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> This seems like the judicial branch just voted to give itself substantially more power.

100% this but it's not new. This court claim to be "originalists" or "textualists" (even though "originalism" was invented in the 1980s) but has made a massive power grab that we will feel for decades. The "originalists" invented two new doctrines to justify this:

1. History and tradition. Basically the court decides if how something was in 1780 as a legal basis for interpreting the constitution and law. Remember at this time some peoplw were property, women couldn't vote and there was no interracial marriage. This is the "history and tradition" the court seeks to return to; and

2. The major questions doctrine ("MQD"). This has gives sweeping powers to the court to say that even when Congress defined clear language if the consequences are "large" (as the court determines it) then the court can step in and say that Congress wasn't clear enough so the court gets to essentially write legislation and overrule both the legislative and executive branches. MQD was used to justify blocking student loan relief despite Congress giving the president and the education secretary expllicit powers in this regard.
There has always been judicial review in cases where some affected party felt that administrators of an agency went beyond the mandate. This has been the norm for many decades now. The Supreme court legalized foreign money to use in election campaigns with Citizens United. It has gutted voting rights by allowing thousands of polling stations to be closed. You can easily guess where those polling closures mostly have occurred. A few days ago it effectively legalized bribing government officials. It has taken away rights of women, convicts, and now the ability of government agencies to carry out their mandates.

There are major power imbalances in the country and it is not sustainable. The path we are on leads to a breakup of the country or a rewriting of the Constitution. The status quo is not sustainable.
> Switching away from first past the post voting would also help enable more diverse voices within the government.

You have my full agreement on that! Unfortunately that's not going to happen at the national level any time soon, both parties benefit from first-past-the-post too much. We'll see better luck experimenting with it at the local and state level.
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Six Degrees of Reform UK – Mapping the UK's Entrepreneurial Far Right
Nothing in the rulebook says a {dog,Democrat} can't {play basketball,appoint liberal judges}.
It is exactly this. Tennis has been the focal point of the entire life of these players. I saw this even in the juniors, no matter the success of the players. For those that were really involved in the sport, their entire life revolved around it, to the point where it became part of their identity. Young competitive players will spend most of their available time outside of school to play, that being multiple hours a day, seven days a week, year-round. To stop playing, is not just to make an easy pivot like the guy you responded to thinks it is, but is more like giving up on a religion that you've devoted your entire life and being to.
At our product we allow to the user to set his specific preference light/dark, or have it be set by the browser setting
Trump literally ruled by executive order.
Pallet stacking can also be done automatically (with robots), and there are solutions (only privately developed/owned to my knowledge) that calculate optimal stacking for heterogeneous loads - interlock boxes for stability, weight (distribution & total), height, etc.
Each box is characterized on induct (weighed, scanned, sometimes manually updated with metadata on crushability/fragility). Then an algo figures out best way to put the boxes on a pallet.
I've seen this for grocery, but applicable in other use cases.
If there is a friendly Rust community, please link it otherwise we have to assume it doesn't exist.

edit: Cunningham's law :)
> There was a 7-2 liberal majority during the 1970s.

Can you break this down? I'm looking at the Martin-Quinn graph[1] for the 70s and I'm seeing a pretty centrist, if not majority conservative, slant for that decade.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%E2%80%93Quinn_score
Off topic: you'd think a university site wouldn't bombard you with pop-ups, ads and subscription sign-up.

Immediate first impression isn't good, for this (presumably) respected publication.
I'm not concerned about commercially viable space colonies in my lifetime.

The real reason for fusion was that fission is not a renewable resource. In a few thousand years there will be a fuel problem with fission and we would be forced to switch to fusion if we had a fully nuclear power system.
I might be going on a limb here, but none of those answers save one would be interpreted as a "No" in Britain. Brits comment if you please.

