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Ticketmaster’s monopoly on venue event ticketing doesn’t mean it’s illegal to sell tickets if you’re not Ticketmaster, and doesn’t require laws the specifically say Ticketmaster gains the monopoly
Your comparisons between issues in modern cultural and political concepts are fascinating. Please tell me how overeating, obesity, personal addictions, competitive athletics and media consumption are related to microbial infection vectors so that I can write a definitive thesis about externalities and how they don't exist because I want to live in a libertarian fantasy world.

I will make a comparison, tell me how you find it: "Dumping waste into the river shouldn't be illegal because you dump your waste in your toilet every day and it goes to the river."

Does it sound reasonable? Sure. But I haven't defined scope and I haven't defined effect and I haven't even defined what 'waste' is; I just made up two scenarios which could have similar outcomes and then called it day -- but if you actually care about what happens to the world you need to get a little more detailed than writing silly grandiose political statements and making non-sensical metaphors comparing indicting someone for murder with crafting public health policy.
> React is now the de facto choice

I contract for a few companies and everyone seems to have a different take on the industry standard.

React may well be biggest, but I don't think it's possible dominance is the reason there are fewer framework posts on HN recently.
Not disagreeing with anything you said, just decorating: for myself, I think paying for Premium or watching ads is a perfectly valid set of choices, with all the other things you have clearly delineated removed from the equation. Had people been offered the pay option from the get go, arguably some of the nastier expressions of Bridge Troll Capitalism might never have come to fruition.

To deliver content that requires bandwidth beyond dialup, it's gonna take some resources; one way or another, those resources must be paid for, and children aside, I am not aware of many people who actually think they deserve anything completely gratis; at this point we all need to be on the same page that it must be paid for, one way or another.

If we could get absolutely everyone to agree to that proposition and use that as the starting point for further discussion, I'm pretty sure we could come up with a lot of creative ways to make that happen without literally going full 1984. Really does feel like I'm living out the Tower Of Babel parable in real life some days.
IMHO as a soda drinker with discerning taste, Dr. Pepper is kind of its own category, but more root beer adjacent than cola adjacent.
Each additional hour of work has a greater opportunity cost than the previous hour of work.
Same. I skimmed the article, thinking “but that’s already built in?”

I have multiple SSH keys on my computer filling different roles (work, personal, niche hobby stuff). I set them up like you did, and then never think about it again.
He’s from the same Labour right faction of those as conservative as any Tory, just pretending to do conservatism in a nicer way. Just like Blair, who ended up doing more of Thather’s plan to chip away at privatising bits of the NHS (through PFIs on hundreds of hospitals) than Thatcher managed. Not to mention the Iraq war…
You can legally tell a cop to fuck off, the SC ruled on that years ago, that said if you did that where I lived (and were a minority) you'd likely get your skull cracked.

It's pretty sad that a civilian goes to jail for not knowing the law but a cop can make up laws that don't exist, arrest you for those laws and nothing can be done about it. Sure you can sue the city but that just means the residents pay for the cops ignorance and life goes on as usual for the cop.
When using that, it's not talking about self defense. The government has a monopoly on the use of violence in the sense that if you owe them money or some other obligation, they may go through paperwork, collections, all the normal resources. At some point, though, they will send people with guns and physically collect you. Don't pay the IRS for long enough and the government will use violence against you, generally in the form of locking you up against your will.
> a format that is great at everything

I too want a magical flying unicorn, and maybe we can make one in the next 40 years, but in the mean time I will happily accept to be stuck with a magical jpegxl unicorn that can’t fly.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36801491
More formally:

> With a sufficient number of users of an API,
it does not matter what you promise in the contract:
all observable behaviors of your system
will be depended on by somebody.

https://www.hyrumslaw.com/
Not even that, if I’m not mistaken Facebook imported contacts from users agenda and then allow third part apps to access the information, so even if you didn’t have a Facebook, you data was leaked.

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-data-leak-contact-impor...
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A police officer is on duty, doing their job, and should have an expectation of professional behavior the same way ANY OTHER person doing their job does.

Look at how doctors handle unreasonable patients, or how people working in service handle angry customers. Even when people are provocative or rude, the expectation is to use your skills and intelligence to navigate the situation with grace.

In the case of (American) police, not only do they fail to de-escalate tense situations, they routinely escalate those situations into far more dangerous and violent ones, and are allowed to shoot and kill anyone they deem scary.

