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No. They’re slow to shut down ad tracking but that’s a very different thing and there’s no evidence even remotely supporting your claim.
He's being inundated with explicit death threats even more than usual, and usual is a lot*. Leaving the Twitter account up, and those like it, but delaying data by 24 hours is a sensible compromise and the policy applies to everyone's physical safety.

* https://twitter.com/dataracer117/status/1519167734910619649?...
looks like our db went down for a few minutes when you were trying it out! Sorry about that!
“live location information, including information shared on Twitter directly or links to 3rd-party URL(s) of travel routes, actual physical location, or other identifying information that would reveal a person’s location, regardless if this information is publicly available”

This makes “I am at <concert> watching <performer>” a violation.
If you can’t survive as a business without causing punishing suffering to your workers, you don’t have a right to exist as a business. Subjectively, I’d like to see how far things need to be pushed until it breaks. Is it illegal strikes? Is it derailments? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ status quo is unsustainable considering demographics and labor supply shortages.

As executive leadership or an investor, I would be concerned of what happens to critical infrastructure in the event of impacts to national logistics. Losses would be $2B/day. The US government will step in at some point, and there’s nowhere near enough military reserves for them to run a railroad on no notice (150k rail workers, 25k-30k prime movers).
I used jQuery earlier this year.

I am not a web developer I learnt HTML in the 90's (When Frames and Tables were the way to write web pages). I have not kept up to date with current State of the art in web development. I know enough about JavaScript to read source code and kind of understand what it is doing but don't know anything about best practices or the 'proper' way to write it.

I needed to throw together a simple webform to submit a date as one of the inputs. I was having problems getting it to work consistently across different browsers.

One of the issues I was having was I needed the date to be in the Australian date format (DD/MM/YYYY) but one browser (I can't remember which Edge maybe??) kept insisting on using US style dates MM/DD/YYYY it caused me a lot of frustration maybe I just didn't know the correct phrase to search google for but I could not work out how to make the browsers built in calendar picker force the date to be in a specific format.

So I just used the JQuery calendar picker took me two seconds and problem solved.
Can this be compared to seat belts? If seat belts needed to prevent injury in every single situation then we would claim that they are ineffective because there is always a chance that seat belt may prevent someone from flying out of the window and not burning in the car being strapped unconscious. Is the goal here to be 100% reliable with 0 deaths or achieve better stats than 46k deaths per year in USA? This now becomes more of a philosophical question.
I honestly find it impossible for anyone to defend this self-serving behaviour.
I hope 40four can be flabbergasted at Elon's Twitter that the account is now allowed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33986234
do you use any specific modules for runbooks or just simple scripts?
oh most've missed adding that in. we'll make sure you can let the magic smoke out of the arduino if you fry it too lol
Ah, thank you. I didn't know what the difference was between a smelter and a foundry.
Turns out the FAA has been stalking people for decades. Can we also add "getting arrested is kidnapping actually" to this list of arbitrary interpretations?
Social Security Numbers used to be treated as quasi public data too.
It is also the domain is limited. I mean a piano only has 88 keys and a few pedals and there are maybe 8 octaves or so in Common Practice.

And MIDI also has SYSEX to handle arbitrary data.
And people keep praising Warren as if he is so well intentioned. He is just another billionaire who is intent on maximizing $$$ and has a great PR team.
Ask HN: Cross-account PII leakage in Amazon account?
HN-ers,

On checking out from Amazon today, one of the two recommended "recent shipping address" line items was not one I recognized.

On digging deeper, there does not seem to be any associated activity with this address; for example, there is no order on my account for which it was actually used. While it's certainly possible my account has been hacked (perhaps the most likely, and least concerning, option?), I have been able to identify the address owner (not hard, since I have full name and address!), and it seems unlikely that this is the case.

If this is not a hack, the only thing I can imagine is that somehow PII is leaking between accounts in this way. Amazon support is of course not able to help, for example providing information about orders or logins that might be associated with how that address got into my account.

I've reached out to the owner of the address, and to Amazon support. What next steps would you take here? Any ideas what might be going on?
If the policy changed this summer, it would have been the 1rst topic discussed in my country, and I would have been vocal about it. 'laviondebernard' was probably the pro-ecological account with the most reach in my country, propped up a discussion about a tax in private jets, and follow up the plane of the richest man in the world as well as planes owned by Total and other big companies.

The fact that this account isn't yet taken down shows it was just another kneejerk reaction from Musk, followedup by another one to hide his thin skin, and isn't about protecting anyone.

