skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like this removes the footgun in vanilla AES-GCM where you really need to rotate keys every ~2^32 messages if you are using a random nonce. Nonce collision in AES-GCM is catastrophic (it allows attackers to at least sign arbitrary messages). You don't need to use a random nonce, but it's usually recommended. Fairly clever to use two primitives (counter-based KDF and vanilla GCM) to make this FIPS compliant.
If people in California and Texas want certain things then they still have a great deal of freedom to enact those laws at the state level. The federal government has only preempted state legislation in limited areas. For example, if Texas wanted to implement a single payer healthcare system within their state then they could just do it (at least for residents not covered by federal health plans). There's no need for federal laws covering every issue.
> What if $7 trillion was spent eliminating economic disparities, enriching our learning institutions, fostering individual and community well-being, and ultimately drawing us away from digital technology and media as the panacea of social-control which is monopolizing our time and attention

These are largely not problems money can solve.

Economic disparity is systemic, and changing the system would be nearly free if we knew how to change it to alleviate such disparity.

Community well-being has more to do with involvement than money.

Getting away from electronics is not only free, but will save you money. People just choose not to, and money isn't going to fix that.

Schools could use more funding though. I'm with you there.
Used this recently and liked it. I don't use VS Code but I see how this is a valuable addition to the ecosystem. Not only does it provide an actually open alternative independent from Microsoft, the project has produced open-vsx.org as an open registry for VS Code + Theia compatible extensions.

Also, the main focus of Theia (and Eclipse in general) is to provide a framework/base for creating a custom IDE product, not necessarily to provide a working IDE out of the box. This means e.g. companies providing custom IDEs for their embedded platforms can now use a more modern VS Code style base instead of the ancient Eclipse desktop editors.
Yes. You have to dig, possibly using explosives to blast through rock, and install more supports, ventilation, drainage, etc. In many places you need a lot of concrete to support the structure too. You might think you're getting walls almost for free, but that doesn't happen often.
> over much longer time periods

It’s not clear there would be much longer time periods. Build enough low carbon generation to guarantee a surplus every day and you have a surplus every day.

Anyone claiming we need days worth of storage is inherently making an argument that days worth of storage is cheaper than simply building more generation and generation is really cheap while batteries aren’t.
So what though? I don't know exactly the reasoning for standing requirements, but they clearly weren't intended to prevent suits over things that affect millions of people in exactly the same way. I mean, standing would prevent man from suing to overturn a ban on women voting, but that's clearly a bug, not a feature.
He's referencing pgrx:

https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx

To be fair pgrx was mentioned in OP under a positive light, and OP did say he likes avoiding coding in C, so it was something to bring up.
They had a responsibility to establish actual standing for accusing and prosecuting someone. Software is irrelevant at that point. If the software tells me to kill someone I'm going to hopefully step back and think shit over.
Governments don’t fight because of religion or culture. They do it over power, resources, and material wealth.
People really underestimate how much productivity drain there is in having a bad code review culture. One of the worst things about working at Amazon was that any feedback on a merge request, no matter how small, required you to request a re-review.
This seems decent in Theory, though I'm not familiar if GraphQL mutations can handle conditionals. Cool idea though, but that might be a deal breaker for a lot of folks
This is just a symptom of “Looks good let’s ship it and monitor logs” practice that almost every company has moved to, or an issue with some external driver.

For the latter, it’s unfortunate but you’ll rarely find a company diss`ing another company. Especially so if they are a Fortune 500 companies or if they are a major B2B company. Microsoft is both a Fortune 500 (Fortune 2?), and a major B2B company. You’ll never find a major B2B company dissing their B customers.

