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Singapore literally suppresses critical free speech

https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/01/13/singapore-tightening-scr...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/opinion/fake-news-law-sin...

The impression one gets by being there is that it’s a plasticised city inhabited by consumer drones. They also cane people for misdemeanours. Oh, and the migrant workers (on which their whole economy relies) routinely work 18h/day.
Even better when the public surveils the state.
I really like the writing style. I wouldn't describe it as "cutesy" at all, just informal.
Stripe made Sorbet for Ruby.
Dice lists 10 times more Perl jobs than Rust jobs and almost 3 times more than Kotlin.
It is reasonable to assume that if a $7,500 federal tax credit is available for purchasing an EV, the manufacturer will simply raise the price by $7,500 more than they would if no such credit.

Because the credit is non-refundable, only those who owe significant federal taxes will benefit from it.
Anti-recommend Murphy's book as a place for anyone to begin with. I can barely understand what it's trying to say about the topics I already know.
But US Canada customers are not entertained by most mutual funds right?
There is no license plate reading from space. It is physically impossible to achieve such resolutions from LEO with atmosphere in the way. It gets worse with off axis viewing through a longer column of air.
Wow ditching both Apple CarPlay and Android Auto to target $20 billion to $25 billion in subscription revenue.

GM showing itself to be actively user hostile with this.

Owners will be paying an extra subscription cost for these apps to be in their car which are already on their phone.

Google Maps subscription free in these GM EVs only for the first 8 years. Then you pay a subscription with recurring billing.

These vehicles are no longer a consideration with this user hostile orientation. I hope this sends GM to bankruptcy round 2 and deters other car manufacturers from this nonsense.
Many ML practitioners aren't software engineers. I don't expect that cohort (non-engineers) would manage a deployment well in any language.
These threads are part of the canon of "stupid things the hackernewses will say about market economics". It's truly amazing. There is no economic system where a company decides to raise prices based on how much money they need to fund some other thing. That is just beyond stupid. It's a multi-supplier market and prices are set via equilibrium price discovery.

Please, HN. Try to be less stupid.
I've seen some children move onto Unity for the 3D graphics. Physical computing can sometimes give an incentive for Python when its the only lanaguage available. We've done some stuff with Minecraft Pi at code clubs I've been involved with. although it's such an early version of Minecraft. My elder son likes maths, so we've done some mathematical things in Python, which are easier in that, although probably wouldn't be impossible in Scratch.

But it's tricky!
Decentralized Reinforcement Learning (2020)
Mind if I create a subthread on your favorite games to play on the Deck? I'm looking for some new games to play.
Ask HN: Why is `pip search` still in pip help?
To my understanding, the search endpoint for pip was disabled permanently several versions back, yet it still shows up on the list on pip help commands. Is this just an oversight or there are plans to revive it?
See also: "U.S. court upholds block on Biden's vaccine order for federal workers" https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-court-upholds-block-bidens-...
An OLED would be nice but is certainly not a must. A high-grade IPS panel would be fine too.

Agreed that the current battery life is impressive, but even so for me it hangs in that awkward spot of "just good enough to be technically usable", at least where more demanding games are concerned. It's probably already amazing if all that's being played are older non-emulated titles that have low enough resource demands to be able to run the Deck downclocked.
But US Canada investors are not entertained by Indian mutual fund houses right?
the AI can prove that it catered to those objectives, isn't that the problem you stated?
You Are Not Too Old (To Pivot into AI)
Women are the majority of voters in nearly every election in the country. The number of women in Congress isn't a good measure of women's political power, because many women prefer to have a man in the publicly visible role. My mom is a Democrat and thinks the President should be a man. That doesn't mean women "lack political power according to their number"--you just disagree with how they're exercising that political power.
Actually, just the aux jack is perfectly fine.

I have a car with just aux, and I bought a $37 aux to bluetooth adapter [1] that works perfectly. It is a small puck shaped thing you can attach on the dash, with physical buttons for play/pause/prev/next, a good-enough microphone and you can answer/end calls with the play button.

If they release Bluetooth 6.0 or whatever with cool new features, then in a couple of years when I've bought a phone that supports this, I can just buy a new Bluetooth adapter.

[1] https://www.ebay.com/itm/185493363534?hash=item2b30441b4e:g:...
Unicode is developed by consortium, has an intensely broad mission, and by necessity has very little ability to readdress past choices.

It's fundamentally difficult to layout codepoints in a coherent numerical order. And naming them is difficult too.