Yes it would be nice if Americans at large could be taught to act with grace and humility to those serving them, but no amount of microaggressions justifies murdering someone.
As I understand it, legislation defining hate crimes addresses a very real issue: By creating a threatening environment hate crimes can cause dramatically more damage than what the base crime itself would suggest. For example, the minor punishments associated with trespassing and vandalism don't seem proportionate to the harm caused by the Klan burning a cross in someone's front yard.

Without hate crime legislation, it would be easy for bigots to harass people via what the law would see as minor crimes.

So I'm not necessarily opposed to getting rid of hate crime legislation. However, we would need some other way to protect people.
history doesn't exist. at most we have "historiography": the made up mythical tale of the past[3]. why? it's easier to remember[2,4]

in oral cultures people just re-adjust their memory, subconsciously[1]

in written culture, people burn books, driven by their leaders.[2]

in transitional cultures, 'bad' comments are donwvoted, or moderated away, or the users get shadowbanned[2]

[1] "Orality and Literacy" by Walter J. Ong, An american jesuit monk and academic.

[2] I made this up just now

[3] my highschool history teacher taught me this

[4] arguably, [1] also says this
> they should be pee-pants scared all the time

Not to step out and defend cops too much but this narrative is unfair...I believe the right to bear arms includes guns and we pay for that as a society. The ones who pay the most are LE. They primarily have to deal with the worst elements of society and the most volatile of individuals. I don't envy the job. I would be scared all the time too.

Chances of me being shot at work are near zero. Chances that a street cop is shot are relatively high. However, they don't take too kindly to allowing threats to themselves or other officers to go unchallenged and are primarily interested with maintaining a sense of being in control of any situation they step into, as a matter of human psychology. People tend not to fuck with the people in charge, even if they don't see weapons. This is how the safety element is framed and it's not intrinsically foolish.

This naturally conflicts with various Constitutional rights, even in theory, so we get these crazy cases where it's a matter of reputation. You mess with the cops, it can come back at you. Americans expect, that almost everywhere, this holds true. This sounds like a lot of power structures in modern society, does it not? as bamfly pointed out.
> Flame retardant found in US breast milk

This is a good thing right? Nobody wants breasts to catch fire!
Open Studio is one of the best things to happen to jazz piano in a long time. Peter Martin is one of the few “old” jazz piano masters still active.

He is a highly practical player who (self-admittedly) doesn’t doesn’t know theory that well, which is the perfect antidote to the more theoretical Berklee-method educators (e.g. Adam Neely) that dominate the scene.
This is common on many, many sites like this because they do not have any tracking cookies or anything else that they would need consent for, but they're still required to display a cookie banner "notifying" you that cookies are "in use" as per the terms of the old 2009 ePrivacy Directive. In this case, it appears that projectaria.com sets 1) one cookie for the user's DPR (1 or 2) so that the backend can serve optimized images, 2) one cookie for the user's locale, and 3) one cookie for a CSRF token for form submission.
> Blew my mind.

This is a odd take because comedic reporting of world events is still informing people about those world events.
Maybe you shouldn't have used "rip off" unless you were absolutely sure that you had the relationship the right way around. And it seems you didn't. There's a lesson to be learned there.
To be clear sms sucks on iPhones also. iMessage is also better then sms though.
Not necessarily. Trying to make code over-DRY is also an anti-pattern.
When I hire a freelancer, I look for the following:

- Do they have the skills to do the specific project ?

- Are they someone I can trust to get the job done independently with minimal supervision ?

- Do they have a track record already in the area I am hiring for ?

- Do I feel like they are easy/friendly to work with ?

Tell your Manager/Director to focus on these areas. All the best.
No, it's not true at all. It's just somebody who heard the phrase applied to the state and then forgot the context and decided it sounded smart to transpose that to the police. Even as applied to the state, it's an oversimplification meant to make a point rather than describe reality.
tl;dr: student-led, inquiry-driven

The phrase 'project-based learning' is typically used to describe an approach to education that centers around student-led, inquiry-driven projects. In this model, the student starts with a goal or project they aim to achieve and navigates their way towards it. The learning pathway isn't predefined; rather, the student learns as they progress, gaining knowledge on a need-to-know basis.

Conversely, the Nand2Tetris course, while project-oriented, adopts an approach akin to a traditional curriculum. The path is meticulously charted out from the outset. You begin with the most fundamental concepts (e.g., understanding a logic gate) and progressively construct more complex structures, culminating in a fully operational system. The sequence of learning and the projects are predefined by the course structure, not dictated by the student's initiative or inquiry. Thus, while both involve project work, the degree of student autonomy and the nature of inquiry diverge significantly between traditional project-based learning and Nand2Tetris.

