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> And we didn't start with laws targeting

There are absolutely many laws, that are very targeted and specific. Were you unaware of this?

For a random example, there are laws that probably say something like "A truck, of this size, must follow these specific environmental regulations".

That would be a specific law, that applies to a truck, and required it to do a specific thing, like have a certain mileage efficiency, and it is not general. It is pretty specific, and it is not a general law that applies to all environmental related things.

The world is full of many specific laws, all over the place.
Yes, compute shaders for WebGL have been cancelled in favor of WebGPU.
It seems like this could be used in the future dystopian economy. Workers sleeping in little capsules next to a screen where they can choose to see their partner in another factory or AI driven escort.
On a serious note likely everyone is going to have at least one at home at some point to use for work meetings, pairing or for home inspections by the government.
Kind of. Rust seems to be becoming quite popular. It has features that allow low-level programming while maintaining as much type safety as possible. There's even talk of using it in the Linux kernel.

EDIT: I'm not sure why you ask that here though. Rust doesn't appear to be mentioned in this post.
Does anyone know whether they're using that tech, something similar, or something else? I've always been interested in light field technology.
Maybe they have to use some kind of legacy JVM library that doesn't work on Java 8? It looks like they're a GoLang shop, so I'm not sure why we'd assume their Java stuff is representative of anything other than what they have to do because some useful JVM library for mapping or something needs to be supported.
The book Why We Sleep mentioned an experiment. Some plants obviously change during day or night, extending leaves during the day and letting them droop at night, something like that from what I remember. People thought the plant was just reacting to the sunlight, until they put the plant in total darkness for several days and observed it going through the same cycles. The plant was not only responding to light, but also to an internal timer. Depending on how you define sleep, this is sleep. Granted plants don't use sleep for all the same purposes as animals.
I'm actually very excited about it. Could start a new era of how we develop and work with data.
Assuming you are in the US: I’d say that, if anything, tech is a fantastic little bubble when compared to the rest of corporate America. We, the “nerds”, exert a level of control over our work/careers that is unparalleled in other industries. We have plenty of opportunities available if we dislike our current situation. Tech companies provide excellent benefits and compensation. Maybe only doctors have the same level of mobility/compensation.

You will always be mistreated by someone if you work for a corporation. We have it easier than almost everybody else, really.
I woke up early back on launch day in October 2020 to buy a 3080 when they said it would be available. Couldn't get one. Periodically I'd check newegg and other sites to see if the shortage is gone. Nope, on 05/18 it's still out of stock everywhere. Throwing $750 on a piece of hardware to play games shouldn't be this horrendous of an experience. I for one am glad nVidia is doing something about it.
Huh, that is really cool. Never heard of it.

Thanks for the information.
Really cool execution.

I wonder what the lag is like. I can imagine that's one thing that would break the illusion. I know with something like Zoom I've gotten used to managing the lag over time by taking turns with the other person. However, with the "live" feel of this, there could be an uncanny valley effect if the lag is subtle, but perceptible.

Another thought: this is being presented as ongoing research. I wonder what the corporate thinking is in presenting it now when it's still being tried out. Does Google want capitalize on remote meetings while it's still hot? If the pandemic wanes and we have more in-person meetings, this might not make as big a splash. I remember when I worked at Microsoft, I often noticed research announcements we'd make in public often wouldn't translate to actual product, so I got a bit jaded on any cool new thing that was announced without a product timeline.
From the first paragraph of the FAQ:

> For decades, America’s schools have tried and failed to close gaps on math test scores between White students and students of color. That’s not because math discriminates by race, and it’s not because some groups of students are inherently more suited to math. It’s because we give students of color and students from lower-income families the least access to critical resources, from the most qualified teachers to the best technology to the most advanced courses. And it’s because instructional materials and practices—even good ones—are influenced by culture and perspective.

Is it just me, or does that sound pretty reasonable?
I like that he isn't particularly charismatic. Neither are Larry or Sergey of course.
I recall there being glasses-less 3D displays about 10 years ago, when the TV industry was trying to make 3D displays the next new thing. I wonder if this is the same technology.
> the extension "Google docs offline" was renaming files form Photopea to .TXT. You are using the same extension.

https://github.com/photopea/photopea/issues/2294#issuecommen...

