skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They are not granted to impose targeted legislation against elected members of legislative bodies

They don't have to be granted power for every possible description of a law, only for any description and not prohibited any of the others. And while it may not be obvious to you on its face, its pretty well established that regulating securities trading in general falls within interstate commerce power, so as long as there isn’t some provision prohibiting legislation that applies to conduct of members of Congress (and there isn’t), that’s that.

> > They could also decide to pass a bill to change how the members of congress are picked, or to expand the congress, or shrink it.

> No, they cannot

Yes, they can.

Setting the size: the only thing the Constitution does is set an upper bound, which the current legislatively-fixed size is well below, allowing it to be altered in either direction without hitting a Constitutional limit, abd requiring eachbstate to have at least one member. Art I, § 2, ¶ 3, in relevant part: “The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each state shall have at least one Representative.”

Changing how members are picked: this is given to the state legislatures in the absence of Congressional action, with Congress given overriding authority except as to the location of elections for the Senate [0]. Art I, § 4, ¶ 1 (emphasis added) “The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators.”

[0] this is a legacy of when Senators were chosen by the state legislature, since setting the place would mean Congress was relocating the statr legislature for that one function, but was not explicitly altered when direct election of Senators was established by the 17th Amendnent.
I think it's actually the opposite, ignorance is why people go to chains. They eat their steak well done because they've never had a good steak. Most chains like Applebees are using a lot of Chef Mike (the microwave).
Thanks, that's a shame they dropped the ball. I'd previously heard good things about Hostgator. The article was stellar as always. If you're interested in other EGA stuff, IBM made a demo called "Fantasy Land" in the mid-80s that has smooth 4-way scrolling and animated backgrounds (but it's character mode, not graphics mode): https://youtu.be/czfGt5iNuSQ?t=65
A long time ago ... I recall certain sites and services (like a MUD I tried to join) would not allow you to make an account if you were from AOL. I forget if it was just by email address or if they actually checked the IP address.

Would love a reputation service that correlates IPs and/or email addresses to the amount time users spend on Facebook. I'm sure this data is out there and purchaseable, to be honest.
...

This is a _fascinating_ idea. I have a Pixel 4a right now, can I install this stuff on there and just switch to a dumb phone entirely for... phone purposes?

It looks [0] like this shouldn't be too tough...

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgNWaORMM9I
That's not so bad, swiping right works well.

The _real_ pain is how bad ios autocompletion is, compared to Android's
> Unsafe Rust exists because, by nature, static analysis is conservative. When the compiler tries to determine whether or not code upholds the guarantees, it’s better for it to reject some valid programs than to accept some invalid programs. Although the code might be okay, if the Rust compiler doesn’t have enough information to be confident, it will reject the code. In these cases, you can use unsafe code to tell the compiler, “Trust me, I know what I’m doing.”

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch19-01-unsafe-rust.html
I always found it interesting how the dynamic for 'nerds' shifted from Android to iOS because of data security reasons. I was one of those who originally got an Android because of "tinkering" (and honestly still miss that), but with the data privacy realization of iOS vs Android, I could NEVER go back.
On the Road to Freedom with Db_migrator
When I search for companies in India, all I get are 3rd party recruitment firms. The recruiters themselves are hopeless and ask questions like "How many years of Git experience do you have?".

How do you find promising companies in the first place?
IMO, outside of the tech world, nobody really cares about USB-C - or at least - not enough to drive upgrades. It's just what one end of the power cord looks like.
I'm a new grad and I didn't have too much trouble getting interviews. Most interviews came from large "startups" based in the US.
FF is pretty crap these days (as a lifelong FF fanboy). I'd hesitate to use it except for HN where its low speed and security are part of the experience.
I haven’t used it, but is something like this what you’re talking about?

https://docs.matestack.io/about/
While I grant that it doesn't have the ability to go into single-file or line-level granularity, GPT-4 can have a highly informed discussion on the architectures of big projects in its training set like PostgreSQL or the Linux kernel. That's what I mean by "holistic understanding". If you're a contributor for one of those projects (or want to be), it could definitely help to evaluate the tradeoffs of various design approaches for new features or modifications.

Getting into the nitty gritty of files and functions would be a step further, but it seems to me that just having this general knowledge of how a big project is structured would vastly improve any output related to that project compared to just loading in comparatively tiny pieces of it. Even if those tiny pieces are the most relevant to the prompt, it will be missing all the background context that it has for projects in its training set.
I skimmed this earlier and this comment got stuck in my mind. I came back to others saying similar things but I'm still commenting anyway.

The thing you're asking for? There is no such thing. I've been in your shoes and I've been on both sides of the interview table many times. You probably need to drop the idea that there will be accomodations for anything during this sort of process.

