skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still amazing that MD spent years blaming multiple failures of people working in the ground rather than being dragged on the coals for making an aircraft that could fail catastrophically due to an invisible error made by a single hypothetically unskilled luggage handler (though note that at least one of the people they attacked as illiterate spoke 3 languages).

But even more so, once they were "aware of the design error" they made a "gentleman's agreement" with the FAA to fix it as long as the FAA didn't do anything that would force them to actually fix it, and then none of the MD executives went to jail for homicide after killing the occupants of flight 981.

Then after all of this BS, McDonnell Douglas knew the cargo door was faulty before even Windsor happened. They had had the cargo door fail in their own testing prior to any accidents and went with it anyway. Again, the ability of executives to remove themselves from criminal accountability is astounding.

The same happened with the 737MAX: it was executives who signed off on deceiving the FAA, it was executives that approved the single point of failure, it was executives and the board of directors who claim their compensation is due to them having responsibility, and yet they have not been charged with murder. If I sell you a car with faulty breaks, and tell you they are not faulty, and provide falsified reports claiming that they're safe, and then you die when the breaks fail, I would be charged with at minimum manslaughter, but likely some variation of homicide: the deaths followed from the criminal act which means the deaths themselves are criminal acts. It's the same reason that if you hold up a bank and the teller dies as a result of a heart attack you would be charged criminally for that death.

Until the executives and board directors of companies are themselves subjected to liability in addition to the company's civil liability nothing will change.
At https://www.ayedo.de we provide managed containers on top of Hetzner for a flat fee per node and it's managed by actual people, not just click-ops you need to take care for yourself eventually.
> Had Gina Miller's case been say 10-15 years earlier, the HoL would have heard and decided the case too - she did not need the existence of a "new" "Supreme Court".

The system of appointment to the SC is rather different to the HoL as it draws from the judiciary and merely being a Lord isn't enough. There was initial continuity in membership, but there has now been nearly two decades of divergence. The HoL was hereditary for much of its history as I'm sure you well know. It is of course now a house of political appointees, cronies, and people who have probably paid _someone_ to be in charge.

https://www.supremecourt.uk/about/appointments-of-justices.h... explains more about the system of appointments. It has an independent commission which makes the selections.

This is where the discontinuity occurs: the fact that as time goes by the judges of the SC are increasingly apolitical. That gives them more standing to make decisions independent of government, and also independent of the historic bias of the HoL (which has been majority Tory for rather a lot of its history).

The thinking goes that the fusion of the SC and HoL as was the case in the days of the Law Lords made the highest court a political one. The splitting of them in terms of form and personnel has fundamentally changed the character of the judgements we can expect. I'd have expected the old HoL to have gone against Miller, which is why I used her as an example.

It is worth noting that had the SC not been split from the HoL after life peerages became the majority of that house, we'd be in danger of those political appointees and the like being the basis of the court. It was therefore necessary and not a "rebrand".
One consists of an isolated product decision of a specific company (Twitter), while the other is something that jeopardizes any decision-making process and leads to erratic and haphazard actions.

I think that it's easy to undersyand why drug use is a major cause for concern for leaders of Tesla and SpaceX while they could not care less about whatever Elon Musk does with Twitter.
Exactly, my company have a similar setup and I don't think people have trouble figuring out which tool to use or how they work with each other. Nino seems to try to solve a problem that hardly exist.
Yeah that is probably true - maybe it's just not the kind of software engineering I like.
You don't think there's quid pro quo in the entertainment industries?!

Sheesh. Not even worth debating.
I'll keep it in mind, but this feels more like a case-by-case basis than something to be avoid at all costs (which was the tone of your original comment). We are 80 years out from WW2 so the only people who would really understand such a reference are the dying Silent Generation and neonazis/anti-neonazi cirlces (a circle of discussion I already avoid for the sake of my own sanity).
Laws like this really don't address anything then. Children will continue to find and circulate "dangerous content."