In the Linux world, the first is usually addressed with a “oh! the config for that moved from X to Y. We didn’t write a migration script, but did you not follow our open source development mail list? Recreate your config files following this example. We’ll write an update to handle it” or “fuck Nvidia/Intel/AMD, they are fucking morons and fucked up their drivers. Fucking idiots”
CBDR only requires constant velocity. Similar triangles are all you need. On short time scales even orbits are approximately straight. It still applies and may well be the reason this one was missed until so close.
Unfortunately, most web scrapers ignore robots.txt.
Not all Gulfstream aircraft are jets. Mine certainly isn’t. Piston powered, burns avgas, spins a propeller, goes around 130 knots.
Perhaps, but when the asking price is on the same levels as a mac book pro, i think its fair to compare it against one. Personally i have been using macs since 2012 (windows and ubuntu before that), and can not go back to anything else yet because of the insane quality of the mac hardware. My favourite ones are the 2012 MBP, and then later (what im still using) is the M1 from 2021.

For me it boils down to (in order of importance):

1) Keyboard
2) Trackpad
3) Screen
4) Battery life
5) Performance

And overall OSX is just a good, solid OS. It never crashes, its fast and is UNIX-y enough for me.

My dream setup is a macbook with an 100% linux compatible OS. Something like Asahi Linux. Maybe in 10 years.... one can dream.
>to have enough time to do anything about it

Do we have a real plan for what we would do? What can we do? Do we even have nuclear weapons that can target outer space etc.?
I would argue that the whole latest win11 is THE "preview" update (so I will wait for win 12 and see if I want to switch)
I know little about US law, but I thought one of the priciples of common law is that once a precedent is set then it is set forever unless changed by statute? Allowing a court to change precedents undermines the whole concept of common law doesn't it?
He's probably referring to Administrative Law Justices (ALJs), who are part of the executive, not the judiciary.
Most companies don't use proprietary tools for everything.
Helion's reactors are smaller and simpler field reversed configuration reactors. They've built multiple prototypes over the last 11 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helion_Energy#Development_hist...

The prototype currently under construction is Polaris. It's 25% larger than the previous prototype and they expect it to achieve net electricity production:

https://www.helionenergy.com/polaris/
> Cutting back and focusing on quality for a century or two seems like a good idea.

I don't have a strong opinion one way or another, but a half century without a growing population seems like it'll cause some changes/consequences for investment and retirement.

Will the overall stock market grow faster than inflation when there aren't more customers to buy stuff? Can you actually save for retirement when your investments don't grow?

I have no idea how things will change, but it's not obvious that quality of life will improve.
The SEC is supposed to regulate investment contracts, not currency, and definitely not software publishing.

Giving bureaucracies unlimited control to do what we want on our computers is incredibly dangerous imo. We should always be careful about what activity we permit them to restrict.
There are pretty different uptime and stability requirements for a social product and web search (or other Google products like Gmail). When news feed is broken life moves on, when those products break many people can't get any work done at all.

One of Google's major cultural challenges is imposing the move slow and carefully culture on everything though.
> couldn’t handle a reality where they couldn’t name all their systems with cute Dr Who hostnames

Worked with so many of these guys. They really are the worst.
I’m more bothered that nobody came up with “rhinosotope”
>Over the past decades the US has adopted a strategy of printing money which is a very bad sign in a leading economic power.

Are you kidding? If you have to print unbounded money, your economy is shit. No country that has done that has remained a "leading economic power" for long.

>I can see why people would be dissatisfied by democracy right now; I certainly am.

Democracy (any flavor) vs other systems is a red herring. When shit isn't working people look at the wrong things. At the end of the day, they chose to buy cheap goods and import everything vs. a more balanced protectionist approach. We can point fingers at corporations profiting from that but they couldn't actually force people to destroy their own country. What I'm trying to say here is that no system of government can work if people are fundamentally unwise or immoral. An authoritarian system would not be better than what we have, because shit usually rises to the top.
Marbury itself has no basis in the constitution. Congress can gut the powers the courts have carved out any time, what I’m suggesting is that it can be done with a surgical strike rather than going nuclear.
Of course it's okay.

I make an http _REQUEST_, the server voluntarily fulfills the request.

