skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of them can't step down. They have debts that to repay that require them to stay in that position (both financial debts, and political ones), or family members who can only continue doing what they are doing if they stay in that position. Say a small family business that consistently gets works, but only to curry favor with the Senator. They quit, their grandchildren's business takes a dive, so the family begs them to stay on.

In Feinstein's case, its pretty clear she was forced to stay on by her party while they made arrangements for her successor, there is a lot of people and factions in California who want her seat in the Democratic party.

Also the competency crisis is real, alot of them dont have successors. Often by their own actions in an attempt to consolidate power, but they've left the field barren now thats its time for them to leave.
Absolutely not.

Every credible source points to the dam being blown by a ton or more of explosives inside it.

Read up on dam busters to get an idea what it would take to destroy such a thing from the outside and then remember this dam was newer and IIRC designed to survive a nuclear war.
Why is banning capitalism bad? There is a growing by view today that capitalism is an evil thing. It needs to go. The poster is asking why would of it be bad to get rid of capitalism?
The need of the many..

While i fully understand it, i also understand that it is human to be angry if you are part of the few.

Still kudos, as others showed it can be much worsely handled
Everything you need to know about artificial wombs
> There is truth to the idea that, whether due to life experience or brain development, teenagers struggle with proper decision-making.

I don't like the arbitrary nature of age cutoffs, but I would no longer support the idea of giving more political power to anyone under 18.

while that's just an anecdote, even if it were the norm, it is also the norm for old people of a sufficient age

if it makes you feel better, we can administer cognitive tests to old people and determine at what point they fall into "teenager" level of mental acuity
With a clock and a telescope, you can get super precise positioning the same as the 16th century way... Atomic clocks are now good enough to make those positions really good.

You can do the same with radio frequencies and a phased array antenna if you like.

I'm not sure if other approaches would perform better.
If it gets the support of the right people who know how to write such security software and have an interest in maintaining it, sure. But that's the reason many open source initiatives fall short of proprietary. It's either based on the altruistic whims of a few particular talents, or some company is paying to have them maintain it. And we know the latter is fleeting.

The caveat is that sometimes an initiative can be funded by charity or bounty to keep interest, but relying on generosity for 99.99% of projects is a fool's errand.
Everyone went bonkers over HAVING to have HTTPS when Google made it an SEO ranking factor. Everyone didn't really "need" it - site's that were just content with no form submissions or anything that should be kept private did it just for the "juice". Yes, you can't sniff the traffic, but the URL is still there in the headers and the logs.

Although, I'm sure the hosting companies loved that most of their clients now had to pay for those dedicated I.P. addresses and certs.
Your argument makes as much sense as saying there is "literally no purpose" in reading books because authors can lie. You're missing the big picture which is that it all works pretty fine if you have a decent BS detector.

> No way to filter on this.

Who cares? Most listings showing in search results have been around for a while, and you check the date on each listing

> Also, sellers "edit" (read: completely change) their items all the time

No they don't. It happens occasionally, and it's quite clear that pre-existing top reviews are talking about a totally different item

> Faked all the time

You can't fake sales rankings for any substantial length of time, it would destroy all of your profit on the item and then some

The truth is that while it can be economical for sellers to pay for some reviews/purchases at first to get a product listing off the ground, it can't be sustained. And listings can be switched to other products, but that's generally extremely obvious because the reviews and photos are for something entirely different.

In the end, it's just not a problem if you pay attention at all.
It's nice but doesn't explain UT2004, UT3, and UT4.

There are patches going around for UT2004, but it all has to be done under the table with fear of retaliation from Epic.
There's a recent article I read (NPR, I think?) where Mick Mulvaney was interviewed about that shutdown. He made the point (and spun it to make him look especially noble, of course) that the effects of a shutdown are largely decided by the Office of Management and Budget. They can choose to soften the blow, or they can make it hurt.

He argued that in 2013 under Obama, the OMB really turned the screws and hired contractors to fence off even national monuments which were otherwise unmanned anyway. Complete with signs announcing why they were fenced off. They wanted the public to feel the pain and associate it with Republicans (which seems to work, historically the GOP gets the majority of blame for shutdowns).

I think it's unlikely anybody is going to turn off GPS because the gov't "shutdown". I think the larger risk is that they will stop paying air traffic controllers, while expecting them to come to work anyway. That'll work for a while, but eventually some of those controllers may opt to stay home.
It’s not syntax help thats useful about visual programming it’s the 2-way communication between the programmer and the running program, and also being able to refer to other parts of a program spatially rather than by a name.

