skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. With an effective uniparty government in California, the real balance of power is between the State Legislature and the Governor.

2. Newsom's stealth-campaign for President in 2024 needs him to stay in the national news cycle without directly competing with team Biden's messaging.

So I tend to believe that Newsom is picking and choosing bills to sign/veto with a focus on running for President in 2024.
The half-life study states degradation might take "roughly 1.5 million years" in permafrost conditions.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11555
> What I Learned About MP3 Encoding

The author seems to have spent considerable effort on learning as little about it as possible. Most of this article talks about translating C to Go mechanically, without understanding the code. There is even a cameo of the Bullshit Eng—, er, ChatGPT.

In other words, the title is misleading clickbait.
Random observations:

* I heard the Thigpen Rotary Subwoofer when Thigpen premiered it at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in 2005. Something that's not obvious from most of the published pics is that the rotary subwoofer was using an entire hotel room to serve as an enclosure. IE, you're not going to easily get loud bass at 10Hz without an enclosure, and the Thigpen sub used an entire room.

* Tom Danley is a national treasure and designed something similar at Sound Physics Labs, about 22 years ago. Tom also licensed the technology to Phoenix Gold for use in their "Cyclone" car subwoofer. I've only met Tom once, but as I understand it, he abandoned the technology because subwoofers from companies like Faital, 18 Sound, MTX and Eminence offered comparable performance with improved reliability. Basically the subs he made for Sound Physics Labs were crazy, but reliability was an issue, especially since they used a lot of custom parts.

If anyone is curious about these designs, let me know, I love this stuff.
It's very good in that it's significant progress over other US-based laws. Then again if you compare it to the much stronger privacy protections in the EU, there's still a looooong way to go.

It's true that California's legislation gets a lot of industry input, and they're not going to pass something puts the big tech companies out of business. On the other hand, there's a very effective coalition of privacy organizers there -- who are quite familiar with tech's tactics, and can be very effective at cutting through tech's spin with legislators. Plus, the California Privacy Protection Agency (which got established by a referendum, not through the legislature) has a lot of clout -- there isn't anything comparable in any other US state.

Washington state has similar dynamics, although with the CPPA equivalent. Microsoft and Amazon are hugely influential here; but, grassroots organizers had repeatedly stopped them from getting the very weak Bad Washington Privacy Act through the legislature. And this year, we passed My Health My Data -- stronger in some ways than California's privacy law.

Texas ... has been a disappointment. The privacy law they passed this year is based on the Bad Washington Privacy Act but significantly weaker.
They did a redesign just now and I thought it looked really well done, apart from the fact that GSAP is very popular by itself.
That requirement is for 4k60 Log only. 4k30 log will write to disk but takes up around 100mb/sec. From some videos I shot last weekend.
In Conversation: Michael Mann
And your privacy. Just because you own a knife does not mean you can stick it into someone's body.
So what can you play on it? Any recordings or hardware available that go low enough?

Looks like they have a demo DVD. Was hoping for more.
> It's very interesting to use a fan to create such waves when an electromagnetic piston might fail. But I wonder how useful it is since making a piston vibrate at low frequencies isn't that hard, it's enclosing it that is the problem. I suspect a large enough enclosure with a big enough woofer and enough power in an amplifier (eg, a commercial subwoofer) can do just as well without being so exotic as to require custom electronics.

See my comment above. Tom Danley came to the same conclusion that you did, and he's literally a rocket scientist.
> We would like to thank GitHub, IOG, the Zw3rk stake pool, Well-Typed, Tweag I/O, Serokell, Equinix, SimSpace, the Haskell Foundation, and other anonymous contributors whose on-going financial and in-kind support has facilitated GHC maintenance and release management over the years.

Is GitHub sponsoring Haskell development? Or is this them providing some free services (e.g. more Runners) because it's a large and importans OSS project?
Was I the only one who imagined a dog chasing its tail when reading the post title?
I wish I could just get my data. There are laws that require this, but Google won't let me get my data from my account because I lost the phone number, even though I have the username, password, recovery email and all the email gets forwarded to my other account. They say they have no way to prove it is me. I have argued on the phone with them for hours about it.
It's corporate device, not corporate os.
The companies it's mainly good for are those who have personal data but are not required to register as a data broker. So if you have a brand with content, forums, retail, events, or whatever and can collect info on people, then by pure supply and demand the market value of your audience data goes up.
Good thing I'm 10 miles east from that road of doom, I'm sure I'll be safe ;-).
The Thigpen Roatary sub used an entire hotel room as it's enclosure.

I'm willing to bet you could outperform it using about $1000 worth of 18" subwoofers and 10,000 watts or so.
Take what he's saying with a grain of salt. This post activated my spidey sense from another thread a year back, about SHA hashes being poorly distributed compared to MD5, and sure enough, it's the same dude.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32409168
Ever wondered why c suites use their own hardware, separate accounts and do not participate in cooperate platforms like SharePoint?