Let me tell you what works for me. Focus on cardiovascular exercise three days a week. Find one habit you can manage to do daily and make that your keystone habit you hang other things around. Sleep well, eat right, see if you still think you need accomodations once these three pillars have been addressed.

If they've already been addressed you're squarely in the realm of practice every day. Flashcards for jargon you missed in interviews, etc. The onus is on you, my friend, and I hope this new diagnosis of yours isn't something that feels insurmountable. You've got this, just not with the mindset that others need to treat you any differently. Especially in the context of finding or even into starting a new job.
>gym access

Where do you live that gyms don't work without a smartphone? Must be some hipster SV place with Juiceros and Keurigs I imagine.

All the gyms I've been to in Europe give you either a physical RFID card or armband for access when you sign up, no smartphone required. Then again I've only been to the most budget gyms, not the uber-fancy ones of tech-bros, lawyers and corporate elites, so maybe those gyms have "smarter" access systems too but I couldn't care less.
We went toRhode Island computer museum pre-pandemic, was fun (smallish) retro museum. We were offered a tour of the warehouse. A short drive later, a warehouse full of old machines. Impressive lot. It was a lot of fun. They rent them out for movies apparently. They have one old car. One of the founders told us he switched to computers because they were smaller..(ha)

It’s impossiblely hard to keep all the machines working, but they're still fun to look up.

https://www.ricomputermuseum.org/collections-gallery
Android’s problem is Pixel is the only good one, and it has not been flagship quality since the Pixel 2.

The 3 had odd issues, the 4 had a laughable battery life, and 5-7 are a weird mix of midrange and flagship capability (trending towards flagship, but not in the club yet).

All other Android vendors are on a continuum of crap, between these points:

1. loaded with bloat and customizations that aren’t better than what Google provides, whose main point is to say “but I’m not Google” (Samsung)

2. vanilla-ish Android but missing capabilities that are normal in Pixel

If Google would take Pixel seriously, it would be a credible competitor.
Does anybody use Tor for everything? I'd be interested in hearing their experience if so. There are sites that I have been unable to get working in tor, usually due to the browser. Some services actively block it. There's also a performance hit.

Also, while you should always assume your traffic is open to inspection/modification before it reaches its destination, this is more likely to happen with tor, not less likely. The Tor browser does help here, by not easily allowing obvious mistakes like using http.
A lot of mobile sites break on the mini phones it’s a huge hassle. Would not recommend. I have one and that’s my biggest gripe with it. There are restaurants I can’t checkout at for example because the button is stuck just below the fold and I can’t scroll to click it due to shitty ui
We do disagree. But one of us is describing, and one of us is depending, and that skews things a little, doesn't it? Upton Sinclair had a line about this.

What value, in a sane system, does selling advertising that targets people who "can't even afford decent housing or food" actually do? How are the goods you are selling--human attention--actually turning into revenue for the advertiser if the user has no money to act on the advertising? Or is it just one more iteration on a mutual deception that exists to create a predicate for "any of these mobile apps are worth creating in the first place"?

You're building a bigger house of cards with every post.
Funny story about how linkedin's oversharing ruined a potential date for me:

Recently I have been online dating, and while talking to a match, she dropped that she works a relatively high position in state government. So naturally I googled her name (only had her first name) and the position and clicked the first link. "Oh wow, she is, that's cool!"

A minute later she messages me "Checking out my linkedin?"

I was super confused at first, being that I never use linked in, only set it up for a job change about 4 years ago. I checked the website on my browser and I was not even logged in.

Then I pieced it together.

The first search result was her linkedin, which I clicked. Without me even noticing, it opened in the app on my phone (which I wasn't even aware I still had), which was logged in. Of course then it sent her a notification that I had looked at her page.

She stopped responding pretty much right after that. I am guessing because my totally outdated linkedin didn't at all match what I had briefly mentioned I did for work, and was much more junior.

So thanks linkedin.
"Service Unavailable in EU region"
Isn’t it her own project? In that case, someone could easily just do their own version. What she built has lasted (so far) and has been helpful to countless academics and students.

My question though is how she’s being a selfish crackpot? Feels like the goal of Sci hub isn’t really selfish from my point of view.
Agreed. When capital-I 'Identity' becomes more than a descriptor polarization eventually becomes inevitable.

The real question is is this process even possible to stop? Does multiculturalism help or hurt this process? Etc. Etc. We have a world of data to analyze. Will we be able to honesty face the results?
No. In fact Apple already provides such a per-install UUID for you to use if you wish.
I mean, hopefully why you might need multiprocessing in python is clear?

