skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and no. For several decades even liberal jurists have made a joke of Justice Douglas' now infamous "penumbra" explanation in Griswold v. Connecticut that undergirds a general right to privacy. I remember thinking as a law student that every chuckle, every eye roll, especially by liberal leaning students and professors, was another nail in the coffin of that whole line of jurisprudence.

Stare decisis is critically important, but when it comes to substantive law the fact is that historically decisions don't have staying power unless there's some internalization of the underlying legal logic. Liberal justices walked away from Douglas' phrasing almost immediately and were never able to replace it with anything.

I never had a problem with penumbras. It's as apt a description as anyone could conjure to refer to positive rights which exist by implication. And in fact usage of that term goes back to jurists far more esteemed than Douglas. Conservatives have long tried to use the 10th Amendment for similar effect, but that likewise has failed, and frankly as an analytic device "penumbras" works much better.

I used to think Kennedy's "dignity" reasoning in Obergefell v. Hodges was awkward, but upon closer inspection of broader legal theory he's actually drawing upon a vein of jurisprudence that could become a cornerstone of American legal theory in this area. It's much more well developed outside the U.S., but that doesn't mean it's not consonant with American jurisprudence. Yet I haven't seen many law review articles, let alone case decisions, try to further develop this principle. I think like penumbras, liberal jurists are inclined to roll their eyes at it, even though they haven't yet got to the point where they literally roll their eyes at it. I suspect Hodges will fall quickly, unless Gorsuch is able to refashion a theory based on sex discrimination much like he did for Title VII in Bostock v. Clayton County. (But that's a stretch as Gorsuch claimed to be using a plain text approach to statutory interpretation.)
No, the altered fields are totally hidden from me, so the data loss is too.
How often do people successfully defend themselves from police in violent no-knock raids?

My assumption is that it typically goes about as well for them as if the police tried to kill them and they weren't armed, at 'best' they take someone down with them, but feel free to prove me wrong.

People arguing your point love to bring up Afghanistan and Vietnam like the state of those countries during their respective wars was something other than abysmally horrific with a massive scale of death and destruction. Imagine if a similar level of conflict occurred in just one region of the US. Further, what is the state of those countries post war? Comparable to the US?
They also seem reluctant to acknowledge that the existence of citizen-combatants in both of those countries are a contributing reason to the extensive murder of noncombatant civilians by the US army in those areas. Ie, because the guerilla warfare was so extensive the larger military was more willing to engage in broader targeting of the citizenry.
Any reason you think this wouldn't happen in the US if we assume a rogue US military?
Tinydb: a simple database implementation for study purpose
My guess is that they were circumventing free-tier API limits for the data-aggregation company. It’s not like this data aggregation is one big dump that they downloaded once and forgot the where it came from. Prices change daily. They’d need to be refreshing via an API (data feed) at least daily.
You are right in that generally a whole group does not spontaneously decide to change faiths, but there are plenty of examples of a gradual erosion of a faith in communities .

"The vast majority of U.S. adults (85.6%) say they were raised as Christians. But more than a fifth of them (19.2% of all adults) no longer identify with Christianity." [0]

I think a ~ 20% change within a single generation is pretty significant. And most of these people will use the 'recipe' method you describe because it is easier than learning an entirely new system. There are many historical examples of this. E.g. Taoism + Buddhism -> Chan Buddhism -> Zen Buddhism.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2015/05/12/chapter-2-re...
The beginning of the end was the closure of Weird Stuff. It still hurts.
I would argue that yes, its because of Webkit. I used firefox for years on android. It was great. I use it on iOS now. Its basically garbage.

To bring it back to Kagi, if I'm reading your FAQ correctly for instance, you would not be able to support firefox/chrome extensions on iOS since you had to fork Webkit. Now imagine you are a browser with over a decade of use and features that now has to target a static other engine. How great of an experience do you really think you are going to get out of that?
> to hate everything that is new because they don't believe that anything is possible don't exist

Painting these people as cynics is not the entirely right characterization imho.

I think parent describes a certain class of people who are constantly in fear of getting done over. Everything new is an opportunity for them to take the short end of the stick. Their imaginary adversary is always a nebulous "they", generally people they suspect to be wealthier, either in money or cachet or political leverage. That pervasive fear of getting taken advantage of is hard to explain. To use the example of the parent, you can show CAVErs a popular bikelane addition in another neighborhood, and still they would block it in their own.

I think that fear and distrust that animates the CAVErs (great term by the way, hadn't heard it), is because they really lack imagination. An almost physical inability to imagine something else, that's aspirational, outside one's own experience. I'm not sure why that is, why there is such a deeply seeped in mental sclerosis and solipsism, which at times can almost feel uniquely american.
Cloning....
> That's why the religious right cares about it and not the dozens of other things they could be focusing on to save lives — from gun control to universal healthcare to environmental conservation. They won't budge on that shit.

