skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Metaverse. Much like VR in general, I don't think is ever going to be mainstream. It doesn't solve any problem.

VR will eventually reach the point where meeting someone in person will feel virtually the same as meeting someone in VR.

The problem VR solves is that there's a vast amount of resources currently being spent on transit (i.e. work & social commuting), housing (e.g. offices & hangout spaces), and ancillary products simply to meet face-to-face with other humans.

When VR reaches the tipping point where people really don't care if they're meeting IRL or via VR because it feels the same, all those resources can be saved or re-directed.
> You can't change a process - especially not a medical one for 100s of millions of people - and then say "We're 100% certain of this. This is all new.

The testing process? Of course we can, statistics is quite an established and predictive science.

Again, looks like you have a problem with a non-traditional process. You also seem to have a falling for low-quality science journalism. Both are understandable, but your failure of understanding the vaccine policies around the pandemics were due to your partial understanding, and not fault of the policies.
At least the original article has some reasoning. You just say "no". This is not very useful. You also assert it's "completely wrong" without any evidence. Reading between the lines, it's more like "I disagree with almost 100% of this post, the author's opinions differ from mine".

> Decoupling logic from components: 100% never do this. Ever.

Care to elaborate? I much prefer to decouple my business logic from my components - mixing logic with the view layer doesn't seem like a great idea, at least ime.

I've also had a good experience with a single folder containing all the relevant code for a component (types, style, test, etc).
There’s no way they have a legitimate secret sauce though… right? This doesn’t seem like a hard problem to do. Maybe some of this

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_component_analys...

Plus basic triangulation logic synced across a bunch of microphones?
> When you were prompted to set up 2FA

My understanding is that OP did not set up MFA, they provided random answers to security questions which were (at that time) used only as an account recovery mechanism. My further understanding is that Apple unilaterally changed the account policy to require MFA, and automatically used those security questions as a (presumably temporary) second factor.

From my reading of the first few search results, this MFA requirement doesn’t apply to all accounts (and alarmingly MFA isn’t even available to all accounts?!). It seems likely to me OP’s has a developer account, which would have the MFA requirement.

It’s not clear to me how Apple migrates any account when they make their auth policy stricter for that account. If Apple did in fact change policy such that OP was previously able to gain authorized access by password, but subsequently was not with no action taken by OP, Apple should provide some alternative means to regain authorization—even if only to recover purchases, which would harm no one.

Security is an imperfect spectrum which coexists on another imperfect spectrum of convenience. The previous mechanism was effectively like leaving a key under a hypothetical doormat. OP’s description is that Apple placed a new lock inside the door they can already enter, demanding OP produce a key Apple left under that doormat as a matter or convenience in case the previous key was lost. If you told me that one day I might need a former convenience I don’t use and didn’t ask for to enter my home, well… it’s my home. If my home is a rental, I’d have the right to recover my belongings (and to complete the term of my lease, but this is where the abstraction breaks down because digital services have very few consumer protections).

OP certainly isn’t entitled to any further service from Apple. But they’re certainly entitled to the goods they’ve already purchased. Even if the terms of service (almost certainly derived from or similar to the butt of joke iTunes tos) disagree. Apple can’t morally just put a lock inside your door and claim it owns what’s behind that.

I’ve intentionally buried this disclaimer: I like Apple products and have been a customer since the 1990s. I expect more of them than this. I left this til last because I think the above is pretty straightforward and my loyalties to a brand should not influence that.
>> either Ring or Nest is required in my neighborhood given our property crime issues

What do you do with that footage? I have a full resolution video of a dude stealing $300 worth of crabbing equipment from my porch. What’s next? Police is not going to do anything about it even though there’s probably technically a way to track him down.
There are “variants” that use simple scalar floats, CUDA, and an intermediate mode that does CPU-based vectorization. The same folks have made some vectorization libraries: enoki (used in v2) and a newer one called Dr. Jit.

More about it here and why it’s different from (e.g.,) PyTorch
https://drjit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html
Anyone who claims they are advocating for small businesses in US Politics, curiously is pushing legislation which helps the largest corporations.

I think the people who believe the "little guy" fiction just aren't paying that close attention.
Assuming you meant Redux Toolkit (RTK) Query there.

FWIW, the stance of both the Redux maintainers (myself and Lenz) and the React/TanStack Query maintainers (Tanner and Dominik) is:

- If you're using Redux at all, prefer using RTK Query

- If you're using just plain React, prefer using React Query

but don't write data fetching and caching logic by hand :)

There _are_ some API and philosophy differences between RQ and RTKQ. RTKQ emphasizes defining "endpoints" up front, and generates React hooks based on those endpoint definitions. That approach also helps enable codegen from OpenAPI and GraphQL schemas. RTKQ also has some unique capabilities around cache lifecycles that enable use cases like streaming updates:

- https://redux-toolkit.js.org/rtk-query/comparison#unique-cap...