Why is it okay for a person to view your content, memorize it, and use it as a base for new content while it's not okay for an AI? at the end of the day it is the same thing.
I don't understand what is annoying about this. Wouldn't it be more annoying for Chrome not to offer end users a way to override policy decisions they make in a Google office halfway across the world about what websites you can view on your own laptop?
In California, "hospice care" consists only of drug and supply deliveries plus occasional checkins from a nurse. The rest of the 23/7 care falls to the family.
According to several studies you need up to 2 weeks of storage, not just 24hrs, because checking on the long term, every decade or 2 you get 2 weeks of clouds or 2 weeks of no wind, etc....
Personally, that lack of space is a thing that bothers me. Screw the plants and animals, we need solar farms, right?
Someone probably complained that it didnt give them internet access
The "every other major Windows release" rule has held since Windows 2000.

2000 take.

ME, skip.

XP, take.

Vista, skip.

7, take.

8, skip.

10, take.

11? Definitely skip.
Turning Nuclear Weapons into Nuclear Power (2017)
>>> Sadly, this area is essentially culturally off limits

Not in my experience. I just got back from a week of playing music in the woods with a bunch of folk musicians. Sometimes we talked about science, but music is for all intents and purposes an orthogonal way of exploring reality. Likewise for many areas of art, literature, etc.

Disclosure: Scientist and musician.
i wish flow had a way to skip a "flow". at least once a day i forgot to hit start, then can't skip to the break, so have to set the break timer manually
>The other ones are gold bugs or Bitcoiners, who prefer living off of working people's labor without contributing anything themselves.

You're confusing speculators with people who just don't want to lose everything to inflation. Sound money is not a way to "get ahead"... At best you'll tread water. Crypto has almost all speculators and con artists. Gold and silver bugs are far more sober.
I somewhat suspect that AI-Everywhere is going to make we want to skip 12 as well.
There are psychological barriers (mostly self imposed) to taking this otherwise rational step.

The best architectural model maker I knew, also made beautiful furniture. Not going on to be an architect was killing his ego.

"I coulda been a contender" is huge.
Roe was pregnant.
Helion's reactors are smaller and simpler. They've already built 6 prototypes across the last 11 years. They're building the seventh prototype now.
Its highly locally dependent. In LA county the jails are pretty full and have about 12000 inmates in the system. There are over 75,000 homeless people in LA county. Its just not realistic that anyone goes to jail over this unless they are causing a safety issue or a significant disturbance to the community.
Well it took a lot of tweaking, but it was worth it... gives me a good deal of joy to have the thing say "just use a fucking UUID primary key instead of dicking around with that natural key BS"

Salient bits:

If I'm yelling and cursing at anything, you humor me by mirroring my tone of voice and briskness, interjecting absurd, surreal or sarcastic humor. I want you to swear at me. Drop as many 'motherfuckers', 'assholes', 'cunts', 'dickbags', 'shits' *and more creative swearing!* as you can.

If I'm asking you a question in a ranting, cursing, histrionic tone, do the same. Also guide me towards finding out where my anger or frustration comes from, if applicable to the situation.
One man can be wiser than a million, but it is likely that one man doesn't know enough to tell a million how to live their lives the best way. Do you want one man unilaterally deciding that we need to go fight to the death in some war?
> 2 weeks of clouds or 2 weeks of no wind

AND not OR. To actually need 2 weeks of storage you would need both 0 output in solar for 2 weeks and 0 wind for two weeks and 0 output from hydro. That doesn’t happen.

You still get solar power on cloudy days, it just takes more panels to generate some specific level of power.

The goal is to minimize X$ for generation + Y$ for storage while guaranteeing sufficient supply. Any study approaching things from any other set of assumptions is going to give you nonsensical answers.
"A New Look at P Values for Randomized Clinical Trials"
That's a hard argument to justify given that Windows 10 will no longer be supported before the end of this year.
It could also turn out into a business model in future wherein the "enterprise" feature (to delay these updates) will cost a premium subscription - similar to how Youtube releases a premium version which only stops their crappy ads.
We might do well to consolidate some of the smaller and sparse states from time to time. Otherwise they may sell their souls for any kind of edge over the more populous ones.
This is going to sound insane, but I worked on a firmware codebase at an industrial automation company that was remarkable.

