skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is somewhat the difficulty of balancing the needs of governments. A short term/term limit leads to more inexperienced people doing the job. That's good in some ways - keeping new ideas coming in or keeping people from doing the job far too long. On the other hand, it means some large portion of the legislature is people who are more or less still learning. The process of writing good law that avoids unnecessary downsides, or simply understands the downsides and works to mitigate them isn't something you can just pick up over a weekend, especially when there aren't many people to learn it from.

As you say, it's easy to point to the folks who have been in office forever as being an issue, but there's also staff and lobbyists and other unelected roles that are hard to get rid of the influence of. At the end of the day, someone needs to be the expert, either on the vast array of issues that can come up in national government, or in how to actually do something about those issues.
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> This removes the last piece of information that can be used to block HTTPS traffic based on the site your visiting without being a party to the exchange.

And that will cause blocks by IP. It's not like authorities in those countries care that much if a user can't access a not-blocked site, as long as they can't access a blocked one.
Yeah quite to the point.
I know this is a heated debate, but from my experience, the situation is way more nuanced.

During the pandemic, we have worked remotely for a year or so, and we were bloody effective. However, when I pondered about why is it so, I found out that because we have deep personal, one to one connections already. In other words, we can work effectively because we know each other very well, not only in work setting but in personal setting too.

When a remote team is assembled, the window for knowing each other is way narrower. You can work and put good results out, yes. We also do this all the time, because we work with many remote teams as a part of the said team, and we don't see them face to face for years sometimes, however when we meet with these people, even for a couple of days, our relationship and work performance changes.

Since we spend time together, we understand each other better and note our underlying characters, inside and outside work. This allows better relationships and faster, way more efficient work. Mails get shorter, things get more fruitful, and work accelerates.

WFH and remote work works, up to a point, but there's a glass ceiling. Some people may not feel or want to understand that, but it's there.

Face to face communication carries way more information than a webcam + microphone.
I've heard Perforce is still pretty common in game dev shops because it handles big files way better
Twitter's New Policy
None of the criticisms I have of the guy are the sort of thing where him dying could actually improve the world. He's no vicious and influential religious firebrand wishing hurricanes on gay people. I hope he comes though it okay.
Wow that top progress bar is annoying and useless. Very distracting. We already have a progress bar (the scroll bar) why do web designers insist on this stuff?
It seems to be in line with regular LiFePO4 batteries. Wikipedia is claiming 325 Wh/L^2 for Lithium iron phosphate batteries. This seems to be more about the inverter technology, which I guess is what is different here compared to a bunch of LiFePO4 cells in a box. There's a quote in the article about the inverters allowing them to get the "best footprint in the industry", so I'm guessing they managed to get the inverters down to about 45 litres in volume (or less).
> Here's what I don't understand: if you can't trust your partner to not instantly have sex when you aren't around

It's not really about that. When people are grown up, there's really no reason for people to be one-on-one with the opposite sex unless it is for intimate reasons. And I think people are more sexual here (or people where you live are un-sexual), because most women and men here don't really want to have intimate friendship with people of the opposite sex, unless there is a sexual spark.

This might sound weird to you, but if somebody is so repulsive that you don't want to have sex with them, why would you want to be intimate friends with such a repulsive person? And the opposite: If somebody is so repulsed by you etc.

That doesn't mean people are horn-dogs that are trying for sex all the time. It's just a law of nature that when a man and a woman are together alone, they will sleep together. After all, that's what we were born to do.
Climate change: Six young people take 32 countries to court
ECH can be enabled depending on the Terminating TLS server used. (not sure which one implements it now)
But you are right in the sense its used for multiple sites to one IP.
Essentially ECH is protection for SNI, ALPN, which are plaintext in non-ECH.
> I get minimum 2% cash back when I use my card. Prices are 0.4% higher because of the fee, but I still come out way ahead.

You, and people who use such cards, do. But everyone else is having to pay for your cash back.
One of the incantations I've committed to memory:

setxkbmap -option ctrl:swapcaps

This used to be universal, but as that I type that, it occurs to me it won't work under Wayland. I really should try out Wayland so I can learn the new way.
There have been a few cases of incumbents changing party (ignoring the "I'm totally independent guys even though I caucus with one party incredibly reliably" ones) to follow their voters.

In general "I'll only ever vote X party" is the same as "I don't care who at all".
Nowadays it's looking a lot more like Robin Hood the outlaw rather than Blackbeard, with movie studios, record labels, and book publishers taking up the roles of Prince John, The Sheriff of Nottingham, and Sir Guy.
The video won't play for me. What kind of cancer does he have?
Which is it, they are incompetent or they are just misunderstood?
That is a very odd historic analog to pick but deliciously ironic in that you apparently (?) missed the bit in the OP about “few powerful” interests controlling the labeling of data and thus ‘vocabulary of discourse’ of generativeAI. It is ironic because Luther too had “few powerful” parties behind him — various Princes iirc — who also wanted to unseat Vatican and thus amplify their own power.

