skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the best part of American courts.

You DO NOT need to be a lawyer to get the arguments. By the time the discussion reaches this stage, the arcane bits are stripped out and referenced explicitly.

In fact, the jury are laypeople, just average Joe's and Jane's. All arguments must be simplified to a point that average people can understand. So it's a good point to pickup info.

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Here's a few key events to note on this particular trial:

1. Strong opening argument from Twitter over the contract. My opinion of course, but just read the document and get a gist of the argument yourself.

2. Weak opening arguments from Musk's lawyers.

3. Repeated reprimands from the trial judge for various mistakes the Musk lawyer team were committing

4. Inconsistency between what Elon Musk was saying in public / in the media and what his lawyers were saying in the trial.

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Note that in this special case, a judge decided the case instead of a jury. But the argument style at this late stage is simplified to the point where ordinary people / a jury can understand in any case.
They wouldn’t fit in the case.
> If you keep your app server stateless you can simply multiply it for the number of copies you need for your load.

This right here so many times over.

I'm not going to spend time worrying about scaling, I'm going spend time figuring out how to make stuff stateless.
It must be a mistake since Apple says you can replace just one lost AirPod for $89. https://support.apple.com/airpods/repair
So HN also has its crackpots.
I had a woman literally skid to a stop in front of me to tell me I was running on the “wrong” side of the road. I was running against traffic, and she came from behind, which means that yes, she was actually on the wrong side of the road while delivering her belligerent explanation. Doesn’t have to make sense, I guess.
Half seriously, what's the difference between your career ruined via social credit being wiped by government or your career ruined via social credit being wiped on Twitter?
Because I want my laptop to be hostile any potential users other than me, the owner. Many other devices can be wiped and put back into service with physical access alone. This is a vulnerability because it makes the device valuable to thieves.

> Imagine buying a car that requires activation from the manufacturer, and they could permanently disable it at any time if someone stole it.

This has been standard on GM vehicles for decades.

https://experience.gm.com/support/onstar-connected-services/...
After Refusing to Fly, Climate Researcher Loses His Job
I am partially in similar situation, maybe the hard questions for you to decide are what if even you get promoted will you enjoy your day to day work? If the money is good to pay the bills and as you said family is priority then you should continue for more to accumulate savings. I am sure there are many people who work very hard and don't even reach to the figures/lifestyle you have, so take day job as your income generation and start using free time to explore if you do have passion for something which can lead to financial independence.

Most of the successful people had some passion/skills which they could monetize but if you start looking for options to just earn money then eventually you would still land in same situation where you don't enjoy what you do but it pays the bills.
I don't disagree. But that said, there is still a meaningful difference between what people normally think of when "subsidies" is mentioned—something akin to Mayor Quimby getting a sack with dollar signs written on it—and the military being your customer. SpaceX is the latter; the Arianespace subsidies the Ars Technica article discusses are the former.
"We're working hard to figure out what this 'bitcoin' is, exciting times!"
What about picking up some macbooks at the local university library? Should you be able to wipe those and use (sell) them as well?

The activation lock is an anti theft mechanism so if you could just wipe it that defeats the purpose.
> The utility of a thing does not excuse its danger to individuals and society.

Cars kill more people in the US than just about everything. Yet we still drive. I don't think the world agrees with you.
That "Not Yours" in the screenshot cracks me up for some reason. Feels like it's saying "Hey, give them back asshole!"
> I just do my tickets until I find the next job

same. being proactive in a reactive job is never rewarded in my exp.

you found an issue? now its your problem. that issue crops up again in the future? you must have fucked up.

its just not worth it. the pm's and other management are too small brained and they work on negative assumptions always.
I’m a cancer survivor (lymphoma), and one of the things I learned during treatment was that wasting disease is one of the big things that actually kills patients.

My calf atrophied substantially toward the end of treatment — enough that I was a bit worried. Almost three years later and it’s still noticeably smaller than the other. I ate a ton, and gained quite a bit of weight overall (100mg of prednisone * 5 * 6 lmao).

I never tried extended fasting before treatment. There really wasn’t time, but there’s at least one documented case out there of someone curing their lymphoma with fasting.

I’m also not a doctor, but I don’t think fasting on chemo is the play. They know about those drugs and what they do. When it’s treatment time, they calculate the drug amounts on your body surface area (you weigh in when you get there) and mix them on the spot. I’d trust what they say about those drugs, while on those drugs!
The theory would be that given A believes X and B believes Y, A is more likely to incorporate ~X and B is more likely to incorporate ~Y.

And because beliefs tend to be on a bit of a continuum, what starts with A believes Z <= 4 and B believes Z >=5 evolves to A believes Z <=1 and B believes Z >=9, and both believe anyone who believes 3<=Z<=7 is not part of their group.
In Europe you’d be covered under consumer protection laws.