"Google docs offline" is an official extension from google which you get prompted to install when you go to Google Drive in Chrome without the extension installed. I don't think that caused anything and it looks like there was an actual bug you had:

> There really was a bug in Photopea. If you opened a file, whose name started with a dot . , like .myfile.psd, It was always exported as .TXT_
> I have fixed this bug. You can open files with any names now, and they should be saved under the right extension.

https://github.com/photopea/photopea/issues/3116#issuecommen...

It did seem like the issue was on your end and not the extensions though.
Regardless of the potential merits of alternative storage formats, it's a good point that people who have needed an SD card reader since their removal have probably gone out and bought external ones by now. I'd expect the standalone units to generally be higher-quality than the ones that would be built in.

That said, I'm glad to see Apple has finally realized some of the ways they've been alienating their customer base, and they appear to be walking back some of their most unpopular changes.
CSS developer: What you are missing in your measurements
To participate in the PoS “validation” network, you need a minimal amount of tokens (coins). It raises the bar for many people.
I'm not going to defend the social justice components of the proposed curriculum (https://equitablemath.org/), which I don't think are appropriate to focus on in a math class.

However, I think some of the comments here are a little off-base and miss out on some of the better ideas proposed.

For instance, the curriculum doesn't actually seem to say that students shouldn't show work or that there isn't a "right answer" but rather that teachers should allow (even encourage) students to explore multiple approaches to arrive at a solution instead of enforcing the idea that there is only one right way to do things. Note that you can still have a "right answer" which can be obtained in multiple ways. This is coming from the second manual:

https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11...

As someone who researches and teaches computational mathematics at a university, I think this approach is really what we should be encouraging. After all, this is the way in which mathematics is actually practiced. Of course, this also requires teachers to be able to understand and teach multiple approaches to the same problem which is another can of worms, and it is probably the biggest source of frustration for students when this isn't the case.
A wheel
I would pay a lot of money if this was commercially available. Very impressive
False DMCA claims are penalized under section F of the DMCA.

> (f)Misrepresentations.—Any person who knowingly materially misrepresents under this section—

> (1)that material or activity is infringing, or

> (2)that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification,

> shall be liable for any damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, by any copyright owner or copyright owner’s authorized licensee, or by a service provider, who is injured by such misrepresentation, as the result of the service provider relying upon such misrepresentation in removing or disabling access to the material or activity claimed to be infringing, or in replacing the removed material or ceasing to disable access to it.

Now, in this instance we're talking about a fraudulent listing, so I can't imagine there's much civil liability to worry about, but the suggestion that there is "no penalty for false claims" is not true.

And also, DMCA claims are made with a statement that they are accurate "under penalty of perjury". I haven't seen anyone convicted under this, but I wouldn't imagine that MS legal would find this to be an acceptable way to solve the issue.
The phrase "white supremacy" occurs in none of the thirteen chapters of the proposal at https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ma/cf/index.asp. The author seems to have pulled that quote and some other money quotes from a non-affiliated website. People of similar ideological persuasions tend to travel in the same circles (figuratively and otherwise), but it's disingenuous, to say the least, to implicitly attribute quotes from one group to another.

There's a cavalcade of non-sequitur woke logic in the Introduction to the official draft proposal. Feel free to read it. But the WSJ article is just another culture war hit piece that barely tries to critique the substance of the proposal, which notwithstanding the voluminous justifications are fairly simple on their face. Because they're simple they should be easy to attack on their own terms. But no one group can stake a claim to rhetorical laziness, and so it's rare to see anybody put in the effort.

Anyhow, I'm pretty sure the proposal is a done deal. And in the grand scheme of things I doubt it will matter. The reason the proposal is wrong-headed is because no amount of curriculum tweaking could ever begin to overcome the deficits that a child may suffer from outside school--family, community, etc. Decades of public school investments and analyses have borne this out time and again. But by the same token, a kid benefiting from a more supportive home and peer environment is unlikely to be ill effected.