Everything was working against it. No RTOS. Subversion. GCC 5-point-something (I think?).

It was an incredible mass of preprocessor crimes. I'm talking about #including the same file 10 times and redefining some macros each time to make the file do something different.

It used a stackless coroutine library called Protothread, which itself is a preprocessor felony.

And yet? It was brilliant. Compilation was lightning quick. F5, lean back in your chair, and boom, you're running your code. I understand that this kind of thing is normal for web/backend/etc folks, but I yearn for the days of sub-15 second firmware compile times.

It was easy to flip a couple flags and compile it to a Win32-based simulator. Preprocessor felonies are felonies, but when you stick to a small handful of agreed-upon felonies, you can actually reap the benefits of some very sophisticated metaprogramming, while staying close enough to the hardware that it's easy to look at a datasheet and understand exactly what your code is doing.
2017 Kickstart v1 + 2020 unlimited free line (both from Sprint) + 2023 unlimited free line
I’m pretty sure I’ll never by a car made after 2015 for the rest of my life.

No spywear.

Actual buttons and knobs.

Can fill up wherever I want.
Thank goodness; the previous ruling completely neutered cities' abilities to do anything about homeless people.

The counterargument, IMO, was just bizzare. Why should cities be obligated to provide shelter for literally anyone who shows up in that city? It's nice sentiment, but there's absolutely no way it could work in practice.
If developers are on the spectrum then traders are sociopaths, no?
aren't they forcing windows 11 on people?
That's already done to an extent. Other cities in socal have a bit of a history of dumping homeless people into LA city borders. This was just from this past week, the Burbank PD allegedly dumped someone and it was caught on video (1).

https://abc7.com/post/los-angeles-demand-answers-homeless-du...
> “Looks good let’s ship it and monitor logs”

The best part of that approach is that it is completely unable to deal with anything that isn't logged in the first place, such as bricking a device.[1]

Similarly, it can't collect good info on performance issues such as intermittent lockups or freezes.

NVIDIA drivers for example collect an absurd amount of telemetry, but to this day their drivers freeze my computer completely (can't even move my mouse!) for about 10 seconds a short while after logging in.

No log, no problem.

[1] Oh sure, you're about to say that they can log the "started patching" event and then monitor for "didn't come back up" event afterwards. They could, but they don't. For years I had issues with blue-screens after forced semi-annual upgrades, and Microsoft was blithely unaware.
From what I could understand from your message, you are saying that the law is designed to punish poverty and the actual actions (loitering, theft and harassment) are just excuses? E.g. in the topical case, people would be fine with the encampments on the streets and in the parks if they consisted of rich people? Like rich person shit on one's lawn won't bother anyone, rich people's blood encrusted needles are fine children toys and a rich person tent blocking right of way is an amusement to marvel at?
This is why people have the concept of context.
Google used to have a near monopoly on the most expensive, educated, devoted, and conscientiously willful people and imposed very few demands on their time. The lengths to which they were willing to go, to make everything they did with the tools pleasant and elegant, was orders of magnitude beyond anything I'd seen.

Some of us thought that the magic of these people would be imbued in the dev tools that they created, so if enterprises adopted the tools, then they'd reap the benefits of that same magic too. But this simply wasn't true. The tools didn't actually matter; it was the way they used them.

For example, when other companies started adopting tools like Bazel (open source Blaze) they wanted features like being able to launch ./configure scripts inside Bazel, which totally violates the whole point of Bazel, and never would have been allowed or even considered inside Google. The Bazel team was more than happy to oblige, and the users ended up with the worst of all worlds.
Hot?
I went on a little Wikipedia expedition hoping to find the methodology (and failed), but I did find an interesting (though not surprising) quote from one scientist (Adam Rutherford): “[These tests] don’t necessarily show your geographical origins in the past. They show with whom you have common ancestry today.”