So sure, “journalism” is at a low prestige level because a “few powerful” interests -own- all mass media, including press, and we have a handful of “press services”.

Key issue here is the troubling “few powerful” regardless of their declared ‘denomination’, so to speak, don’t you agree?
That is the outcome of people coding in visual languages like BASIC, instead of making use of the structure programming tooling, that they also offer.
Any source for such a bold claim? Our Betriebsrat is absolutely fine when managers check our attendance by looking at hour booking entries and associated locations.
I hate to sound so negative but this feels so incredibly cringy. Smug, condescending and pedantic.
The previous generation of iPhone Pros used stainless steel instead of Titanium.
If they had the ability to track people on the radio, they absolutely would. There is of course lots of market research and demographic profiling into how people consume old media, the internet just allows them to do it more easily.
Sounds like Amazon doesn't trust its managers to track the attendance of their workers. There probably are many managers who would rather ignore the RTO requirement for their workers than need to replace ones who quit to work somewhere without the in office requirement. This allows Amazon to both see which employees are not sitting their butts in the office and which managers are letting them get away with it.
> But honestly? I don't use them because I like modern GNOME better. I use it every day, everything just works, and I like it more than the alternatives

Same here, but with KDE - and I'm a former XFCE user, and before that I was a Gnome user...

None of us is the whole market !
From the source linked to by the other commenter[0]:

- "Salt water intrudes up the Mississippi River about once every decade. It happened in 2012 and again in 2022. The ocean water usually doesn’t come this far north, but it isn’t unprecedented."

- "You should prepare to some extent. Residents across Plaquemines, St. Bernard, Jefferson and Orleans parishes should be ready to conserve water to relieve pressure on the system as needed"

- "Different school systems are taking different approaches, but closures aren’t likely."

- "most healthy people will not see any impact from the water. But people who are more vulnerable to a higher salt diet due to pregnancy, kidney disease or high blood pressure should be vigilant."

And from the OP's NYT article: "The low-water season typically runs from May through the end of October. Once temperatures cool, the river should start to rebound. “In a typical year, we typically don’t see low water conditions improving for our area until we start to get into November,” Mr. Graschel said."

It doesn't sound like an unfathomably huge cost.

Speaking of, the NYT had a series of hysterical articles[1,2] earlier in the summer about extremely hot ocean waters in coastal Florida, painting a picture of 90-100+ degree waters in the open ocean. It didn't elaborate on the fact that the buoy in question[3] with the "possible world record for sea surface temperature" of 101.1 degrees was less than 100 feet from land, in less than neck-deep water for the average person, in an enclosed bay that is further enclosed by the Keys; basically, a swimming pool, not the open ocean. Actual average temperatures[4] at the time were about the same as the long-term average or a degree higher.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37703983

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/12/climate/florida-ocean-tem...

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/climate/florida-100-degre...

[3]: https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=mnbf1

[4]: https://seatemperature.net/current/united-states/florida-key...
Well, we all know what's going on here: some journos would like to have a legal moat protecting their jobs from being eaten by tech. Branding it a "freedom" issue is 100% manipulative, and this may hint at why trust in media is not particularly high.
I'd throw in restructuring the Supreme Court. Lifetime appointments seem to have devolved into them being wildly politically swingy based on when very-old people decide to retire (or die), with a strong incentive to then install the youngest doctrinaire ideologues you can get through the Senate. (And to engage in political brinksmanship to push an appointment back a few months to give it to the other party if you can, etc.)

Give them a fixed number of years and have new ones appointed on a schedule that's synced to presidential terms.
The whole "charging for distribution is fine but charging for development is wrong" thing is what keeps me well away from any kind of involvement with FOSS groups.
Well, they do business in France, don't they? So they need to follow French law. Seems in this case, French authorities think they didn't follow French law, so French law enforcement got involved. Seems pretty simple.
> A truly free press controls its language from start to finish.

I don’t agree with the authors definition of a free press being a constrained press. Seems like the opposite of a free press in my view.

A truly free press lets anyone publish any random babble with the most poorly chosen words.
You are correct. There are those who warn, and those who ignore.

There is no consensus.

But, that's with every industry, every field, every platform.

Some warn, others ignore.