I have no idea how a case like this would play out in the US. But it certainly feels like something that should be illegal.
> To journey the 14,038 miles, he took five trains, nine buses, two ferries, two taxis, one shared car, one police convoy and, when there were no other options, two flights. Dr. Grimalda did this out of concern for the climate, wanting to generate as few planet-heating emissions as possible, even though the whole trip took 35 days.

35 days! From the map it looks like he traveled over land all the way through India. I wonder how much it cost to travel this way, including accommodations. What if that money had been spent on (verifiable) carbon offsets?
NIST promotes open competitions with many non-US based participants, e.g. AES was designed by Belgian researchers.

These is somewhat better than not having such a system at all.

If nothing else, you get to benefit from public analysis and pick another of the algorithms that get proposed in the competition, even if it's not the NIST-blessed one.
I see only see three messages and none of them answer any of these questions. Am I using X wrong?
This is not true at all. Maybe for AirTags themselves, but EarPods are the same trackers and they do no such thing. My partner has been getting plagued with notifications that an EarPod is tracking her location, but she cannot find where it is. This has been happening for nearly a month. An option is given on the iPhone to disable the tracking, but you need physical access to the device for it. Also a suggestion is given to notify the police, but you need to have the serial number for that. Which again requires physical access to the device.

All this while she’s been actively involved in a court case for establishing a restraining order against a domestic abuser of hers.

If Apple actually cared they’d allow you to disable from the app. As is they’re just paying lip service to the abused while actively aiding the abusers.
Tyrian purple was so incredibly expensive that you would have had to do something illegal to get it unless you were already an incredibly wealthy noble with the right political connection.

Still interesting that they found that word. As far as I know the sea snail it comes from didn't inhabit the waters off Herculaneum.
indeed, cars kill people. She couldn't have done that with an AirTag and a bicycle.
First of all, I am biased to my opinions so take everything I say eith a grain of salt.

Now, you need to divide your concept of thr Palestinian people to (at least) 2 groups or factions, those that live in Gaza and those that live in the west bank. The major difference between these groups is that Israel is the sovereign over the West Bank but disengaged from Gaza about 18 years ago and since it's disengagement, terrorist groups like Hamas have taken control of the Gaza strip[1]. One could have a long conversation about human rights issues in the West Bank but what is happening in Gaza right now isn't oppression, it's a war. You could point out Israel's blockade of Gaza as a form of oppression but it's just a way for Israel to prevent Hamas from accumulating massive amounts of weapons from certain foreign actors[2]. The really terrible thing ia that Hamas's infrastructure is so deeply linked and interleaved with civilian life it's impossible to fight them effectively without hurting civilians (Israel has some measures to attempt to do that[3] but everything has it's limits). Hamas isn't interested in peace and will slaighter their way to victory whatever happens, they are actively hurting both Gaza and Israeli civilians as we recently observed with the cruel massacre. The world will be better without Hamas, it's heartbreaking it has to happen this way.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_G...
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Israel_proxy_co...
[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roof_knocking
https://www.stoorai.com

This logic from the tool I created which I use every day as a developer to write user stories.
Product owners in my company were also enthusiastic, so building a little UI around it.
I wouldn't be too surprised if a few thousand low-level metabolic bugs like this one are responsible for a lot of suffering. But it would be difficult to fix them without knowing the knockdown effects in the metabolism. That's why I'm hoping that metabolic simulations will become the next hype wave at some point in the future. Now, hype waves are for the most part social things, not bare technological progress...
My parents were both teachers, though not in the US, and they point to:

+ A decline in respect for teachers and the institution of teaching

+ Lower qualifications required to become a teacher relative to the general population[0]

+ More classroom hours and larger class sizes

+ The previous factors plus lower pay have been driving a systemic brain drain for decades, which forms a positive feedback loop to drive respect down even further

+ Greater opportunities elsewhere, along with the removal of studentships and incentives, make teaching less useful as a socioeconomic stepping stone

+ Inability for students who don't want to be in school to leave and get a job

+ Parents who are uninvolved in discipline or who actively counter it

+ Inability to remove disruptive students from classrooms, which is getting worse over time, as alternative pathways to school are no longer viable and disabled schools are shutting down[1]

+ An increasingly hostile environment where clearly false allegations are "taken seriously" to the point of not supporting accused teachers even after they're exonerated[2]

+ Far fewer men in the classroom than women, which has (unfair) effects on the perception of teaching as a "caring profession"[3] and on collective bargaining, as well as practical matters like boys lacking role models, and a worsened ability to verbally (or even physically) stop really disruptive students[4]

[0] The actual requirements have gone up, but a bachelor's is relatively less prestigious than a diploma used to be. 50 years ago about 30% of people stayed in school, while it's up around 80% now. The US stats are very different, of course, and this might not apply there.