Though, the second order effects might be real, such as an increase in private school attendance. The Catholic parochial schools in San Francisco have grown continuously for many years. (They're much cheaper than secular private schools; often a bare majority or less of the kids are Catholic.) Something like 25% of SF students go to private schools. My kid goes to a Catholic school (partly for legitimate religious reasons), but it was a close call, and we almost sent him to our neighborhood public school. He attended public T-K in SF and we were very happy w/ his teacher and his school. One thing to understand about public schools in California is that they're extremely balkanized. The requirement that all public schools across the state receive identical funding has had the unintended side-effect of increasing parental involvement in those communities where parents are relatively more predisposed to do so, often donating a tremendous amount of time and money. (There are apparently various ways that additional money is used to enhance education without running afoul of budgeting rules.) It's not just an economic class thing as in San Francisco poor and working class Asian families are just as or more likely to involve themselves w/ their children's school as any well-off family in Marin. Private school principals and teachers elsewhere in the U.S. accustomed to dealing with aggressively demanding parents would feel right at home at plenty of public schools in California.
I'm have no insight into why. But it is what's listed on the specs:

https://www.apple.com/ca/macbook-pro-13/specs/

> Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display at millions of colours and:

>One external display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz
Not OP, but as someone who holds this view (who also used to engage in the practice): a lot of armchair psychoanalysis is based less on a genuine understanding of the other person's life and circumstances, and more on the assumption of what their life and circumstances must be combined with a surface-level knowledge of psychoanalytic practice.

Armchair psychoanalysis ostensibly seeks to understand the subject of analysis, but rarely makes the effort to first understand the subject on their terms or in a way where they can articulate their own experience; instead, someone usually has their presumptive conclusion about the subject in mind ("they're just doing this because they haven't gotten over being bullied as a kid" or whatever), and tries to wrangle the limited information they have about that person into their conclusion.
Make it easier to pay ransom demands when you have malware attack you. Used to have to have a pile of cash dumped in a given area, high risk for the collector. Far easier now.
but how about letting your manager track the quality of your HN comments! Who wouldn't want that?
Even if the other person doesn't, in many cases the someone else will in a few days. Real Estate is about making sure you have just enough vacancies and no more. Enough means that when someone comes looking you have a place for them, and enough vacancies that you can remodel/upgrade between - but no more.
Minecraft. Linux. (Really want to write GNU, but that's not true.)
Seems there are gifs that explain the front page story but on my iPhone I just see static images. It makes it hard to follow the story.

Since it does sound interesting I might visit on laptop tomorrow.
I am a bit confused about the writing. Sometime it is "I", sometimes it is "we".

Does it means there are other people involved? Contractors maybe.

Edit:

Answered my own question. Design is indeed a one-woman job, but helped by one other woman (and two cats) for production.

And looking at the downvotes, it looks I was the only one confused. I was wondering about it for the repository aspect. Working alone is an entirely different experience compared to having even a single other person on the same codebase.
Ah, the system is really simple.

Since 1964 at least it is.

Some rich white men convinced a majority of American whites anything is better than "handouts" to people of color. They can and do rely on this majority to vote themselves into ruin if that's the price for people of color to get nothing. Instead of living in prosperity together, Americans vote to live in poverty together if that's what it takes. It's astounding.

By any measure, the United States by now is a failed state because of this. Hard to believe but it is.
> Of course, if the woke can really get away with that, ...

What do all ideologies say to the god of reality ? "Not today"
So... it's 8k, a big display ... ok I see they are doing something with depth modeling. Is that kinda like a 3d tv then?
Appears similar to the tech in the Nintendo 3DS: lenses over the screen so each eye sees a different picture. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereoscopy
That's a good sign. I do hope it works out that way.
I didn't mean that I pay my electricity bill in crypto. I meant that my small apartment has a fixed electricity rate so that I don't have to pay any extra for running 2 GPUs, and that I already owned the hardware to mine, independent of crypto. So I didn't invest anything. Sorry for being unclear.
Penicillin. But then, he wasn't trying to make money off of it.