As a mid-thirties millennial, I saw the transition. Kids shared paper pornography in the 90s, and had access to the most extreme and anonymous version of the early internet. I don't think either inflicted the kind of widespread harm mass surveillance proponents would suggest.

> Friendly reminder that prior to the popularization of the internet 20-30 years ago, there was absolutely no equivalent situation where you could have the kind of anonymity the internet provides.

It also wasn't possible for every action and thought a person had to be monitored by governments and corporations. We've gone way too far in our assault on privacy and desperately need to claw rights back.
If I go to react.dev/learn, click on "Escape hatches" in the menu, and scroll all the way to the bottom of the page, the browser Back button no longer works because they've added nine duplicate entries to my history.

If the official React documentation website can't implement SPA page navigation properly, what chance does anyone else have?
I use free fillable forms, an online version of the paper forms. They're pretty much exactly the same, just the online one does some basic math and copying values between steps for you.
and?

I have also run windows and linux for a long time, server contexts and otherwise (hence why I am aware of that Windows Media bug btw).

My personal experience with Linux has been plug and play ever since NDISwrapper wasnt needed for wifi anymore, and aside from some extra repos needed in Fedora for Nvidia.

Windows on the other hand had no official public ISO image and we resorted to sharing it around inside Ubisoft because it was annoying to get a new copy of, we had a blessed version which had the issue of not coming with directX, so we had to copy it from someones desktop windows to get our gameservers running.

Glad you had a good experience, but mine was better in a professional setting with Linux than windows: and I knew more about what I was doing than most.

However: we are mostly talking about desktops, and i was mainly pointing out that most windows users don't have to go to MSDN and get an ISO for their machine or drivers: so safe choices are already made. That doesn’t mean it would be easier given the same non-installed circumstances for the common user.
Reminds me of this delightful passage from the outer chapters of the Zhuangzi (tr. Brook Ziporyn):

Huizi said to Zhuangzi, “Your words are useless.”

Zhuangzi said, “It is only when you know uselessness that you can understand anything about the useful. The earth is certainly vast and wide, but a man at any time uses only as much of it as his two feet can cover. But if you were to dig away all the earth around his feet, down to the Yellow Springs, would that little patch he stands on be of any use to him?”

Huizi said, “It would be useless.”

Zhuangzi said, “Then the usefulness of the useless should be quite obvious.”
He ordered the army to shoot tear gas at the plane and shoot out the engine and tires, catching the plane on fire. Then he agreed to get the hijackers another plane in return for the release of the hostages. When the hijackers debarked the army started gunning them down.

That's not remotely the same story as "the president stood on the tarmac with a machine gun until the hijackers surrendered", a fabricated fairytale version.
Randomising the matchups is a terrible idea, because candidates will claim that the matchups have been fixed, and you won’t be able to refute that in a way that convinces most people.

> Likewise, everyone else will thoroughly research the 2 candidates they have to decide between.

Hahaha no.

I’m sure you’re very conscientious and would do this. You are not typical.
I'm overwhelmed by all of the people taking time to help me here. I got a lot of different perspectives out of this and some really helpful next steps.

Thank you everyone! So nice :)
As life imitates art, the lines between paranoid conspiracy theories and marketing campaigns continue to blur.
I like WordPad because when I collect screenshots and quick notes about what's of them, it's fast and doesn't get in the way: Alt+PrintScreen, Alt+Tab to WordPad, Control+V, type some text, Alt+Tab again to go back to the application you're screenshootting and you can keep going.

Control+S at the end and you have a RTF that can be read everywhere.
I agree with you, kids are exposed to porn too early and too easily these days.

I am just doubtful that you can obtain any significant limiting by gatekeeping mainstream porn sites, kids will show each other porn in Signal rather than telling each other "visit www.lots-of-porn.xxx", but it won't change much.