Most kinds of software don’t need these things but if you’re writing code that generates graphics or audio signals then you do, because you get to manipulate your program and see/hear effects in real-time, and also seeing how different parts of your program connects together is more important than giving names to them (where there may not be a useful name you can give them anyway)

Theoretically you might be able achieve these things with only a textual representation and it could be best of both worlds
You do understand what owning the company means, right? Everything paid to employees beyond the legal minimum is essentially coming 50+% from his pocket. And not paying himself doesn't mean much when that just means Epic keeps the money which is half owned by his anyway. Thus my point that you care more about the optics than the reality of helping those laid off.
Every regulation in same says hinders business. We don't need to get into a race to the bottom just because other countries sacrifice consumer privacy for the good of their corporations.

I've also worked at startups both side of the Atlantic and I slept a lot better following EU regs, without the dirty feeling of having written scripts to creep on vulnerable people for the benefit of the company that was increasing their cost of living and treating them like statistical cattle.
One serious way in which the location of your Postgres cluster might matter is the timestamp vs timestamptz ("timestamp with time zone") thing, where timestamptz is counterintuitively almost always what you want. Despite the naming, both store the exact same info, an 8-byte duration since epoch with microsecond precision. The difference is in how each is printed in string conversion, and it depends on your cluster's configured time zone and locale. Here's the problem:

postgres=# SET timezone TO 'US/Pacific';
SET

postgres=# SELECT now()::timestamptz;
now
----------------------------
2023-09-29 09:26:40.277-07
(1 row)

postgres=# SELECT now()::timestamp;
now
-------------------------
2023-09-29 09:26:43.927
(1 row)

timestamp removes the timezone offset, making it ambiguous. Most Postgres drivers will silently convert this to some kind of datetime assuming UTC, which is really the wrong behavior. timestamptz is fine because the driver knows to apply the 7hr offset. So unless you set your cluster to UTC or maybe the "C" locale (which I think converts everything to UTC but I forget), any backend reading from your DB will get timestamps off by several hours.
That is incorrect. TSA absolutely has full legal authority in the federal area of an airport including detainment and arrest. They are federal agents and past the security gates is federal area.

Immigration also has detainment authority. According to BleepingComputer it was actually CBP (Border Patrol, not ICE).
Brazilian here, I've also experienced the hyperinflation at the 80's and 90's.

The US has recently been moving on the exact opposite direction from hyperinflation. At least on the short term, they don't have exploding debits, they are removing money from the economy, and have a concerned monetary regulator.
+1

I’d love to ban ads from public spaces and most of the internet.
Hmm, yeah I'll look. I have 64GiB of RAM so I suspect that. RAM cannot be powered down so that's all hot ceramic that must be refreshed all the time.
thr notdvpn ads may have enlarged the consumer market for vpns as well, which may benefit other vpns like mullvad (people that never heard about vpns are convinced by the ad that vpns are needed, searches more on google or reddit and end up selecting what is considered the "most private" one, that is, not nordvpn)
Yes, the FDA is a US-only institution. Full name is: U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
How a four-day workweek works, from the companies pulling it off
The 8-bit "ASCII Format for Network Interchange" (generally called "network ASCII" or "net-ASCII" or similar in older RFCs) is defined in the very first paragraph of RFC 20:

> For concreteness, we suggest the use of standard 7-bit ASCII embedded in an 8 bit byte whose high order bit is always 0.

Meanwhile, ANSI X3.4-1986 defines the "7-Bit American National Standard Code for Information Interchange (7-Bit ASCII)". Even the older standard calls it the "USA Standard Code for Information Interchange", i.e., "US-ASCII".

None of these standards define "ASCII". It's up to us to interpret "ASCII" as "7-bit ASCII" or "US-ASCII" or "network ASCII" or any other form of ASCII according to context; there is no monopoly on the unqualified term.
Yeah you 're petty, we get it.
>Residential use isn't a lot, as the area is very sparsely populated,

Crimea and Cherson are both not small.

Sorry about the use of the word barren, this isnt my first language. I meant agriculture will be over. The satellite pictures of Crimea i saw a while back looked quite drastic, this wont be any different. And as the other poster pointed out correctly, this is fertile wheat area.

What kind of alternative crop did you have in mind? I havent heard of any feasible suggestions.
This is kinda ironic. The founders of Splunk originally created the product, because they realized that every sysadmin used their own, single-file script to analyze logs. They cleaned the scripts up and productionized what emerged. The reason Splunk grew to a billion-dollar company in the first place was that those sysadmins preferred to switch over to something that was more enterprise-grade. Life is cyclical.
They should fund the libjpeg-turbo guy.
Here's the study results: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05134974?tab=results

They mostly only studied pupil diameter - there is one visual acuity test measurement (at normal lighting conditions) performed at 6 hours that maybe shows improvement.
Early adopters get to show off their conspicuous consumption to everyone. That's the product they bought.
I’m skeptical of upgrading OS. Recently I upgraded my M1 16GB to Ventura from Monterey after waiting for almost a year, and I’m noticing a perceptible slowdown and increased RAM usage.
I'm replying to the comment asking about "masqueraded ads", i.e. shills. I'm not putting forward an opinion about what should or shouldn't be lawful, but opining that, should society choose to outlaw (a subset of?) ads, that's certainly an enforceable law.