1. You're talking about a coalition like it was one person monomaniacally organized around one idea, which us unlikely to give true insight about that coalition.

2. It also feels that you likely have a distorted view (e.g. taking a oversimple slogan, interpreting it through your views, then misunderstanding the people who use it by imposing your interpretation on them).

3. Also, there are likely subsets of that coalition that actually believe very close to how you think they should (e.g. my impression is the Catholic Church is pretty close).
One of the things that came from Microsoft Network that's still around is Expedia. Microsoft needed content to put on MSN and a few engineers got interested in the traveling business. Eventually the experiment turned into a website and then got spun off.
Most of the characters did not have magic. Gandalf had magic, but he was also basically an angel sent from heaven to guide middle earth. Its not like he was a normal inhabitant
Something not mentioned in the article: Middle Earth is depopulated. Without large market, it does not make sense to produce at scale, nor you will have the capital to do it.

The main characters travel hundreds of kilometers down the biggest river around and they don't encounter other vessels or a populated settlement until they reach Minas Tirith. And I'm not even mentioning the missing cities and villages in the inland part of the travel. We can say that this is due to lower birth rate in the numenorians who obviously have reproductive issues as mentioned in the books. Another reason is the brain, knowledge and capital drain caused by the large elvian immigration going for centuries. Dwarfs have the excuse of a long generation length to explain why they are not multiplying like rabbits for the thousands of years since the last world war, however, Tolkien does not provide a good reason for the other human nations, the orcs or even the hobbits.

Possible explanation might be the unstable security situation on the continent, however, most of the societies are not described as being constantly under the risk of a raid from nearby orc. Aragorn is able to defend most of the north with a few hundred irregulars, while the east participated in only one war 60 years ago that was done in a few weeks time. The south is not described, but nothing unusual there as well as far as the books go.
For reasons of safety: they're LiFePO4 batteries, swapping in Lithium Ion would be hazardous :)
Is the code that runs inside ARM TrustZone open source too? Especially ROM code.
All young people do this? This is incredible uniformity.
Almost worked on my 2021 Macbook Pro (M1 Pro) - https://github.com/kuprel/min-dalle/issues/1#issue-128676523...
Yes there are versions that are not egg based, but last I remember they were not guaranteed to be available at a given location (I haven't gotten the flu shot in years because it was tedious). Which is why I'm hoping as mRNA as a mechanism grows more common non-egg based shots will as well. I remember when I was getting the covid shot being paranoid and triple checking that it in no way shape form or fashion used egg.
Who is todays generation?
The article wasn't actually about lotr
I recall NetWits, a multiplayer 1950s-style quiz show game on MSN where you played as a contestant against other MSN subscribers in real-time (there was a scheduled "broadcast time" every weeknight -- couldn't play at any other time). There were real prizes, like trips from Expedia.

Here's a video of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyje8xlGc9Q

Truly a product of its time, but they really tried to experiment with multimedia (at least in MSN 2.0). I think there was an online version of Encarta and a bunch of other things that I've since forgotten.
Worse, because you literally hurl them through traffic at high speeds. If I had to put one of my most valuable possessions on wheels and park it at the grocery store, I would not make that item an especially luxurious thing
It was never anything else
The basic idea is the same as in the article: Data is more important that apps and stored procedures really are just app-code.

Stored procedures have the downside that they often work only in one vendor's database.
That's exactly it though: having to do dumb tricks is the painful part. There's plenty of things with user-defined order where an explicit index isn't surfaced, like to-do lists, playlists, etc.
It’s a consortium of developers, and the customer is ad-tech.

You could say this is less about Apple vs Google, and more about users vs advertisers.
1. friends (we're constantly sharing links)
2. Social Media (HN, Reddit, following interesting people on Twitter)
3. academic papers
4. books
5. blogs
Scientists are very frequently wrong. Any scientist who doesn't admit that is none. One example is adjacent to the topic here, continued adherence to the amyloid beta hypothesis.

But their mistakes are generally subtle, and not what somebody who knows nothing about the subject invents in the first seconds after first hearing about the topic.
Just use Clojure?
It would also increase defender costs, if the defender has to throw out our re-ship some perfectly good hardware every time some of the rice it was packed in was disturbed.
>You can always coerce or compel family to do things like share resources or settle disputes against their own self-interest.

Huh?
> The point is there's no need to move blocks, just stop writing to worn-out blocks, and then the CoW nature of the filesystem will take care of the rest.

Suppose the file system stores photos and videos that the owner tends to keep forever without ever modifying them. The first files will land on NAND blocks with close to zero PE cycles and will stay there forever. Since they are never modified CoW will never cause them to stop squatting. If the drive fills with content like this endurance doesn’t matter unless there’s a crazy amount of atime updates.