A from scratch unicode built around modern usage and modern computers would be different than the one we have built to work in ancient times and augmented many times since then. Han unification was partially motivated by a desire to keep code points within 16-bits, but active written languages can't fit in 16-bits anyway. There's persistent confusion between when 'same' shaped glyphs used with different meaning should or should not be combined into a single code point, there's no consistent applied philosophy. Unicode wants to believe that context tagging would happen outside of the stream of text, but then again, they do offer ltr and rtl tagging code points. Had language tagging code points been offered, it would offer a full answer to the question of code point combination, but at the cost of requiring all applications to deal with those code points, etc.
I've been back and forth on buying one. I want to support Valve so they continue to do great work on things like Linux support, etc. I just wouldn't use it very regularly, I game mostly at my desk with keyboard/mouse or via remote play (Steam Link) on my couch with a controller.

Actually my biggest complaint at the moment related to Steam Deck is that the new Big Picture mode is absolutely broken on remote play. Maybe it's because I'm still using a Steam Link (I'd die for a new one to be released) but my god it's awful. So many annoying little bugs since they updated the UI to be the same as the Steam Deck.

Usually the remote play experience is slightly wonky but a little bit of tweaking gets me where I need to be, or Valve releases an update that will fix my issues. But I've been dealing with the following ever since the UI update and no fix in sight:

- Frequent, like 50%, of games won't have focus upon open. I have to open the Steam Link layer overlay and toggle on mouse controller mode, click the window to focus, and then open the overlay again to turn that mode back off. Often focus stays on Steam, so my controller is moving around in the Steam UI (I can hear the sound effects) instead of the game

- Same bug as above but in reverse: when I quit a game and land back in Steam, it isn't focused, and I have to jump through the hoops above

- Opening the store page for a game and then pressing B to go back loads the desktop/browser version of the store page instead, which has zero interactivity with my controller (I have to close the store and open it again, losing my place)
Yeah so this is basically just repeating Toyota marketing. Yes they have lots of patents, because they studied lots of stuff, it does not mean they are in the lead of anything.

> while everyone is focused on lithium ion

Please remember that 'solid state' is just a marketing term. The actual meaning when talking in terms of automotive battery is 'lithium metal anodes'. So these are still lithium ion batteries.

And lots of people are working on lithium metal anodes, and have been for 50 years.

> Toyota was biding it’s time and getting ready to one-up everyone with solid state batteries and vehicles with double the range.

That is certainty what Toyota marketing has been telling people. But in reality scaling a new battery technology is incredibly difficult and if these claims were actually true we would see massive Toyota battery factory being build. When in reality its incredibly low volume production stuff that might show up in a few hybrids.

Also, 'solid state' isn't magically better then everything else. You can hit the same density with silicon. There are 100s of companies working on silicon and lithium metal anodes.

Toyota has announced some EVs but no actual product with these magical batteries that they have. The reality is, nobody, not Toyota best battery engineers know how difficult it will be to scale production of these things to a massive gigafactory. And if its not a massive gigafactory then its practically irrelevant in the EV market.

So unless we actually see a massive gigafactory somewhere that is dedicated to this type of battery, this is just marketing.
> scanning source code: it will generate also lot of false positive and a need to manually edit (ammend/correct) the SBOM

Can you give any examples of this? I’ve never seen a tool like this report a true-false positive but based on your mention of embedded tools I’m guessing you might be referring to something like a build dependency which is completely optimized out such as a debugging feature on a production build? In such cases I would be inclined to either prepare separate SBOMs or otherwise indicate when something is present but not reachable. My concern about editing the files is that these are intended in a somewhat legalistic context and if something blew up it’s not hard to imagine someone’s lawyer using those changes to argue that you were aware of a problem and tried to cover it up. Even if you could defend your policy, that’s not a conversation anyone wants to have.
Firefox is a Good browser, yet they have lost millions of users per their own data https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity So why are users switching to Chrome and clones? Is this because when you visit Google and MS properties from FF, they promote their browsers heavily? Once, Firefox was downloaded by every Windows user, and it wasn't just for Linux and co. To keep the future of open web open, Firefox must continue to exist. You may not like it, but that is the hard truth. Otherwise, Google will set all standards, which is not suitable for the open web. What do you think?
In realty his successor is just as anti-EV.
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That's interesting. I've read a few summaries of the decision but not the original text. I'd be curious to see how the court would respond to a state like Texas or Arizona challenging Castle Rock on something like immigration enforcement.
We'll I suppose we are somewhat at an impasse.

I Believe you understand why it is prudent for the judicial branch to refrain from prosecuting key figures from both political parties if the crime committed is just a minor technicality such as not paying a parking ticket or accidentally using non-secure lines of comms.

I think we disagree on whether what Trump is rumoured to be charged on falls under the category of "reasonable to refrain from prosecuting".

I think this is a politically biased DA, going out of his way to use a technicality to charge Trump. In my opinion, this is way outside of what is acceptable. If the rumours are true there is no major nor minor crime committed here, this is at best a technicality and will likely be thrown out.

