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The primary role of the court is to preserve rights. It’s job is to make sure laws aren’t enforced that violate established rights. It’s job is to tell governments at all levels that certain laws passed are illegal because they violate rights. Imagine a city saying that burning a Koran is illegal and a crime punishable by death. I very much hope the Court would step in and say that law is illegal. I think you don’t understand the historical role the court has played. It does more than preserve or expand rights but that is one of its primary functions.

EDIT: Let me be more precise. The purpose of the Court is to clarify rights. It’s job is to decide what exactly is meant by “equal protection”, “freedom of speech”, etc.
i was in a FAANG interview where i was asked such a question that was internal and straightforward. the person assumed that the way they were doing this, was common industry practice. however, i have been in that particular specialization they were interviewing me for for a good 20 years and never heard of a company doing it that way. i am quite sure that the person mistakely assumed that because his FAANG did it that way, it must be industry practice.
Also see the absolutely absurd episode of Dexter's Laboratory "Dexter and Computress Get Mandark!" It was written and narrated by a six year old fan of the show and hilariously brought to life by Genndy Tartakovsky and crew.
I disagree with TFA's take on dealing with spam — giving up!

For our app, we don't deal with spam in any novel way. We use honey pot, SFS, and Akismet.

However, by far the easiest way to stop spammers is a post queue. Lots of spammers will just create a burner account, fire off their spam, and start over. Given no actual reputation, give them the trust they deserve — none.

The other factor is building out a fast backend. Besides benefiting your own users, it also means Googlebot or Ahrefsbot won't absolutely cripple your site when they come knocking. Sometimes that is doable, sometimes not.
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Good phones have never been cheap. NEVER.

Even the Nokia candy bar phones MSRPed at $USD 599 or greater. (Remember the Communicator? I think that thing clocked in at $USD 999!)

The current iteration of expensive phones have an incredible price to value ratio. High quality displays, professional grade camera lenses assisted with top-tier computational photography, extremely fast SoCs. The SEs are all of that with slightly lower quality bins...for $400.

Are you not entertained?
To me it shows Microsoft's attitude that Windows is a little tunnel into your house through which they can act.

The computer isn't doing a thing. The user isn't doing a thing. The vendor is doing the thing, using the equipment they've got in your home.
What kind of hydrogen infrastructure already exists?

Don't you need practically everything for it to be new, apart from some buildings perhaps? Maybe some natural gas pipes can be reused at most?

You're also going to need pretty extensive safety zones around H2 infrastructure.
Now is the time to buy some nice jumpers, longjohns and blankets. Not even joking.
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We don't know if Amazon said they can keep it. And even if they did, whether or not Google actually chose to keep it in storage for potential later use. Or if they even sent them one in the first place instead of just outright buying the "featured" plaque.
> then when you have your own kids you will start seeing your parents in different context as you became parent and see you was maybe more harsh on them than they deserved

Is this really so common or just something a writer said once? Because I definitely went the opposite way. And genuinely, I never seen anyone say that they did became more understanding toward stuff that bothered them the most when they were younger.

I know both people who try to emulate parents with own parenting and those who are firmly decided to do things differently. (Most have both aspects.)
Hn post pointing to git commit where AMD engineer said that spectre does not apply to AMD: placed an option against Intel.
This is an old post but it reminds me of the idea that the blogosphere of the last decade really has moved to arxiv instead. A lot less informal but for technical nuggets of insight that's really the best place with the best culture right now in 2022.
Take care that if dedup is enabled, information is leaked.

More information at: https://blog.heckel.io/2017/01/08/zfs-encryption-openzfs-zfs...
This post made me money, because it was a link to my product. :-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31625804

I had no involvement in posting the link though.
When you compare two things that are significantly different in scale and scope without recognizing or addressing those important differences, yet proceed to call them the same without any qualification regardless, that’s exactly a false equivalence.