I think privacy (for different reasons) is a key part in that.
I do follow this. Unfortunately, it leaves out one glaring flaw: you can’t register a Passkey you don’t physically have.

I use four: an Apple Passkey, a YubiKey I keep on me, a YubiKey at home, and a YubiKey in the bank. When I sign up for a service, I need to register all four of them. Not only is this generally a bit of a pain in the ass, but it also means I have to remember to go fetch the one in the bank vault periodically and update the credentials.

If I could save a stub locally that would let me register with a key not in my physical presence, that would go a long way to making this more usable. Even better would be the ability to register a bundle of them all in one go without having to do it four separate times.

As it stands right now, it’s hard to recommend to users who don’t understand or care enough to take all of these steps. Which to be clear is entirely reasonable on their part. It’s an unacceptable amount of work and mental accounting for it to be something the average person can do without high risk of losing their entire digital identity.
So tracker doesn't just randomly waste CPU...
Did you ever get back in?
FYI: There's a large clinical trial of Metformin taking place [1]. My understanding is one of the goals is to make Metformin more easily available if the trial pans out. In lots of countries (currently not the US or the EU), Metformin is available without a prescription.

[1]: Targeting Aging with Metformin (TAME) Trial—https://www.afar.org/tame-trial
I'd be too long here to give reasons in detail but noticeable characteristics of much Victorian era engineering are its excellent workmanship and longevity and that even with inferior materials than we have today that many of these works have lasted much longer than many structures that are more modern.

Much of the reason had to do with the then prevailing attitude (the Industrial Revolution worldview) which was that they had a more long-term view coupled with pride—'see what we can now do' (often engeering was carried out to the best of its ability and done without shortcomings).
It’s a garbage website.

I don’t know enough about materials science to review this, but here is a link to the study:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00489...
WA MHMD is a game changer because private right of action. Doesn't rely on the attorney general or a dedicated privacy agency to take action -- private lawyers can.

(Technically not the first privacy law with private right of action because the Video Privacy Protection Act has one, but that law was originally passed to cover videotape rentals and the courts are still working out how it applies to video content on the Internet)
75000 horsepower is more than a couple.
Correct, but he also explicitly said the reports that it was losing money were "not true". Given that he's a VP at GitHub, I would consider him to be more authoritative on the matter than the WSJ's "multiple sources."
The reason for this could be that markets in which network effects play a major role are commonly known as winner-takes-all markets.

I hope that the stories of Stripe and PayPal can provide you with valuable insights. You might even consider seeking the support of the founders of LinkedIn.

Inside Stripe, The PayPal Competitor Backed By PayPal Founders Peter Thiel, Elon Musk
Patrick and John Collison, brothers in their early 20s from Limerick, Ireland, have a decidedly bold mission: to become the next PayPal.

https://www.fastcompany.com/1813087/inside-stripe-paypal-com...
Used to be, in the good old days, getting yourself off lexisnexis did a good chunk of the heavy lifting out of these data pits.

For anyone who doesn't know what BlockShopper does, what does it do?
> 16k lines of obscure C, riddled with pointer magic and arcane memory manipulations? No thanks!

I swear I'm not trying to sound like an uppity, badass Real Programmer here, but this seems... not too bad? 16 kloc of C for what is apparently the gold standard in lossy audio encoding is actually less than I would have guessed.
A lot of the processing steps expect linearity and would have to be reworked for floating point or log scale data. Most HDR sensors are using some kind of logarithmic compression for sensor readout, but I've never really heard of a floating point adc. Google seems to suggest tbey're not readily available.
Sony's new PS5 with a removable disc drive launches in November
TL;DR what everyone wants to know - 'cant' is not ye olde speak for 'cunt'.

From the book [1] -

Cant is old; Slang is always modern and changing. To illustrate the difference: a thief in Cant language would term a horse a prancer or a prad,—while in slang, a man of fashion would speak of it as a bit of blood, or a spanker, or a neat tit. A handkerchief, too, would be a billy, a fogle, or a kent rag, in the secret language of low characters,—whilst amongst vulgar persons, or those who aped their speech, it would be called a rag, a wipe, or a clout.

Cant was formed for purposes of secrecy. Slang is indulged in from a desire to appear familiar with life, gaiety, town-humour, and with the transient nick names and street jokes of the day. Both Cant and Slang, I am aware, are often huddled together as synonymes, but they are distinct terms, and as such should be used.

[1] 'Cant' even at the time was not really believed to exist, book review in (1859) - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/146567372

> “rhyming slang”, the Cockney dialect whereby “table” becomes “Cain and Abel”

I always thought you took it one further i.e. He's a dropkick -> a dropkick is taking a punt -> he's a cunt. It's not subtle to just rhyme.
Wow today I learned B was a programming language and that C was indeed supposed to be a replacement for that. How interesting. Thank you!
Different definitions.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/responsi...