Besides my opinions on the specific case, I think we also disagree on how much leeway these key political figures and officials should be given before the justice department gets involved.

I personally believe we should give much more affordances. I despise the modern idea of the "civil servant". Its a sort of neutering of what should be very revered roles. Everything from the laughable law salaries which are earned by 20 something kids in silicon valley or wall street. To little things like the secret service being able to veto the president on what he/she wants do etc.

It just seems so unamerican to me. In a very short timeframe, we have lost so much of the reverence and weight given to these roles.

Anyways, I can go on a very long tangent here, so I'll stop myself.
Chinese state-sponsored hacking group highly active
problem is (from GM's perspective), with CarPlay, Apple takes over the UX of the car...the Apple logo is the first and last thing people see when driving

GM doesn't want Apple or Google taking over the UX of the car, because then GM is eventually just another FoxConn

and sure, there's a money thing...they want revshare from Spotify and every other app they can position in the UI

CarPlay and Android Auto will be gone as fast as car makers can make it happen
https://archive.is/uohbv
Why exactly are you offended?
It's a shame there is not one universal automotive entertainment standard that can read and interpret from any device following that standard.
A pretty web game to make you relax
Your stats don't back up your claim. Crime _has_ skyrocketed since the pandemic as both of your links show. Your first links subtitle states: "Violent incidents are up since the pandemic began" and the second link shows a graph with a quite large spike starting around 2020.

That there existed a time in history when the murder rate was a higher than it is now is completely irrelevant.
No experience with AI systems or no experience with the technology sector in general?
> The ability to use plugins is no quality in itself

Theoretically no, practically, it is since someone is indeed more likely to extend the functionality via a plugin since the barrier is lower vs. adding the same thing to the core
Also, for some things that someone could also be you

> Helix aims to have an out of the box experience that would take you hours or even days if you are fresh to vim.

Or you'd just copy the plugins/configs of someone who spend those days already, just like in those astro-space-packages you mentioned
Is there any modern stack out there for making games with vector graphics?
> impossible to overturn it without directly abandoning stare decisis.

The Supreme Court really doesn’t care about state decisis except when it suits them. That was made plainly evident last year in Dobbs v. JWHO.
The point is to use third party libraries while keeping your prefered case in your code. You prefer your code in CamelCase, but some other guy made a library in snake_case. Still you can use the library using CamelCase, and not mixing.

E.g. The Python Selenium library used to be in CamelCase, while almost all code in Python is snake_case. By using Selenium you ended up with code like:

my_button = browser.getElementById("Button")

They rewrote the whole library to be in snake_case, a change that forced a lot of code rewrite downstream. Even the Python builtin library has case inconsistencies (logging module is camelCase, sys has both alllowercase and snake_case) that weren't fixed even in 2to3.

Nim would have handle this efortlessly, allowing you to use get_element_by_id or getElementById in the old library, and avoiding you the effort to rewrite your code if the Selenium mantainers decided for a case change. You can refactor your case without fear of making life worse for your users.
Quick, grab your Pikachu faces! This never happened before in the tech industry! I'm just sorry for all those people happily waving their certifications on LinkedIn.
I got this one saying it is in Botswana:

https://imgur.com/a/ko84Now

But it's clearly Mountain Air Country Club, with the identical photo here:

https://www.golfpass.com/travel-advisor/courses/1162-mountai...
haven't known that. will definitely give it a go to hide my ide preferences from others.
Gujarat High Court fines ₹25k for seeking info on India PM Modi college degree
There is a controversy that PM Modi's degree is fake.

It’s intriguing that every time an applicant asks for the details of PM Modi’s educational qualifications, universities run to court to get injunctions so they don’t have to part with the information. [1]

[1] https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/the-curious-case-o...
To calibrate: Yudkowsky didn't sign because he feels a temporary moratorium doesn't go far enough, and he published a piece in Time [0] with a stance that a shooting war to enforce a ban on AI training would be justified, to prevent the extinction of the human race.

I'm not convinced that he's wrong.

[0] https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-no...
Really?

> Those places, let's not forget, deliver care often with a motive of indoctrination in to religion. It really is taking advantage of people who are vulnerable.

Because I think i've provided more to backup my claim than your "nuh-huh!" replies. You changed target from _my_ claim they are used for indoctrination to their validity in science.

Both refutations are dubious at best, it seems you have taken a position and are sticking to it, out of dogma. A bit like those who blindly follow religion.

Like those people, I don't debate with them. It is pointless. Have a good day.
What terrible bait, like I'm speaking directly to a man who's sold ads for three decades. "Boring" ads? No one wants to be served ads that manipulate them with "fun" (and we know that what you really mean is "serve the most attention-stealing customer-conversion media"). I won't believe that people consume digital ads by the Meta corporation for fun.