The save one of those in the list is "“I will consider it in a forward-looking manner,” which feels to be me not so much as a "No" as more a "Why of course why wouldn't I take a look at at it with all this leisurely time I have but in the interim can you please just kindly fuck off please thank you very much."
It's a good article, but I think you could sum it up neatly by saying "photographic masses search for photographic rules, come up empty." I've been doing amateur/hobbyist photography, as I suspect many here have as well, for quite some time.[0]

For a while, I followed the rule. But as a physics professor of mine once aptly put it, "Stop trying to look for a formula all the time. You have the tools to derive the formulas yourself." The rule of thirds, golden ratio, golden mean, golden doodle, whatever, are just hodge podge tools used by people who want to take a better pictures than the standard iphone eye-level shot (or the old Kodak 35mm point-and-click).

For example, nothing about this image follows the golden spiral. It just so happens that a backwards upside down golden spiral overlay fits neatly over it: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5978aa8103596e...

The image is interesting because of the curve of the street, the Escher-esque staircase, and the fact that a bicyclist in motion happens to be moving past the only dead area of the image.

And that gets to the main point: is the image interesting? If it's not an interesting image in the first place, no magic formula is going to fix it. That's where the creativity comes in. Find the non-obvious angle that gives the shot some interest, find a subject that's a little less obvious than the influencer instacrap wingspan shots, find a location that's a little off the beaten path. Do that 10,000 times and you'll train your eye and develop a unique style that can last you through life.

Burk Uzzle is famously quoted as saying "Photography is a love affair with life" and I wholeheartedly agree. Life is beautiful, so just get out there and shoot it. You don't need a formula to find the love in a good shot.

[0] ObPhotos (and speaking of instacrap): https://www.instagram.com/dphilippe/
> In contrast, Apple flat out doesn't allow anyone else to sell their hardware or software. Now that's a monopoly.

Maybe you can help me fill in the gaps as to how this is a monopoly. Now depending on where you go for a definition of a monopoly, you might find subtly different definitions. But to quote Investopedia:

> A monopoly is characterized by a single company supplying a good or service, a lack of competition within the market, and no similar substitutes for the product being sold.

Apple's iPhone is produced by a single company, you're right. But there is competition within the market thanks to Android, and other failed attempts at competition like Blackberry and the Windows phones.

Furthermore, Apple might "stop" other competition from springing up by virtue of just being a better offering, but I don't believe anyone is quite literally halting someone from attempting to start a competing phone OS and hardware business. If the only choices are Android vs iOS, and the slew of Android phone manufacturers vs Apple, should Apple be held accountable for nobody making better offerings than what already exists? In my opinion, that answer is only "yes" if you can prove they're doing anything in back alleys to cut prospective competitors off at the knees, which as far as I know, doesn't happen. Maybe you can point me to where and how they do, though.
And where does one find this ‘good’ journalism? It seems to be the exception rather than the norm as majority of the articles are summarizations, opinions, rip offs from reddit, clickbaits that quote from ‘experts’ or ‘sources’ who or not named
Of course I wouldn't be engraving plastic at full power. If I do end up getting a Framework I'd get an extra blank keyboard to dial in the settings
Not to mention that in many sports, you can literally be a world champion level and just barely affording to cover the necessary costs (best equipment, long training camps abroad etc.) to compete at the highest level.

In my country we have olympic medalists in kayaking, rowing etc. and they are nowhere close to making any money out of it.
Exactly. React made composing components natural. Hooks made composing state and logic natural. For all its faults React deserves a lot more credit for this. Really the ideas behind hooks need a new language to make them shine and this compiler is a step in that direction.
>Hey, while we’re at it let’s make caffeine a scheduled drug. It’s actually addicting, it’s long we half-life makes it more likely to effect sleep, and its vastly over consumed by everyone starting in middle school.

Yeah, let's do that.
> playing world police

Don't you mean schoolyard bullies?

Because that's how much of the world, including your allies, view the US.

