skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In Roe, the court didn't write a law saying abortion was legal. It struck down laws stating that it was illegal. That's an important difference.

I don't get it - this seems like sophistry. Isn't the end result the same, i.e. nationally permitting abortion?

> It's also worth remembering that there was never a realistic chance of a nationwide right to abortion being passed through congress. There are a few reasons for it. Only about 15% of the country is against abortions in all circumstances, but they're a loud minority. Similarly, 20-30% of American are pro-choice under any circumstance. But the majority of Americans support abortion only in certain circumstances, and they tend not to care as much about it. [1]

Isn't this how the system is designed to work? And if that's not desired, why not change the system instead? "The SCOTUS gets to make the rules" only works about half of the time, and it seems mostly like a matter of dumb luck as for when it does and doesn't.

Using the courts to enforce uncodified abortion rights is like using a shoe to beat a nail in; it's pointlessly brutal, and makes a mockery of the rule of law. I get that it may be expedient for a specific purpose, but why do people celebrate it as a good system in the abstract?
And that's fine. But it is not at all required for self-hosting things. Maybe you do that to improve your skills for making money. Maybe you do it because you just enjoy all the complexity and learning the systems. All legit, but completely un-needed obstacles for people that just want to learn how to, or just accomplish, self-hosting.

It's like writing a page on how to make bread at home but then spending most of the words on how to build an transient extra-oven outside with special parts instead of just using your oven and talking about the actual recipe steps.
Post-quantum cryptography: selected algorithms 2022
> Happy that I might be able to install something else than Safari.

I hope you like Chrome then.

> I want the Gecko engine on iOS.

It will probably exist in some official capacity (not just the open source wrappers like IceWeasel or whatever they call it) but it will probably get about as much love as it does on Android which is to say not much at all. Also the market share will be <1% if I had to guess which means no developers are going to test on it and might even just user-agent sniff and block you. Chrome/Google will use all their properties and power to push users to install Chrome and it will become the defato browser for all of desktop and mobile. I'm not looking forward to that.
Any plans or interest in a user interface?
Apple can double down on privacy and security and brand Safari as the browser that won't steal your data. Own that space, spread the marketing, they have enough capital to create solutions. You might as well ask how iOS can compete with Android. This continuous insistence that Apple is helpless is completely anachronistic and demeaning to Apple itself.
To the contrary, this is my biggest complaint with CUDA. It's a nice seeming abstraction from a programmer's perspective, unfortunately it's not a good abstraction b/c it doesn't match the reality of hardware. The truth is there is a heterogeneous arena of memory kinds, access patterns, and sizes that gives you drastically different performance trade offs for different tasks. (This isn't even about diverse hardware, every modern GPU has this complexity.) CUDA oversimplifies this which causes solutions to have opaque performance cliffs and you end up having to understand a lot of the underlying complexity and then awkwardly back-propagate that up into CUDA's ill-fit APIs to get decent performance. It's a false sense of simplicity that ends up causing more work and complexity.

Contrast that with something like WebGPU where their notions of GPU buffers, textures, pipelines and command queues maps well into what actually happens in hardware and it's much simpler to get predictable performance.

Now I totally agree there needs to be more work done to provide simpler abstractions on top of WebGPU/Vulkan/Metal/DirectX for certain common patterns of work. But pretending you have a pointer to a blob of GPU memory isn't the way.

This talk gives a great overview of the GPU compute landscape:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZRn_jNZjbw
I find the lack of Z-Wave interesting. It comes at a higher cost but in my experience, Z-Wave devices seem to work better than Zigbee. I've had 2 USB Zigbee sticks die on me and my Zigbee devices all blow through batteries like crazy.

Also on batteries: I avoid anything battery powered. I do not need another weekly chore of replacing dead coin cells of various sizes. And yes, if you let your collection of battery things grow, it will become a weekly chore eventually. Hardwired or GTFO. The worst offender is "buttons". When I need a control input that's not an in-circuit switch, it's inevitably a coin cell button that will need babysitting. At some point I'm going to start making 3.7V BEC USB things to save myself some frustration.
Nigh unreadable on a Thinkpad with the low-end screen due to lack of contrast.

Good job designers.
Being a monopoly is not against the law. Abusing your monopoly is.
Transport Apps Promised to Eliminate Friction. But at What Cost?
Yup.
Though i am having trouble downloading what you did on the 29th of last month.
Busy day?
As a desperate Star Wars fan, I concur. It is a canon and world I am so bought into that I will consume substandard content. I imagine the same applies to LOTR fans.
composite particles: quarks and gluons in weird configuration :)

still the desert otherwise, a higgs and nothing else :(
In CUDA, some transfers involving pageable host memory are completely synchronous from the perspective of the host, even if you use `cudaMemcpyAsync`:

https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-runtime-api/api-sync-behav...