If the static photo and video collection grows to occupy 75% of the space and a more dynamic workload uses some portion of the remaining 25%, about 75% of the drive’s endurance is not accessible.
I've encountered something similar to this recently as well. There seems to be a conflation of 'petty burglary' with 'home invasion/violent assault/kidnap/rape/murder' in the minds of the average American when it comes attempting to understand their threat model. Most Americans haven't had their home burgled, and the extreme few that have (statistically) are victims of theft, not violent offences against the person.

Most Americans can't wrap their heads around the possibility that they're being burgled by someone who

a) is in need of cash
b) is not interested in killing, torturing, raping or maiming the victim
c) would ideally like to get in and out for a quick financial win

Where I live (Australia) our burglary rate is 5x greater per capita than America. And yet our "murdered by burglar rate" is effectively nil, much like it is in the states. But there are scores of yanks that will talk about their need to have a firearm for home defence to ensure their family isn't murdered by someone who's most likely looking for a bit of cash for a drug fix.
Should have just bought a monorail.
Tolkien answered this question quite well to an interviewer, although in a somewhat different form. "People would run into me at the pub and ask me why I didn't just have the eagles carry the hobbits to mordor, it would have been so much easier. And I told them the same thing I'll tell you now.

"Shut up."

https://youtu.be/1-Uz0LMbWpI
I do too, a C860, pretty much new in its box. But I can’t find where to download software for it as it doesn’t have a working OS anymore. Any tips appreciated.
Ok, I read it, and I'm still confused. The CA govt is doxing people who went through the arduous process of legally obtaining a CCW?
>> The most surprising thing is that you wouldn’t let anyone steal your property, but you consistently let people steal your time

> This line struck the strongest nerve with me. I've started to REALLY pay attention to this and fight back, where I can.

And at some point your time isn't even worth "Sorry guys..."

Hit unsubscribe.
Selenian Boondocks[1] has a great archive of cool ideas (eg [2]) and some of the authors are also founders.

[1] https://selenianboondocks.com/

[2]https://selenianboondocks.com/2022/04/geo-orbital-debris-mit...
I'll give my 2 cents on why larger firms strongly emphasize these white boarding skills.

In an organization of ~500+ highly paid and (hopefully) competent engineers - there is a very high premium on outward signs of technical competence. If a fresh college grad isn't quite sure that their "senior" is really "senior" - or worse a neighboring manager becomes displeased, then there is a problem. Similarly in very large code bases with heavy testing and performance requirements, iteration times can become slow... resulting in a stronger need for planning, design, debate etc.

The white board technical interview effectively tests that you can communicate competently on an arbitrary coding/design topic. An inability to do this can be a death sentence in a large, interconnected engineering organization.
> No, the concept of a soul mate is

there truly is no limit to what people on HN will argue about
House down the street from me sold for a 5k/month mortgage (I live in a duplex). Now pop two $1000 car payments on there and you maybe have enough left over for food and some bills.
To be absolutely clear I am not disagreeing with you, but... how on earth would you create a useful definition of post-tax/take-home pay that allows for comparisons between people?

DCA, FSA, transportation, 409(a) deferred compensation, etc. It's mind-boggling how many ways there are to mess around with your paycheck.
One would assume that medical device vendors could pay for extended support. However, even extended support for HEL 5 has ended now. And even before that in heavily regulated industry that uses such old stuff I would assume rolling out updates is a very slow progress.

Maybe not all that stuff connects to the internet, but I bet an ever increasing share does. So hospitals might have wose firewalls than others, so I would not surprised about such equipment being successfully attacked.

Of course old versions are unaffected because by newly introduced vulnerabilities. But old ones that have existed "forever" get detected. I guess it's not the kernal alone that is so old, but user space, too.
For me, it does. I run Linux on a laptop with an integrated GPU.
There's a difference between realizing one's self-image vs one's self-actuality.

Most people when asked would say they wouldn't obey authority over their own conscience. And yet if actually put into Milgram's experiment most would likely result in different outcomes than they'd think.

The idea has certainly been put forward that there's a merit to the self-knowledge gained in real tragedy. A Hemingway-esque self-discovery in the trenches.

Arguably we could extend that to conclude that given the relative timeline of humanity, that anyone who doesn't end up slowly devoured by a pride of lions in the savannah or sees several of their children die to the elements hasn't really discovered their 'real' human self.

IMO that's a BS argument.

What games engage isn't the self-discovery of who we are, but the self-discovery of who we would like to be.

And frankly I think that pursuit in fictional worlds is both more worthwhile and of import than the lessons available to be 'learned' in a foxhole.

I can honestly say that some of the hard decisions in games had me reevaluating my personal philosophies much more than my experiences making harrowing medical decisions for family or life altering changes.