Then again, seeing the state of the US police force, maybe that's why US people think bullying and policing is the same thing?
Is there a reason you haven't added that to the FAQ yet? I don't know how that guy could have known not to use generated comments unless there was a sticky I missed.
I honestly can't tell if this comment is sarcastic...

google3 is a quagmire and it's getting worse by the day
Bananas are not so radioactive, my guess is that they are using a stronger radioactive source. Perhaps hide the horn inside a truck full of bananas? I guess the horn will be still more radioactive.

Also, each radioactive source produce radioactivity with different energy, so you can use specialized equipment to identify the source. (We used one in the lab in an undergraduate couse of Physics. It's not very big, like the size of a shoe.)
>and some medical practitioners are solely in for the money

So is everyone else that works any kind of job. 'Solely in it for the money' is such a weird complaint, as if you'd do your job for free if you were independently wealthy.
Not quite. More like a framework to make LLMs/agents easier to deploy in a distributed fashion. We have a PR that shows how to deploy this with k8s!
sweepstakes are highly regulated so without looking it up I expect you cannot offer a prize unless you're prepared to deliver one, even without accepting money
> Why would you think that these nine people are the best people to judge and weigh those policy judgements?

A really really good question. And completely compatible with this ruling.
Some previous work in the space is at https://github.com/albertan017/LLM4Decompile
I'd rather the Supreme Court exercise judicial hubris once every 50 years than new administrations exercise administrative hubris every 4 years.
> Except that the US doesn't have a functioning legislative branch, so the corrective feedback action never happens.

That's neither the judiciary's problem nor purview. Its yours (and mine) as voters.
The US is a constitutional republic, not a dictatorship of experts. Go to Singapore if you want that.

What I find funny is how the court is simply asking Congress to do their job - be clear in the intent of how laws should be executed. None of this "well, I'll leave it up to unelected bureaucrats to decide" and people think this is somehow a bad thing.
> The FCC website would be a rabbit warren even if there was no SpaceX

A relative of mine is in a dispute with another party regarding real estate.

I mention this here b/c a big part of that dispute has involved pulling data from government websites (Specifically city property records).

The below is all true:

- the amount of useful information in government websites is astounding

- the UX of these websites is awful

- given the above, if you are good at navigating these websites (or can automate the data gathering) it really can be a superpower.
Am i getting dumber or ur medium article is really long and is bloated with ai stuff.
MobX can be slow. Example for me, and maybe I just did it wrong. Made a photo gallery viewer (so a page of a few hundred thumbnails). Have options in the toolbar for whether to show the filename, date, location, on each thumbnail. Use MobX to make those settings reactive. Result, it runs way way way too slow since each of the hundred thumbnails is doing some complicated check to read the value of the reactive state variables. I can fix that by having some higher level component (like the thumbnail gallery) read the value and then pass it down to all the thumbnails. But, the point is, I had to work around the fact that it's slow rather than just do the obvious thing and have each thumbnail look at the state it's interested in and not have to have higher level components deal with it. In other words, I want to be able to add features to Thumbnail without having to modify ThumbnailCollection but because it was too slow I now have to modify two places (or 3 or 4) instead of one.
This would be less of a problem if Congress was more active at drafting and passing bills. We got into this mess because Congress stalled out.
With root and installing LineageOS, do you feel confident that any stock malware/spyware is eradicated? Or do you feel that the risk, or whatever may be left over, is worth it for the benefits?
maybe agent micro-services is a better way to frame it ha
Yes, sometimes you just need to refactor the code in prod by surprise via force pushing and telling everybody else to start fixing their failing integration tests.
The NSA Wants Carte Blanche for Warrantless Surveillance
I think with is ok and actually kind of elegant if you don't care too much about the actual error.

To be honest I would prefer a return keyword and using early returns as in practice I'm not a fan of "the last statement is the return".
Google made backroom deals, which made the OEM approach non viable, unless you expected them to also become an OEM. But if they did, Google wouldn't have allowed the play store on their device, which would've ended with the MS phone situation all over again.

