skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Californians will be able to delete all personal online data in first-in-US law

Considering the government has in no way regulated phone solicitors or spam, how could anyone assume this law would have any effect? I mean, lawbreakers ignore laws, and spammers hoard personal data.

edit: the Los Angeles Times article's first sentence is less hyperbolic, more sober...

> Californians will be able to make a single request asking that data brokers delete their personal information, under a bill Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Tuesday.
It's always surprised me that there's not more interest in log-scale/floating-point ADCs built directly into camera sensors. Both humans and algorithms care a lot more about a couple-bit difference in dark areas than light, and we happily use floating point numbers to represent high-range values elsewhere in CS.
I appreciate the simple way CSS is written, but I find myself struggling with it quite a lot even after many years of actively using it. I think there may be something in the way it's been designed that is preventing me from having the moment where it all clicks. I want to be able to think, "ohh that's how that works, now the rest is falling into place", but instead I'm hacking and slashing and failing forward until something looks the way I want. Every time. I don't know for sure if that's me not being smart enough or if there's some design flaw that's preventing a clear mental model. If anyone has any good resources for that I'd love to see it.
If you don’t control both the encoding and playback ends, you have to accommodate legacy decoders. Podcasts use constant bitrate MP3 because it’s the lowest common denominator. Even though iPods popularized AAC, there are millions of clip-on MP3 players and car head units that don’t decode AAC and might even choke on variable bitrate MP3. Spotify still hasn’t migrated from Ogg Vorbis to Opus.
> “CSS gives you options. Use it or don’t”.

So, like the C++ that everyone loves? Awesome, isn't it?
You don’t need to care about it, but (1) it did change the world, (2) it’s a good format to start with if you want to understand perceptual audio encoding, and (3) it is (only because of inertia, really) still used to deliver almost all open podcasting content.
I've just been trying to think how long the most annoying Firefox issue I see every day has been around, it's at least 10 years and it's very disruptive - copying just will, 70% of the time, not actually copy (mostly when copying URLs, as in right click, copy link context option, but happens on other occasions too even when using ^x)

I can't be the only one suffering this, because no other application does it, although thunderbird has done on occasion but that is hardly the worst thing about it..

And then there is Firefox on Android, some genius decided to disable pull down refresh by default, not a bug I guess but more annoying than the plethora of problems.
people don't always make the most logical decision. that goes doubly so when they're in a stressful situation like a fight.
Lol yeah. I didn’t even think about that.
Personally, I have found that Mistral 7B (with its native 8K context, and decent results stretched out even more) is performing much better than llama 13B tunes for storytelling, where that long context is really important.

And I think the optimized backends should implement that sliding 16k context soon...

Anyway, point is a huge context really helps certain types of queries, and VRAM usage is reasonable with a 7B model.
> one common strategy is via displaying a QR code

The problem with Passkeys is not that it's not possible, but that the standard is lacking any guidelines for things like this. There is no interoperability in general, it's accidental at best. And this is concerning.

Same goes for a lot of aspects that are attributed to Passkeys as "this can be solved this way", but in no way documented (in a way promoted by any major vendor), let alone standardized, let alone be required by some standard to be "Passkey-compliant".

In short, I think this can be summarized as "Passkeys lack proper standardized best practices document, encouraged by renown parties".

It is wrong to hand-wave at some specific implementation and say that because that implementation is okay, the whole standard is fine.

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Also, you may consider adding another concern, "authenticator must be physically present to be registered". This limits ability to add new devices (which was not an issue with other systems, such as TLS client certificates).

In simple terms, one cannot add a Yubikey that lies in a safe in a secure vault under a mountain, they must have it at hand, when they're online.

This Passkeys/Webauthn limitation leads to people having significantly greater difficulty adding backup options, contributing to higher chances of getting locked out (temporarily or permanently) that it could've been, would Passkeys be designed differently.

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Both things don't explicitly introduce any new weaknesses, compared to passwords. But the problem with Passkeys is that they're here to stay for a long while. So a push towards "you must fix this before it's too late" petitioning collective FAANG (who are the only entities that were able to push asymmetric crypto to web, no grassroots movement was able to do this - many attempts were made and all had died in oblivion) is extremely important.
No, it would be fine.
> I built Tkinter GUIs for my scripts

MS had the technology which used HTML for GUI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application

Interestingly, it arrived in IE5 in 1999, almost 15 years before the very first version of Electron.
Let's see.

The Cascadia quake is 100x as big. I'm at 1/3 the distance from the San Andreas fault. Guess who gets the larger earthquake?

