to send kids to separate schools, I've already given my opinion on the US public school system in general. Given how messed up I think that whole system is, having to send kids to segregated schools instead of integrated ones would rank pretty low on my list of things to complain about. I'd be far more worried about how the school was trying to indoctrinate kids than what the demographics of the student body were.

I can see the obvious equal protection argument for requiring public schools not to be segregated, which of course was basically the argument the Court used when it said "separate is inherently unequal". (Similar arguments could of course be made, and were made, for the other cases you describe.) However, if we are going to talk about equal protection, I would think having equal quality of schools available to all would be the chief requirement to impose on the government if the government is going to provide public schools at all. And even if we grant that having the demographics of the student body be representative of the community is one aspect of school quality, it certainly is not the only one or even the primary one; surely what the students are actually being taught in the classroom should count, and count for more. If all the inner city integrated schools are bad and all the suburban integrated schools are good, that's not equal protection even if the demographics of the student bodies in both cases are the same.

Once we get into considerations like that, it should be obvious that we are talking about political policy decisions that have to be made legislatively, since they involve public funds, and are fraught with difficulty even then. Nobody knows how to ensure good quality schools everywhere, or even what "good quality" really amounts to or how to judge it. Having courts try to dictate policy in this area is not likely to be helpful. And in fact, the Supreme Court in Missouri v. Jenkins explicitly ruled that courts cannot dictate policy in this area; Brown vs. Board of Education only outlaws de jure segregation, not de facto inequalities in school funding and quality that impact different races differently. In other words, the only thing the Court found itself able to enforce was the thing that, judging by how our public schools have fared since Brown was decided, has by far the least impact on the actual quality of education that public school students receive.

This is what happens when courts try to make policy: you get a symbolic victory without the substance. I think most people, if they thought about it, would prefer the substance; but the only way to get that in a democracy is by doing the hard work of changing how citizens are willing to vote.
That's so ridiculously insanely cheap....is the land really that worthless?
> I don't think writing eg ARPACK performantly in Julia is impossible

Not sure what you mean, ARPACK just wraps a bunch of calls to LAPACK and BLAS, that's all. It does not have any low-level linalg kernels of its own. Also, its main bottleneck is typically outside of the algorithm, namely matrix-vector products. ArnoldiMethod.jl is pretty much a pure Julia implementation of ARPACK without any dependency on LAPACK (only BLAS when used with Float32/Float64/ComplexF32/ComplexF64). Finally note that you can easily beat ARPACK by adding GPU support, since they don't provide it.
The pinephone like the librem5 has hardware kill switches so you can operate with the baseband off whenever you don't need the cellular network enough to justify the risks.
the video may be running fine; but the animations are slow and terribly laggy, input lag when i try to pause is awful and messing with right click options annoys me
This is a debate in the broad sense of scientific debate. Both parties wrote their own piece separately (without knowledge of what the other was saying) and submitted them. They have now been published and both parties will now be able to respond to what the other party has said in their initial piece, and the process will possibly continue from there for more rounds. So it's similar to the 'to and fro' of scientific debate in published papers.
Apparently some British researchers were working on a theorem prover named Bit, which in French sounds like "bitte" (slang for penis). So the French researchers who worked on Coq cheekily chose a French word with a double-entendre meaning in English.

But all these anecdotes counteract what Wikipedia says, which is that Coq was named for one of its authors, Thierry Coquand, and for his "calculus of constructions" (CoC).
But they are not supposed to _stay_ there; ICE job in this case is to either avoid them ending up there or letting them out.

The _concentration_ part is missing. Without condoning anything of whatever wrongdoing ICE is doing all the people detained decided personally to embark in a trip that involved that risk.

Concentration camps need to have a concept of raking up a chunk of the population and removing them from society, as in concentrating a part of the population. Prisons are more of a concentration camp than ICE detention centers.
Just to be clear, this is only happening to POTS (?) dialing phone numbers, is that right?

It shouldn't (or doesn't) affect Skype/Whatsapp/iMessage/Facetime/etc types of data calls does it?

Or is it T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T subscribers and their phones, cellular phones + data connections?
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That approach to preferences tends to cause combinatorial explosions in your QA department. You can do it if you're careful, but being careful is the opposite of the "then just make it a preference" approach.
Just got a couple Baofeng's the other week to dabble in that world a bit.
That ia surprisingly succinct. I'll be copping this one for the future.
Consider a generic action FOO. Suppose Alice and Bob are identical in all respect except that Alice is female and Bob is male; and Alice is heterosexual.

Both Alice and Bob do FOO. If you let Alice do FOO, but fire Bob for doing FOO, you have commited sex discrimination, because you would not have fired Bob but for his sex. However, if you were to fire both Alice and Bob for doing FOO, then you are treating both males and females equally, so there is no discrimination based on sex.