And basically anything Nintendo pushes as a console gimmick. It's not that the tech immediately goes from research to broadly accessible, but rather that they tend to take old tech that no one saw as having profitable consumer applications and find one for it. In that way, as far as consumers are concerned, it goes from unknown to widely-used without making a stopover in early-adapter purgatory.
Why these things are not taught in schools?
Indeed, it must work somehow, or else they would no longer be in business. I think it also has to do with demographic. Some people are just easily persuaded by these kinds of offers, so if there is a hole in the market, someone will fill it.
Can’t the people with most money buy the most computer power?
Dogs and their ancestor's wolves are pack animals, maybe the sleep barking wakes the other pack mates making them more aware of their surroundings and better able to defend the pack from threats during the night? Maybe even The barking itself helps to ward off threats that would otherwise attack a sleeping animal.

Is there even anything that preys enough on wolves where enough of them are being killed by it that the sleep barking would be selected against?
I was fortunate enough in college to have a professor who marked me right on questions where I found the answer in an unexpected way- once I came up with a novel infinite series he had never seen before, and he coded it up, and it converged slowly but it worked!

Understanding is more important than memorization.
The big question is whether this leads to better overall outcomes.

If the company fails, or is aquihired by the skin of its teeth, it doesn't matter which terms the various rounds offered when.

YC is perceived as offering a greater chance of success, a combination of being plugged into a large network of alumni and having the halo effect which comes from getting into a cohort.

As long as that perception is there, founders will keep taking the deal. If that perception is accurate, then they're smart to: and the terms aren't worse than any normal VC would offer, they're better.

So there's a lot riding on that being true, which I have no special insight into. Having to guess, I suspect it's less true than it used to be.
Interesting. Does the light field work only for one person or multiple (they show mother and baby in the video)?
>Everyone stopped doing uncontrolled reentries ages ago

SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage dropped debris on Canada and Washington state in march 2021. There's nothing abnormal in uncontrolled reentries when using new equipment (in rocket time that is quite a long time). Faults happen. It's this or no rockets at all.
I agree I love my Quest, and the sense of presence is amazing. Can't wait until more of my friend social network has them so we can meet up and do things like table tennis.
C++ is even less well-defined than C, though. We find defects in the standard and inconsistencies between Clang/G++/MSVC every day.

You’re demanding a rigor that is not possible with a modern technology stack.
Isn't it the same in many cases? E.g. the discovery of the higgs boson is only possible with access to a large particle accelerator, many astronomy studies are only reproducible with access to a large telescope, and some ml studies are only reproducible with access to a large dataset. Sure it's not ideal, but it's better than not publishing the results at all.
Neeh. This will lead to far more junk down the road once ETH goes PoS. It's just anti consumer all the way masked as consumer protection. They should just produce more cards, but they are afraid current sales will eat into future sales _heavily_.
Looks like tonari[0] will have some heavy competition sooner than expected. This seems to have a lot more attention paid to the sensation of depth than the tonari offering. Could see this being popular at high end senior care facilities.

[0]https://tonari.no
Do you have any insight whether these reparameterizations are better (faster, more accurate) than just applying a standard solver (I'm now a huge fan of the ITP method) over numerical integration to compute arc length (Lagrange-Gauss quadrature is pretty magical)? I'm particularly interested in how it deals with cusps, which are always the most difficult cases with these numerical approaches.
Ideas start from somewhere, and take time to spread.
Show HN: Resql – Lightweight SQL database with replication
It uploads fine with web version, so I doubt it's a routing issue (granted, they could use different datacenter.)
What is the business case for prioritising casual non-tech customer over bulk order specialist customer?
It’s similar to academic writing in single author papers. Generally you’d use “we” but specify “I” in cases where you’re emphasizing a personal choice. Also, “we” is often broad enough to include the reader, too.
I gave you the definition, from the approval document itself. This is the definitive answer, not some unrelated article about VAERS.

https://www.fda.gov/media/144413/download
> Its not really though, if the majority of PoW miners want to omit a certain miners blocks, they can.

Censored transactions can hire/pay miners who won't censor more transaction fees, to encourage them to include the transactions in a block. In other words, since transactors pay miners, transactors are customers of miners.

There is an open market competition– any miner censoring transactions will lose higher fees from people who send censored transactions.
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FWIW, Spotify recently fixed this after the feature was taken out for several years. So now you can view every song that has been played, in order.
I understand this might come at hw level. Driver could have little or nothing to do with it.