I'm afraid it's one of those cases where we can't put the djinn back in the lamp.
Let me guess: you or a loved one has never been in the same position as the trans people this press release is talking about.
programing language
D'oh, thank you for the catch! I got tripped up b/c his Insta doesn't use his surname.
>The result is 44.465s!

Very nice! Is this time for the first run or second?
Is there a big difference between the first and second run, please?
Kohler's voice-controlled bidet seat turns your toilet into a smart-throne
why do you need a smtp server developed by microsoft? isn't windows compatible with a multitude of open source smtp servers?
Ah, I fogot about PIP
> There are some concerns regarding high concentrations of the female hormone oestrogen, and the plant equivalent phytoestrogens/isoflavones, in whey and soy protein supplements. Studies in mice have shown no significant effect of whey protein after 3 months of consumption (Ketheeswaran et al., 2020), whereas in rodents a reduction of serum testosterone concentration and prostate weight has been identified with increased dietary soy phytoestrogen consumption (Weber et al., 2001), with a 20% reduction in litter size and a 25% decrease in epididymal sperm count seen in male mice fed a high phytoestrogen diet (Cederroth et al., 2010).

Wonder if is it just soy protein or if soy oil also carries phytoestrogens in significant amounts.
I believe this is just based on: https://www.iso.org/standard/69084.html

Some information: https://www.ul.com/sites/g/files/qbfpbp251/files/2021-08/mDL...

I've never tried it, but there's an implementation here: https://github.com/walt-id/waltid-identity/tree/main/waltid-...

From: https://walt.id

I don't think Apple did anything magical here, and from what I can tell there's no lock in. You could load your ID to any number of places for this verification, it's not just locked to Apple.
Or they can go the other direction and offer foreign powers protection for money.

The incentives are aligned that way so it would require surveillance and conspiracy to prevent it from happening.

Furthermore, collecting large amounts of information on your own population creates a lowest effort point of entry for an adversary to gather that info, and it's more useful to them.
OK. I see.

I'll definitely give it a try at some point.

Thanks!
I practiced law in the UK during the transition; fundamentally they operate very similarly and the cases they hear are essentially identical. So much so, HoL decisions have equal precedential value. The UK did not gain some new level of appellate Court as a result of this change.

The rebrand to Supreme Court and change to appointment processes do indeed remove some of the risk of perception of political interference, but if you look at the historical operations of the HoL as an appelate Court in the last 80 years, political interference was much more a hypothetical problem than a real one - the HoL routinely passed decisions that greatly upset the ruling parties of the day, and the appointments of Law Lords was greatly removed from the appointments of rank and file life peers etc.

> The system of appointment to the SC is rather different to the HoL as it draws from the judiciary and merely being a Lord isn't enough.

The law lords where almost always drawn from the Judiciary too in modern history, sitting here right now I can't think of one who didn't have a very significant judicial career prior to becoming a law lord. The government was able to simply grant them a peerage permitting them to become a law lord, which is not 1000 miles removed from the Supreme Court's life-long appointments. The HoL required retirement at 75 for a Law Lord exactly the same as is expected for a new SC justice too.

> It is worth noting that had the SC not been split from the HoL after life peerages became the majority of that house, we'd be in danger of those political appointees and the like being the basis of the court. It was therefore necessary and not a "rebrand".

This is nonsense. Only the law lords sat on the court. It was not just "any" peer who could sit on the Court, of which there were only 12 members.

"To be appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary under the 1876 Act, a person was required to have been a practising barrister for a period of fifteen years or to have held a high judicial office—as Lord Chancellor (before 2005) or judge of the Court of Appeal, High Court or Court of Session—for a period of two years. Lords of Appeal in Ordinary were required to retire from judicial office at 70 or 75 years of age, though as barons they continued to serve as members of the House of Lords in its legislative capacity for life."