The backroom deal is the issue with this case
> I would point people to the decision itself. This throw0101b is clearly acting in bad faith to anyone happening to read this.

People should read the decision. People should also read the dissent. They should also read commentary on the decision. They should also read the legal and cultural history of 2A.

There's no bad faith in thinking Scalia et al got it wrong.
Maybe in some New England areas.

Greater Boston is a suburban hellscape. If traffic is your Kryptonite, beantown is worse in some dimensions.

NYC prospers today because it’s a regional hub. All of the business that required physical presence (shipping, industry, etc) is long gone.

Also note “the provinces” include NYC itself. I grew up in Queens, and congestion pricing certainly didn’t align with the needs of my relatives who live in the old neighborhood.
Try jotai. Of all the different react state libraries it’s the one I enjoy using the most.

I miss it when working with languages other than JavaScript.
One more thought, is also how much other systems can utilize the same tooling/workflows by just storing things in source code. Things that would probably traditionally stored as application state in a database are often stored instead in google3 as config.

Things like on team rosters, on call rosters, code review permissions, service permissions, feature flags.

All of it stored in google3 and can all utilize the same consistent set of tooling like presubmit test, integration tests, deployment automation, permissions, code search.

Its sort of like Infrastructure as Code but more.
It takes away power from the legislative and executive branches because it now requires an onerous level of specificity to regulate something. This decision will have lasting negative consequences.
Social media networks supposed to be the "voice of the people" but instead they became an extension of the White House narrative. I was banned on reddit for sharing a meme about Zlenski and the reason was "sharing content related to terrorist activities", and it said I could appeal the decision but the appeal option was disabled for me. You may not agree with what's going on in Ukraine but if Russia and China wanted to incorporate Mexico in their military alliance, started regular military drills on the border with the USA, started killing Americans in Mexico and started talking about giving Mexico nuclear weapons the USA would carpet bomb Mexico. You may not agree with my point of view but it is wrong to silence me.
The courts are incapable of refactoring by design. They can only decide the cases litigated before them, they can't take a holistic view of the legislation and put forward coherent reforms.

In my career I have never seen messy refactorings go well. They are carefully planned and executed piece of by piece instead of throwing everything out of the window.
We knew the US wasn't happy with Assange when he landed in prison.

You know that Russia isn't happy with someone when they end up dead. If the Russian files that Wikileaks published didn't make Russia happy, Assange would be in a box right now, and not headed home.
MetaMask is nothing at all like Gemini. Gemini was effectively a bank. MetaMask is software you run on your own computer, and use to effects peer-to-peer transfer and swaps with others. The SEC case is an attempt to extend SEC authority to software publishers, and only portends harm to retail investors, who will have less software innovation to benefit from if the SEC succeeds.
> By reading Justice Kavanaugh's dissenting opinion, this decision seems to delay opioid victims the settlement they previously won.

The problem is that this sets an ugly precedent. The bankruptcy settlement is basically "I can make a deal with A that takes away your ability to sue B, even though I wasn't suing B and you are". It makes no sense. The dissenting opinion is the epitome of "fuck you, I got mine."

Suppose we discover next year that one of the RNA covid vaccines causes cancer with 100% probability. The vaccine maker, on the hook for trillions of dollars of damages with no possible way to pay, declares bankruptcy (victims get approximately nothing). Elon Musk steps in and offers to contribute 20 billion dollars to help compensate the victims who would otherwise get nothing. All he asks is that the bankruptcy court dismiss all claims related to his pay package, stock manipulation and libel on twitter. The victims overwhelmingly approve the settlement and the judge oks it. After all, bankruptcy judges have wide discretion and $20 billion is better than $0.

Is that ok?