Let me be clear about what the difference is: the way that Democrats and Clinton behaved in 2016 was legal and constitutionally within their rights. The way Republicans and Trump behaved in 2020 was not only illegal, it was seditious bordering on treasonous. Putting those two reactions into the same bucket in any capacity is an act of historical whitewashing and indeed, false equivalence.
But what is the importance of this - compared, say, to a popular Linux distribution? (MacOS may be more popular on the desktop, but Linux seems to be way more important in the grand scheme of things.)
Is buying/having a few kindles for testing a unreasonable expense for a company like Google?
uhh, usually they bag them up where I've lived.
Possibly easily solved by making it easy to lock out (lock-out codes? Or an app with such a toggle?) if a person believes someone else has unauthorized access. The trade-off is an increased risk of inadvertent or malicious denial of service, but properly hardened those can be minimized.
(Author) I'm running a search engine though. Do you propose I require users to register an account, and then not allow them to search?

I think my backend is plenty fast given it's hosted on a PC off domestic broadband. Most searches complete sub-100ms.
Interesting - At least in my area most of the gas weed eaters available for sale are now 4-stroke. Wonder which will end up being more prevalent.
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I'd rather have an email service that has no password reset functionality. If I lose my private key, lock me out forever.
I wonder about engine cooling. The radiator is at the front to catch as much of that air flow as possible. You don't really want to block it.
I actually largely agree with most of that.

I do think that being able to patent relatively minor UI stuff is absurd. I do think it was a total waste of resources, and I have said so, in print, for instance here:
https://www.theregister.com/Print/2013/06/03/thank_microsoft...

However, I was there as an active industry watcher and commentator at the time, and it seems to me that the main focus of comments here are simple incredulity. I have seen very very few people responding with any kind of citation or reference or anything else.

I do not accept simply argument from authority. The founder of the GNOME project says "no" is not a counter-argument. [1] I am not sure that he was involved in GNOME 3. [2] He then became an MS employee and therefore has (literally) vested interest.

Denial is not refutation.

Furthermore, as I have said, if anyone involved publicly confessed to it, that would constitute an admission of liability.
look again. people come out of the woodwork to crap on Microsoft. you'll see SOME of that for FB or Google, and nowhere nearly as much. people are ANGRY at Microsoft, and they merely recognize that Google and FB and Amazon are problems without anger or any real call to action about it.

it's very weird. things Microsoft did over 20 years ago anger people a lot more than things happening today, and I don't understand why at all.
Japan Once Led the World in Microchips. Now, It’s Racing to Catch Up
JavaScript is mostly used for abuse.
The advantage of batteries is that you can manufacture them into any form and in case of cars, you can just hide them under the floor.
Fine, works well enough in that particular use case.
Does not discredit the what I said at all. There are many other applications where the volume and weight of the battery would make it unfeasible.
Family members waiting anxiously in the hospital, the surgery is dragging on, suddenly the waiting room door opens and the surgeon leans in. Family members all turn to the surgeon expectantly.

Surgeon: " :( theatrical exaggerated frowny face Something went wrong."

Exit surgeon.
ZFS encryption on a disk can perform better than LUKS since LUKS has integrity enabled by default and TRIM/discard can't be used. If you encrypt the full nvme this can lead to premature drive failures and loss in performance.

With ZFS there are other things to consider as well, but I would recommend looking at an article like here https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/a-quick-start-guide-... that goes into much detail.

Like always it mostly depends on your use case/scenarios.
Posting a political cliche that tangentially relates to the article title and has nothing to do with the article content is more of a reddit thing.
I've thought about this before, and there's a fundamental problem.

If there are just a few physical locations where the reset can occur, nobody who lives far from those locations can reasonably use the service. The risk is too great.

If there are lots of physical locations, then the whole purpose of the service is defeated. There's no way to control the people working at all those locations, and surely some of them will become compromised.

I think the only solution is to somehow integrate with something like a bank or post office that seem to have already solved the problem of operating many secure retail locations.
As an American, I have only ever seen the opposite. Pretty much everyone where I'm at just mows over the leaves. Blowers mostly used to clear streets and sidewalks. Rakes are sometimes used to collect leaves and burn them, but even that is uncommon.