Wanna bet who's right?
I have had a number of dogs relatively high on the dog intelligence scale, with an Australian Shepherd right now, and another thing they do that shows at least a minimal theory of mind for teasing-like purposes is enticement. josefresco in a sibling comment mentions teasing dogs with toys to get them interested; my dog does the same thing too. The theory of mind is not so developed that she's aware that I, as a human being, am nowhere near as interested in her toy as I am, but it's definitely non-trivial cognitive work. (And I have to admit I've spiked her data set, since we generally choose to respond anyhow. Part of having a dog like an Australian Shepherd is that you're signing up to a moderately high-energy dog and we knew that going in, so we realize we have a responsibility to take the enticement anyhow.)
Yeah I think this general hatred towards AI is weird. Should we also not use Google to solve problems because it sometimes returns bad results? Should we not use autocomplete in our IDE of choice because it sometimes selects the wrong method?

AI is a tool just like any other, and it is here to stay. Learn to embrace it.
There are queues for H100 and everybody wants to buy them. How should they solve the allocation problem? They can also pull out of the market and sell elsewhere comfortably without any crazy bureaucrats harassing them because some French company/branch lost a bid and overestimated its importance to nVidia.
> (I’ll quantify right wing: She voted with the Trump administration more than any other democrat, and voted like an average republican senator during his administration.)

That's nonsense. She voted like every other cookie cutter corporate Democrat, i.e. whatever her handlers told her to do. At the tail end of her career, it was pretty explicit (and disgusting to watch): https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sen-dianne-feinste...

Some stats on here "voting with Trump": https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/

She's clearly not at the top of that pile when sorting by Democrats.
Yea. ChatGPT, while certainly imperfect and unreliable, consistently gives me less bias and distortion than 99% of the news. (For now, the topics are different, of course.)
What's wrong with openldap? I mean, apart from being a pita, i thought it was the widely used central auth directory (behind all sorts of sso frontends).
Wow that must have been fascinating. Did you end up learning a ton of emacs-fu along the way, or did it sorta start to just flow through you?

If I were in either of your shoes (sandals?) in that situation, I’m sure I would be super frustrated all the time. Impressive on both your parts.
Not my country but Barbara Lee is 77. Newsom could appoint her now and the Democrats look for someone younger for the long term.
No, that is not worth mentioning because that problem had nothing whatsoever to do with the operating system.

What happened was that someone entered a 0 on a data entry form in a field that was not supposed to be 0. That form was submitted to an application on a server, which used it as a divisor and got a divide by zero exception.

That application did not handle divide by zero exceptions and so was terminated by the OS.

With the server application no longer running terminals around the ship that relied on that application were no longer useful.
Yeah, I've done that before. It's not really elegant in my opinion, but OTOH, it's basically the best you can do. Oh well.
Which, at 15 W/mk, is even worse than titanium.
Failure to replicate doesn't mean that it's not an issue. They even acknowledged that it has happened to other people.

It's just another data point.

IMO, it sounds like it's a real issue, but not one that affects the majority of users.
You should look at inflation rates in the 70s and 80s. This didn't destroy the US, though it was painful.
The ISF specification is kind of neat, I wasn't aware of it, thanks for the hint.
Heh - https://www.reddit.com/r/applemaps/comments/11jf95h/its_seri...
Life expectancy is irrelevant given you are already 79. That number bakes in a considerable probability that you will die before then.
Linda Yaccarino’s wild interview at the Code Conference
Soviet style gerontocracy is a fairly new phenomena.
I've been really surprised by the conversation around this being centered around age when, in my opinion, the controversy should be about a group of staffers exercising the power of a Senator with the tacit backing of the party. There is video/audio of staffers actively teller her what to say and how to vote. The office appears to have usurped her power. Voters aren't being represented by the person they elected.

Her staff could just finish out her term and nothing would change but that's illegal because she's dead.
We're going to see a lot of smaller startups wind down by the end of the year: I know a few that have either wound down operations, or are in the process of an acqi-hire or asset sale to other firms. Anecdotally, I started hearing the numbers of startups in this position pick up significantly about a month ago (but I don't have a bird's eye view, I just pick up on industry news/gossip).

The rest are default alive, but growing slowly. The rapidly scaling startup model is gone for the time being: no one is trying to double headcount or take over a market segment. (Some AI startups are an exception, but that market is nascent/unpredictable.) Default alive startups can be fodder for acquisitions from larger, established firms as well, if VCs are willing to take a cut on prior valuations. It's not clear to me where those VCs are going to find their 10x power law exits without the kind of growth and scale that used to be the norm; default alive is not a good outcome for investors.
SolarWinds is the name of company that was compromised, and as far as I can tell was never owned by MS.
From Microsoft’s blog post on the incident (Mitigation and Hardening section):

- On June 26, OWA stopped accepting tokens issued from GetAccessTokensForResource for renewal, which mitigated the token renewal being abused.