In my analogy, Elon Musk (and most of the people suing him) are not related to the vaccine maker (but there could be overlap among some of the plaintiffs and Musk could own some shares of the vaccine maker). But, technically, the same is true with Purdue Pharma, the Sackler family and plaintiffs. Yes, the Sacklers are more closely related to Purdue than Musk and the hypothetical vaccine company, but that's just a matter of degree.

In the Purdue bankruptcy, the victims of Purdue voted (and the court agreed) to take the Sackler's money and in exchange prevent anyone at all in the United States from suing the Sacklers about anything at all related to opioids. Even people who are not eligible to be members of the Purdue bankruptcy settlement cannot sue the Sacklers!

If the Sackler settlement was allowed to stand, it effectively allows billionaires to buy their way out of liability for unrelated things if they donate some money to sympathetic victims. All they would need to do is create some degree of nexus between themselves and the entity declaring bankruptcy, sufficient for a bankruptcy judge to ok the settlement.
> Congress has not been able to pass substantial laws in decades

For those in the sway of the Federalist Society, that's a feature, not a bug.
not sure but my money is on AI using wayyyyyy more.
Why Claude 3.5 Sonnet Is Insane at Coding: Mechanistic Interpretability
It's definitely tough today, but its just a matter of
a) using a smart LLM
b) scoping down individual agents to a manageable set of actions

As more LLMs come from companies and open-source, their reasoning abilities are only going to improve imo.
This is pretty much direct irrefutable evidence that the SCOTUS has been corrupted. The extreme ideological tilt is disturbing enough, but it's clear that these judges answer to the highest bidder, not the American people or the intent of the Founding Fathers.
The problem is it is different 128 in each major, and the overlap across all four majors in a year is significantly less than 100. People move up and down the rankings a lot. To actually make a living you need to be consistently in the top 100, year after year. Your two examples are both very good players who spent most of the last 6 months well inside of top 100: in Feb, van Assche was #68 and Nishioka was #47. Of course they did well. Look at those who spent the last 12 months outside of top 100, and remember that total expenses of tour life can get as high as $20k/mo.
Sometimes it's better, sometimes it's worse
This feels like one of those topics that may sound ok in theory, but breaks down in practice. The implication is that the judges must be well-versed enough in any domain brought before them to interpret the laws effectively. This seems like a tall order for nine people. We have already seen this trouble in expecting strict interpretations regarding tech.

To be fair, Congress has the same problem. I believe that was in large part the impetus for giving the agencies discretion. They have a better chance of having the depth of expertise to craft effective regulations.
It sucks that you had a tough time with Strapi; I use it for many projects and have not had any issues. Do you have any example, specifically " like localization and their API," where you had issues?

I also know they have open office hours on their Discord channel Mon - Fri 12:30 pm cst where you can get help and ask questions.
Which is better -- subsidize what you perceive to be the solution or tax what is known to be the problem (carbon emissions)?
I'm not going to end up as a 2nd class citizen because I refuse to use Nintendo/PS/Xbox. With iOS / Play Store, we're almost there already.
Isn't the whole point of the judiciary to interpret these ambiguities though?
Risk your life doing what? Eating? All food allergies are deadly. They might not have killed you yet, but every single exposure could be your last. And plenty of people, especially kids, are allergic to 4, 5, 6, 7 major allergens. Maybe you're familiar with adults who have grown out of all but 1 or 2 allergies & know what to avoid. Try feeding a kid who's allergic to soy, wheat, dairy and eggs. Heck, even just soy. Try to put together a week of meals without soy with our modern food supply. Spaghetti:soy. Burgers:soy. Ice cream:soy. Tacos:soy. Sandwiches:soy. The entire soup aisle:soy. What's left, drinking Ensure for every meal? Nope, that has soy _and_ dairy. Robust accurate food labeling is the only way people with several food allergies can eat a remotely normal and balanced diet without playing Russian roulette at every meal.
That is nice to hear, albeit unsurprising. Their public documentation is some of the best that I have worked with. Postgres is such an impressive project overall.