I prefer the Nand2Tetris approach. I suspect that 100x as many people could complete Nand2Tetris, than could build tetris from scratch using a PBL approach, in some reasonable timeframe. Maybe ChatGPT makes this less true than it once was, because you're less likely to get totally stumped/blocked.
Mitnick wasn't malicious, more curious. He tried things, some of which shouldn't be tried, because it was illegal.

He also educated the entire industry on how it works. Most people today show off that they're a security consultant but they haven't really had any experience breaking into things, and a lot of the advice is impractical. Like everyone knows that MD5 is insecure, but who's going to actually use it as an attack vector? Mitnick does the attack and then documents it. Some people claim he made stuff up, but even having the kind of imagination to make up these scenarios puts him above many security experts.
> Most people respect and want cops

89% of Americans think that changes need to made to make policing better and 50% of Americans think that major changes need to be made [1].

> People whining about cops being mean to them, and their general dispositions, tends to think that their police interaction is a super special customer service experience and that the system is faulty when it falls short of their expectations.

If those expectations are the cops not shooting or assaulting innocent people I think those are pretty reasonable expectation and if the system is falling short of them it is absolutely faulty.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/393119/americans-remain-steadfa...
> There's a lot of real crimes happening here, extortion, sexual abuse, you name it. Guess who's talking about it? Almost nobody.

And institutions are very good and very fast at sweeping these under the rug, often if not always at the expense of the students.
>because recording something, it could be argued, is not an expressive act.

Not easily - writing is clearly an expressive act, as is painting. This is true even if you don't publish your writing/painting.

Photography is just as much an art as painting, with camera angle, framing, filters etc all being relevant to the final piece.

Recording someone is filming, which is basically just extended photography.
I do stuff like this regularly:

<div>…</div><script>document.currentScript.previousSibling.…</script>

Provided you care even vaguely about code size (and are ending up with handfuls of kilobytes at most, not multiple megabytes), inlining everything is excellent for performance (seriously, unreasonably effective, way more than most expect), and if it’s stuff that must be done before the document is fully interactive, then doing it immediately like this rather than messing around with DOMContentLoaded event handlers and querying and such is likewise excellent for performance.
> So much so that Hate Crimes and Safe Spaces are now a thing. People have lost jobs due to Cancel Culture fueled hate-mobs.

It is not "cancel culture", just good old fashioned "consequences".
I'm not sure I'm following you.

I agree, I'm against these kinds of laws (see previous post).

I agree with you, there are special protections given police offers, these are related to the power they are authorized by the state to wield that regular citizens cannot. I can sue you if you break down my door. But a kidnapper can't sue the SWAT team that broke down their door in the course of saving the kidnapped person inside.

Meanwhile, related to civil-rights issues, and workplace related issues, "Police Officers" are still just "normal people" and should have the same basic rights as normal people. Are you suggesting they shouldn't?
Are the SEO people not busily trying to game ChatGPT? It may be harder, and the cycle times longer, but I wouldn't expect LLMs to be any more immune than Google's algorithm. The algorithm, at least, has human intervention, while LLMs black boxes.

It's great if ChatGPT is temporarily better, but I don't expect it to last. We still have an attention economy and a lot of people want a piece of it. They'll put a lot of money and effort to get it.
great writeup. i wish it had started with the intro of "wtf is JPEG XL" for those of us not as close to it. but the ending somewhat approximates it. i'm still left not knowing when to use webp, avif, or jxl, and mostly know that they are difficult files to work with because most websites' image file uploaders etc dont support them anyway, so i end up having to open up the file and take a screenshot of them to convert them to jpeg for upload.

so do we think Chrome will reverse their decision to drop support?
The thing about NCIS is that they had these sorts of jokes coming with actual technical background. This wasn't just a thing some writers thought people wouldn't notice, I'm pretty convinced NCIS did this on purpose.

The "I looked at the source code and 1 out of every 337 payments went to <name>", or the "The printer is coded using assembly" while HTML is shown (two opposite ends of the spectrum) really convinced me that the tech was supposed to be so obviously fake to tech people that it allowed them to still be entertained by it.

Compare this to CSI:Cyber which wasn't taking the piss out of IT and simply made stupid, ridiculous things up ("cyber nuke") or Numb3rs which described IRC as "two boats passing in the ocean communicating through the ripples of the water" or "thankfully I speak leet".