Reality is seldom ideologically binary enough as to prompt extrapolated self-reflection on the principles of decisions as opposed to the relatively much greater focus on the complexities of their fallout.

Triviality is a tool for archetypical self-reflection, and it is precisely the low stakes setting that allows for such rich self-discovery.
Decoys are a tried and true response to surveillance, with decades if not centuries of best practices.
All these devices look as if the Psion 5 never existed. And they look old on arrival compared to that.
A visual explanation of the PGM index (2021)
Sex offenders are convicted criminals. You're saying convicted criminals of the most heinous crimes are equivalent to your neighbors who invoke a right that's existed in common law for centuries. I understand this is a highly contentious subject, but you're being divisive and ridiculous.
Really good one. Blanket disrespect for the autocomplete attribute.
meat is fine. i actually feel mentally sharp if i do eat beef. But I also feel sluggish if i eat beef daily, once a week beef works for me. beef 1 day, chicken 3 days, fish 2 days, just beans/lentils 1 day.
I really hate the discourse around tech interviews. Every blog post is exactly the same: that leetcode isn't an indicator of real skill, that the whole landscape is terrible, and everything is completely awful and no one knows how to hire anyone.

We need good data based approaches to tech interviews to move the discourse forward; I really like triplebyte's talks and blog posts on how to hire, and what they mainly point out is that a good interview process provides a decent signal on how successful an employee will be.
https://github.com/prql/prql :

" Unlike SQL, it forms a logical pipeline of transformations, and supports abstractions such as variables and functions. It can be used with any database that uses SQL, since it transpiles to SQL. "
Just wait until the philosophical debates in games are with real AI.

The next 20 years are going to be quite the wild ride, even in contrast to the past 20.
I hate most swag. The only good swag is tiny stuff like a sticker or a carabiner or something. Maybe a shirt. But... I probably don't like your tech enough to wear it.

Stickers are purely decorative, low environmental footprint, and unobtrusive mentally.

Although the permanence of sticking makes them a bit less collectible, and I'd like it something like Velcro patches got popular.

Headphones? No. Absolutely not. I have Anker bluetooth earbuds. I do not want your crap without active noise cancellation risking my hearing if I actually try to use it.

Keychain flashlight? No. I do not want crap to carry around. It's dim and non-rechargable.

Water bottles? Better be self cleaning with UV light and vacuum insulated.

Pens? I rarely use them. When I do it's for less than 30 seconds. Cheap ballpoints can dry up even if not used, so it's not like I want to have a bunch randomly lying around "just in case" that won't work in a month when I actually want one.

I have a pile of at like 6 jackets worn once or never that I got as gifts. Lots of random multitools and crap like that. I. Do. Not. Want. It.

I don't even make much money. If I was making 40k+ a year I would want them even less.

I will not bog down my life with little bits of 20 years outdated low tech junk. Especially not from a tech company.

I can maybe see mugs. But... only because sometimes I'm lazy about washing the dishes, and having more makes it easier to go longer in between....
>so people prefer modern analogs

>I don’t know if that’s a preference

so which one is it?
After talking to some people, I've realized many people live in vastly different worlds than I do. People making significantly less money then me spending more than 2x on their rent versus mine.

I have "expensive" hobbies, but that mostly entails a high upfront cost ($2-3K) for gear that will last a decade minimum, so its not a huge issue.

What the hell are (somwhat rich) people doing with their money? I'm confused since I don't know what there is to spend big money on. Health care is a thing, but I assume high paying jobs have somewhat decent insurance that shouldn't bankrupt you immediately. There are only so many $20K watches and $75K cars you can buy before it just becomes pointless.
> I was from early days grieved by the poverty of my own beloved country: it had no stories of its own (bound up with its tongue and soil), not of the quality that I sought, and found (as an ingredient) in legends of other lands.

My immediate thought was “What about King Arthur?!” But then I begin to wonder how much Arthurian legend has been enriched purely in the 20th century.
“The once and future king” -where a lot of the modern take on Arthur came from - was punished in 1958, 4 years after the Lord of the Rings.

According to Wikipedia, Arthurian legend was popular in the Middle Ages, but kind of fell out of favor.
> They all got pissed.

I.e., drunk (British English), not angry (American English)!
This correlation can imply causation in two ways.

The one no one mentions is that stupid people may have fewer friends.
My point was that virtually ALL games used to be harder than Fromsoft games. Even the idea that you could actually "finish" a game was rather rare in the Atari 2600 generation of games. "Flipping the score" was a widely known concept among kids at the time. It meant that you were able to play the game for so long and your score got so high that the score reset so that it didn't go negative.
I had exactly the same issue
End of the day hiring the wrong person is worse than hiring no one. So I’m willing to forgive companies for how much scrutiny they have.

Sure some it’s kinda performative, but I’ve been on teams where HR was just letting anyone in and it screwed a lot up.
Dutch Disease but for magic