[1] Not that disabled students are all disruptive, but one historical way to remove or manage disruptive students was to slap an autism/ADHD diagnosis on them, qualifying them for a classroom helper or to go to a special school.

[2] This may just have been a single incident that happened to a family friend, but it was bad.

[3] E.g. an underpaid one.

[4] My parents talk more in terms of senior teachers helping with classroom control in a wing, but grudgingly admit that it occasionally helps if some of those senior teachers are large and look strong.
1) I love the aesthetics and the game play. First time I learned about this was reading a copy of 101 basic computer games during summer break. I didn't have a computer back then but was fascinated by the book, so I pried my parents until they got me one just so that I could program games.

2) I ported the game to a mobile web app/PWA [1] trying to keep the original feeling, but the lack of a usable keyboard meant the UX had to be drastically changed. Also I'm super-proud of the software architecture I picked which is all event-driven and applies the Model-view-presenter-controller pattern [2]

[1] https://github.com/ggeorgovassilis/superstartrek

[2] https://blog.georgovassilis.com/2019/04/14/the-model-view-pr...
Been to Tbilisi recently, there is such strong preference for cars in the center, pedestrians need to walk ~10 min on average to find a crossing and then wait ~10 min for the green light.
I couldn’t finish the blog post. It came off as too much of a rant and a bit whiney. Linux != macOS or Windows. Gestures, and all this fancy stuff about fingerprint readers etc do not apply. I guess I’m lucky my thinkpad’s fingerprint reader works.

Anyway I’m looking forward to evaluating this laptop vs a similar AMD thinkpad as I’m in the market. I run i3 and will move to sway when I fully transition things to Wayland. Multitouch trackpads and the mouse in general is something I avoid as much as possible.

Also re the blog: the full screen modal to sign up to the mailing list before the article was presented is highly hostile to readers and screams desperation. If I like a blog I will read a few posts and then either bookmark it or add it to my rss reader if it has one. I won’t be returning to this blog though.
Oh! Blast from the past! I loved this app, when I was a Windows user. The workflow is still with me, in a gnome extension.
> Unlike AirPods which fall out of your ears continually.

If you genuinely have that problem you're doing something very wrong with your Airpods when many of its users are able to do long walks and runs without them ever budging.

I wear mine to the gym, on hikes, long runs etc - I can confidently say I have never, ever had them fall out in 3 years of ownership.
When we only work for a salary we’ve lost sight of what it means to be alive. Move on, go somewhere you deserve to be. Find your people.
They do indeed have a lot of nice features:

- Intuitive pairing interface

- Built in lanyards

- Excellent bass response

- Standard connection protocol

- Infinite battery life

- Unbreakable encryption

Wires can be great. Unfortunately it seems like high quality wired ear buds are getting harder to find: a lot of distributors seem to have swapped them out for the wireless version of the same product.
Hey, I fully agree with your original post and this one, but I wanted to present to you a crazy example I experienced years ago.

So we offered a solution to our customers, and then we could customize this by offering our own "consultant" developers. In the end, each developer had a goal to be "80% of their time billable".

Now we sometimes had to write these things called "channels", which took about 2 weeks to write. If we would have rewritten the framework behind it (which would take about 2 weeks) we could have probably sped up writing channels to less than a week! The thing was, nobody really cared if it took 2 weeks or less than a week, since the customer paid for it. My statement of 'let the customer pay for the 2 weeks anyway' never got hold (that would have probably resulted in some accountant fraud I guess, the way they set up the contract). So anyway, nobody was willing to invest this 2 weeks refactoring that would almost instantly pay itself back.

We were writing channels all the time, and it always felt like such a waste.

Sometimes in corporations, you can end up in the most crazy situations. I've seen plenty.
the whole "culture" thing is managers wanting to show upper mgmt that their team is happy (even if they're usually not)

because they know deep down if their team is not happy or doesn't smile for the photos it looks bad on them.

or like "mental health and wellbeing" its a bunch of empty gestures that make no attempt at actually addressing the issues of your work (low pay, long hours, stress, pressure so on..)
> A scrollbar is not only a control, it's also an indicator.

Thank you! finally someone understands what a scrollbar is for. It primary job is to show the user that the document is bigger than the window, and secondly, to show which part of the document is visible. Letting the user scroll around is not the primary function!

I was genuinely surprised when Apple started hiding scrollbars by default in macOS. Their UI designers clearly don't have a clue what the basic UI controls really do.
> That stranger could have also poured apple juice on the macbook

That didn't happen.