NCIS seemed to actually try to either get things right, or make them purposefully outlandish. I respect the writers for that.
Having played with ChatGPT a lot to generate scripts, this episode is as boring and formulaic as every other script it generates. Cartman uses the word "baby" at the end of a sentence, as an example, which is wildly out of character for him.
> valuable to society

That was outside the scope of this project.
Didn't democracy just force us all inside for two years? Tyranny of the majority is always a problem, the solution is a better constitution that prevents this kind of problem. Plus getting personally informed. If fire retardant is your concern, you can probably source things that don't have it if it's important enough to you.
Oddly, Safari Tech Preview on Ventura advertises support for JXL but the images don't actually render. So the linked page has almost no images, just broken placeholders.
> a company that has the power to shift policy in favor of human rights

Well you're _technically_ right; they do indeed have that power. However, it sounds like you're suggesting they are using that power _to_ shift policy in favor of human rights (emphasis is of importance).

Whilst I can't prove that their intention has nothing to do with human rights, it's only in the same way that I can't prove the last U.S. invasion of Iraq wasn't about protecting the world from weapons of mass destruction.

It is patently obvious to me that this is a business decision fuelled by the drive to keep profits up, that just happens to coincide with happily with a PR friendly action. It's great that they're doing this, but it's just a coincidence that it aligns with what we want.
The issue is also the distance, because it makes it harder to get accurate footage of what's going on
Clearly, they lost their encryption keys.
I'm only aware that documents were circulating saying that, but now that I'm searching around, I think the best details are here:

https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs_purported_HIV_medical_...

Conclusion is that the documents shouldn't be taken at face value... so maybe not?

However, if he was HIV+ I can totally see why it would be covered up.

I guess it's a big question mark, but it's not unbelievable.
async/await is ugly and hard to use and understand for me. It is pretty reasonable that rust chose it because it is a zero-cost abstraction. But i just don't like it.
I've always thought hate crime laws are so misguided. It's just another law to use against people you don't like. Piling on charges for no other reason other than making you feel good.

Do you like the perp?

No: Hate crime

Yes: The brain isn't fully formed yet

I worked on the low end of a giant corporation and they would always add new rules, seemingly targeting people they we trying to fire. Stupid rules like you can't wear white shoes or you have to shave everyday. Each rule targeting a certain employee they didn't like.
I thought the method was to change your name to something extremely common, like "Janet Brown." A variant is to take the name of some celebrity, so that all the search results are for him or her.
This is fixed by putting a dollar number on outages, and a seperate dollar number on process. Ie. "if each release has an extra day of tests and checks, then it will delay our hockey stick growth curve by 10%. Thats worth $X".

Turns out, it's usually better to be fast and break things, over trying to be reliable.
None of those investigations showed that parts supplied to Apple came from Xinjiang. Only that one of their suppliers operates a plant there. These suppliers are huge conglomerates with plants all over China. Apple is one of a tiny handful of companies that actually audit their supply chain, but they only audit the chain that actually supplies them.

From now on though any kind of audit in China is going to be almost impossible. They've started arresting researchers who perform due diligence reports for revealing 'state secrets'.
Eh... The Apple ecosystem is relatively isolated.

They adopted HEIF, and have not adopted AV1 video.
That's all there is to the website so far. I'm happy to answer any questions that that teaser of a website gives you if you do not want to sign up though!
Banned journalism housed in virtual Minecraft architecture (2022)
I'm pretty sure you could have gone directly to TechCrunch and paid them. Eliminate the scammer.
I would love to see government IDs be available as a form of auth on the internet. It would open up the possibility of real-person communities with fewer bots and trolls.

Similarly with digital payments, I'd much rather trust the government with that than some rando cryptobro of the week.

There is nothing extreme about this. The government already does both functions in the analog world. It's about time they caught up digitally.

Meanwhile some YouTuber screeching about some Bible quote... not a convincing start

Edit: didn't downvote you btw, just don't agree that this is a bad thing
Comparative oncology is a thing - epidemiologists do compare incidences of cancer in humans vs their pets to tease out the effect of the environment on cancer because the diet of cats and dogs is very controlled, most all of them get dog or cat food.
The fear was that Apple would be coerced to add in non-CSAM hashes to the hit list, much as Apple is now compromised fully in China.

Thus any undesirable material - a campaign poster, a meme, a video leak of classified info - would be yanked from customer devices and trigger this automated reporting flow.

Apple already gives the Chinese government access to iCloud data for Chinese citizens. Being bullied into searching for eg anti-Xi material is a small jump.

The other concern is that the hashes themselves are prone to false positives. This is true of the source hashes and concerns in the algorithm. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children data has been known to match on pictures of tricycles and monkeys (clearly not CSAM). Do now we are in a world of pushing automated child abuse charges against people because a faulty algorithm.

The whole thing is just prone to abuse.
For an excellent story on this theme you can read Ted Chiang’s “ The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchant_and_the_Alchemi....

I think it’s one his best.
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