Also, planes are not people.
I have no idea why car manufacturers don't have phone holders built in. We're forced to buy cheap crap off the jungle website to suction cup, clamp, or screw into the dash. IMHO it should be a standard like the cigarette outlet.
Depends how much of Ableton you're using, Ardour may be usable for you. But it's definitely limited if you want the more professional features.
Model parallelism is possible for inference and you can host extremely large models across multiple accelerators (see DeepSpeed ZeRO), but the inference speed is several times slower compared to just having all of it on one accelerator due to communication bottlenecks and overhead (parallelism refers to memory needed for parameters, not the actual computation in most cases).

Certain models may require storage formats like bfloat16 to run efficiently that may not be supported on older hardware.

Parallelism is also supported (and more necessary actually) for training, but since backprop is expensive it typically requires many multiples of memory requirements needed for inference.
FBI deals with a lot of different fields. Not all field offices handle the same types of investigations. Alaska has this capability.
"Content that shares location information related to a public engagement or event, such as a concert or political event, is also permitted." Literally the next sentence in the thread linked.
On the other hand, you might be able to let self driving car take you anywhere instead of asking someone give you a ride.
“Almost certainly” is a very subjective definition. We simply don’t know that, so it’s speculation
I've recently been wanting to change the three Nest (v3) thermostats in my house to something else. I'm looking for something that has a 1 degree (F not C) hysteresis, and can be controlled via WiFi, but not the cloud. (I don't like the idea of the government changing my temperature settings.) So far I haven't found anything, but I did find a few that allow local control when the cloud cannot be reached. It should be easy to put them in a separate guest network with no Internet gateway.
The confusing bit is that the MuseScore mobile apps come from musescore.com. If you ask questions about the mobile apps on musescore.org then someone will likely treat you rudely, from the Q&A I've seen.

I think they've brought it on themselves by using the same name for different things. If they used distinct names (like they did for the new stuff) then they wouldn't be in this mess.
I hesitate to speak an unpopular (in many senses of the word) position, but there is a stark truth if you are a scientific/economic/objective observer that as long as people are willing to sign up for jobs under these conditions, you cannot greatly escape the truth the employers will continue to offer those conditions.

Be outraged as much as you want, and claim that this is so anti-labor and immoral / unfair, but it is a truth you can see play out in many similar spheres. You keep accepting conditions, and there is no incentive to change. And trying to put in rules to prevent it artificially is simply protecting some workers from what the market will bear.

It went the other way for workers because of mass shifts in unwillingness to work under certain conditions -- see the wage rises during Covid and up to today. Things do change if people are unwilling to take the jobs.

We unfortunately have too many people willing to take these jobs at the pay and benefits / conditions offered. Until that changes, you're fighting a fight against market forces. Unions, for all the good they done at times in the past, are trying to escape competitive market forces. As are we all, I admit.
Considering consoles are sold basically at or below cost, getting someone to buy a console instead of just the game almost seems like a value destroyer.

Either way, there surely is a large chunk of people who won’t buy multiple $500 consoles, and those sales WILL be lost of you don’t make the game for their console. I imagine it’s greater than the number of people who will buy another console.
nit pick, but this actually wasn't a direct result of 9-11, rather it occurred a few months later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Reid

He failed to detonate his shoes and no one was killed/injured from this incident (unlike 9-11).
Is there anything like ChatGPT happening from China?

They have almost 10x’d AI investment compared to the west, and I would be somewhat surprised if that investment combined with ubiquitous math skills failed to produce.
Meanwhile all the Elon Musk jet stories are disappearing fast from the front page.

The main one with over 1k comments and points survived only 6 hours.
This is from 2016 but still relevant. Low/no code is not real thing.

https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/25/a-very-comprehensi...
He is completely making this up as he goes along.

Edit: he's still completely asking this up as he goes along
Indeed, small problem: the opt-in dialog box doesn't appear, so for now no luck.
Yep, my mate curbed his front passenger wheel that way. But I dunno how you fix that without LIDAR sensors mapping the terrain around the vehicle.
Exactly. People want a special carve-out for Facebook and don't want to apply the same logic to public places and text apps. The magical "algorithm" is supposedly at blame, simply because there is supposedly an "algorithm" somewhere inside Facebook that sinisterly pulls the strings, whatever string, in order to make money.
If you want to run me through the things Platformmer got wrong about Twitter in the last month across the multiple stories they broke as evidence of how this is unsupported I’m all ears…
Police and firefighter unions are very good at negotiating. It probably helps that their counterparts don't really have any stake in the negotiation.
A plane taking off is a public event, and that statement isn’t in the actual policy linked.
I used to mock my relatives for not wanting to put their kids in a Tesla. But yeah, I'm not subjecting my family to beta software for a critical safety feature, nor should anyone else.
Choreo's Visual Data Mapper
Does it work on pianojacq.com for you? I can't get it to work for me and I'm wondering if I could make some kind of workaround.
Global Solar Atlas
Railroads can't. If you want to run a railroad to transport stuff in the US, you can't just move that to China.
There's a similar product at https://wokwi.com/ (with an open source core)

It's actually really useful, fast, educational. Highly recommended.