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lords_of_Appeal_in_Ordinary

There are many things that are arguably wrong/undesirable about an unelected second legislative chamber such as the HoL, but the operations of its Court were arguably one of its least egregious short-comings, and very separate from the general workings of the HoL at large.
https://archive.ph/2024.01.06-234713/https://admiralcloudber...
If you stay 100% within your own application and don't touch syscalls or libraries then yes they should perform identically (other than other processes using the CPU and I guess maybe default CPU speed settings). In practice, you're going to makes syscalls and use other libraries, which means that the kernel is an extremely important part of the overall performance picture and the design decisions that are baked into those libraries matters.
hmailserver is the replacement you want for this.
Most works that have stood the test of time are political. Is this the part where you tell us that Rage Against The Machine only became political recently?
Often, its less about picking it for a new project vs having the discussion about how to update an existing one, often with data at rest that needs converting. In the latter case often the hash needs to fit into the existing 128b field size, so one is throwing a good number of the SHA bits away anyway.
Changed My Mind After Reading Larson's "The Myth of Artificial Intelligence"
I've recently delved into Erik J. Larson's book "The Myth of Artificial Intelligence," and it has reshaped my understanding of the current state and future prospects of AI, particularly concerning Large Language Models (LLMs) and the pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Larson argues convincingly that current AI (i included LLMs because are still induction and statistics based), despite their impressive capabilities, represent a kind of technological dead end in our quest for AGI. The notion of achieving a true AGI, a system with human-like understanding and reasoning capabilities, seems more elusive than ever. The current trajectory of AI development, heavily reliant on data and computational power, doesn't necessarily lead us towards AGI. Instead, we might be merely crafting sophisticated tools, akin to cognitive prosthetics, that augment but do not replicate human intelligence.

The book emphasizes the need for radically new ideas and directions if we are to make any significant progress toward AGI. The concept of a technological singularity, where AI surpasses human intelligence, appears more like a distant mirage rather than an approaching reality.

Erik J. Larson's book compellingly highlights the deficiencies of deduction and induction as methods of inference in artificial intelligence. It also underscores the lack of a solid theoretical foundation for abduction, suggesting that current AI, including large language models, faces significant limitations in replicating complex human reasoning.

I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this. Do you think our current approach to AI, especially with LLMs, is fundamentally limited? Is the idea of AGI as we conceive it now just a myth?
If you read the article, none of their sources are board members but “people with knowledge”. Could be anyone. WSJ has a history of bad reporting on Silicon Valley.
To support a compilation effort? I just don’t think that effort is worth how much they’re charging for it.
I can't follow your argument here but in any case the problem is much simpler: you posted a cheap internet swipe. We don't want those here, and we have eventually to ban accounts that keep posting them, so please make your substantive points without that.

anigbrowl's comment was testier than I'd prefer (it would be better without the first sentence) but I don't think he broke the site guidelines and, to my eye at least, the comment wasn't obviously insulting.
You're bundling a lot of large groups into one group that is not particularly representative.
And Erlang the Movie II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRbY3TMUcgQ
This looks too good to be true for a project I had in mind—kudos!
Of course I started with that.

I then I noticed screen tearing in my browser (fresh install of Ubuntu 22.04).

Oh ok, well maybe I've got the wrong drivers and it's eating CPU.

Run all the tests to ensure I have the right Nvidia drivers. All checks out.

Then I find something about hybrid graphics mode. Sure enough, I needed to set my graphics to discreet mode in the BIOS. Screen tearing is now gone.

Well now that I'm on it, why don't I move to LXDE from Gnome? Can't hurt right?

No dice.

I look up my laptop. Find that only 20.04 is "officially" supported by Lenovo. Ok, well I need to install that now to rule that out.

While I'm waiting for that to install, I stumble upon real time kernels, apparently popular for audio stuff.

Try that, marginally better but latency is now unstable. Switch kernels again.

Now I dig into Reaper settings. There are tons of things that can improve latency (that I'm also familiar with). Bitrates, buffers, sample rates, etc.

This is all to say I didn't think I'd have to change whatever the hell pulseaudio is to ALSA. Why should I have to do anything? I don't in Windows.