- "Why can't groups of people climb up an attention gradient and build things?"

Why should the attention gradient be an auction market?
> She really was pretty moderate in many ways

this is such spin, zero-content and relativistic nonsense.. Artificial polarity of "left" and "right" plays into the "dumbification" of commentary. Second, this is the news of her death so, although a career politician, best to her family and all involved, first to say.
It showed that it was viable. It did not show that remote was clearly better. I think you're overstating things.
OneAPI Specification 1.3
> some 18yo's don't even know how files work because they just use Mac's Finder

Huh? Finder is the macos equivalent of explorer.exe and it's the GUI for the file system. I assume you're taking about Spotlight which searches the entire file system and the internet much like the Windows start menu.

Anyway people have been making claims like this for as long as computers have been around. Smart people use Spotlight and the start menu because it requires fewer keystrokes than typing full paths or clicking 10 times to navigate a directory tree with Finder. It would be stupid to avoid using the fastest tools available
There is a very likely possibility that Feinstein was senile, with reports she couldn't remember which votes she was taking and what she was doing, and thus she was goaded (or coerced) into maintaining her position by her aides who loved their positions, pay, and their power. There has been skepticism in some of the media but most of the mainstream media pundit class (nytimes op-ed pages and the like) won't broach such a topic because those aides are one of their own.
> In my "physics of biomedical imaging" bubble, people are hardly doing state-of-the-art ML, but rather expensive forward models for which computing a gradient is cumbersome.

I’d appreciate any pointers to the literature; curious to see the kinds of models people work with. Thanks!
Agreed. A slight wart is that default initialization would require either boxing or a somewhat arbitrary decision about which variant should be the default. So if you have e.g.

var foo interface{ A | B }

then foo either has to be boxed (so the default value is a nil interface) or unboxed and arbitrarily initialized as an A or a B.
American police are empowered to do pretty much anything if they believe someone has a gun, including shoot people in the back while fleeing, or with their hands up, or unannounced for simply holding an object.

This system gives police a cause to go out looking for that situation, and a reason to arrive ready to shoot. Like come on man, the entire thing could not be better designed to push police into shooting folks.
Most users don't care.
I recommend Nick Zentner's YT lectures, if you want to understand the deep history of the Columbia basin:

https://m.youtube.com/@GeologyNick

Be careful what you wish for :)
There is little doubt that nothing like this would've happened without Russia invading Ukraine.
In reality, their business and reputation don't depend on security mishaps, because they are too big to fail.

See this fresh thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37702095
If we get human attention back in favour of the economy, then I think that’s a pretty good deal.
It’s almost like the vast vast majority of people don’t buy a new phone every year - but these small incremental updates do add up over the years, and going from an X to 15 is a big change. According to statistics, people change phones every 3 years only.

You are arguing against a strawmen.
I do accept free speech and also I accept possibility to block all and any advertisements from showing on my devices.
Let's just say she had severe memory issues for the past year and a half.
That's exactly consistent with what they said to me. "Insurance covers the dilation procedure; the digital imaging is better but you have to pay $X [$40 or $49, I forget] out of pocket." "Which one is medically better?" "Digital." "Let's do that one."

Even as they did the multiple exposures, I was wondering if I was getting suckered, but when the doctor showed me what she could see in the digital images and that she could use them to track any changes over the years, I felt really good about spending the money.
Ads are no more psychological manipulation at scale than words in general. Your entire post is FUD. What form is communication that is disseminated at scale not "psychological manipulation at scale?"
Constrained.pl: Prolog predicates using constraints to make them more flexible
I didn't see any specifics that obviously bear on Verse development.
I'd argue that one of the strongest points of Elixir is that it makes really hard for juniors to shoot themselves in the foot, as well as being very simple to understand (very "imperative" overall)
The title is incomplete. I would link to the homepage https://ardrive.io/ instead as the login page immediately asks for a wallet login without further information.
Probably different fields. My company made enterprise CMS software so not much of what we did really required modeling.
Rip Feinstein! You stayed way longer than you should have.

We have retirement limits but no limits for our leaders who are presiding over the most important political offices and making critical decisions.
> E.g., a worker traveling on company assignment for several months, gets fired for not badging in frequently enough.

Presumably they don't auto-fire employees without any human intervention in the process.
I want to see young people take countries to court for their Covid response.
The mass quarantine of healthy people is unprecedented. We've quarantined the sick for hundreds if not thousands of years like Typhoid Mary. Quarantining healthy young people who are not at risk in response to a pandemic has never been done before.
Make it fully opt-in then.
Surely those facts don’t make the distinction between a proximate cause and a distal cause irrelevant.
> The sad part is that nobody in IT really complain nor tell them that it is creepy.