I also wish someone would revitalize falstad circuit sim (http://falstad.com/circuit/), which is still I think the best tool for experimentation with analog electronics. Just a little bit better interface and user friendliness and it would be amazing!

A somewhat more robust numerical backend (that can give error guarantees) would also be nice, you kind of have to tinker with time steps in some cases.
I wonder how does Elon expect any journalist to follow these rules? Big chunk of information from press is reporting on public figures location and sometimes this include reporting in real time.
have you driven a tesla autopilot at night in heavy rain with no visibility of the lanes? I did, I was amazed at how good it was. I couldn't see lanes but it did and judging by the picture on the screen it saw them very well. More pixels doesn't mean better, same as more ram doesnt mean better (iOS example).
> Preferably during running of your unit-tests.

Which means you need more unit test coverage, have more tests to maintain, and your code structure becomes more brittle.

> Static typing does not prevent runtime errors does it?

Often it does; and if a validation rule is too complex or externally-dependent to enforce at compile time, static typing at least lets you push checking to the start of an operation, rather than in the middle of your computation.
It's not a personal opinion thing. It's one of those things that you really could ask everyone and they would agree. It's hard to even think of a reason why someone would oppose it for themselves.
For anyone interested it's called retrieval transformer.
Here is example of one from Google: RETRO[1][2]

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04426

2. https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-retrieval-transformer...
The best way to save tech profits is to spend less money on software, somehow?
I once watched a video on YouTube about execution and for weeks after that it peppered me with videos about execution. It's not a favorite topic of mine so I was glad when YouTube decided not to keep suggesting execution videos to me.
I really love the concept and execution of spintronics.

However, having just gotten the two part kickstarter edition, it feels like they left out the … fun? The puzzles feel more like academic exercises than the joy that you get from even simple breadboard circuits that do stuff with lights, motors, speakers etc. I think maybe it needs a few more “output” parts to make the experience engaging.

Spintronics feels like a great teaching tool but not a great game.

Curious how others are digging it though.
Considering how many ECAD programs have come and gone since the beginnings, over time that could still be a net win.

"When you include the time to earn the money for a car, driving can be no faster than walking." (~Mumford)
It is sort of obvious, though. Type 1 diabetics require insulin because they cannot produce it. Fasting, of course, will not change that. They must take insulin.
https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1603165967453868032...
Also a KEXP listener and supporter. Long live KEXP!
1TB of checkout is the kind of repo I'm talking about I have two such repos checked out on this box currently. I'm not sure I've ever checked out a repo of this scale locally with history. I'd love to have the local history.
FWIW, the Subaru system is fantastic — I use it daily and it’s very predictable and literally never been dangerous. And works really well in stop-and-go traffic!

It’s not FSD, but if you use it as a driver assist, it takes a giant amount of burden off of driving in traffic. Even on a busy highway that’s going somewhat fast, it’ll just follow the car in front of you. And truly, it’s never once been dangerous.

Only catch is that it can’t “see” very long distance — if you’re going 70mph and there’s a stopped car in your lane, it probably won’t stop (at least, I wouldn’t test it!). But again, it’s driver-assist and not FSD, so you’re still expected to notice that. And within its limitations, it is really exceptional.
They don't want to offer salaries that would get 500k smart guys. Or benefits, which was one of the major issues.
Landing at an airport is a public event
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Russia-Ukraine war OSINT was the main target and @ElonJet just visibly banned before updating the policy as misdirection because personal thin-skinnedness is less newsworthy a motivation.

But, either way, its not good.
The principal-agent problem is literally the most counter-intuitive problem to have. I suspect, ironically, it would be best to overpay leaders and combine that with term limits. If you're set for life after working for a group for 5-10 years, you have little reason not to do your job well.

Every time i see US house members sleeping in their offices because they get paid so little for so much power, i shake my head at the utter obvious expectedness of the causal corruption that happens in Washington.
Local is the biggest impact, to my understanding Xbox doesn't have much of a market share outside the English speaking world, Playstation does. Xbox 360 was a bit ahead of the PS3 in the US/Australia/UK, but not in Asia and congenital Europe.
Yeah, so we started diode 3 months ago and in the beginning here we're focused mostly on making electronics more accessible to youth/beginners.