(I'll also note that we have an `<ApiProvider>` that automatically sets up a Redux store for you internally, so you _can_ use RTKQ if you're not already using Redux in an app.)
> The article says the lawyer requested to be held in "friendly contempt." I'm pretty sure that doesn't exist.

It's a thing

https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.idc.law/resource/resmgr/quarterly_...

> This procedure is often called “friendly contempt,” a recognition that the contemnor has not acted “with
contumacious disregard for the court’s authority,” but requires a contempt finding and sanction for the purpose of
obtaining appellate review. See Klaine v. S. Ill. Hosp. Servs., 2016 IL 118217, ¶ 6; Zagorski v. Allstate Ins. Co., 2016 IL
App (5th) 140056, ¶¶ 16-17. In many cases, the contemnor has even requested the finding and sanction for that purpose.
See Ctr. Partners, Ltd. v. Growth Head GP, LLC, 2012 IL 113107, ¶ 20.
How else do you think 2FA is meant to work? If you could simply bypass it that defeats the point of 2FA. The question should really be why you would put random gibberish in for your 2FA answers: at the very least they should be systematic responses.
Most React development is comprised of using React and Fetch.
"Famous person who worked on the project disagrees and does not explain why" does not meaningfully contribute to a discussion. We're left to throw random hypotheses at a wall with no evidence.
If your business is to help uphold the public rule of law it’s a stretch to want to keep that process a business secret.

You can’t make rulers while also trying to keep the definition of an inch secret.
Don't forget about the old 4GB filesize limit of FAT formatted devices from those early cameras. That was the hard limit not time. They would say time because they knew the bit rate and how long 4GB was in runtime. It was fancy cameras that would hit 4GB, and create a new file. It was fancier editors that would recognize that it was meant to be one clip and import it that way. It was the less sophisticated that would force you to "stitch" it manually or work with multiple clips.
> There are still places where people don’t lock doors because they don’t need to.

Yep. I grew up not ever locking our doors, and I still don't. I even usually leave the keys in my cars in the driveway, especially in the one that the neighbors all know they can borrow if needed. I do have a dog who will bark when anybody unknown approaches the house, though.

When I lived in the city for a few years, I did lock my doors, but I left my car unlocked. I would relatively frequently come out to the car in the morning and it was obvious that somebody had rummaged around in it. But I didn't really care, and it was better than having the windows smashed, which did happen in that neighborhood.
It's plausible that ShotSpotter's main motivation is that there isn't much benefit (e.g., increased sales) to complying with the defense's request, but the costs could be huge, both for collecting the requested information in the required manner, and for the ramifications if they cannot produce information that the court believed they should have been able to produce. Discovery can be extremely expensive even when the ultimate assessment of a company's technology is favorable (and thus there's no decrease in sales).

For background: https://iaals.du.edu/sites/default/files/documents/publicati...
Forgive me if im wrong, but i was under the impression that jailing someone for contempt was very rare and mostly only happened in extreme cases, of which this does not seem to be one.
Just to check, have you had a chance to try out Redux Toolkit? We specifically designed it to eliminate the previous "boilerplate" concerns with legacy Redux patterns:

- https://redux.js.org/introduction/why-rtk-is-redux-today

- https://redux.js.org/tutorials/essentials/part-2-app-structu...

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2022/06/presentations-mode...

If other options do work better for you, great! I've just seen that many people's opinions of Redux are based on outdated info that doesn't match how "modern Redux" looks and is used today.
what is with people giving random answers for security questions? I understand not providing "true" answers, but random gibberish you have no hope of recalling? why on earth would you ever do that?
> Schools meals are pure cost, they don't bring anything back. It's not like we have mass starvation going on at the moment either.

They are not a pure cost, they are an investment in your next generation of humans (or human resources if you are that way inclined). Poor nutrition leads to worse academic and social outcomes which limits opportunities for poorer kids. Good food can boost their quality of life, health and ability to contribute to the world.

> Also, why "free meals" when parents can afford to pay for it? If you have parents who are under a certain threshold of revenues, give their kids free meals, but let's not do a one-size fits all policy, this is not 1950 anymore.

Every time you add a condition to a benefit like this, you have to create a whole government department around it. Many salaries, managers, cost of equipment and rent and energy. All to go through and classify each person against the threshold, then build reporting to find those who don't qualify, communicate this to them (so a helpdesk and appeal system needs to be created), an enforcement system, a penalty system, long waits for support or decisions, having to update your financial status if it changes etc. All of this wasteful bureaucracy just to be stingy towards kids.
The main process by which languages become simpler (when they do. It is not a universal rule) is when large numbers of adults have to learn the language. This usually happens during mass migrations involving intermarriage. The newcomers don’t learn all the complex rules and nuances. They tend to leave out some of the more complex parts. If there are enough of these newcomers, then their children start speaking a version of the language that has been simplified by their parent.