- On June 27, Microsoft blocked the usage of tokens signed with the acquired MSA key in OWA preventing further threat actor enterprise mail activity.

- On June 29, Microsoft completed replacement of the key to prevent the threat actor from using it to forge tokens. Microsoft revoked all MSA signing which were valid at the time of the incident, including the actor-acquired MSA key. The new MSA signing keys are issued in substantially updated systems which benefit from hardening not present at issuance of the actor-acquired MSA key:

- Microsoft has increased the isolation of these systems from corporate environments, applications, and users.Microsoft has refined monitoring of all systems related to key activity, and increased automated alerting related to this monitoring.

- Microsoft has moved the MSA signing keys to the key store used for our enterprise systems.

- On July 3, Microsoft blocked usage of the key for all impacted consumer customers to prevent use of previously-issued tokens.

I’m not a security expert. What are the holes in this strategy?
We are just bailing out the wealthy schools and not fixing anything. The schools don't have to worry about the money when it changes hands immediately when a student enrolls (the student takes out the loan).

They have no incentive to lower costs or to stop churning out expensive degrees that most likely will never pay for itself.

We need to stop all federally backed loans and force the universities to back them instead. They will then have an incentive to actually get paid back.
Indeed, it is much better to use jit(grad(f)) in general.

Supporting the opposite composition is still useful in some edge cases -- for example when debugging, you want to step through a computation without jit, and simply not crash when differentiating any inner functions also decorated with jit.
In Australia the POIs are from Tom Tom it seems and they are ancient. A lot of businesses missing or long dead.
“Is it good enough”

It’s running through questions like so: When you have an issue with county government, how do you handle it?

Their answer will tell you many things. Is it actually a concern the county can address? If it is not an issue the county can address, why do they think it is? If it’s a strong held belief, what experiences solidified it (buying a lot and being told one thing by a realtor, for example) - etc. you then use all of that to create a product (a campaign messaging) that aligns with the candidate and public’s opinion / current default mode.
Totally fair, for me they've all been private sector where the interviewers have less idea than me what's even on the job listing.
Interesting that he made a commitment that there would not be additional rounds of layoffs.
> JavaScript stacks like T3 app (Next.js, TypeScript, tRPC, Prisma) feel like they're solving endless problems caused by other "solutions" in the stack.

I don't agree at all... tRPC/Prisma have been a joy to work with. We still use a traditional SPA app.
That's crazy when you see it like that. Furthest I ever made it by car from the UK was Hungary and that took me about 10 days!

I did that trip to LA in 2 days there, 2 days back. And my car radio didn't work :(
I quite like Gnome.

I also think enshittification is a strong word, and a wrong one.

Because praise the shit. Praise the choice of shit. You like your shit. I like my shit. I enjoy my Gnome shit, I enjoyed Gnome 2 shit but I love Gnome 3 shit. I don't like KDE shit. I can't remember how to spell XKFG shit because it's not big enough to fit in my memory.

It's all choice. And praise choice. I do like Gnome. If you want to keep running Gnome 1 like it's 1999, I'm sure there's a way to do that too.
Yeah this is just an unfortunate reality of the situation we're living in today. People think she was on some sort of ego trip by remaining in the senate or something, when really it was just the best option for making sure Biden is able to appoint judges. She was able to get a bunch of them approved recently, we should be thankful for that. People saying stuff like "thank God she's finally gone" are so ignorant. Newsom will appoint a democrat, that democrat will get no meaningful committee appointments, and we'll be in a worse situation than we were.
> ... and sadly become a cautionary tale.

I'm not convinced anyone in Congress has read that tale.
Does this actually cause hand injury? The bent-pinky-finger social media panic was easily defeated by realizing both of your pinkies, not just the one that holds your phone, have the same bend: it’s a knuckle.
And maybe elders should be excluded for the same reason!

That is: Why do we exclude people under 18 from voting? Because we think they don't have the mental tools to understand policy well enough to make an informed decision. Well, if seniors don't have the mental tools anymore, should they be allowed to vote?

And this is even stronger with holding office. You can vote at 18, but you can't be a representative until 25, or a senator until 35. Why? Because you need to be old enough to (hopefully) have some judgment. Well, what if you're too old to have judgment?

So, yeah, excluding seniors from office would in fact be reasonable. Or at least requiring an annual mental competency test.

Unfortunately, we'll never get it without a state-driven constitutional convention, because those with the most power in Congress are highly correlated with those with the highest age.
Were accounts locked for much longer than the protest?

And sticking someone in jail does those too.