If you have a python task that is highly parallelizable on a single machine with multiple cores, then multiprocessing is probably the right tool to quickly see if you can dramatically speed up your code with parallelism with basically no code overhead or investment in distributed solutions (there are edge cases where it is not, but it takes very little time to test if you are an edge case).

I encounter this situation in my data science workflow routinely. It is an easy way to impress product / managers and say "hey, I made this batch algorithm 50x faster, so now it runs in 10 minutes instead of 500."
Dude, read what I said again. It is what happens leading up to that report that I have an issue with. No matter what, it will affect stock prices! Don't tell me there is no pressure to make presumptions or interpret incomplete data , the stock drops and it turns out you were wrong and it's too late.
Sensible comment.
Yes, I can remember that I fiddled with spawn versus fork, but still ended with the OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=1 solution.
If you use a Tor browser you see the same web as with your "normal" browser. You'd need to actively search for dark web and shady markets (and no you can't just google that up either, you'd need to lurk much deeper). It's not possible, never was, to "accidentally" see that stuff if you use web the way you did it before Tor.
Specifically, I'm wondering if this particular trait is actually a conditioned response (look up trauma bonding) to narcissistic abuse.

Being fully authentic and honest (regardless of the circumstances) is essentially narcissist bait. And it works. It's giving up power to an external authority (in many ways), because it's saying 'here are all my cards, do with them as you will'.

It also works well when not in a predatory environment.

But 'normal' folks don't do this except in very specific, highly trusting environments, most likely because they know the consequences if they do it otherwise. And very few environments are actually not predatory (as in, have no portion of real or hidden predators).

And at the beginning, narcissists WILL make things better when they have someone like that around. They got their supply, and the love bombing, extreme gratitude, etc. will all help make EVERYTHING feel amazing. At a job, they may get promoted (but not too high), or get raises (but not enough for them to not need the job or be a threat), etc.

However, at some point dysregulation of one or both parties starts to happen (or one or both parties starts getting bored), and then that gets turned around and the shit starts, and then any authenticity or honesty gets used against the target while the NPD person denies all responsibility, DARVO's, etc.
I thought gVisor was DOA. I guess this post confirms it.
Most people who buy this are probably not software developers working from home ;)
Omg I've been describing it as a phone divorce as well.

For all the same reasons.

With all of the same external requirements like maps.

...

Are you me?
Well the quote if this piece. Scihub is definetly not only her. All the people sharing access to research are what made it what it is. Her closing the access to all of russia because she got insulted over having a parasitic wasp named in her honor was petty and showed how brittle scihub is as a service.
Getting Slack messages on my Apple Watch is nice when I am away from my phone but still in BT (wifi?) range. I know this not specific to iPhone, but the integration is nice.
It would make up for it, but not fix it. The network would still be faster without my traffic. Plus, torrenting hundreds of gigabytes of data over Tor would be rather abusive.
Meanwhile, the experienced/good/non-charlatan engineers endorse choosing the right architecture for the job. Building a CMS? You probably want a pretty large monolith. Also building an analytics platform? That should probably be a separate service aligned to a different team.
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Yes, UDP on top of IP multicast - UDP is a pretty thin layer on top of IP in general, and the IP protocol is deceptively powerful. You just can't run protocols like TCP over IP multicast.
Almost being the key word here ;)

I tried testing in Python years ago and found the likes of PyTest etc to be light years behind what RSpec and even Minitest offer.
even when amazon tells you on the product page that something cannot be returned, if you can find the chat link elsewhere and ask about the product there, you will find that not only can it be returned, you can also get the option to be refunded without having to return the item (at least mostly the case with food items in my experience)
Autocorrect got you too. Barcades.
Hot take: I find recent Samsung flagships far superior to what Google offers, especially the latest S23: small and speedy with longer SW support than a pixel, better CPU/GPU and better cameras, at a decent price. Bloatware and Android implementation is also not too bad.

Also Samsung DEX can save your bacon in case your laptop dies and you don't have a spare but need a quick desktop experience for some multitasking productivity task thill your laptop is being fixed.
No, it groups together teams. Teams do not group teams.
Outside of the peanut gallery we just roll our own VMM, VMX and friends is well established at this point why settle for a hacky impl.?
Not been slow compared to what? It's been slow for me any time I've tried it.
Now I don't know whether that's a sly joke, or I'm too dumb to spot the difference, or simply if autocorrect bested you in that joust?
They're not testing software skills, they're testing anxiety: https://news.ncsu.edu/2020/07/tech-job-interviews-anxiety/
Madison syndrome. The delusion that January is the time to play and ride bicycles outdoors instead of properly hibernating.
Thanks for pointing that out -- I missed that originally. It seems heavy-handed. Either blind trusts are actually blind (that is, real independence on the part of the trustee, not just a facade) or they aren't. If it's the latter, then that should be the part that needs dealing with. But I have a hard time believing that this is a real problem; trust law is extremely well established.