Pinned memory is typically used to get around the synchronization aspects.
Dad of three hear. The big thing that made last two baby years easier was the realization that no matter how slow the time flow will feel like, it will go past too fast. There are rough days and nights, baby will cry and wont sleep but that will pass and things will get easier eventually. Just be patient.
I was disappointed to see Pinterest and Facebook as prime examples of design. These are companies found on dark patterns, employing hostile methodology to manipulate their users.

Yes, they are popular and use carefully selected colors etc. but are horrible below the pretty paint.

I wish the page would mention the responsibility of designers to the end users of their work.

I'd recommend Mike Monteiro's "Broken by Design" to the authors of the page.
I would add a small caveat to your advice on hiring an investment banker: A good banker that is well-connected to target acquirers is very likely to be beneficial – you are paying for connections and reputation, which can be very valuable in M&A.

If you don't do enough homework and hire just any old banker, on the other hand, that's absolutely going to be a mixed bag at best.
I mean, yes and no, right? We've all seen "over engineered" setups that really function to give someone a safe playground to try out those containerization technologies they may want for more sensible use elsewhere. However, it's also the case that once you get into the double digits of things you're running, walling off your versions of things from each other is valuable, and prespecified configuration is nice.
That seems like an odd take. The purpose of a trailer is for the production to make their best argument to the audience about why they should see this show. If a trailer looks good, people get hyped for the show or movie and buy tickets when the time comes. If the trailers looks like crap, most people won't watch the show or movie. The whole purpose of a trailer is for people to judge whether or not to invest more of their time and money in that production.

There simply isn't enough time for people to watch everything, there is way too much media for that. And this LOTR show is going to be much longer than a typical movie, because it's a TV show. I expect 8 hours at minimum, assuming each of the 8 episodes is an hour. Expecting people to watch it before judging whether it's worth their time doesn't make any sense. Which is why trailers are made...
Sorry, I’m used to use the word race in a fantasy setting and species in a natural setting. A race in a fantasy world is any species a character of that story can belong to.

This gets confusing e.g. in Star Trek where races exist in the fantasy sense and in a cultural sense (e.g. Being black (cultural race) is as much a part of Benjamin Sisko as being a human (biological race) is).
they said it's because there's no HOA. HOAs really are incredibly awful. And, it's getting harder and harder to find houses that are not in an HOA.
300K would barely cover the cost of an extra bedroom per child. Let alone the fact that some places around the world require one to send their child to private school, fund university costs etc.
> I'm proxying my GMail inbox and parking my own subdomain email for wildcard addresses. No problems here.

Can you explain how to do this?
> old Windows laptop

I'd suggest Lubuntu. https://lubuntu.me/

I have it running pretty well on a laptop that's close to ten years old.
I want the story from the neighbor who reported them to code enforcement
Well, I'm covered I guess - still wearing a mask.
I'm not sure where exactly you're going with this. I can imagine several possible arguments that someone might make based on this observation, but all of them are pretty obviously poor so I won't impute them upon you.
No, the article is about cow shit.
empowered to charge them whatever price they want

That's correct assuming monopolistic behavior. I believe pricing in information infra will be a race to the bottom. We've not seen a lack of competition in this space.
Okay, I'll bite. So the proposition is to truck water 364 miles (from the next largest city center I could find, San Diego). I think you might be suggesting a pipeline, but let's be real, there won't be water in Scottsdale in 5 years (and a pipeline won't be done anytime before that). People already find water brought in from _Phoenix_ which is _13_ miles away to be too expensive.

So what exactly is the solution?
No, it's not.

Your comment above suggested that stripping direct profit motive and incentives from copyright would produce a net harm. The Free Software model is based on the premise that stripping most exclusive rights under copyright, and specifically the ability to create new copies of, and new derivatives of works, is actually a net benefit to society, and often to the original author of a work who benefits by the collaborative and collective development and advancement of it.

One of the more fascinating characteristics of not only the Web but modern computing is that it's been the abandonment of proprietary interest in works (code, standards, protocols, operating systems) which have delivered the greatest value. AT&T did not voluntarily relinquish UNIX to the world, it was forced to do so under a 1950s US antitrust decree which granted the firm its monopoly in telecommunications but forbade it from engaging in the computer business.

https://www.softpanorama.org/History/Unix/unix_chonology.sht...

Arpanet, IETF, the GNU Project, TBL's CERN document-distribution project, Linux, multiple programming languages, and other elements are all based on the notion of non-proprietary ownership rights to the extent that free use and (generally) modification are permitted, often with little further restriction (MIT/BSD licenses), or with the requirement that further distribution also requires source availability in preferred form for making modifications (GNU GPL, AGPL, etc.).