Which may be because if you do, you will typically be called the "technical person" who "doesn't understand anything about 'normal' users" and you should be more focused on your actual technical tasks.

Sorry for being cynical. I couldn't resist.
I mean people who are literally unable to navigate directories because they drop all their folders on the desktop, and use exclusively Spotlight to find these files. Of course it makes sense to use Spotlight - I use the equivalent on Linux - but I still know how to navigate a directory, unzip a zip file, etc when many people simply never learn that.
MAME 0.259
Phased arrays can have a beamwidth of 1 degree... Which means the enemy has to get their jamming signal within 1 degree of the victim and the satellite.

And now you need to do that 30 times when there are 30 visible satellites.
Yes. I am a free market enthusiast.
The want in advertisement comes primarily from those that want to advertise, not the other way round.
For 1, it depends on the building. Early Amazon buildings did not require badging out. I'm my experience, they've been switching to badge out turnstiles over time. That said, I don't think they're using that data in the reports yet. I know of people who simply badge in and go home.

For ooto, they are not tracking this correctly. I received one of the nastygrams when I was on vacation. I forwarded it as my notice of resignation.
I love ARA so much, I don't think it's usefulness and value can be properly expressed in words (or at least I seem to be failing to do so). Anyone using Ansible should really check ARA out! <3 ARA
Ye well I just don't want to risk jail for shilling for Ben and Jerries (the supreme ice cream for any occasion where you don't have guests, since it is so expansive).

How would you enforce laws against shills? Doesn't many influencer work for free samples etc? I am way more worried for misuse of such laws than shills in the first place. I'd rather people just don't trust celebrities for consumer advice.
She absolutely was, someone else was pulling the strings.
I recently made a python library that does this. You build up specs (a json/dict), and at each layer that descends, you add a `spec_chain` entry, and build another spec for the next level. Once the specs are built, you can validate, as well as get config defaults from it.

https://pypi.org/project/specker
Not workspaces of course. Activities.
That's a privileged perspective. For a lot of people, watching ads is much preferable to paying and in many cases, paying isn't even possible (e.g. lack of a credit card).
I've never had to replace the screen on any smartphone I've owned, of any brand, including Apple (which I've been on since the iPhone 4S), and I started with smartphones with Palm and Windows CE.

I also drop my phones all the time.

The secret? Buy a good case. It's really that simple.
I think narcissism is way more prevalent than age-related decline. Feinstein at her worst was still more cogent than Tommy Tuberville. She was pretty moderate by 2023 standards, although she was pretty far left when she joined the senate. She was a personal friend of Harvey Milk while she was working for San Francisco city government and apparently is the one who found his body when he was killed. From the POV of a political liberal, there may be an opportunity to take a little step to the left, but in the short term it will only hurt because the Dems just lost a load of seniority and it a lot of power will shift back to Manchin and Sinema until a replacement is installed.
Are there signs this is working though?
Sure, but you can't block someone from saying, hey "Applications are open for Y Combinator Winter 2024". There you go, an advertisement, straight to your brain.
Do we have a serious contender for ActiveAdmin in Elixir yet?
>Stallman somehow manages it, I'm sure you can sort it out.

How does he do that? Even Google didn't want to take the time to battle ISPs.
I have to imagine that these have been for sale throughout that time. I can see an argument that 8 years is a long time, but imagine if you purchased it last year, that's now a 2 year lifespan.

We're going down a bad road with obsolescence from "yeah, we only expect your water softener to last 8 years" to "your phone will stop receiving updates after 8 years" to "your device WILL CEASE TO FUNCTION after 8 years". Each step takes away a bit of agency for an individual to decide what obsolete means to them.

I, like many, had an Automatic Labs car adapter that simply stopped working when the company decided to no longer support them, and it still makes me mad every time I think about it.

I understand that a company can't be forced to operate a cloud service forever, I would love to see some requirements that if you're going to shut down a service that will make your hardware stop working that you must also provide software to your users to let them run their own servers or unlock their devices.
How do you make a sign on a shop opt-in?
I hope you're right. I'm scared nonetheless, though. It doesn't help that SongTradr characterizes itself as a "music licensing platform".

A part of my fear is that they'll try to "improve" the service.

In any case, I'm just afraid. Hopefully, time will show my fears were unsupported.
This has not been my experience but every circumstance is different.
You do if the victim uses a phased array antenna.

And any decent military receiver will do that, precisely to prevent jamming.
> Perhaps they should immolate themselves

For what it's worth, the only time I've ever gotten scolded by DanG was for a tongue-in-cheek reference to voluntary suicide that was a lot more subtle than this. Suggesting folks set themselves on fire is going a bit far.