You're assuming:

> being the cause of a particular action or situation

But "responsible" also means:

> having the duty of taking care of something

Curiously, Cambridge's definition of "accountable" uses "responsible":

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/accounta...

> responsible for and having to explain your actions
It's still the most widely supported encoded digital audio format.
Your other disclosure is why I said more consistently. Do you believe all readers will read all comments and index mentally by user name?
I’m not confident about companies removing data for those outside California.

If someone requests to remove data associated with an email or username, they probably will.

But if the law says you can demand to have any data associated with your real identity removed - that requires verifying your real identity.

Otherwise some troll will demand data be deleted for another person.
If your goal is specifically to learn functional programming, I recommend you consider Lisp-1 dialects instead of Common Lisp, like Scheme or Clojure. While CL supports functional programming (it supports literally everything) functions exist in a separate namespace, and treating functions as data can be a little extra confusing.

As for Elixir: it heavily leans on the actor model. Understanding this was the biggest hurdle for me, but once I got over that learning Elixir was a breeze (though I was already comfortable with FP by the time I picked up Elixir). If you want to go the Elixir route, I recommend trying to play around with an actor model system in a language you are familiar with first. I was familiar with Scala so I learned the actor model by playing with Akka.

My #1 recommendation to you though is to go with Scheme and watch the SICP lectures. That will sneak functional programming into your brain without you even realizing it.
People were saying that about Vermont, then last summer they had massive flooding that put cities under several feet of water.

I knew a lot of, frankly over-confident people who moved to New England because the news told them it was good for Climate Change. I think the “experts” know a lot less about Climate Change impacts to weather than they want to admit.
I can believe it, and I can believe it is still in the collective memory of the relevant unions since it is apparently partly the reason for their existence. From NY Time Archive: [1]

> In 1890, 68 sandhogs died as they bored a gas tunnel under Welfare Island, now Roosevelt Island. A Manhattan coroner estimated that at least 50 sandhogs died in the first five months of 1906 in the construction of Pennsylvania Railroad tunnels. Thirteen sandhogs died building the Holland Tunnel between 1921 and 1924.

So they lost 10 per month building the Pennsylvania Railroad tunnels. The 25% probably refers to the underground workers, not everyone employed on the project. Either there was greater automation, or by the 1920s the numbers lost decreased substantially.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/28/nyregion/tunneling-into-w...
No, you're looking at just a few years of data on a certain region.

When the global average temperature rises some places will get cooler from time to time, there are multiple underdamped systems at play.
> I'm guessing this won't be a major problem. I don't know any proficient Rust or C++ developers that are not also proficient C developers.

There's a growing trend in high level languages like Ruby/Elixir/node to use Rust + FFI to optimize specific hot code paths. Likewise, pgrx is a much more approachable path towards postgres extension development.

All of these development paths have always been available with C, but Rust has made them more accessible to a wider range of developers. I'd wager a non-trivial number of Rust developers don't feel comfortable in C.
It's a convenient shortcut that surfaces all the time though: "You'll find me at my desk!" (obviously not yours neither, but having to use a periphrasis would be somewhat annoying)

(coincidentally, my work laptop, which I chose, belongs to the company but went straight from the manufacturer to my home and I installed the OS and everything myself, and no piece of proprietary software from the company lives in it. I know I'm incredibly lucky on this.)
This can get legally grey very quickly. Can they turn on the webcam without telling you? Can they listen to you?

Just because it's their computer doesn't mean they can do anything.
I came here to say this.

Bad defaults are the bane of one's existence
Just a few more generations and American landfills will be a rich resource to be mined for precious metals, natural gas and plastics. I say if we were smart we would be sorting out trash but only to bury it to make recycling easier in the future once they really need it and will probably have much cheaper energy.
This started improving for me recently when I spent more time really learning flexbox and flexgrid. They are part of CSS so no installs needed. It’s a different way of thinking but I’m finally good enough with flexbox that I can tell when I need it and make productive use of it. Knowing these patterns makes a difference for me, since now I can assemble the blocks better than before when I’d just try mostly random css without any guiding principles.

Flexbox froggy helped a lot with some practical experience that translated fairly well to my regular work.

https://flexboxfroggy.com/

There are other games like this that I haven’t gotten to yet, including one for flexgrid. Once I clear all the levels in flexbox froggy I’m going to try the flexgrid game.