However, I live in the midwest. We don't have as many trees here as the east or west coasts.
I wholeheartedly agree, except
>There's nothing wrong in being proud with your country,

Carlin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOmQP9guIl0
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Hot take here but maybe, just maybe, there's more than 1 reviewer, even dispersed across different offices.
Oh its just a dig at Louisiana where my family is from. It's fun to call them stupid ( they're not ).
curious - what kind of ID would have your SSN on it?
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> people and companies have to buy new leaf blowers and batteries

It seems hopelessly anachronistic and impractical, but why can't rakes be an alternative? It would take more time, but the landscapers would be paid more if they're working hourly.
The following things have introduced '10x' returns for me (which is a slightly different thing than asked, but should relate):

0. Mathematical thinking: John von Neumann said, "If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is." While this can be interpreted in multiple ways, I believe he was trying to say that life involves lot more complex mathematics than the mathematics we study at college and which some people already find complex. Economy, biology, ecology, are all big fat mathematical optimization problems, like in AI. And in fact, the notion of 'embeddings' in AI that is able to efficiently represent anything as a set of numbers has allowed seeing more mathematics in the day-to-day work. (PS: A recording of my talk related to this will be available soon.)

1. Ability to think holistically about the topic at hand: More or less, I am able to maintain the full picture in mind, ranging from the finest detail or smallest action to the big picture spanning not only a human lifespan but bio-evolutionary history and mathematical underpinnings of anything. Doing this well includes having to let go of beliefs held, questioning falsehoods, challenging the status quo. Facing traumatic situations has led me to rethink myself a few times in my life.

2. Selflessness, having and retaining clarity of the final goal: Problems happen, conflicts happen. Focussing selflessly on the goal helps letting go of smaller things and aligning people. Relentlessly work to help others; the rest comes by itself. (See also: Hanlon's Razor).

3. Authenticity and honesty: Being truthful, talking freely about ones weaknesses, experiences, readily admitting mistakes, goes a long way in engaging people and gaining their trust.

4. Curiosity and continuous learning, across diverse subjects: When I was a college student, I used to park myself before randomly selected bookshelves at the library, reading whatever books were in front of me. I barely used to be able to take any to the finish line which used to invoke a sense of guilt. In hindsight however, even reading first one or two chapters of books across a range of topics is very helpful. Needless to say Hacker News has helped a lot.

5. Having good verbal communication skills (which other commenters have already called out), and delivering presentations to large audiences: The first time I signed up, I was very scared, wanted to withdraw, but missed the deadline to do so. Do that -- sign up and miss the deadline to withdraw. The rest will happen by itself.

6. Writing: Other commenters here have already written about writing. Writing is a tool to think. It leverages the paper as a memory to bypass the limits of our working memory. It is useful for self-introspection as well.

7. Holding yourself to a high quality bar: Do not like yourself making mistakes. (#3 covers acknowledging them when you make.)

Note: Of course, the points above haven't given me 10^8x returns. :-) '10x' is to be taken figuratively only, and the returns from the above are not independent.
> the Model 3 is smaller in length

The Model 3 long range is almost 1,000 pounds heavier than a Camry, and the Camry has more range (and a faster “charging” time). Interior volume is similar, with a slight advantage to the Camry, though given the Model 3 has smaller exterior dimensions I’d give it the edge there.
Imagine the hubris it takes to say what another person should think?

Maybe they already know the concept of individual freedom allows them to think and say what they believe?
> The hunt for publishable p-values is nearly always fruitful. If one
cannot find a publishable p-value in one’s data—with the freedom to pick
and choose models and test statistics, to engage in “sub-group” and sequential analysis, and so on—then one is being lazy.

> P-values can and are used to
prove anything and everything. The sole limitation is the imagination of the
researcher. Fleeting exposure to a 72 × 45 pixel image of the American flag
turns one into a Republican; walking through a door (an “event segmentation”) damages your memory; Keynesian theory is wrong; Keynesian theory
is right; selenium causes cancer; selenium cures cancer. This list could (and
will) go on in perpetuity.

Sadly true and well written. However, the author is over certain that using Bayesian statistics will make things better.
MS Access and "advanced" Excel. My non-development career has been based in bureaucratic organizations with systems that are very locked down. In many of my positions I have been able to automate the majority of my work and spend time saved on going 'above and beyond.'
Three skills:

1. “If you want to be effective or influential you must communicate yourself completely.”

Getting comfortable writing a document, proposal or vision which summarizes and organizes the entirety of your reasoning and fully describes the problem and what needs to get done.

If you have something complex to communicate this matters. I have personally seen entire startups raise funding and get started based on having a well documented thinking like this.

If you plan to go into any complex endeavor I think this is a critical skill.