In the end, what we want to do is align the personal incentives of our elected representatives with the incentives of society as a whole. That includes the ability for elected officials to (indirectly and passively) participate in the stock market, just like how millions of Americans do with their 401ks and IRAs. The problem is the rampant insider trading, not that congresspeople own stock.

If this bill would make it so that elected officials can only own Treasury notes and real estate, well, it will probably end up inflating the value of those assets instead ;-) but jokes aside, it appears an undue burden.
> 4. There is probably a ton of R&D for things that haven't seen the light of day.

For all of the lampooning of Meta, VR isn't their endgame. Other justifications for the effort are to build a platform that's not owned by Google or Apple, plus the "ultimate" goal of wearable AR devices. The latter requires substantial innovation in terms of battery life, compute power, heat management, display, input schemes, the vast amount of world 3d mapping required, enabling AR content creation & consumption, etc, etc, etc.

There are literally thousands of people working on this and there are some truly impressive things being designed and built there. What we'll be able to see in the world are the elements of these and/or proof points that get baked into the "intermediate" stuff being released, like Oculus w/improved mixed-reality, and wearable devices.
I would think what matters is whether or not you’re attempting to form a shared identity that links activity between devices, installs, site visits etc when the user hasn’t explicitly created an account in all of those places. Basically anything that’d allow you to map out their activity regardless of if they have an account or not is what’s problematic.

With some exceptions (such as social media apps) I don’t think it’s generally first party devs who are doing this, but rather third party SDKs that are popular with devs, e.g. Google Analytics, Firebase, Facebook SDK, etc.
It works better because iOS had this for many years and apps implement it natively. Android's implementation is basically a workaround. The back gesture is recognized by the system and forwarded as back button event to the app. On iOS the gesture is handled by the app, which can provide proper animation, giving users the ability to “preview” what’s behind (and pull back to the left to stop going back). Android is trying to copy that right now (as they should because it works really well), but it will take many years for apps to adopt it.
A murder of crows...
dale_glass is asking what goal Slotin had in 1946, not what goal Platts-Mills had today.
> Heck -- unlike Apple, Google distributes nearly all of their apps and even system components through the App Store and still relies on standard user permissioning! You still have to grant Google the same permissions you grant any other app, even though it's "OS level". Imagine Apple authentically asking you for permission when you open a first party app and respecting it!

That's clearly the big difference between both. Who knows what the internal apps are using on iOS, certainly not anything standard. That's also why it's usually the first attack vector on zero days.
Trouble achieving goals? Why your brain needs reminders
https://archive.ph/qrvf4

>A psychological strategy called cognitive offloading has benefits – and potential pitfalls – for achieving our goals
> whereas everyone else would call that person a junior engineer.

Does anyone have advice on what I should call myself? I was a senior in public accounting (~3 years of experience) when I switched into software development after self-teaching for 5 years on the side. I settled for an entry-level role to get my foot in the door, but after 7 months I was made the lead of one of a few teams with the rest being led by principal engineers. I think it’s fair to say im clearly not a recent college graduate and am performing like I have already been a software engineer for a few years now.

I now have 2 engineers below me. My technical skills have grown much stronger than an entry level, and my non-technical skills are on par with the other principal engineers. My team has been thriving and has received quite a bit of recognition from the company.

I’m coming up on a year and ready to ask for a raise since I believe I’m vastly outperforming an entry-level role compared to my peers, but I don’t know what to push for since these job levels are less clear than they are in accounting. Level II? Level III? Senior? It’s tough to rank the experience gained from my CPA and accounting background (that would be very valuable if I were still an accountant of course). Naturally engineers want to devalue it (fair enough), but it’s clearly paying dividends in my ability to deliver the company value.
Same here. And AFAICT those "Hubs" have no bridge mode, so the best you can do is double-NAT yourself. Even if you can replace it with your own device, I've just received a letter informing me that they're migrating our landlines to be VOIP, delivered through the phone socket on the back of the router, so if you want to keep landline service then you may need to keep their hardware too
I still don't know what was wrong with IRC.
> I'm sorry, but - "for the same price"? You must live in a very different place than I do.

iPhone 14 Plus MSRP: $899.

Google Pixel 7 Pro MSRP: $899.

Guess which one will last longer and have higher resale?
Mexican Superpeso Defies Gloom
I see ADHD as a trait. It's only a disability if it holds you back. It's akin to multi-threading; there's more complexity, and risk of thrashing, BUT when managed properly the parallel-processing can be a significant advantage compared to neurotypical minds.