Add to that the fact that I grew up in Victoria. All of Vancouver Island is a subduction zone during a Cascadia earthquake. Sadly, that means that a good chunk of what I knew growing up winds up under water. Seattle may fare better, but my home town does not.
The author is trying to draw more attention to his Quite OK Audio Format which has received positive attention on HN in the past

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34625573
ok, that makes sense. thanks for the explanation
Some things to note, unless the bill was modified from the version I read before being signed into law:

This doesnt apply to any information which is public record as a matter-of-fact.

So if you voted, your address and name is public record and can be used and displayed by these sites. If you got a DUI, your mugshot and arrest record may be public record and can be displayed. If you got into a custody battle and your court case was public, that can be displayed. And I guess that all makes sense in the end. If you got into a DUI, how does the government get to tell random website X that they are not allowed to say that you got into a DUI, especially when the information was public record.

So to be clear, if the peoplefinder style websites want to keep whitepages.com/user/john-smith online with an address, phone number and mugshot- They can tell you to pound sand and do so. This bill cant stop that.

Honestly, Theres alot of hype about this bill in general which is going to be... interesting... when people fail to understand what it can and cant be used for.

Additionally, this bill comes with a caveat that the sites can request proof you are living in california currently, via a license scan or some other method you get to now hand over to the data broker.

That said, in our research for https://redact.dev supporting these features from a pure API only interaction, is that most of the sites just delete you if you use their form. They dont want the headache of insane users threatening them and doing crazy shit because they dont delete their profile. And honestly the people who go through these removal processes are less than 1% of the stored data, so its mostly just a cost of doing business.
HN deleted the timestamp from my link. The presentation begins at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn9SzyDhfj8&t=140s
Rainier will erupt first and the mudslide will wipe out all those houses built on the last mudslide.
Another small one that is worth a side trip is Robert Ferguson Observatory in Sugarloaf Ridge State Park.

Not really on the way but close enough is Bale Grist Mill State Historic Park which has a gold rush era grist mill.
Scrambled is how I remembered it from the books, apparently a favourite meal of Fleming's although I don't have a reference for that.
Is the intro animation too long?
Hey community. Quick question: Do you find the intro animation on carouselhero.com too long?

Friends think it adds to the uniqueness of the aesthetic. However, I'm concerned about repeated visitors.
Those numbers, while sad, are surprisingly low compared to other causes of death.
Why Israel Defense struggle to effectively detect Hamas rocket launch sites
Why does the Israel Defense Forces struggle to effectively detect and target Hamas rocket launch sites? Are there significant technical challenges involved in this process, or is it a result of other factors? I'm curious about the technology and tactics at play in this complex conflict.
The vast majority of people on Soulseek are trading MP3s. Who cares what YouTube uses?
This Japanese Town Sorts Their Waste into These 45 Categories
Glasgow Interface Explorer – open-source multitool for digital electronics
Parkinson's disease detectable before physical symptoms show, research finds
> as long as those checks are performed somewhere before you ship your code

Preferably, they're performed before I push to a remote repository. Hopefully they're performed before I alt-tab away from the editor for a single second. Hopefully they're performed before I fuzzy-find a collaborator module to edit.

> When running a dynamic type language, these errors are going to be caught at runtime.

Only if those code paths are exercised in a test suite, or am I doing it the hard way?
I've never owned an Apple device. I don't take photographs or video with my phone very often. But this video presentation was captivating. It was clear, concise, without any nonsense, and thoroughly interesting.
Is this essentially RAW at 24-60fps?
They used Tinderbox back then. It was definitely considered to be “continuous integration”, because the build machines never stopped. They continually rebuilt the software, starting a new build whenever the previous one finished. It just took hours to run a build, and more hours to run the tests, so there was no way to go faster.

I too got a big head start by volunteering for Mozilla.
I’ve crossed his Royal Albert Bridge, the rail connection between Devon and Cornwall over the River Tamar, many times. It opened in 1859 and still carries around 30 trains per day. Great view too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Albert_Bridge
Is it his format? From what I see, the names don't match up
Within the domain of chess, searching the domain of possible future positions is synonymous with reasoning. It requires an explicit understanding of latent board representations and an explicit understanding of possible actions and the consequences of those actions.

Whether ChatGPT has any of those things is questionable. From what I’ve seen, it has an unreliable latent representation, an unreliable understanding of possible moves, and a positional understanding that’s little better than a coin flip.
Yes, I can be like that from time to time.
Yeah this seems to be absolutely everywhere and entrenched, mainly because it's how npm did things :(
Related:

"What is Glasgow?":

https://glasgow-embedded.org/latest/intro.html
Grades Create Perverse Motives
>People don't seem to use DBus at all outside of Linux.

Because it is a part of freedesktop, a project largely about creating software and specifications for the Linux desktop. Windows has COM. Mac / iOS have XPC. Android has Binder.

> And the fact that someone on Linux in exactly the situation where it should be used wasn't willing to use it suggests that maybe there are significant issues.