This whole thing was a project to get myself off of Windows and my point is it shouldn't be this hard. I've used various DAWs in Windows over the last 20 years and it was never difficult.
I switched from paper to https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form... in 2021, which doesn't cost anything, and the online version has consistently been processed a month or two faster than the paper version.
Weirdly enough, touch scrolling caused problem to my wrist, but not the scroll wheel, so I hope it doesn't go away
Oh I see. So why do you talk about "sales" in general? Is it not similar to other AI schedulers?

Like this is what I would do in your homepage:
https://www.tldraw.com/s/v2_c_2JJx_hF8z-r_-WsryoZIt?viewport...

Let me know if I am missing something.
Amazon recently sent me an email saying that if I wanted to use my Prime Video without ads, like I have had the ability to do for the last decade, I'd need to pay $3/mo. Welp, not going to happen, the interface itself is already an ad after ad carousel. And that drove me off earlier. They need to show what I'd like to see, not what they'd like to sell me or get me to rent something.
I bought a couple of Microsoft keyboards in reserve when they were discontinued. It will be interesting to see how the new editions compare. They may skimp on quality (not that it was always great with MS), or maybe remove some of the more annoying features (like the Office key).
It’s funny, you seem to be a stickler for the word “fine” and not for the word “defective”.
The only "just working" OSes are Android and iOS/iPadOS.
Nobody would ever find a OV6948 if it was hidden.
> 95/98/ME/2000 because they largely looked similar.

That was a feature, for me it was 95, 98, NT4, Windows 2000 then it all started falling apart and Linux and MacOSX because the more attractive alternatives.

For those who don't remember, we used to call the Windows XP UI the "Fisher Price" UI. It was the first dumbed down Windows UI.

I'd agree, the nostalgia for Windows XP is misplaced, when the version before that was the more attractive option. Overall the quality of Windows 2000 just felt like it was way above Windows XP. All the Windows UI inconsistencies started showing up in Windows XP.

In the "Windows XP 2024" video I think it's interesting that that the two worst features, the Windows XP UI and the online account activation, have both been preserved.
“But my next Ferrari…”
> Or did the chests form a protective wall?

Yup: they'd form a protective wall that monsters couldn't cross!
While they lacked language barriers, the differences in who founded the original colonies led to large cultural differences that could be considered nation defining. This was amplified by available resources and extraction strategies and eventually contributed to the civil war.

The differences within the EU are certainly much broader, but power draws power, and I wouldn't count out a much more centralized EU in the future, even if that is not beneficial for or desired by any of its members.
Seconding this. I've been using a Logitech gaming mouse for several years full time without problems (other than the software), and then I bought one of Logitech's consumer line, a Marathon with a super-long battery life.

I thought it was broken - the mouse turns the sensor off if you stop using it for a few seconds, leading to noticeable delays when you start using it again. And the polling rate is so low that it seems to skip some movements, like the old mice with the physical ball you had to clean.

I also had one of the first Logitech "Laser" mice which was unable to track consistently on any surface, worse than the optical mice it was supposed to replace.
Thanks for sharing. I wish this could hide all Shorts though. They still show in search and on the subscription pages though
Thanks for the reply. I don't mind the mental overhead. Already learned few things, including laser cutting options and steel varieties :)

I have, basically, the design of the whole thing figured out. I can 3D print it from resin, but that's pointless as it's a load-bearing gadget that needs to withstand high temps. Just need to fabricate it.

Got most of that figured out as well, pretty much all parts can be laser-cut from a sheet metal, then welded together. One bit I don't know is how to make something like this - https://i.imgur.com/RsambTE.png - 15mm long, 7mm in diameter. If you have any ideas, I'm all ears.
anyone "doing their own research" can probably get an exemption
The jumping off point was JACK not working actually. Pulseaudio was the only one that did. Someone mentioned ALSA so I went down that road.