One major advantage of web based tools is shareability and we hope to see content creators writing articles with embedded diode projects so that tutorials can include inline interactive examples.

This is already common in the software world with tools like codesandbox and stackblitz, but not so much in the hardware world. Hardware tutorials often include fritzing diagrams, but we think the next step is interactive simulations anywhere and everywhere.
I agree with the sentiment--and with most of your comment--except the assertion that "I don't think it's possible to beat this stack".

I have something similar: Kotlin on the server-side with my SQL DSL generated by jOOQ and Flyway running my schema migrations. I don't have any experience with LINQ--but it looks to be of a similar idea to jOOQ such that you get an autogenerated, injection-safe, type-safe, compile-time-checked SQL DSL.

If you like LINQ, you'd probably really like jOOQ. It's uber-powerful and the only queries that I've not been able to completely write in jOOQ are geo-spatial queries--and even for them, I can use string SQL for just the one where-clause predicate where I need to go off-the-rails--the rest of the query still being standard jOOQ. The thing I like most about it, is that the queries that I write in the DSL are sooo close-to-the-metal of pure SQL--I'm not even context-switching between SQL and jOOQ really. Check it out!
> I think Open Source needs to move to a Low Cost model [...]

> License prohibits anyone but project owner from re-hosting on other sites.

That sure don't sound like Open Source.
> Sure the music won't be custom tailored by ... neural networks expressly designed to increase Sweden's internal revenue

hilarious take! I have found that any perfect recommendation takes the joy out of music listening for me. I feel like the highs and lows of good vs. bad songs are taken away and then its just a constant stream of background music.
“Increase in inefficiency” isn’t a useful metric. It’s not like Mr. Burns is going to have Smithers club a baby seal to death for each wasted dollar.

Instead, the utilization rate dropping from 98% to 90% is less than a 10% increase in labor cost. These are capital intensive businesses, so labor is a small fraction of overall costs. Mulitplying out, it’s probably a 1% increase in business expenditures, that (if mandated industry wide) can be passed directly on to the customers.
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Like my driving teacher told me in lessons (to admonish my safety focused thinking): do you really think everyone you're sharing the road with has a driving license? I guess he has a point. There are people driving out there without a license, or with suspended license, and all kinds of various situations. Which is why we drive defensively and have to be ready for drivers that don't always follow the rules.
If I don't get to cash out my sick days(my employer offers a 4:1 cash out option when I leave employment) I might as well use them.

Getting rid of that incentive would be a reason to call in sick more often.
The account is on Mastodon so append a .rss and viola https://mastodon.social/@elonjet.rss
One of the big issues was that in this multi year negotiation process, union leaders were banking on Biden to support them favorably and so did not pursue any other backup plans or offers. They could have had a Plan B in place to strike or at least secure a shorter term deal with sick days in place, with the rank and file ready to walk out, but the union leadership didn't want to. When Biden admin basically walked away, the union leadership were left with zero other options. Gross negligence from the leadership.

So this is not surprising at all. There's a lot of low level organizing and shaking up at each of the rail unions, but they've got a lot of work ahead.
The fell back to using Facebook earlier today facepalm
Are We AGI Yet?
There are a lot of awesome radio stations out there. They are vastly outnumbered by garbage but I love listening to my local community stations.
Maybe https://beta.music.apple.com/ qualifies? =)
Open source and arts are two reasons why Universal Basic Income experiments are interesting...
Unrelated, but my Typescript wish is an (optional) way to express its types at runtime in a reflective way. Most of the time you don't want this, but sometimes... sometimes you wish you could use `keyof` or somesuch at runtime.
Not really, no. For a start, I don't think NAND flash itself is an example of planned obsolescence: its main predecessor is spinning rust platters, which were notorious for sudden catastrophic failures. Spinning rust replaced, more or less, magnetic tape, which does have an effectively unlimited lifespan (it's more likely that you won't find a working tape reader than that you'll find properly stored tape is no longer readable) but is otherwise a terrible storage medium.

But more on point, this article's context is static ram on-die for a microcontroller or similar. One possible replacement for SRAM is magneto-resistive RAM (MRAM) - it's not quite as fast as SRAM but close enough for many applications, it's higher density than SRAM, so it'll take up less die space, and it's non-volatile so µCs can ditch the NOR flash often used for code storage.

One great thing about MRAM is that it has no write wearing: it has an effectively unlimited lifespan, without all the downsides of magnetic tape. I look forward to seeing it (or similar technologies) in microcontrollers in the future.
Hardship withdrawals from 401(k) plans hit record high