It is from cultural and educational issues. It isn't just a coincidence that all operating systems I listed above have a standard IPC mechanism that they use for services.
Only slightly worse than the US-based payday loan companies.
I used to work on hearing aids and there's a similar concept in human audio perception with regard to audio latency. If you add latency to some audio (say because of the hearing aid's processing), the perception that the audio is getting worse doesn't increase smoothly with the latency. Instead there are a few thresholds where the latency seems to be perceptibly worse. The main ones are:

0--2 ms: No perception of latency at all.

2--10 ms: There is a comb filtering effect, so the audio sounds somewhat distorted.

10--30 ms: There's a perception that something is "off" about the audio and it requires greater cognitive effort to listen to. This is partly due to a noticeable desynchronization between the audio and visual cues. Another factor is the "Haas effect." If you have a direct path (audio that goes straight into the ear) and audio coming out of the hearing aid at some latency with respect to the direct path, the arrival of these two separate wavefronts at different times causes a perceptible distortion in the audio.

30+ ms: Beyond this people perceive an actual lag between what they see and the audio they hear. It can be almost nauseating to listen to audio at this latency for long periods of time.

The upshot of all this is that if you look at the latencies that hearing aids on the market have, they all cluster into two groups: one at around 2 ms and another at around 10 ms. If you can fit all your processing into 2 ms that's great, but if you go much longer than that, you may as well take the full 10 ms to do even more processing because people aren't going to be able to tell the difference.
That dead Corolla will probably get re-built in a developing country (after the cat gets harvested for its minerals of course).
This.

Most application developers don’t give a rats ass about how 2 nodes are connected as long as the pods can speak to each other. Throw these guys in a devops team and give them the task to setup a 2 node k8s cluster and guess how much consideration they will pay to networking. Correct, zero. Except you can’t, because you have to choose a CNI plugin or choose a distribution that has made an opinionated choice for you.

To lower the barrier of entry. A default installation must become a lot more opinionated with much less options and more sane and safe default.
Yeah - I've been writing native web component applications for many years now, and I have never, not a single time, needed slots.

I have WC scenes, which are top level components that are able to be accessed by a url/deep linking/router outlet.

Scenes are built from html and css that lay out smaller components - sometimes WCs, sometimes vanilla html, depending on what makes sense.

Components mostly take care of themselves, load the data they need, and maintain their own state. Unless that doesn't make sense, in which case data is passed to them via properties.

I have hundreds of thousands of lines of high performance, quality production code running this way and again - have never needed a slot.

Slots are mostly useful for library authors, IMHO.
> Apple shocked us all by addressing this head-on: The iPhone 15 line charges via USB-C instead of Lightning, and this standard USB port can do a lot
that 3rd pic could be a black metal album cover
why would anyone want to buy this debt unless at a huge discount? and why would they be talking about write downs or potential default? Didn't they require Musk's personal stock assets as collateral?
The VK_NN_vi_surface extension seems to imply that Nintendo does.
Thunderbird and Whale
> it's sources don't quite back up the claims.

I'll admit that FEMA isn't exactly cited in a way that's possible to corroborate, but presumably they're estimating a worst-case scenario and not a median- or average-case scenario. That might explain some of the large divorce in figures.
My advice is to just learn a framework and let other people deal with the details. This article makes it seem like CSS is as easy to work with as pencil and eraser. But a lot of the complexity is arbitrary due to either history or fashion
Interesting idea and a cute mascot! Look pretty similar to the concept of terraform.
From the example though I could see you are trying to encapsulate different cloud vendor’s product offerings (AWS RDS vs Azure CosmosDB for example) under the same abstract model (Database), which is a different philosophy from terraform. Wonder if that's gonna work.
I was thinking the same thing. Especially when the the bottom of the article is basically a sales pitch for their own services. Whilst what they are saying is true and correct even if they aren't behind it (which I really doubt that they are the culprit).

"With or without patches, organizations would need to make significant infrastructure investments to keep services running in the face of attacks of any moderate size and larger. Instead of bearing that expense themselves, organizations running services on Google Cloud can take advantage of our investment in capacity at global scale in our Cross-Cloud Network to deliver and protect their applications."
Beta blockers are incredibly subtle for how effective they are. Just be prepared for some intense dreams.
TLDR;

> the Delete Act would empower the CPPA to develop a system by 2026 that allows residents to make a single data deletion request across the nearly 500 registered data brokers operating in the state. The CPPA would also be charged with enforcing provisions of the Delete Act, such as requiring data broker registration and ensuring brokers delete an individual's personal information every 45 days upon receipt of a verified request.