English went through this when the Norse invaded England and controlled up to 3/4 of it for several hundred years. As they did not have a large social separation from the English, they tended to intermarry with the English, and because their own language was similar but not the same, it was easier to speak a simpler kind of “pidgin” based on Anglo-Saxon but dropping things like gender and declensions that didn’t match the Norse versions.

When the Normans invaded, they stayed socially separated from the English for much longer and didn’t try to learn English, so there was no repeat of the simplification process. In contrast, the Norman French vocabulary migrated into English and seriously complicated the spellings in English.
The timing on this seems off to me - I am wondering why would gnome and unity releasing a different UI/UX ca. 2010 be a response to Windows 95?
Of course it doesn’t concern them. They’re an ideologue.
That can't be true if the price of a gallon of gas varies even between gas stations in the same area. Sure there's local, state and national taxes and other fees, but it's clear that gas companies are adding on top of their costs otherwise they wouldn't be turning a profit. "Inflation" is also the perfect cover to raise prices, and it's true of other industries
Basic Auth with digests has some issues, but both that and client certs mostly fail because of poor browser implementation.

Client certs would really be ideal if browsers handled them better and sync'd the certs between devices (like bookmarks), but I guess that still wouldn't solve the signing in from a new/different (non-synced) device.
You're telling me that cities are picking minority areas to put these in just for ill intent?

Also, the devices don't "enforce crimes", they only alert approximate areas where a gunshot/firework may have gone off at.
Topics: https://blog.google/products/chrome/get-know-new-topics-api-...
I'm sensitive to the idea their methodology could be used to create a competing product, and think the court could get the experts to agree to event more stringent than normal NDAs to examine it. But I think if a computer system is going to be used to convict someone, experts effectively arguing against it's methodology is good. In fact, I think experts should have access to various machines that could convict someone.

I don't really care about a red light camera (as the image shows the license plate and the red light at the same time), but there are tons of other technical solutions that need to be examined.
I love the idea, I just get shit canned every time I try. I have an interest in legal cases and have had my sources rejected when they are the SCOTUS official proceedings. Not for subjective claims, but obvious factual ones like who were the named defendants and who their lawyers were on a case. There are groups that like a not factual spin and I don't have the time in the day to go through Wikipedias adjudication system against someone and their possy.
We use biharmonic diffusion operators in oceanography as a basic turbulence model, which is effectively a fourth order derivative in space. It is like an accelerated diffusion which aggressively dissipates small scales but preserves the large physical scales more robustly than normal diffusion.
> And would he really know the true reasons here? It doesn't look like he was at RedHat, was he actually involved in Gnome 3 development to know the motivations?

Was OP?
Pardon my ignorance, but couldn't the court just order the police to raid the company and forcefully retrieve the data?
Is this not manufacturing a word issue? If someone is the majority share holder, they won't be turned away from entering the premise (unless they weren't recognized, of course).

If you only own .00000001% of a company, as could easily be the case for someone who owns a few shares, then of course they don't have the same capacity as someone who owns 51% of the company's shares. It's hard to enter .00000001% of a company's premise, especially since everyone who owns more shares of the company than that can easily stop you, as can any group of share holders in general. But it's not hard at all to enter if you own half-plus-1% of the shares, or more shares than any of the holders as a group who would oppose you.

Now for a more realistic example, take this same process, but for determining who can and can't stay on the board. The more shares someone has, the more their vote counts. That 50+1% share holder basically runs the show.

Of course the founder usually keeps that 50%+1 but I extended this to demonstrate there is a clear point where whether you own or don't own becomes a moot point. There is exactly that difference no matter how many/few shares you own. If it is less than 50%+1 then of course you can be stopped by the majority. That doesn't mean you don't own a portion of the company. It means you are outnumbered by share holders who may not agree with your decisions.
It's almost funny how he starts off the article by saying he doesn't use libraries, then shows you a function for an API call he wrote that is ~100 LOC. Had this guy pulled in something like react-query, he could have written that entire hook in about 5 LOC.

I'd rather write 5 lines of code using a library that I might have to replace later than write 100 line of code to future proof my function from the start.
There is also the matter of correctly identifying gunshots.
I stopped reading at the first code sample, which contained a singleton. My impression up to that point was that the author did not understand how redux works and what it is for (its purpose is not sharing state across the app).
I don’t understand the argument here. Suppose shotspotter is deeply flawed and often confuses fireworks and car backfires for gunshots, how could that have any impact on this case or the legality of it?