> or just not responded to the request to send it back

That didn't happen either.
Flexport will lay off 20% of the company starting Friday, leaked memo says
I haven’t tried ghost. But it needs to be hosted and can’t be static and served from github or netlify tho? The only features I need for editing can all be satisfied by vs code or markdown editors better so I don’t really need a CMS system.
I live right outside downtown Seattle but I have a fence, so my door is not visible from the street. I don’t know why more people don’t try it.
touchè!
It's a massive spoiler with no warning, and very unnecessary too. Next time consider simply alluding to HGTTG and something about mice?
> why would you leave a tablet or a laptop in a shopping cart?!

I'm reading in between the lines here, but I think it was a mistake.
Automated programming, symbolic computation, machine learning: my personal view [pdf]
On implications of what is AI and how we can achieve automated programming.
Yes.

I don't think it is possible to have a true understanding of what these (tax exempt) foundations are really intending - we only have what they tell us, which is a form of spin.

As far as I am concerned, these foundations are about paving the way for commercial interests - their job is to prepare the ground with a view to the long term benefits that the corporate side will then reap. They are simply structuring society for their benefit; it's not for the love of Man.

In this particular case, how would personalised learning work, with all the collectivisation that is planned and being implemented? Perhaps the intent was to personalise within narrow bands to give the illusion of an individual personalised education..
thanks for the heads up, nicbou!
What made you lose interest in riding though, if I may ask? My father was also a rider but gave it up to save my mom from worrying when they got married.
That is not an excuse to use them.
There is a fast path and slow path to reclaiming cached pages. There are ways to measure the impact using ebpf probes.

If you are interested in going deeper I recommend looking at the memory section of this book: https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2020-07-15/systems-perform...
I think you can use ALT + F6 to start resizing (On GNOME at least)
just put in on the street with a sign.
At least in my area this are gone quickly if they are still good quality
For $100/year developer fee, you’d expect better developer documentation in return.

Just say’n.
And the conclusion is just about most GNU/Linux related devices for the last 25 years, with exception of the netbooks golden age with their OEM specific distros.
I understand that it should be an option: don't track me by Find My network but also there should be an option to register as my device to guarantee that others can't register.
"Apple ID requires you to have a phone number associated with the account, and only allows one phone number per account."

That's not right.

Login to applied.apple.com / iCloud and add multiple phone numbers to your Apple ID for 2FA purposes.
Just gonna chip in here and say that anything costing a 100 bucks is not valid as an argument in a conversation about cloud.

The prime selling point for cloud for large enterprises was (and still is):

- a signatory that shares blame on several core security issues (iso stuff)
- high amount of flexibility for individual teams used to asking for a vm then waiting four weeks for the itops dept to bring it online

Now the vast majority of cloud moves for large enterprises ends up as a shitshow due to poor implementation sure, but the key points for getting it sold are still there.

And ofc you CAN still cost optimize with cloud, its just harder.

Context: Worked in post and pre sales over some years in MSFT in the enterprise segment.

I got out before the downturn and everyone talking about cost, but my approach in selling azure to the c-suite would be fairly similar today I reckon.
> UI designers have decided that mumbling is cool.

At risk of hijacking this complaint thread onto an even more inflammatory set of rails:

They may just be copying modern cinema. I can't watch many movies or TV shows these days without subtitles - even when the kids are quiet / sleeping / at school.
https://archive.ph/XVjfM
That's true. I've been riding as if I were invisible to all the cars around me - advice from a couple of motorbike rider channels on Youtube.

Had a couple of close calls already - you tend to realize how incompetent a lot of people are in driving (and how they even passed their practical driving test in the first place...)
Using `i`, `j`, and `k` as index variables is not bad practice.
to clarify what I mean: GP lost the right one, but is it possible the replacement pod was never actually associated as the "right" one due to a mixup? In this situation, the charger case would have left and right pods, but neither of them would be associated with the "pair"
As I’ve said, I’m homeless. Is that a choice? Kinda. Is having a dog a choice? Kinda. But I wouldn’t be alive without her.

Given those two things, I am basically 100% prohibited from using National Parks. Am I entitled to them? Maybe not. But still kinda sucks that I cannot use them through no fault of my own and people like you justify it by pointing out bad actors who have nothing to do with me.
I knew someone would mention OnStar.

OnStar's anti-theft feature requires it to be initiated by the police. Not some rando who stole it and signed in with his own Apple ID... It is a premium service that requires you pay a monthly fee.

Nor does it permanently brick it; it can be unlocked by any dealer, or more likely once the police recover the car. In fact you could probably just remove the OnStar box and the car would be drivable.... it's designed to stop a theft in progress.

Most importantly, if you don't pay for the service it does nothing at all.

Basically the opposite of everything that went wrong in this article.