That is: my comment was salient to the (implied) central fallacy of your previous statement. A foundation which your subsequent replies suggest is in fact your point.
> Nor do that care.

That's a misunderstanding about size. It is not about saving some kilobytes - indeed we have more than enough RAM/ROM/flash/mass storage in general, although it is a bit less true currently due to shortages - but it is a hint that the whole thing is better in other areas as well.

Except for the cases where a speed/size trade-off has been made of course. But even when it is a features/size trade-off, it is not always a bad deal, because software often has lots of features you don't care about, but could nevertheless introduce bugs in the features you do use.
Did you watch the "Bananas!" documentary, and its documentary aftermath documentary "Big boys gone bananas!" ?

It's real good, and a good example of big corporations sometimes backing off, however unwillingly.
Yes, obviously no problems -- Fastmail is the gold standard for indy email hosting. I don't want "integration" from my email provider. Their web client is so good I have stopped using native imap clients. On mobile I use the native exchange client with my own service that proxies to imap, so I can't say anything about their mobile support.

Recently we lost connectivity from our colo to their IMAP endpoint and although I already knew it was some BGP cluster-f, I pitched in a support ticket just to see what would happen. Received a reply noting the known BGP cluster-f peering with <our transit provider> and providing the exact time that connectivity had been restored. Can't expect much better than that. They actually responded quicker than our transit provider did.
Almost any significant technological innovation was expensive to provide to the public in its infancy but as the time went on, it became more accessible to the public. Right off the bat, i could name airplane transportation as a fine example.
Side point here, but that's a very justifiable cost. The damaged to a road is proportional to the fourth power of the axle weight [1]. That's something that amuses me when drivers complain that bike riders don't pay a "road tax". If they did, it would be a laughably low amount compared to what a car driver would have to pay in proportion.

[1] https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-much-damage-do-heavy-...
No One Talks About Too Much Automation Anymore
> Tom Bomb[a]dil, he was a strange character even for Tolkien's universe and was rumored to be a demi-god.

The theory is usually that he's one of the major gods, not a demigod.

I feel like there was a Maia who mated with an elf, but I don't remember with any certainty. Demigods aren't a major feature of the world.

EDIT: https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Melian is the Maia who mated with an elf. Their daughter, Luthien, is a normal elf, in much the same way that Elrond is a normal elf while Elros is a normal Numenorean. (Though Luthien doesn't seem to have been given a choice.)
Yeah, the guy who can enjoy a show with a brown person playing an elf is the one who can’t understand nuance in thought.
Indeed the feature is undocumented, but it's been known for some time - its goal is to mimic as much as possible the reset button, for those situations when your computer freezes up to a point where Ctrl+Alt+Del works, but literally no other process responds. Think "Background process locked up my OS, and I can't do anything short of unplugging the computer." Especially helpful on a laptop where the physical reset button is not available.
I’m a bit shocked that simulators aren’t made readily accessible to surgeons. I thought that would be the biggest advantage of robotic surgery - a surgeon could prep with a few practice surgeries on the sim, while being taken through a few “sometimes this is what goes wrong, here is how you recognize/recover”-scenarios.
Oooh, you jogged my memory. I actually meant the Damen station, down at the 6 corners. I did also use the Western station at Logan Square often though :)
This is a real problem in California and is some how ingrained into the political structure and hard to shake.

The Governor last year: "“There’s something that is truly Californian about the wilderness and the wild and pioneering spirit,” Newsom said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I’m not advocating for no (building).” [1]

AFAIK, lawmakers are actually considering subsidizing insurance costs for exurbs in places that were never meant to host human habitation year round.

[1]: https://apnews.com/article/b17b5c9200a64466b49f3f605f9202fe
Switch has 30% with a 5% rebate to consumers.

Steam has a regressive 20%/25%/30% tiered commission structure.

There are sweetheart deals we have no knowledge of, like Apple's deal with Amazon to get Prime Video onto their devices.
The article claims that the protests are against Dutch plans to slash greenhouse gas emissions.
This is incorrect, the plan is to slash NH3 and NO2 emissions. The former is not a greenhouse gas and global warming has nothing to do with it.
Can you point to examples where that has happened on Android (a comparable platform that has allowed sideloading since its inception)?
Right, but claims like that are harder to substantiate because they often rely on circumstantial information, like shares bore centers or ancillary components, which could be the result of company policy and not indicative of direct lineage.

Whereas, tracing the lineage of a Nissan VQ, GM L-series, or VAG EA motor back to the 90s is very easy.