Source: https://iapp.org/news/a/california-legislature-passes-delete...
My employer said they may or may not be monitoring our usage of the companies assets.
Here is a very interesting video of the challenges of digging a new pump station tunnel at a steep angle and all the unknown difficulties that can show up.

https://youtu.be/6AV2NcyX7pk?si=cGvHD4eUp6zQSef2
Absolutism includes the right to repair (our software) which extends to the right to reverse engineer. Unfortunately those are both untenable at the moment as there is no legal mechanism to support or fight for those rights

To create such a mechanism there needs to be an open source union that doesn't just help people with x y or z license.

Just like how the unions fought for workers rights, this OSS union would fight for digital and coder's rights.
I have not read the legislation so this maybe an obvious and silly question. Does this also apply to credit agencies?
> Stuttgart to Bolzano via the Brenner pass (1370m) and back. It charged just once in Bolzano.

What about a traffic jam where the trucks are stuck for hours on the pass? How long can they keep it up and what happens when the batteries run out?

I am aware that in the same situation you could also run out of fuel but it seems more unlikely to me. Also in the worst case you could haul fuel to the trucks.
I don’t have sources readily available but I have looked at several climate change projection models for the US in the past to answer similar questions. There are a handful of locales in the US where the local climate doesn’t change much under most models and parameters. They behave almost like fixed points in a mathematical sense. Some of these fixed points are not anywhere you’d likely want to live, so that might not help much.

However, the Seattle region is one, and it already has a pleasant temperate climate. IIRC, the main expected change is that it will get more sun in the winter months, which would address the main criticism of Seattle’s weather.

Of course, these models could be wildly off, but to the extent we have such models Seattle is in an enviable position. While there are some regions that look like they will change for the better e.g. some arid regions will get substantially more rain, it is hard to predict the true impact of that change on those regions — that outcome might come with significant trade offs.
I completely agree! It would be hard to overstate the power of PostGIS!

For anyone working with GIS data, it's absolutely worth investigating what PostGIS provides and the ease of integration to your existing application!
It is less processed, but TFA points out that it is definitely not RAW, particularly in the section titled "Log is Half Baked."
> At best they generate calls to high performing code.

It should be noted that this is usually sufficient. But particularly for earth scale problems it can often not be.
Caddy is a bit quick and dirty, rapidly-developing, with neat plugins but hard to configure for more complex scenarios and too light on the docs (IMO).

HA Proxy is robust, comprehensive, mature, and bulletproof. It's basically boring because it works so well.

If you have to choose only one to learn, choose HA Proxy.
It's not on Braha's own list of projects https://resume.braheezy.net/
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OSOR Community Award: Voting is open
What happens of you experience that the compiler is slow?
Urea? It's used on foodcrops and you pee out 20-35g/day of it:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9161740/

It has a boiling point of 135C. Something else was (I gotta say it, likely) causing your sickness.
Can you explain why existing batteries don't store energy well? I don't have to use energy to crack natural gas or water. I don't have to worry about the hydrogen leaking out and catching into an invisible fire. I don't have to carry around a tank with enormous pressure, because the hydrogen isn't very dense as an energy source.

I could just say we'll solve all problems with green batteries. We can recycle batteries at > 95% of materials already. We have lifepo4 batteries that are stable, don't have cobalt and be charge up to 100% without destroying them. In reality I don't have to point to some unknown incredible improvements in the future, they work today.

I see hydrogen as the oil industrial complex and diesel & ice industrial complexes wanting to maintain all their infrastructure that burns fuel for engines. It makes sense from their standpoint.
Man, I moved from Seattle to the Bay Area and in the intervening 20 years it sure seems like summers in the PNW have gotten hotter than they are down here.
Well, most things really.
Even more so than their revolutionary new design?
If politicians have more concern about this than the total credit card debt of US citizens, why should any of the said US citizens have any concern about this? We live in one truly sick society.
If you're uninsured or don't want to go through your insurance for whatever reasons, Costco has $29 consults with a nurse practitioner or physician assistant. Have them send the Rx to your local Walmart and you can get 90 days worth for under $10.
Biblically it’s already understood that Jews and Muslims share a common ancestor.
This sounds very cool!

Also very expensive.. which makes sense, it's mechanically complex product (variable-pitch propeller) with strict requirements (don't want things to rattle or while) which is marketed to rich people (hi-fi fans).

I wonder if modern power electronics and brushless motors can achieve the same effect with a fixed-pitch propellers. This could be much cheaper and more accessible to hobbyist.
It is bizarre! Yet it is quite mainstream. See Christians United for Israel, the largest Zionist lobby in the USA with around 1 million members. Their founder is quite explicit about this theological motivation.
Yes but that aqueduct is hundreds of miles long and goes through the Central Valley. Once the water wars begin, that situation could change rapidly.
They might require a non-PO box address and a VPN could be defeated by a manual verification. That said, doesn’t hurt to try!