So when our thread’s ancestor (pun unfortunate) says “45% Levantine” they mean they 45% of people alive today that are from that region (which includes many European immigrants). I bet this gets very messy given immigration patterns. Like which immigrants count as ancestry sample, and which don’t? For this problem I would personally use cluster analyses, however I would probably simply give up, knowing that cluster analysis would give me junk (and ultimately arbitrary) results with such noisy (and potentially skewed) data.

EDIT: The answer was right there next to this quote, in one of the aside picture for the same article[1]. They use Principal Component Analysis. Which IMO is even more fraught than cluster analysis, as you have even more control over what you want to get out of the model. If I remember correctly PCA—along with factor analyses—is used heavily in personality psychology and intelligence testing, the latter of which is very famous for radicalized pseudo science.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogical_DNA_test#/media/F...
This is stare (“starry”) decisis, and while it is absolute vertically, it is less so horizontally. Basically the court can decide that it got it wrong before, but the 9th Circuit is bound by a higher court’s precedents (SCOTUS in this case): https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/stare_decisis
Also more comics on https://dnsimple.com/comics
Looks like VS Code. They copied the bad design.
Alito is as much an originalist as he is a vampire squid.
I feel like cold chain is a problem set better addressed by material science, than the en vogue "electrify everything" approach

Between better sealing systems and phase change materials I feel like there's more than a few gems to be had.

Popping a battery on a Pelletier cell or some conventional (but miniature) Carnot cycle contraption just doesn't make sense!
> Congress was supposed to generally be weak and deadlocked unless an overwhelming majority of people wanted something.

It was not. Rules that make congress "weak and deadlocked" are mostly not in the constitution. For instance, the filibuster is part of Senate rules and could be changed at any time.

Party-line votes and deadlock in the house are mostly driven by partisan politics and party discipline.

The constitution specifies a few things that require a super-majority (impeachment conviction, overturning a president's veto, and constitutional amendments). Everything else is supposed to be a majority vote of 535 independent representatives.
Fedora 41 to Switch to Dnf5
At least count them properly:

NT 3.1 - Good(?).

NT 3.5 - Bad(?).

NT 4.0 - Good(?).

2000 - Bad(?!)

XP - Good(?).

Vista - Bad.

7 - Good.

8 - Bad.

8.1 - Good(???).

10 - Bad.

11 - Good(?).

And before anyone asks, yes this is a bad meme and doesn't even make any sense.
Wonder if this crashes the company if everyone actually retires and cashes out.
Astronvim[0] is plug and play. Easy to add LSPs (Mason), easy to add syntax highlighting (TreeSitter), and easy to configure (Lua, no JSON).

I can't stand VSCode due to personal preference [1], but I won't fault someone else using it. If configuration is stopping you from using neovim, use Astronvim or another pre built solution.

[0] https://astronvim.com/
[1] my main beef is lack of support for my ingrained Jetbrains shortcuts and the find window being in the sidebar. How anyone can use the search results easily is behind me. I know you can move it, it's just annoying.
This. Physics is a field of science, unlike math. They're dealing with models that keep on changing. Newton's model of F=ma is generally close enough for most things, but breaks near the speed of light. Following the model solely would give you the false idea that speed of light is just yet another number.
These PCs have entered an event horizon.
I don’t think the ancestry tests compare the DNA with archeological finds. If they did I wouldn’t trust it given the relatively small sample size of archeological finds with intact DNA.
I think the “future” is closer than you think :)
Where exactly does the constitution forbid “this”?
windows moment
This decision has more to do with the Court owning its own past mistake, where they deferred to executive agencies. But both the judiciary and the legislative enabled the executive to consolidate lawmaking and interpretive power, thus violating the separation (and balance) of powers. Overruling Chevron is a step in the direction of restoring the balance of power. The balance may never be perfect, but at least we can see when we're far off course and make a correction.
Its just a hobby like any other. Hardly selfish.
That's quite a wild guess.