In the case where Bob is homosexual, FOO=experiences attraction to men. When Alice does this, she is fine. When Bob does this, he gets fired. Bob was fired for being male.

In the case where Bob is bisexual, FOO=experiences attraction to men and women. Bob still gets fired, but this time Alice does not do FOO, so there is no comparison to base a sex discrimination case on. If Alice were to do FOO, she would be bisexual, and fired under the same policy that Bob was. Either way, there is no case here where a male and female do the same thing but get a different result.
I don't think it's fair. But I also believe that people should run their businesses how they see fit, and that freedom of association is a human right.

I bet most businesses would make their stores accessible (within reason) since you need room in isles for carts, etc.
Apple Says App Store Ecosystem Supported $500B+ in Commerce Worldwide in 2019
The first definition reads,

“a man who has people working for him, especially servants or slaves.”

Wouldn’t that seem to justify moving in a direction of updating these terms?
We’ve Created a Public Archive of NYC’s Surveillance Footage
There are 2 distinct angry mobs now. I haven't counted the responses, but it looks to me like the great majority of people who responded to this here on HN, reddit and on twitter are against it and/or are questioning the value of making such a costly change.
Exactly right. 911 calls are handled differently at almost every step of the process, starting with the handset and carrying all the way through to the 911 call center.
I see, thanks for the explanation. Is aggregation in general a required feature of a time-series database? Or specifically the ability to calculate aggregates continuously over changing (incoming?) data?

Do time series databases store the raw underlying data for the aggregates or just enough to calculate the next window?
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I've found databases fascinating and tried various DB's as they come out.

I always find some issue or caveat or problem and I decide in the end that Postgres gets most of the way there anyway and I return to Postgres.

Whenever I get tempted by a shiny new database I remind myself "don't bet against Postgres".
I get that 50% has been the sort of marketing aim for "why bother support SMR at all," but until they actually get there, it's just marketing. Reality is ~10%.

Magnetic disks are valued on capacity only because people considered CMR HDDs a performance floor. When they realize how bad SMR is, I think performance becomes a factor.

If you're talking about GB per volume, SSDs beat HDDs of all stripes there: the biggest HDDs are 16 TB in a 3.5" form factor, while the biggest SSDs are 100 TB in the same form factor. 10 or 50% improvement in HDDs wouldn't begin to bridge that gap.

SMR should be understood to be sort of a fast Tape, rather than slow CMR HDD.
> We pitched various "traditional" VCs. The overwhelming feedback we got was that nobody doubted our team, the product, or the model. The problem was that the returns weren't big enough.

Sahil @ Gumroad has talked about this in good detail. The VC idea that "yes, your business/idea is/will be profitable but you shouldn't waste your time making money when you could be working on changing the world"

The "changing the world" business will also hopefully be profitable and make money down the road but they are looking for outsized returns from a market disrupting unicorn.

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Regarding the "new VCs" concept. Alex Danco and others have discussed this and the funding model ceases to be VC when it is low-risk, medium-reward.

It's possible that many areas of tech are maturing to a point where VC will no longer be the optimal funding model, outside of high innovation specialties. As the industry matures, there are many businesses that might provide stable returns and have a risk profile that is different from that of the unicorn VC-startup. These businesses might be better served by debt funding and a debt-based investment vehicle/product might attract more investors and allow for greater de-centralization of tech funding.

Linking Alex's blog post below instead of rambling in this comment.

https://alexdanco.com/2020/02/07/debt-is-coming/
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An "exception proving the rule" is a colloquial phrase that can be interpreted in several ways. Yours is one of them. I'm using it here as a fun way to underscore the decades of consistent greatness of Postgres[QL], and the folly of using one of the most successful open source projects in history as a counterexample to Brooks's "second system".
Hey cool! Something I have first hand experience with as an oil and gas accountant.

The Federal Government, as you can imagine, controls vast amounts of mineral acreage and the nomination process is how these plots of mineral rights are brought up to auction. The auctions used to be done in person, but now they are done online at www.energynet.com.

Federal Oil and Gas leases are all standardized. Like the article states, the term is for 10 years. You pay an initial bonus consideration payment up front (whose price is determined by auction), and then afterwards you pay an annual rental payment. Any production on a Federal lease is subject to a 12.5% royalty rate, which generally is very cheap compared to a lease from a private mineral owner.

The article doesn't make the distinction very clear, but this is for the leasing of the mineral rights only; surface rights are separate and distinct and might not even be owned by the Federal Government. If a well was to be drilled, there would be a separate surface use agreement between the oil and gas company and the surface owner.