Damn, I called it terrible but it worked. Oh well
Few suggestions based on my prior experience on the same task in production system:-

1. Both the tables (Nodes and Edges) MUST HAVE one more column as "label" and then you must create partitions based on distinct values of "label" column. This greatly helps queries to run faster as search plan is narrowed when you include it in where clause and PG knows partitions to hit.

2. Instead of one big fat primary key column in each table use, consider having different uniques indexes on each partition.

3. The EDGES table can afford to have "data" column of data type TEXT or perhaps JSONB. PG saves it in different data disk layout and compression works great here. We used it to cache the result for previous/next nodes data or compute the result for many extra hops which are required on frequent basis.

4. Use PG procedures to hide the complexity of reusable DFS/BFS queries.
Well, lawyers pass the bar exam and they're not human either (ba-dum dum!)

In all seriousness, I know of a few lawyers who would tell you that's not as impressive as non-lawyers think it is.

And the reality is, it did not technically "pass" the bar exam. That's media spin and hype. It doesn't have personhood, it's not a student, it's not being evaluated under the same strict set of conditions. It was an engineering exercise done specially crafted conditions and that makes all the difference in the world.

I'm a magician and this reminds me of ESP tests in the 70s where frauds like Uri Gellar fooled scientists (at NASA no less) into believing they had psychic powers. The scientists were fooled in large part because it's what they wanted to believe, and the conditions were favourable to the fraudster doing parlour tricks.

The most interesting part about the results are that it "passed" the essay portion, otherwise we would expect any computer software to be answer questions correctly that have a single correct answer. But who is evaluating those essays? Are they top lawyers who are giving the essays extremely close scrutiny or are they overworked university professors who have a hundred to read and grade and just want to go home to their families?

And what is the objective criteria for "passing" those essay questions? Often times the content, in a formal education setting, is not as relevant as the formatting and making sure that certain key points are touched upon. Does it need to be an essay that is full of factually-verifiable data points or is it an opinion piece? Is the point to show that you can argue a particular point of view? I mean when it comes to something open-ended, why wouldn't any LLM be able to "pass" it? It's the subjective evaluation of the person grading the essay that gets to decide on its grade. And at the end of the day it's just words that must conform to certain rules. Of course computers should be "good" at that sort of thing. The only thing that's been historically very challenging has been natural language processing. That's ChatGPT's contribution to advancing the field of ML.

So I'm not that that shaken by a chat-bot being able to bullshit it's way through the bar exam since bullshitting is the base job qualification for being a lawyer anyway :P (couldn't help bookending with another lawyer joke .. sorry).
How can I escape disease-ridden hot-tubs known as the TEMP and Downloads dirs?
Pathetic spasms of an industrial juggernaut who is still fighting communist movement influence in this post-industrial world.

I wonder how will EU when the final ICE auto manufacturer and will go bust
Totally agree!!!!
Realistic fake images could take over the internet
That is not skyrocketing. It's just an "increase". Crime is back to where it was 10 years ago, when NYC was still considered one of the safest cities in the country.

Did you read the part of my first source that compares the rate of crime to the rate of crime reporting, or did you just read first half of the subtitle (conveniently omitting "But widespread anxiety obscures the fact that crime is still at decades-long lows.")

Do you think there was this much fear around crime in 2009 when the crime rate was exactly the same?
The reactions in this thread are interesting, because they seem to imply that this is the final straw that has convinced us to not buy Chevrolets and Buicks, as opposed to the last 30+ years of of their products being generally terrible.
I think the idea of suspending voting rights is less about "punishment" than it is about preventing those who have demonstrated that they're willing to make choices that we've agreed are harmful to other people from voting in ways that are aligned with their poor judgment.

In practice, I think most states with laws that suspend voting rights, do so as a form of punishment. That certainly seems to be the case with states that permanently suspend voting rights even after a convicted felon has served their time.

I personally think felons currently serving time shouldn't be allowed to vote. Suspending that right temporarily seems reasonable. That's not a strong conviction I hold though. I could be convinced that voting is a right as fundamental as the other rights we still extend felons while incarcerated.

Once a felon has completed their sentence I think they should have full voting rights restored. I also think they should no longer be considered a felon, to the point where their records are sealed once they've served their sentence. The idea of "once a felon, always a felon" seems counter productive towards rehabilitation and reengaging someone in society, and simply vindictive. In most states, being convicted of a felony comes with an automatic, unspoken life sentence of always being a felon, where the ostracization continues until they die. That doesn't seem healthy for anyone, let alone the person who served their time.
Have a fast suite and a long suite. Run the fast suite per commit, require a successful of the long suite before the merge.