Choosing 90s was basically a CYA for a "citation needed" claim.
More or less all EU members should charge freight road transport fees on highways and sometimes other roads too.
my point is that there are hundred of millions of users using the same iphone camera. That looks like a very minor datapoint to me.
Property taxes are some of the most aggressive/regressive wars on the poor.
The word among mechanics I've talked to is that yes, Subarus break down more often than other Japanese brands, but they're also cheap and easy to repair so the total cost is similar. The repair cost for even basic stuff on a Toyota is eye-watering.
Top comment has a link to more details. Apparently it's NtSetSystemPowerState from ntdll.

https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/34194/Performing-emerge...
Unheard of actors is generally a good thing when doing a new series: there isn't really a series where it's felt like a good thing that it was being initially run as "starring <well known actor>". If they're any good at all (and most actors are absolutely fine) then they'll be good.

The CGI on the other hand I agree though I can put my finger on exactly the issue: the virtual sets "feel" small in the footage I've seen. There's a certainly quality to the limitations of CGI which generally constrains the camera because you can't actually pull out far enough to make it feel large (I suspect getting the lighting to cast onto the actors right is also a subtle challenge here).
Two that spring to mind are enterprise sales and computer security (for different reasons).
Agreed, seems to be exactly this.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/sysrq.htm...

echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq # enable sysrq

echo o > /proc/sysrq-trigger # immediately power off
I would take this with a huge grain of salt

- Other countries do have expansive suburbs. They don't look like ours, but they are fundamentally the same. Get outside of any major metropolitan and you will see spaced out houses in subdivisions with lawns.

- The ASCE number is a bit of a joke - this is a marketing number for the purposes of pushing investment in engineering firms. In reality, your city doesn't need to pay to rebuild every suburban road it has when filling potholes is cheap.

- Furthermore, this article does nothing to actually link these liabilities to where the revenues occur. The giant cost of replacing an aging power plant completely dwarfs the cost of suburban power lines. But a new subdivision is a huge tax boon to a community.
Hi there, congrats on finishing while having a full time job! As someone who recently used SurveyMonkey and hated it, I really wanted to like it, but it was bit laggy and the UI was confusing at times. Also allowing only 10 responses in free trial makes it very limiting.
The wikipedia page for strategic bombing is where I pulled that Churchill quote from. When strategic bombing specifically targets a civilian population with the intent to cause terror, by Churchill's own account, that is terrorism (the term 'terror bombing' has been used by historians and commentators to describe the practice, and I think it fits.) Both sides of WW2 used terrorism extensively. They normalized it, but normalized terrorism is still terrorism.

"bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts"
I don't have a dog in this fight (the only MS thing in my life is my xbox, everything else is Apple/Google/Amazon/OSS), but can we dispense with the low-effort flame bait posts?
I expect it's similar to knowing the make and model of a car that was used in a crime.

Police aren't going to go around pulling over every one of those cars. However, if a suspect is captured, it can be a datapoint to help make the case.
I am frequently reminded these days of a particular New Yorker cartoon [0].

We can still avert most of the predicted catastrophes, but we need to stop letting the people with the money just dictate policy to the rest of us to favor themselves.

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
A couple of months agow I had never tried functional programming languages. Having learned Rust in the past year (and loving it ) made me want to try out Haskell since I always wondered about functional languages and I likes Rust's strong type system.

I go a bit dissappointed with Haskell, but right now I'm reading Tao's README and this looks like everything I've ever wanted ! I'm gonna try it out right now.
> GMail (consumer) stopped scanning your mail for ads personalization five years ago [1]. IIUC, the paid version already wasn't (never did?).

I appreciate that this is probably true, but ultimately I moved all my personal email from Gmail to Fastmail for a similar reason. It honestly feels good to pay someone for the service to improve the chances that our incentives are aligned. It's hard to believe my incentives will ever be aligned with Google when they are notorious for slurping up every ounce of user data they can find for the purposes of ad targeting.
This debate seems headed towards the question of whether or not one state can control what people do in another state, or restrict the free travel of people who intend to do things which are legal in other states? Utah doesn't allow gambling, can Utah build a wall to keep Utah residents inside so that they can't gamble in other states?
Also it's a two way street. When I'm implementing a UI, I try to understand the principles and ideas behind a design. Good tooling and some experience/knowledge helps, but ultimately it comes down to communication, asking questions and just having a discussion about a design.

On the other side there is also a benefit of giving technical input about a design, sometimes there are more robust solutions from a technical standpoint that gel with what the designer does.

I think both design and implementation are more efficient this way. It's also more fun.
Cool results considering the recent article I saw on HN suggesting there's not much else to find [1].

[1] https://bigthink.com/hard-science/large-hadron-collider-econ...