If anyone has any questions about the general process of Federal leasing I can try to answer them as best as I can!
Fascinating idea. The neutrinos travel at effectively the speed of light and can be sent directly through the earth, providing a minimum-distance "line of sight" between any two points on earth. However, the same property that allows the neutrinos to pass through the earth is also the reason they're so hard to detect. You would probably only be able to be able to detect modulation frequencies on the order of weeks or months. The bandwidth would be very low to say the least!
Hooray! Somebody who knows about the different capitalization rules between Québec and France!

There are dozens of us! Dozens! ;-)
Hiding words from people isn't going to help or save anyone. It just supports ignorance.
It's perfectly safe to support something like this in the moment, as it can't pass the Senate or avoid being vetoed.
Given low (present) oil demand, if you have capital now might be a good time to try and gain access to potential oil reserves for when the demand is restored (which will happen as nations start opening up more, especially for travel). Oil demand may even see a boost as travel reopens.

Airlines may have to reduce passenger capacity to maintain social distancing rules (legal or just customer demand), potentially increasing the total number of flights along various routes. And more people will probably be traveling by car than by air for domestic/regional travel, which (in aggregate) would be less fuel efficient than mass transit.
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> It's certainly true there's a blurry space there

It's trivial to determine if the court has "legislated from the bench" though: do parties unrelated to the lawsuit in question immediately, after the decision, have to behave substantially differently? Do extremely large numbers of people have to behave substantially differently after the decision?

If they do, that's "legislating from the bench." That's literally the test.

When they don't, a decision only affects the people in the suit and similar situations going forward (precedent). That's just the normal, everyday action of the judiciary branch. It's still "policy" (broadly speaking), but it's not legislating.

In the most recent case, changing literally every Title IX program, overnight—as well as all employment scenarios nationwide—is clearly "legislating from the bench", since it a) applies with immediate effect to large numbers of people not party to the suit, and b) requires them to behave substantially differently than they had before the decision.

(I'm fine with "legislating from the bench", BTW, that's literally how Civil Rights legislation is intended to work. Congress passed responsibility to the courts, just like in other areas they've passed responsibility to the executive branch.)
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The federal government owns a ton of land in the west when compared to the rest of the United States. The federal government owns 64.9% of Utah, but owns 0.3% of New York, 4.4% of South Carolina, and 13.2% of Florida.[0] We should auction off more land in the west, instead of leasing it.

[0] https://ballotpedia.org/Federal_land_ownership_by_state
> Anger and outrage are valuable, and it's important that we channel them in the right directions.

It's important to channel them in all directions that could have impact. You never know for sure which 'direction' matters to the group you are trying to impart change on.
Just saw some of the references to RTL-SDR in the thread comments and started down the rabbit hole, and it looks like a fascinating area for hobbyists.

Can you provide some links to temperature sensors you've tried that work well with an RTL-SDR receiver? I'm also interested in setting something up with a Raspberry Pi.
FWIW, MaBLAS currently does not depend on LoopVectorization.jl, the code to generate kernels is all handwritten.
For their more recent data they reported seeing ~32000 solar neutrino events over a 1600 day dataset (cite: top-right of page 13 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.07538.pdf). Their detector nowadays is more sensitive than it was when the OP was published so I would estimate the image comes from probably around 5000 neutrino events.

And I don't know any specific numbers but you can be sure a large amount more of neutrinos interacted with the air/rock between the Sun and Super-K than interacted in the detector volume. But that number (whatever it is) is still tiny compared to the total flux (which is ~5 million per square centimeter per second).

And that's of just the "high energy" type neutrinos that Super-K is sensitive to. The lower energy varieties are more like 10 billion per square centimeter per second.
Windows 2000 always reminded me of brutalist architecture. It was efficient, functional, and worked well, but it wasn't pretty at all.

This is probably a very unpopular opinion but I rather liked Windows Vista's design. It was still very compact compared with later designs, and it had a certain charm from its prevalent use of translucency. I disliked XP for the same reason you cited, and upgraded to Vista almost as soon as it came out, despite early Vista's instability.
> The iPhone wasn't powerful enough to play Flash and made Apple look weak

No. Flash was too resource intensive to work on any mobile devices. Flash on Android was an utter disaster. It ate through your battery life, was unusably slow and couldn't even properly format Flash content for mobile, touch-based devices. As the world moved to a primarily mobile-based computing environment, Flash's death was all but inevitable unless Adobe could do something to rectify these issues.
Looks like both? (I'm not qualified to really assess...)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/gr284b/satellite_...

https://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedias/phased-array-ant...
How big is the audience compared to eBay?
Are you aware that it's illegal to "dabble" in that world without a license?