2. Sending great Summary Reports

There is incredible power in being able to write, organize and send a complete report which captures the total state of your job and thoughts about it.

Very intelligent management are dying for a tool to help them manage a complex landscape. If you are the only one capable of preparing these reports it is super useful.

3. You have to tell people how to work with you, self disclosure

I went my entire career carrying resentment around with me and frustration rather than try to provide others with guidance on what I am like and how to work with me.

Finally, this year, I joined a new company and had enough. A good friend of mine told me to tell people what I am like up front at the start of the relationship so they understand.

I have aspects of add and Aspergers and am very introverted. It effects almost everything but it can be managed but I think disclosing myself to others helps
Me to reduce the conflicts and blow ups that happen to me all too often
This whole comment section is pretty frustrating. I don't even live in America and I'm scared. An enormous wave of hate is starting to show recently - even in the comparatively few places where queer people are relatively ok.

I still don't get to marry in my country - only civil unions, and even that was hard fought. No adoption, no real protection from hate crime. Elections are happening soon, and the projection of who's likely to win is... bleak, to say the least.

And I'm the lucky one: I'm a cis gay man, and out of the whole LGBTQ+ community, I'm in one of the least bad spots to be in. My trans brothers and sisters have it way, way worse - especially when surgery and/or hormones are not nearly as easy to come by as these people on the internet would like to think.

Me and my boyfriend are careful about any public display of affection, out of fear. I have trans and non-binary friends who have to either hide who they are, or fear stepping outside their homes - or even their own bedrooms. And one day - if lawmakers would be so kind as to let me - I would love to raise one or more children. To be a father. But as it is, even if I would... this is not the world I would want to raise a child in.

It's all fucked up.
I can resonate; I also love napping. Naturally, my body does not require much sleep, but napping is like having one of those 5 hours energy drink, without actually having it. Sometimes, I'm up from it in just 20 mins w\o an alarm and there are times when I don't wake up with an alarm even after 1 hour - it goes for 2ish hours.

Yes, I'm gifted - https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/22/health/short-sleep-gene-welln...
I believe OPs point is we could just ban Export of gas.

This will fail for a few reasons:

* We import 101 other things from the EU (from food to medicine to electricity), if we bad export of energy, they will stop exporting those in retaliation.

* We're not that independent, we might be close right now (because it's the height of summer) but we desperately need Norway and Belgium's gas come the autumn

* Energy is a raw material in basically every manufactured product (this is why the US usually refuses to export natural gas). What this means is, if you cannot export energy as gas, you end up just using it to make manufactured products and exporting those instead. So rather than cutting domestic bills, you just end up giving a huge subsidy to energy intensive industries (like steel and aluminium production). Maybe you want to do that (the US explicitly prefers manufacturing jobs to energy production jobs). But it won't actually cut prices, it will just move jobs from outside the export ban to inside it...
Of course not. But if Word would underline a word of your and offer an offensive correction, that'd be similar.
As I mentioned in another comment in this, 2-strokes don't need to produce horrible amounts of emissions, you just need to mix the proper amount of oil in with the gas for the given engine load. This can be done (and is done!) today with injected 2-stroke motorcycles. The emissions go down dramatically and you can get as much or even more power than a traditional pre-mix 2-stroke.
Most Americans actually stay in or near city where they grew up - 75%.

However, PhDs and post docs essentially have to move for career reasons. So, the researchers are more biased toward moving around.
Frequent leaf blowing is very much an issue where i live in Sweden. Where can I move to escape the leaf blowing? I despise the energy waste and pollution, especially the noise. The leaf blowers never seem to be doing useful work anyway; all they do is to move small amounts of organic matter a couple meters.
> Civilians just can’t remember that it is forbidden in frequentist theory to talk of the probability of a theory’s or a hypothesis’s truth.

Oh. How we all wish the word civilian here din't mean scientists in every field publishing in every journal.

And how I wish my reviewers didn't force people to do this :(
Ask HN: Any great books about technical writing?
Im looking for a resources (ideally books) that can help juniors, devs and even seniors to improve their technical writing. To help them write better issue descriptions, announcements, documentations, user manuals and so on. How to communicate (in a written form) technical stuff to technical and non-technical people.
Scientists create first 'synthetic embryos'