Then after that I’m going to spend time with bootstrap and tailwind since the last time I really used them was back in my more junior days when I barely knew anything at all about css.
> state Sen. Nancy Skinner, the bill's lead sponsor. "I'm chair of the Women's Caucus, and have heard from lots of women founders about how they don't even believe they can get a meeting at a VC fund, let alone an investment"

This is such a frustrating statement to read. I hope these hypothetical would-be founders get out of their social media bubble that's making them believe this absurdity and actually go start trying to network with VCs. Literally every single firm is going to give female founders somewhere between equal and preferential treatment.

Or maybe it's just a politician saying obvious lies to pander and I'm the rube for treating it like a genuine sentiment. I'm never sure anymore.
It's also possibly the lowest acceptable ethical bar. If all you can say to justify your actions is "At least it's technically not illegal" then you're really not running a great business.
It's a bit of a gimmick. These phones just don't have the noise performance to make log video work outside if very very specific conditions. I had it also on my old LG V30 and it only was remotely useful in full sunlight (and since we're talking about very low processing, not much changed since then).

This is inevitable because the noise floor is just too high to have a large usable dynamic range unless illumination is high.

Combined with video compression it's just not great. It's not really even unique to smartphones, many DSLRs/MILCs when they first started supporting log video had similar issues, but obviously it's going to be much worse for a smartphone.
Thanks for the Nick Z rec. Start the video linked upthread and already loving it. I recently went on a earth formation / geology binge on YT over the last few weeks and this is right up my interests.
In certain companies, everything above a certain size (money spent or count or items or staff affected) requires a board decision, by charter.
more direct link to actual gameplay instead of a single screenshot on cnet: https://youtu.be/7LHJPSVR4Ek?t=135
Exactly. "My work laptop" is shorthand for "the work laptop assigned to me".
That’s a backfire, not a misfire.
You probably saw the LCD based price tags which have been around for ages: https://www.fixturescloseup.com/2020/10/29/kohls-sloped-digi...

That said e-ink price tags aren't new, them being stupidly cheap (https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804488587338.html) and increasingly wide spread in availability is the relatively new part.
> who could also opt to give the user a sorted list of search providers on first use

More technical settings before first use doesn't sounds like the way Cupertino would go. Instead, I suspect they'd default to their own search engine (even if that's simply a wrapper), and maybe put the search-engine setting somewhere more prominent.
I’m generally with you here, but in this specific case the GP’s stated purpose in doing so is to enable doing personal activities on their work device.

I think that’s the part I personally balk at a bit (and what I suspect GP was getting at), not necessarily the act of installing whatever you want on the device.

Mixing work and personal like that seems a priori a bad idea. In many cases, work can even seize your device from you for legal reasons. Yes, you can keep the personal activities separate on an encrypted partion and otherwise walled off from the work bits. But this all just limits some of the possible downsides and doesn’t make it a good idea.
There are congress members who can program? Must be an exception.
Wonder if someone will give him shit for using a PRC-designed chip...
> the reason the compiler doesn't add special cases for the simplest version is that it doesn't know which of its _many_ special cases to use

This is a fact claim. I'm having trouble parsing the "IMO" that's a preface to your comment.
I'd rather use CSS than any other GUI system I've used over the years in C++, Java, Swift, etc.

And it's getting better every year.
I just tried turning one of my yubikeys into a passkey on my google account to see what will happened. The response was that the device is not valid. I think they are keen on biometrics for their passkey implementation?
GHC is hosted on Gitlab, the Github repo is just a mirror. So money.

https://github.com/ghc/ghc
https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc

Don't forget that SPJ had been working for MS for quite some years.
There are Congress members with PhDs in physics...

Bill Foster designed an IC, for example
https://www.billfoster.com/meet-bill/bills-science-career/
Spacedrive – an open source cross-platform file explorer
So my argument, that Bitcoin is too expensive which you even agree with, is wrong because "ignorant people" use it?

It's amazing the amount of mental gymnastics Bitcoin maximalists come up with.
> Open-source and hobbyist developers like myself are going to avoid anything involving patents.

Do open-source and hobbyist developers really care about patents? I would rather think that's only the case when they plan to commercialize.
Anchorage was 78 miles from the earthquake and still saw mass building collapses. The death toll was low due to the low population in the area. 128,026 in 1970 presumably less in 1964.
R can exploit parallel hardware just fine with Parallel, Future and other libraries like Mirai. The problem is that execution speed is going to be a bottleneck for anything large and when you reach some optimizations, maybe R is not the best language to do the job. But it depends a lot on the use case.
Newsom is almost certainly plan B for a variety of 2024 scenarios.
I’m not sure I agree or at least understand how a page could be sending 1000x more styling data than the raw HTML without a heavy un-optimized framework or heavy JS injection.
> fronted dev can work with their favourite patterns and frameworks

And this is a big problem in my opinion. We should decide the stack that better solves the problem, and then hire people that are happy to work with that, not the other way around.

It's like saying you're in the business of putting screws into walls, but you do it always with hammers because most people like to use hammers.