I don’t see it as any different than if a police officer is out patrolling, hears a car backfire, and confuses it for a gunshot. If he then detains someone as a part of his investigation and discovers some other crime, he still has probable cause because it wasn’t unreasonable for him to confuse a loud bang for a gunshot and for him to investigate.

The same holds true for shotspotter, regardless of if it makes mistakes. Even if shotspotter has some bug in their acoustic analysis that identifies loud bangs where there isn’t one, ie: total false positives, so long as it sometimes does detect a real gunshot, the police have probable cause to investigate.
How did you end up telling apart Danish from “other Nordic languages”?

It’s quite trivial as a layman American who has lived in Scandinavia to tell Danish apart for Swedish (one immediate dead giveaway is usage of ø in Danish vs ö in Swedish). But apparently Danish and Norwegian in written form are almost indistinguishable, so reliance on cultural usage of words must be necessary
Granted I’m rural, but ours took a week and a half to get back online when a forest fire burned a microwave tower. It took out Charter cable to our house & Verizon. I am a fully remote tech worker, and this was bad (I had to work remote-remote during this time).

On another topic, I have had Starlink since early 2021. A lot of the people I see complaining are not the target audience. We live 3 hrs from the nearest airport, and it’s night and day difference for everyone outside our “town” who were either using a local WISP or Hughesnet. There are more of those people out there than you think ;)

IMO Starlink is not going to replace hardwired connection options or local 5G, but that’s okay. At least in the USA, there is a lot lot land not covered by cell service. I carry an Iridium messenger in the car just in case I break down in one of these areas (it has happened to me, and is not fun trying to get a tow truck).
It's phenomenally hard. Echos, indirect routing (bouncing off buildings), sound waves changing speed as they go through various materials (like a lens). It's a very hard problem.

Heck, a truly calibrated surround sound system requires using a microphone to measure the volume in place.
I disagree and don’t care for either. They don’t have gravitas.

I also don’t like that there are co-hosts as if they couldn’t pick.
remember that the abortion issue, as a matter of law, is about the state's interests in the body. it does not litigate religious or social mores, but most of the "debate" is of this latter type.

i personally agree with the recent supreme court ruling that abortion rights shouldn't rest on privacy protections, but rather on a robust reading of the constitution that bodily autonomy is a fundamental right above and beyond states' interests (nation state or US state). i'd extend this to the issues of euthanasia and suicide as well. the state should have a very narrow and rigorously limited set of concerns (foreign relations and interstate disputes, in the case of the US federal govt).
> the only reason you pay attention to sides is identify with and wanting to defend a side in the first place

True! For example, I inherently have a bias towards wanting LGBTQ people to have the right to participate in society through marriage, anti-discrimination laws, etc because I'm LGBTQ. I suspect a lot of black people have a bias towards wanting anti-discrimination legislation so they don't get discriminated against, too.

Does that strike you as unreasonable?
Hopefully what is being enforced is the law, not the crimes.
Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate colorful language. Frankly, I wish we used more of it.

I do disagree with the point you were trying to make, though. The author described themselves as a “custodian of culture” in several instances where such an informal position might legitimately arise. If we take that at face value (it’s certainly hard to refute, in any case), then the technique they describe doesn’t seem to be as harsh to me as your colorful language implies.

I mean - the scenario wherein someone appoints themselves a culturally custodian when they really aren’t would be pretty different. And annoying. But that’s a lot to read into the article (in my opinion).
I dunno if this company deserves that benefit of the doubt.

Honestly, given their history, they probably just don't want to reveal that their entire business is snake oil, basically existing solely to make money by enabling law enforcement to create crimes out of thin air.

If their science was sound they wouldn't have to resort to such tactics...
> and third party cookies have other purposes than ads.

for some reason MS Teams won't work without third party cookies... not sure why... I hope I never have to use it again
The charges should be dropped in order for this man to have a fair trial. I hope there is some justice in this situation
I like that law in Canada.
If targeting precision plummets, then cpa will probably increase globally because the only effective strategy will be broader targets, or targets with signed in properties. That means higher relative value for signed-in search, mobile ads, and generally any owned properties. The smaller brokers are the ones who will be damaged the most. If Google did this tomorrow, you could probably make a case that it's anti-competitive.
I use Firefox, but I'm disappointed.
Evidence: US is not a democracy – Princeton university study
Acemarke, I know you're fighting the good fight with Redux Toolkit. I personally use it for truly global state with React Native. It's unfortunate the Redux name has a bad connotation for some as RTK is really good. And for some reason Context became something that developers thought was actually usable. Not sure what happened.